sibbald] 
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Owing to religious persecution, he having turned Roman 
Catholic, Sibbald fled to London in 1685, but “ repenting 
of his rashness he resolved to come home and return to the 
Church he was born in,” and after a short period and a 
severe illness he returned to his former faith and his native 
country in 1686, and publicly published his recantation in 
Edinburgh (Evelyn’s Diary , iii. p. 23). 
He was twice married, and died in August 1722. 
For further particulars of Sibbald and a translation of 
the Prodr ornus, with notes, vide article by Mr. Mullens in 
British Birds , July 1912. 
1684. Scotia Illustrata | sive | Prodromus | Historise Naturalis | in quo | 
Regionis natura, Incolarum Ingenia & Mores, Morbi lisque 
medendi Methodus, & | Medicina Indigena accurate explicantur : 
| Et | Multiplices Naturae Partus in triplice ejus Regno, Vegeta- 
bili scilicet, Animali & Minerali | per hancce Borealem Magnae 
Britanniae Partem, quae Antiquissimum Scotiae 1 Regnum constituit, 
undiquaque diffusi nunc pnmum in Lucem eruuntur, & | varii 
eorum Usus, Medici praesertim & Mechanici, quos ad Vitae | cum 
necessitatem, turn commoditatem praestant, cunctis | perspicue 
exponuntur : | Cum Eiguris iEneis | Opus Viginti Annorum | 
Serenissimi Domini Regis Caroli. II. Magnae Britanniae, &c. | 
Monarchae Jussu editum. | Auctore Roberto Sibbaldo M.D. 
Equite Aurato, Medico & Geographo | Regio, & Regii Medicorum 
Collegii apud Edinburgum Socio. | [Engraving] Edinburgi, | Ex 
’ Officina Typographic*! Jacobi Kniblo, Josuae Solingensis | & 
Johannis Colmarii, Sumptibus Auctoris. | Anno Domini 
M.DC.LXXXIV. 
Collation — 1 vol. fol. Pars Prima (Tomus Primus), pp. 4 + 
pp. 16 +pp. 19 un. +pp. 102 +pp. 6, Index. 
Pars Secunda, pp. 6 un. +pp. 114 +pp. 6, Index. 
Tomus Secundus, pp. 6 un. + pp. 56 +pp. 2. 
XXII plates (numbered) + 1 pi. heraldic device ; many mistakes 
in pagination. 
Birds treated of pp. 13 (numbered wrongly 11) — 22, in Partis 
Secundae Lib. Tertius. 
1710. The | History, | Ancient and modern, | of the | Sheriffdoms | of 
Fife and Kinross ; | with | The Description of Both, | And of 
the | Firths of Forth and Tay, | and | The Islands in Them. | 
[etc. 4 lines]: | With an Account of | The natural Products of 
the Land and Waters. | By Sir Robert Sibbald, Doctor of 
Medicine. | [Quotation, 2 lines] | Edinburgh : | Printed by James 
Watson, for the Author, m.dcc.x. 
