Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MACPHERSON, JAMES. Original Papers, containing the Secret History of Great Britain from the Restoration, to the Accession of the House of Hannover: to which are prefixed, Extracts from the Life of James II as written by himself . . . Second Edition. Folding genealogical table. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf with morocco lettering and numbering pieces, Volume 2 spine chipped at top, small hole in one raised band. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776

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First published the preceding year. Macpherson (1736-96) was best-known for his purported translations of poems he ascribed to the legendary Gaelic bard Ossian.