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1638143649Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius 1638. Very Good. Amsterdam Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius circa 1638/ 1630. A hand-coloured engraved map printed surface 368 × 540 mm sheet size approximately 490 × 570 mm with letterpress text in Latin on the verso headed 'Lauden sive Lothien'. With the imprint 'Henricus Hondius excudit'. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; light tanning; small creases to bottom corners well clear of the printed surface; old guard mounted on the verso; an excellent copy with ample margins. An attractive map of the shires of Lothian and Linlithgow from the Latin edition of the famous Mercator-Hondius-Jansson atlas 'Atlas Novus sive Descriptio Geographica Totius Orbis Terrarum' 1636-1638 following the pioneering surveys of Scottish cartographer Timothy Pont. <p>It was first published in Hondius' 1630 edition of Mercator's atlas with the imprint giving credit to Hendrik's father Joost de Hondt: 'Jodocus Hondius caelavit sumptibus Andrae Hart'. Interestingly the plate was likely engraved as early as 1603 which would explains the imprint and the dedication to James I and VI. Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius unknown
1745AQ18304Edinburgh: s.n. 1745. 8pp. Bound with: Historical Reprints. - II. Duke Hamilton's Conditions for Surrendering himself with all the Officers and Souldiers under his command. s.i. Printed for R. B. 1648. 8pp. And: Historical Reprints. - VI. The affairs of scotland in 1689: being A Collection of MS. Accounts of dundee's campaign From the Papers of Mr. Nairne Under Secretary to King James II. from 1688 to 1701. s.i. s.n. s.d. 39pp 1. And: Historical Reprints. - IX. The impostor painted in his own colours; or The base Birth and Parentage of the Chevalier De St George alias the pretender. London. Printed by J. Read s.d. 16pp. And: Historical Reprints. - XV. Two Important State Papers. I. Sir Walter Mildmay's Opinion concerning the Keeping of the Queen of Scots. II. A Letter from the Earl of Leicester to the Earl of Sussex concerning the Queen of Scots. 1569. Edinburgh. Privately printed 1886. 20pp. And: Historical Reprints. - XVI. The earl of hertford's expedition Against Scotland. 1544. Edinburgh. Privately printed 1886. 23pp 1. And: Historical Reprints. - XVIII. An answer to the Second Manifesto of the Pretender's eldest Son. London. Printed for M. Cooper 1746. 42pp. 12mo. Recent blue buckram printed paper lettering-piece. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Internally immaculate. A sammelband of seven late nineteenth-century reprints each limited to 250 copies 200 small-paper copies 50 large-paper copies of pamphlets relating to the history and governance of Scotland - including the defeat of Royalist supporter James Hamilton 1st Duke of Hamilton 1606-1649 by the forces of Cromwell; the campaign of John Graham 1st Viscount Dundee 1648-1689 during the Jacobite rising of 1689; and the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Windsor Castle. . [s.n.] hardcover
1719143633Amsterdam: L'Honoré et Chatelain 1719. Very Good. Amsterdam L'Honoré et Chatelain 1719. An engraved map printed surface 353 × 463 mm sheet size approximately 455 × 520 mm. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; a few faint spots; light creases and a few tiny closed tears about the edges well clear of the printed surface; a very good copy. From Chatelain's 'Atlas historique ou Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire à la chronologie & à la Geographie ancienne & moderne .'. With an inset map of the Orkney Islands. L'Honoré et Chatelain unknown
1844019816London Edinburgh & Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co @1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to a few plates but most plates clean. Rubbing to spine edges and corners. Very Good. Two small folio 8-1/2" x 10-5/8" volumes bound in half brown morocco leather and cloth with matching leather corners gilt-decorated and lettered spines marbled edges. Illustrated with a steel-engraved title page and 79 steel-engraved views. Apparently lacking the printed title page and half-title page <br/><br/> A. Fullarton & Co hardcover
1839001823London: George Virtue 1839. Hardcover. Scattered foxing but most plates clean. Spine worn some splitting joints but covers tight. Overall Very Good. W. H. Bartlett. Two quarto 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in one full gilt-decorated morocco leather volume. Illustrated with two steel-engaved title pages three portraits and 84 engraved views and engravings after paintings. Many of the engravings are views by W. H. Bartlett. There is no printed title page though there are two engraved title pages. No information could be found for this particular title which is similar to Wilson's book issued the next year. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover
