Price: £600
Subject: History
Published Date: c. 1850
Stock Number: 62084
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: 4to manuscript notebook, started at both ends, approx 100 pages more or less equally divided between the 2 halves, original half green vellum, worn at extremities, Parisian stationer's advertisement inside front cover, upper cover indistinctly inscribed William Henry Scott, inscription WH Scott on flyleaves at either end
Publication Details: Paris: c. 1850
Notes: The 'title-page', besides the signature, has 'Livre de Scottinski polonais au service de l'Angleterre. Louis de Gros scripsit', 'dixit Boymans' added. Scott therefore was a 'Scot Abroad', perhaps a first or second generation settler in Poland, and a soldier: whether he was William Henry or not is unclear. The first essay is a 'Suite de l'histoire de l'Egypte sous les Successeurs d'Alexandre, followed by L'Histoire de Sirie. Beginning at the other end we have L'Histoire de l'Espagne, L'Histoire des Portugais, Des Danois, de Russie. The Danes are covered in 2 epochs, the Russians in 3, in both c...more
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