" A COLLECTION of Ancient Scotish Poems ... by upwards of twenty of our Ancient Composers ... written January, Anno Dom. 1724," by James Bruce, Alderman. With a table of the pieces prefixed. Paper; ff 90. Small Quarto. Jan 1724

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" A COLLECTION of Ancient Scotish Poems ... by upwards of twenty of our Ancient Composers ... written January, Anno Dom. 1724," by James Bruce, Alderman. With a table of the pieces prefixed. Paper; ff 90. Small Quarto. Jan 1724

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Bruce, James, 1730-1794

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James Bruce (1730-94) was a great African traveller. He was educated for the legal profession, but in the course of a visit to Spain and a study of the manuscripts of the Escurial he developed a taste for oriental and especially Ethiopian literature. He was consul at Algiers in 1763-5, and from 1765 to 1773 led a roving life in Ethiopia and Upper Egypt. From 1774, until his death in 1794, he lived chiefly in Scotland. His Travels to discover the source of the Nile was first published in 1790. Se...