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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None Issued. 1st Edition. First edition. Published as Volume VI (6) in the Third Series of the Publications of the Scottish History Society. An immaculate copy in Fine condition, bound in the original publisher's dark green cloth with bright gilt titles to the spine and the prominent gilt emblem of the Scottish History Society to the upper cover. Collation: xxiv, 281 pp + 8 pp publisher's report at rear. Octavo (8vo). Supplemented with an impressive folding map frontispiece, charts, and architectural ship plans. Issued without a dust jacket. Structural binding is perfectly tight, square, and solid. Internal pages are exceptionally fresh, clean, and crisp, completely free from inscriptions, library stamps, or foxing. Some pages remain entirely uncut along the top edge, indicating an unread copy (this can be rectified before sending, if this is your wish). A superior, investment-grade copy of the definitive compilation of primary source documents on the Darien shipping trade and early Scottish colonial ventures. Free UK postal delivery included. The Historical ContextThis volume is an important collection of original source documents about the "Company of Scotland" (often remembered for the ill-fated Darien Scheme in Panama). The company's tragic financial failure in the Central American jungle wiped out an estimated quarter of all the money in Scotland. This disaster is widely recognized by historians as the primary economic catalyst that forced Scotland into the 1707 Act of Union with England. The [Scottish History Society) always published their official volumes in this uniform, high-quality gilt green cloth. It features a large, beautifully detailed gilt crest of the society on the front cover. These books were distributed exclusively to subscribing members of the society and were never issued with dust jackets.…

Etwas gilbfleckig, leicht berieben und bestoßen/Slightly worn and stained. (H42a:).