SOME REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE Col. JAMES GARDINER, who was slain at the Battle of Preston-Pans, 21st September 1745, with an appendix relating to the Ancient Family of the Munroes Of Foulis

1796 printing. A Fair copy. 12mo., vii, 276 pp. Bound in quarter leather with patterned paper over boards.; gilt title on a black label on the spine. Boards are worn and rubbed. End papers marked with doodling and crude arithmetic, bleeding through to the title page. Book plate of the Sondley library of Asheville. Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest at his death, and parts of it still form the nucleus of the Sondley Reference Library in Asheville.