[Scotland. Battle of Culloden and The Young Pretender] (J. Burton). L'Ascanius moderne,

ou L'illustre avanturier. Histoire très-fidèle & circonstanciée de tout ce qui est arrivé de plus mémorable & de plus secret au Prince Charles Edouart Stuart dans le Nord de l'Ecosse, depuis la Bataille de Cullode, livrée entre le 16. & 26. Avril 1746. jusq'à son embarquement & son retour en France du 19. au 30. Septembre de la même année: & depuis cette époque, en d'autres lieux de l'Europe jusqu'à présent. Traduction de l'Anglois (...). Edinburgh, n.publ., 1763, 2 parts in 1 vol. w. continuous pagination, VII,(1),96; (3),98-198 p., w. 3 (large) fold. engr. plates dep. the battle, very finely bound in contemp. gilt red mor., both covers with corner fleurons within doublet fillet border, gilt turn-ins (faded), richly gilt and ribbed spine w. mor. letterpiece, a.e.g., sm. 8vo.

Some occ. stains (also affecting two plates). A fine and very attractive copy, from the library of Baron de Bellet, with his heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. Lowndes I, 78: "A romantic account of the adventures of the Pretender." The first English edition appeared in London, 1746 (cf. Halkett & Laing I, 151). Ours is the second French edition. An interesting, anonymously published account of the Battle of Culloden, in which the Young Pretender was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. The author John Burton (1710-1771) was an antiquary and physician at York.