Celtic Scotland - A history of Ancient Alban
Title: Celtic Scotland - A history of Ancient Alban - 3 Volumes
Author: William F. Skene
Publisher: Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh
Date: 1876 / 1877 / 1880
Hardback - 1st Edition. Volume I (1876) - xv, 510pp; 6 maps, Appendix. Volume II (1877) - xix, 510pp; 3 maps, Appendix. Volume III (1880) - Frontis (Map). xv, 525pp; appendix, Errata
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William Forbes Skene's important history of the Celtic origins of Scotland. 3 Volumes published between 1876 - 1880:
Volume I - History and Ethnology - with 5 maps and Appendix detailing "remains of the Pictish language.
Volume II - Church and Culture - with 3 maps and Appendix: The old Irish life of St Columba; The rule of St Columba and Catalogue of religious Houses at the end of the Chronicle of Henry of Silgravec A.D. 1272.
Volume III - Land and People with 1 map and Appendix: Translation of a part of the Book of Clanranald; Baile Suthain sith Eamhna; A discription of the Isles of Scotland written 1577-1595; On the authenticity of the letters said to have been granted by King William the lion to the Earl of Mar in 1171; On the Earldom of Caithness; Original Poem on the Lennox; Comparison between the Highland clans and the Afghaun tribes; Legendary descent of the Highland Clans according to Irish MSS.
Condition Notes
Volume I - Very good clean cover boards with just some light rubbing and folding at the top and base of the spine. The Inside pages very clean and bright throughout. All 5 maps present and in colour.
Volume II - Very good clean cover boards with just some light rubbing and folding at the top and base of the spine. The Inside pages very clean and bright throughout. All 3 maps present and in colour.
Volume III - Very good clean cover boards with just some light rubbing and folding at the top and base of the spine. The Inside pages very clean and bright throughout.
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