1762 SCOTLAND George Buchanan King Arthur Mary Stuart Scottish Aberdeen

1762 SCOTLAND George Buchanan King Arthur Mary Stuart Scottish Aberdeen

George Buchanan was a 16^th-century Scottish historian who has been lauded as “the most profound intellectual 16^th-century Scotland produced.” He was known for many historical writings, but his final major work, “History of Scotland” was his attempt to skew or change the perceived Scottish national history. The majority of the work is based on his own experience in 16^th-century Scotland, as well as the history of Hector Boece and his 15^th-century Scottish philosophy. Buchanan himself knew that his work would be offensive to many Scots. He said it would,

“content few and displease many”

The work was so controversial and disliked that an official Scottish Parliament proclamation was issued to have all copies of it be returned and purged. Buchanan was not willing to stand for the Scottish dependency on England, and above all Buchanan sought a purely Scottish freedom, both political and religious.

This 1762 edition is considered quite rare – few books were published in Aberdeen, Scotland – and is bound in stunning leather binding!

Item number: #5246

Price: $550

BUCHANAN, George

Rerum scoticarum historia : auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. Ad antiquissimam Arbuthneti editionem exprimitur textus. Sed notas, Quibus varioe lectiones ex omnibus editionibus & nonnullis Mss colliguntur, loci difficiliores explicantur, & plurima, ex Mss. rarissimis, ad historiam & antiquitates Scoticas pertinentia, continentur, summa cura addidit Jacobus Man, Abredonensis. Accesserunt Index locupletissimus, Auctoris vita ab ipso scripta, & Dialogus de Jure Regni apud Scotos.

Abredoniæ : Typis Jacobi Chalmers. Prostant venales apud Al. Angus, in vico vulgo dicto Broadgate, MDCCLXII. [1762]

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 617, [83]; [2], 50
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • William Nelson
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)

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