1597D16825Edinburgh: Robert Walde-Grave 1597. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folding genealogical table. 4 of 5 162; 178; 100 leaves; lacks the engraved additional title and folding genealogical table. Folio 269x182 mm old calf rebacked endpapers renewed; preliminaries heavily soiled and rehinged with marginal restoration not affecting text mostly marginal soiling elsewhere. Repair in blank outer margin of f4-6 and g4 final 2 leaves toned and stained with blank lower half of last leaf excised and restored. Early marginalia enhances this volume the second edition revised of a collection originally published in 1566. STC 21877. Bound with: The Lawes and Acts of Parliament made by the most Excellent and Mighty King and Monarch James . . . Since His Majesties XV. Parliament the XIX. of December 1597. 2 105 1 pages. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler 1647. Wing S1264A. and: The XXIII Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraine James . . . halden at Edinburgh the 4. Day of August 1621. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason 1621. Woodcut portrait of James I on title verso. 2 34 leaves. STC 21900. A fine sammelband. <br/><br/> Robert Walde-Grave hardcover
189735119unknown: Prescribed and Published by The Executive Castle 1897. Revised Edition. Soft cover. Good. Thin soft cover. Approx. 7.5" x 5". 52 pages 1. Flexible dark cloth covers. Illustrated title page with illustration on the verso and one in text. Front hinge cracked. Stitching visible in the gutters. Light shelf wear to the covers. Light thin damp stain to the lower page edges. <br /> <br /> This copy has a square stamp "Surplus Duplicate." and an oval stamp from the Library of Congress dated 1898. A blue stamp from the library is also on the title page and dated Jan 28 1898. Two small library stamps top of the title page. The Royal Highlanders formed in Scotland and fought in several wars including the American Revolution. The Royal Highlanders were also a fraternal organization founded in Nebraska in 1895. The title page gives no identifying information where this ritual was printed. <br /> <br /> Scarce and obscure. No copies found in OCLC. Prescribed and Published by The Executive Castle unknown
1774AQ12340Edinburgh: Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochrane 1774. 2 70pp 2. With an engraved title-page. Recent plain paper wraps printed paper lettering piece. Very minor wear to extremities. Title a trifle soiled and chipped lightly foxed. An historical record of the missionary work undertaken in Scotland by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge primarily concerning the state of education in the country as a whole and the Highlands in particular. Intriguingly there is included a chapter on the Society's proceedings on the eastern seaboard of America relating their attempts at converting members of the Indian nations both in terms of their successes and the difficulties encountered. ESTC T82929. First edition. Quarto. Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochrane paperback
23918Victorian photographic print of illustration ‘signed’ ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. The tradition of this annual day of revels at Scotland's oldest university St Andrews is said to date back to the fifteenth century and is said to commemorate the visits of a lady Katharine Kennedy to her uncle Bishop Kennedy of St Andrews every Spring. 9 x 5 cm sepia photographic print of illustration laid down on 10.5 x 6 cm piece of card and clearly made in the nineteenth century. In fair condition lightly aged. As part of the print at bottom right: ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. On reverse in pencil: ‘D of Fa / K K Day / St A Professors / J S Mill’ The photograph is of a drawing of eight middle-aged men presumably St Andrews professors dancing and playing musical instruments in a semi-circle around a ninth dressed as a tumbler and standing on his head. Each of the heads in the illustration is a cut-out from a photographic portrait laid down on the page and drawn around. The last figure on the left is a skeleton and the last on the right crouching and playing a drum has a serpent’s tail. See image. Victorian photographic print of illustration ‘signed’ ‘Kate Kennedy pinxit / 1871’. unknown
41658Rouen, Mégard, 1863, in 12, cartonnage papier décoré de l'éditeur, 240 pages ; gravures hors-texte ; rousseurs ; mouillure angulaire en tête de toutes les pages ; ccartonnage défraichi, mors fendus.
