DEUCHAR, SEAFIELD.

We were the First.

4to; pp. (x), 53; list of illustrations, colour illustrations; original cloth, rubbed dustjacket, price clipped; otherwise a very good copy. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, (1973).

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Book number: 92434

Keywords: Australian local history Tasmania Art Tasmanian artist autobiography Australian biography

SEAFIELD, [CAROLINE STEWART] COUNTESS DOWAGER

In Memoriam, Ian Charles, Eighth Earl of Seafield, Twenty-Seventh Chief of the Clan Grant

Inverness, Northern Chronicle. 1884, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, viii 192pp, hardback, pious in memoriam volume, The earl was born 1851 and died 1884, tributes by tenants and friends, pages with ruled black margin, bevelled chocolate boards, front board decorated with gilt crest centre and conifer sprigs to corners, extremities of spine rubbed away else good bright copy, nd ca 1884. Good.

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Book number: 023595

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Countess Dowager of Seafield

In Memoriam Ian Charles, Eighth Earl of Seafield, Twenty-Seventh Chief of the Clan Grant

Inverness, Northern Chronicle" Office, 1884. Cloth. A memoriam for Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant, a Scottish nobleman and the twenty-seventh Chief of Clan Grant. A memoriam for Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant, produced by his mother Caroline Stuart, the Countess Dowager. This work contains a biographical notice, press notices, funeral commentary, pulpit references, tributes, and condolences directed to the family. Ian Charles was the eighth Earl of Seafield and the twenty-seventh Chief of Clan Grant, a Highland Scottish Clan who claim descent from Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, first King of Scots, though numerous other origin theories exist however, including Norman or Norse emanation. As his parents' only child, his death meant that his mother Caroline Stuart became the sole proprietor of the Seafield Estates. She has been described as "The last of the great feudal chiefs". Rebacked in the original full cloth binding with a contemporary cloth spine. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot and light age toning to the extremities. A contemporary ink inscription to the title page. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 882T12

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Memoriam Ian Charles Earl of Seafield Clan Grant Ian Charles None