£70
Dryden (John), Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Printed for Jacon Tonson, 1721, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, worn spine, split but holding, 12mo, [&] Higgons (Bevil), A Short View of the English History, second edition, London: Printed for James Mead, 1734, black-ruled title-page, disbound, 8vo, (2)
Provenance: 2nd: Lord Adam Gordon (c.1726-1801), a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, a Scottish career army officer (later achieving the rank of general) and an failed land investor in the then American Colonies, West Indies and Canada; his ownership stamp to title-page fore-edge.
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