Buchanans Opera omnia in folio 1725

RARE FOLIO EDITION. BUCHANAN, GEORGE. (2). Opera omnia, ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata. Nunc primum in unum collecta, ab innumeris pene mendis, quibus pleraeque omnes editiones antea scatebant, repurgata; ac variis insuper notis aliisque utilissimis accessionibus illustrata & aucta: Quorum omnium syllabus post praefationem exhibetur. Curante Thoma Ruddimanno. I-II. Edinburgi (apud Robertum Freebairn) 1725. Folio (406x246 mm.). Engraved frontispiece (partly browned), titles printed in red and black.Contemporary brown full calf, worn, vol. II with cracks in upper hinge, gilt borders, gilt edges of covers, faded richly gilt spines in seven compartments, some damages at head, red edges. Partly foxed, hard on pp. 275-76 in vol I and last pages in vol. II. Some leaves browned. On first endpapers an annotation that the book is complete, signed Wright 1723. First collected edition. 2 volumes. George Buchanan (1506-1582), famous Scottish historian and humanist sch