102
Macpherson’s antiquities of Scotland.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 21. no. 73, as above.
MACPHERSON,
John.
Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians,
their Posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots. By John Macpherson, D.D. Minister of Slate,
[
sic
] in the Isle of Sky.
London: Printed for
T. Becket,
P. A. De Hondt; and
J. Balfour, in
Edinburgh,
1768.
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4to. 205 leaves, the last with a list of books printed for
T. Becket and
P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand.
Lowndes III, page 1446.
Advocates Library Catalogue IV, page 722.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Edinburgh University Library, 992.
John Macpherson, 1710-1765, minister of Sleat in Skye. The first edition of this work was printed in Dublin earlier in the same year 1768.
A copy is in the British Museum, though not in the above mentioned libraries, and no mention of the Dublin edition is made
by Lowndes.
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103
Buchanani opera.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 21. no. 103, as above.
BUCHANAN,
George.
Georgii Buchanani Scoti, Poetarum sui seculi facile Principis, Opera Omnia, ad optimorum Codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata:
Nunc primum in unum collecta . . . Quorum omnium Syllabus post Præfationem exhibetur. Curante Thoma Ruddimanno, A. M. Tomus Primus [Secundus].
Edinburgi: apud
Robertum Freebairn,
1715.
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First Collected Edition. 2 vol. Folio. vol. I, 328 leaves, engraved frontispiece by V. der Gucht after Andr. Johnston; vol. II, 242 leaves.
Lowndes I, 300, [punct.
sic]
Catalogue of the Advocates Library I, 745.
Catalogue of the Library of Edinburgh University I, 578.
In a letter to the Rev. Samuel Knox dated from Monticello on February 12, 1810, concerning Buchanan, one of whose tracts the
former was proposing to translate, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . his latinity is so pure as to claim a place in school reading, & the sentiments which have recommended the work to your
notice, are such as ought to be instilled into the minds of our youth on their first opening . . .
”
George Buchanan, 1506-1582, Scottish scholar and historian.
Samuel Knox,1756-1832, Presbyterian minister and educator, was born in Ireland and educated in Scotland at Glasgow University. Eventually he settled in the United States and was the author of A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson and a Statement of his Services in the Cause of Religious Liberty. By a Friend of Real Religion, 1800.
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104
Buchanani historia.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 21. no. 59, as above.
BUCHANAN,
George.
Rerum Scoticarum Historia, auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto, ad optimam & castigatissimam
Roberti Fribarnii Editionem expressa. Cum Indice longe locupletissimo, inserta Propriorum Nominum interpretatione. Accesserunt Auctoris Vita
ab ipso scripta, Ejusdemque Dialogus de jure Regni apud Scotos: Necnon Tabula Scotiæ topographica.
Edimburgi: Sumptibus
Jo. Patoni,
1727. Pretium
5s 6d.
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