First Edition, half-title, [2], 22 pp., a little dusty, disbound.
Second Edition, half-title, [4], 5-24pp., disbound.
192053119Glasgow & Edinburgh: R.W. Forsyth Ltd. 1920. 8vo. 166 pp unpaginated. photo-illustrated title including 128 colour serigraph sample plates of Forsyth tartans numerous colour plates text illustraitions. Dark green embossed cloth over beveled boards Arts & Crafts cover art lettering on front cover embossed on back cover minor bumping shelfwear still VG copy w/ former ownership signature on verso of ffep. First edition thus of this lavishly illustrated catalogue of tartans and highland accouterment supplied by Forsyth’s department store in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the beginning of the 20th century. One of the lozenge illustrations on the title shows the landmark Forsyth Building erected in 1906 and was Scotland’s first steel-framed structure and the spire was completed by Gilbert Bayes. R.W. Forsyth, Ltd., hardcover
1396031 Moray Place Edinburgh. 27 December 1825. 4pp. foolscap 8vo on two bifoliums. On aged and worn paper with slight bloom at head and a little loss to spine from disbinding. The letter 2pp. begins: 'Now for a twelvemonth the dues collected for the passage of Vessels through the Caledonian Canal have been progressively deposited in the Bank of Scotland at Inverness and Fortwilliam by the Collectors upon deposit Receipts in the name of Mr Rickman and me.' The receipts amounting to £4200 and 'a certain Sum of Interest' having arisen he conveys the instructions of the Canal's Commissioners that a new account be opened in Edinburgh. The letter continues with further details and is signed 'Ja Hope'. Accompanying the letter and 2pp. long is a tabulated 'Schedule of Deposit Receipts of The Bank of Scotland sent to the Bank to be placed to the Credit of the Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal' with the first entry dated 23 August 1824 and the last 19 December 1825. This lists 42 deposits made in Inverness and Fort William with 'Dates' 'Days' 'Interest' and 'Sums'. The interest on the £4200 total is £68 13s 3d. Docketed 'Schedule of Deposit Receipts of the Bank of Scotland Canal Dues.' Accompanying the document is a manuscript resolution dated 'Bank of Scotland 29 Decr 1835': 'The Sum of £4268. 13/3 is placed to Credit of Messrs Rickman & Hope for Commrs for the Caledonian Canal. In Account with the Bank of Scotland - A Y p Secy'. Also present are four lines of pencilled accounts. 31 Moray Place, Edinburgh. 27 December 1825. unknown
DJ darkened and with light chipping. Inscription to former owner by president of Deeside Field on top margin of title page; The nature in the Scottish countryside ; B&W Photographs; 4to; 74 pages
First edition, small 4to (208 x 165 mm), 46, [2]pp., one of 250 copies printed for private circulation, portrait frontis., cloth-backed boards, title lettered in gilt on upper board.
