The history of the kingdoms of Scotland & Ireland. : Containing I. An account of the most remarkable transactions and revolutions in Scotland, for above twelve hundred years past, during the reigns of sixty seven kings, from the year of our Lord 424. to the happy union of both kingdoms under King James the Sixth of Scotland, and First of England, of blessed memory, in 1602. II. The history of Ireland from the conquest thereof under King Henry the Second to this time. Intermixt with variety of excellent speeches, strange accidents, prodigious appearances, and other very considerable matters, both delightful and profitable. With a list of the names of the present Scotch and Irish nobility. Illustrated with above thirty pictures. By R.B. author of Englands Monarchs, &c. /
R. B.,approximately 1632-approximately 1725.
Dunn, John,active 1870.former owner.NLS
Hotson, Jack,former owner.NLS
London, : Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside.,
1685.
R.B. is a pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch.
Page 233 misnumbered 223.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of King James VI of Scotland and woodcuts throughout the text, some repeated.
Final three pages of booksellers advertisements.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.),
Provenance: inscriptions in pencil on upper pastedown read: 'This copy was formerly in the library of John Dunn, writer, Paisley. See his sale cat. 1870, item 1841' and 'Jack Hotson, 12 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh'.
Also reproduced on microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1986. Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1714:16