Description
4to, pp. xviii, [ii], [9]-372 + 5 folding maps and 16 lithographic plates. Modern blue quarter morocco, blue cloth boards, spine lettered plainly in gilt. Toned, a little dustsoiling, some foxing to edges of plates.
Caledonia Romana: a Descriptive Account of the Roman Antiquities of Scotland. Second edition, revised by David Thomson.
- Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox 1852
£120
Notes
The posthumous second edition of the major work of the historian Robert Stuart (1812-1848), 'well regarded in its day' (ODNB), produced after his untimely death from cholera by his brother-in-law David Thomson (1817-1880), a professor of natural history at Aberdeen.
