Fine Books and Manuscripts

Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians, their Posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots. London: T. Becket, 1768.4to (250 x 207 mm). (Marginal spotting or stains.) Contemporary calf, gilt-lettered in the second (rubbed, old tape repairs, discreet library label). FIRST EDITION. MacPherson became the first Baronet from Sleat on the Isle of Skye and was the Scottish administrator in India.