[Forbes Family]

Six books by or relating to Forbes family members:

i) [Forbes, Sir William]. A Sermon preached in the Episcopal Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh…the day after the funeral of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart. [Edinburgh]: Ballentyne and Co, [c.1807], presentation copy inscribed by William Forbes, original black wrappers; 



ii) [Forbes Family]. Genealogy of the Family of Forbes. Inverness: Printed at the Journal Office, 1819, three-quarter red morocco, repaired, pencil annotations throughout; 



iii) Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine chain. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843, original green cloth; 



iv) Forbes, James D. The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1855, presentation copy inscribed by the author, original pictorial cloth; 



v) Forbes, Sir William. Memoirs of a Banking-House. Edinburgh: Printed for private circulation, 1859, blue cloth gilt; 



vi) Forbes, Alexander. Memorials of the family of Forbes of Forbesfield. Aberdeen: The Kings Printers, 1905, presentation copy inscribed by the author, original blue cloth; 



All 4to and 8vo, some wear and fading to bindings, wrappers and jackets



Numerous other documents and papers, including:



i) Mezzotint plate depicting Sir William Forbes (557 x 420mm; image size 450 x 350mm.), dated 1837, by William Ward after George Sanders, together with a first proof printing without the text;
ii) Copper plate depicting an older Sir William Forbes (268 x 204mm.; image size 152 x 124mm.), by Thomas Woolnoth after Archibald Skirving, together with 12 impressions;
iii) Dispatch box, engraved on a small plaque 'Sir John Stuart Bt Fettercairn', containing a large quantity of Forbes family armorial bookplates (including c.200 bookplates of Sir William Forbes dated 1760, c.270 morocco bookplates, c.40 multicoloured bookplates and c.25 bookplates of Sir John H.S. Forbes with the original copper plate), five plates for various calling cards and 13 calling cards of Sir John Stuart Forbes;
iii) Several photographic portraits of members of the Forbes family, together in another dispatch box;
iv) Numerous documents and papers, including a group on Forbes and Belsches family genealogy (including several large manuscript family trees), a letter of sympathy to Sir Sir John Murray Belsches from numerous well-wishers dated 19 September 1862, three royal warrants of appointment to the Queen's Body Guard naming Sir John Stuart Forbes, 1845-1861, letters and documents relating to the construction of a threshing mill, c.1802



Wear throughout, some light soiling, occasional tears

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