Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 531
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SCOTLAND.) The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, made be King James the First, and His Successours Kinges of Scotland [with Ane Table of the Principle Matters, A Table of All the Kinges of Scotland, and John Skene, De verborum significatione]. Folding genealogical table. [4] (of [5]), 162; 178; [100] leaves; lacks the engraved additional title and folding genealogical table. Folio, 269x182 mm, old calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; preliminaries heavily soiled and rehinged with marginal restoration not affecting text, mostly marginal soiling elsewhere, scattered stains and early marginalia, repair in blank outer margin of f4-6 and g4, final 2 leaves toned and stained with blank lower half of last leaf excised and restored. Edinburgh: Robert Walde-Grave, 1597

Additional Details

Second edition, revised, of a collection originally published in 1566. STC 21877.

bound with: The Lawes and Acts of Parliament, made by the most Excellent and Mighty King and Monarch, James . . . Since His Majesties XV. Parliament, the XIX. of December, 1597. [2], 105, [1] pages. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1647. Wing S1264A.

and: The XXIII Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraine James . . . halden at Edinburgh, the 4. Day of August 1621. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1621. Woodcut portrait of James I on title verso. [2], 34 leaves. STC 21900.