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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1930. First edition. 125pp., 15 black and white illustrations and a folding family tree. Top edge gilt. Burgie is an estate, with a mansion, in Rafford parish, Moray, situated about 3¼ miles E by N of Forres. It belonged to the Abbots of Kinross, and the land was transferred from Kinloss Abbey to the Dunbars in 1566, and they constructed Burgie Castle. Although in 1645 Dunbar of Burgie was in arms against James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, in 1650 he bankrupted himself in paying for supplies for the army of Charles II. Thomas Dunbar of Grange purchased the property from him. In 1702 the castle was extended, but in 1802 most of it was demolished to furnish material for Burgie House, which was in due course rebuilt as a plain two-storey mansion in 1902. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear to the boards and some patchy damp fading around the bottom corner of the rear board and a few patches near the bottom of the fore edge of the front board. The spine is faded and there is light bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the free endpapers and there are two sets of initials written on the front free endpaper.…