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- 1904 (Creation)
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viii, 118, [5] pp, illustration, map; printed
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A copy of ‘A royalist family Irish and French (1689-1789) and Prince Charles Edward / translated from the French by A.G. Murray MacGregor, with a map of the route of the “Doutelle”’ (Edinburgh: William Brown, 1904). The introduction reads ‘Translated from Une famille royaliste ... [Nantes, 1901] a French publication unsigned but compiled from original mss. by the present Duc de la Trémoille ... The log-book of the Doutelle, which bore him [Prince Charles] to Scotland, appears on its pages for the first time’.
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The volume is in very poor condition. There is extensive fraying to the edges from prior water damage. The item should be handled with extreme care.
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A digital copy of the text can be read online at https://archive.org/details/aroyalistfamily00macggoog