1962LFA-126728704Revue mensuelle de 72 pages, format 140 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, Impr. de Sceaux, bon état
LFA-126739742Revue de 50 pages, format 205 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
12600Glasgow: Cameron & Co. Publishers and sold by all booksellers. 1880s. 128pp. 12mo. In original wraps with 11.5 x 7 cm label pasted on cover with coloured illustration of a man performing a magic trick for a group of ladies beneath the title 'EVENING PASTIMES OR AMUSEMENTS FOR HEARTHS AND HOMES'. In fair condition a tight copy on aged paper in worn wraps. Ownership stamp of the Sussex ornithologist H. L. F. Guermonprez on front free endpaper. After '. Puzzles and Paradoxes' the title continues: 'With a Series of Comic Lessons for Fireside Recreation.' Among the sections are 'Transposition of Letters' 'Conundrums' 'Enigmas and Riddles' 'Charades' 'Practical Puzzles and Paradoxes' and 'The Alliterative Lesson'. The second half of the volume is devoted to 'Parlour Games'. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on OCLC and the only copy on COPAC at the National Library of Scotland by which it is tentatively dated to the 1880s. See Image. Glasgow: Cameron & Co., Publishers, and sold by all booksellers. [1880s?] paperback
19006631Dundee: Valentine & Sons Ltd 1900. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 20. Illustrated with black & white heliogravure photo reproductions. Textured red cloth titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the cover saddle stapled. Covers moderately bowed and stained gilt darkened edges rubbed first leaves lightly foxed staples oxidized. Souvenir views of Scottish Borders sights mostly Abbotsford House inside and out plus Dryburgh and Melrose abbeys. The photos are exquisite. Uncommon. Valentine & Sons, Ltd hardcover
6 vols. in one as issued, First Edition, 4to, general title-page repaired on inner blank margin (not affecting the text), the final leaf of the second pamphlet misbound after the fourth pamphlet, each item has a separate title, pagination and signatures, [2], 8, [2], 14, 5, [1], 8, 6, 6, 8 pp., modern marbled boards, gilt morocco label on upper cover, a nice copy. The six pamphlets are variously printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne by John Gooding, and at Edinburgh by Lumisden and Robertson. The titles are:-**** 1). A Letter from a Scots Gentleman at Berwick, to his Intimate Friend at Newcastle. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1745. 2). A Letter from a Gentleman at Newcastle, to the Burgesses of Edinburgh. [Newcastle upon Tyne], 1745. 3). The Pretended Prince of Wales's Manifesto and Declaration, Dated at Edinburgh, October 14. 1745, Dissected, Anatomised, and exposed to Ridicule. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1745. 4) A Vindication of the Brewers of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1725: And reprinted there, in the Year 1745. 5) A Speech Without Doors, made on the 4th of October, on Occasion of the Election of Magistrates at Michaelmas, 1725; and Reprinted in the Year 1745. 6). Proposal for retrieving the Sinking State of the Good Town of Edinburgh, humbly offered to the Consideration of all its Honest Burgess and Welwishers. Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1737: And reprinted there, in the Year, 1745. **** The final pamphlet is not called for in the publisher's advertisement on the final page of the second pamphlet. These pamphlets are listed separately in the ESTC and various locations are given for single titles but the only complete copies with the general title-page are at the British Library, Aberdeen University, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Huntington, and Chiddingstone Castle.
First Edition, title within a typographical border, soiled, 39, [1] pp., disbound. Sometimes attributed to William Logan and to John Ker. Kress, 3451; Hanson, 2895.
190418810David Douglas Edinburgh - Central Conservative Office & Central Council of the Scottish National Union 1904. 10th edition. Hardback. Cloth G. viii926pp index Ex-Library Reform Club then Hammersmith Public bookplates a few small stamps gilt numbers of the spine otherwise a nice clean copy. The Campaign Guide was first issued by the Scottish National Union in preparation of the 1892 General Election. The book was fully re-written for each subsequent General Election & this 10th edition contains all the relevant policy & party views of the Boer War in South Africa. The purpose of the book was to bring together Policy & Manifesto for the Conservative & Unionist activists & give them a sound historical grounding in the previous Governments. An interesting historical document. David Douglas, Edinburgh - Central Conservative Office & Central Council of the Scottish National Union hardcover
143719883X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
172850632hEdinburgh: Mr. Thomas Ruddiman 1728. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary full tooled Cambridge paneled calf with raised bands and burgundy gilt title label to spine. Some minor professional restoration to binding. Edges and endpapers mildly toned. Otherwise a clean tight and unmarked book. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy of this scarce political Scottish Church tract. No half-title. vi242pp. Mr. Thomas Ruddiman Hardcover
