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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are slightly rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and tightly bound. One inscription. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The first edition of this collection of Golf themed poems and sketches by John Hogben writing under the pseudonym of Cleeke Shotte. Very good internally in G+ illustrated paper wraps which are sunned to spine with wear to top and base of spine area (see photos). Elfick & Harris 139.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Glasgow. Printed for the author by Robert and Andrew Foulis printers to the University. 1763., 1763. 4to . Two volumes. Volume I: XX pp. (title, dedication, subscription list, preface and contents + 357 pp. +426pps. with ads at the back. Similar size and text with marginal foxing and browning in volume 2 of the set. Rebound in 1/2 dark calf with six raised bands on spine and marbled boards with vellum tips in the flavor of an 18th century but done in the 20th century by a fine binder trained in Cambridge England. John Bell was a scottish doctor and traveller. In the service of the Russian emperor he made extensive journeys across the russian empire and Asia. He attended an embassy to China for four years and participated in an expedition to the Caspian Sea accompanying Peter the Great. Later he settled as a merchant in Constantinople. The present work describes embassies to Persia and China. Later in life when he decided to publish the notes of his diplomatic experiences, doubting his literary abilities he approached William Robertson, the historian, "to carry out the task. Robertson, being busy, advised Bell to take Gulliver's Travels 'for your model, and you cannot go wrong'." Bell entrusted the printing his Travels to the Foulis press, "whose beautiful fount of type enhances the value of the book" (Murray, Robert & Andrew Foulis and the Glasgow Press, p. 53). In 1747 Bell retired to his estates in Stirlingshire where he was noted for his "acts of charity and his predilection for riding the countryside in oriental costume" (Howgego). Blackmer 111; Cordier Sinica 2093; Cox I, 256; Gaskell Foulis 415; Howgego, I, B62. Binding.