Originally published in 1638, Adamson's Muses Threnodie was the first book to contain a reference to the game of golf, in two lines of a poem that read "and yee, my clubs, you must no more prepare/to make your bals flee whistling in the aire." This second edition, published almost 150 years later in 1774, contains a footnote to these two lines and a reference to playing golf at Perth, where Adamson was born.

Hardcover (leather), very good condition. Golf mentioned on page 18 and page 90. Listed in Gilchrist's Guide to Golf Collectibles (2004) at $3,500.