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BUCHANAN, GEORGE. The History of Scotland. [8], 7, [1], 434, 286, [36] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Folio, 304x181 mm, old calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; most of the contents following the preliminaries heavily browned, scattered ink blots, portrait trimmed in blank outer margin, blank outer corners off. London: Edw. Jones for Awnsham Churchil, 1690
first edition in english of Buchanan's 1582 Rerum Scoticarum historia, in which he drew on historical precedents in support of his ideas about resistance to tyranny. Wing B5283.
