Mackintosh, Donald Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases; Englished a-new. To which is added, The way to wealth by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. , Edinburgh: Stewart, 1819.

Hardback. Good+. Brown leather half-binding, rather worn; front board missing, but binding otherwise intact (ie no pp loose). Dual English - Gaelic text. NB: Benjamin Franklin's book is subtitled, "Poor Richard Improved". Bound in at the rear is Allan Ramsay's "A Collection of Scots Proverbs, Containing All The Wise Sayings and Observations of the Old People of Scotland" (Kilmarnock, N. Crawford, 1820, 24pp, pp a little frail); English text. There are two connected inscriptions on the front endpaper: '... the property of the Rev. David Duncan, Minister of Motherwell, Musselburgh 19/10/34', and, 'And now found its way to Charles S. Higgins (indecipherable) author and artist of London and Barra, in the year of the "Blitzkrieg" 1940'. ; 12mo (4" x 7"); 239 pages (Book ref. 16602)  £120.00

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