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Scarce work on the history of Fife) 2pp,[iii]-xvi,[1]-468,(6), frontispiece (drawn by J. Brooks), + 3 leaves of engraved plates plus two additional drawings noted. 8vo, full contemporary brown calf, two gilt-tooled borders to boards, gilt tooling and lettering to spine, a few gilt dentelles to fore-edge (with presumed dentelles to bottom and top edges worn away), red marbled endpapers. A new edition of Sibbald’s classic naturaland geographical travelogue of southern Scotland. Robert Sibbald, 1641 -1722, was a Scottish physician, naturalist, and antiquary Full leather binding, a little worn but still tight. Some marking through age to the text but a sound copy. Plates as called for, with two additional noted in contemporary hand in an appendix at the rear giving instructions to the binder