Title: Phingalēis, sive Hibernia liberate, Epicum Ossianis Poema, e celtico sermone conversum, tribus praemissis disputationibus, et subsequentibus notis; benigneque annuenti, Augusto Frederico, Serenissimo Sussexiae Duci, Dicatum. Ab Alexandro Macdonald
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 224. Signatures: [pi]2 A-Z4 Aa-Ee4. Boards. Wove paper. Stamp of Sandeman Library, Perth on title page and p. 228. Errata slip inserted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first translation of Fingal, a patchwork of relatively modern Gaelic sources, eked out by James Macpherson’s independent invention, into Latin.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1759028" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>