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BOUND BY ALEXANDER MILNE OF FORRES FOR THE EARLS OF SEAFIELD45. FULLARTON, William. A View of the English Interests in India; and anAccount of the Military Operations in the Southern Parts of the Peninsula,during the Campaigns of 1782, 1783, and 1784. London and Edinburgh: T.Cadell and W. Creech, 1787.8vo, pp. [2], iv, [2], 323, [1 (errata)]; one engraved folding battle plan; a very goodcopy in contemporary Scottish speckled sheep by Alexander Milne of Forres (c.1779-1849), spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, alledges marbled; extremities lightly rubbed and chipped, boards slightly bowedcausing upper hinge to crack; some errata corrected by an early hand; engravedarmorial bookplate of the Earls of Seafield, Cullen House Library, Banffshire, toupper pastedown. £600First edition. After studying at Edinburgh University, William Fullarton (1754-1808) settled upon a career in diplomacy and was Secretary to the British embassyin Paris from 1775 to 1778, until the outbreak of hostilities with France forced himto return to Britain. In 1780, Fullarton decided to embark upon a career as asoldier and in the summer of 1781, in Madras, ‘commenced diversionary operationsto lure the enemy out of the Carnatic. In June 1782 he was gazetted colonel asecond time, in the army of the East India Company. The following winter hesuppressed the Kollars of Madura, and captured Karur and Dindigul. In May 1783he assumed general command of forces in the southernmost part of the Carnatic,invading Mysore and taking Dharapuram, Palghat, and Coimbatore. Further featsof arms were forestalled by the peace patched up with Tipu, who had succeeded hisfather, Haidar. Throughout the campaign Fullarton showed high abilities’ (ODNB).46. GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Tancred. Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen,nach Voltaire. Tübingen, Cotta, 1802.[bound with:]GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Mahomet. Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen, nachVoltaire. Tübingen, Cotta, 1802.2 works in one volume, small 8vo, pp. 104; 102; very good copies, bound inGerman contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spine decorated gilt. £550First edition of two plays by Voltaire which Goethe translated and adapted forthe Weimar stage.