A BALLAD TO SINCLAIR'S MEMORY
Minnes-Runor Öfwer Kongl. Maj:ts af Swerige, Tro-Tienare och Major, Wälborne Herr Malcolm Sinclair, Som Then 17. Junii År 1739. i Schlesien, genom et Försåteligt och grymt Mord blef af daga tagen, när han uti Kongl. Maj:ts Höga Ärender war stadd på hemresan ifrån Constantinopel.
[Stockholm].
Tryckt uti thet Kongl. Tryckeriet, [1739?].
Quarto.
[4]pp. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Recent bookplate of Peter Stewart Young to verso of upper wrapper. Lightly dampstained.
A rare survival of a rousing patriotic ballad by Swedish poet Axel Daniel Leenberg (d. 1744) memorialising Swedish army intelligence officer Malcolm Sinclair (1690-1739).
Sinclair, born to a family of Scottish immigrants, was dispatched to Constantinople in 1738 to gather intelligence on the ongoing Austro-Russian-Turkish War and foster negotiations for a potential alliance between Sweden and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. On his return, having successfully carried out his duties, Sinclair was accosted by Russian infantrymen and assassinated. His death fuelled Russian resentment in Sweden and contributed to the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish war in 1741.
OCLC records copies at just three locations (KB, NLS, and Princeton).
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 27669
Sinclair, born to a family of Scottish immigrants, was dispatched to Constantinople in 1738 to gather intelligence on the ongoing Austro-Russian-Turkish War and foster negotiations for a potential alliance between Sweden and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. On his return, having successfully carried out his duties, Sinclair was accosted by Russian infantrymen and assassinated. His death fuelled Russian resentment in Sweden and contributed to the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish war in 1741.
OCLC records copies at just three locations (KB, NLS, and Princeton).
