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ROXBURGHE CLUB -- N. HOOKE. Correspondence of Colonel N. Hooke, agent from the court of France to the Scottish Jacobites, in the years 1703-1707 , edited by William Macray. London: J.B. Nichols and Sons for the Roxburghe Club, 1870-1871. 2 volumes, 4° (265 x 200mm). Original leather-backed red boards (light scuffing). Provenance : Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818-1891, name printed in red on 'list of members') -- J.R. Abbey (bookplate, Abbey number and date of purchase at back; sold Sotheby's 16 November 1966, £45 to Pickering & Chatto). P.H. STANHOPE (1805-1875, editor). The Decline of the Last Stuarts. Extracts from the Despatches of British Envoys to the Secretary of State. London: W. Nicol for the Roxburghe Club, 1843. 4° (262 x 195mm). (First leaves spotted.) Original leather-backed red boards (light scuffing and soiling). Provenance : Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847, name printed in red on 'list of members') -- Lord Herries (1804-1876, inscription dated 1873 noting gift from 'Ld. Powis'). -- R.R. STODART. Scottish Arms ... A.D. 1370-1678 . Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1881. 2 volumes, 2° (350 x 245mm). 123 coloured lithographic plates. Original cream cloth (some light soiling). Number 125 of 300 'small paper' copies; and 22 other volumes of Scottish history and bibliography, including 6 other Roxburghe Club publications (two from the libraries of Abbey and C.H. St. John Hornby) in 7 volumes, and volumes I-VIII of The Bibliotheck (1956-1975) bound in 6. (26)