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1880529541880. Acts Concerning Debtors in Scotland Debtors. Scotland. An Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt And to Provide for the Better Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors in Scotland; And for Other Purposes 7th September 1880. London: S.n. 1880. ii 7 1 pp. Octavo 11" x 7". Disbound. Light toning small stamp to verso of first leaf internally clean. $125. 43 & 44 Victoria Chapter 34. unknown
1880529541880. Acts Concerning Debtors in Scotland Debtors. Scotland. An Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt And to Provide for the Better Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors in Scotland; And for Other Purposes 7th September 1880. London: S.n. 1880. ii 7 1 pp. Octavo 11" x 7". Disbound. Light toning small stamp to verso of first leaf internally clean. $125. 43 & 44 Victoria Chapter 34. unknown books
192520639London: Cassell and Company Ltd. . 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Very light foxing to first and last few pages and edges ; The author a British reporter follows the sun through 3 continents on his world tour. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages . Cassell and Company, Ltd. hardcover
51-6960London: 1953. 21 x 16.7cm. 7pp. with tape remnants. The personal copy of Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan 1905–1990 who was a Pakistani diplomat and the country’s first female governor.She was born Sheila Irene Pant on 13 February 1905 in Almora British India today’s India to a Brahmin family who had converted to Christianity two generations prior.Academically brilliant she graduated from the University of Lucknow in 1927 with bachelor’s degrees in economics and theology. She obtained a double master’s degree in economics and sociology in 1929. In 1931 she became professor of economics at Indraprastha College in Delhi where she met her future husband lawyer Liaquat Ali Khan when he visited to deliver a lecture on law.The couple married in 1932 despite her family’s objection. The bride converted to Islam and took the name Begum Ra’ana. She became involved with the Muslim League devoting herself to creating political consciousness among the Muslim women in British India.After the Partition in 1947 Liaquat Ali Khan became Pakistan’s first prime minister. As the first First Lady of Pakistan Begum Ra’ana founded or helped establish organisations that uplifted women’s rights and women’s public role such as the Pakistan Women’s National Guard PWNG the Women’s Naval Reserves and All Pakistan Women’s Association APWA. London: 1953 unknown
1956014081Edinbugrh: H.M. Stationery Office 1956. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volume set in near fine condition no markings of any kind with map that is often lacking. Volume 1 has list of plans and illustrations Royal warrants; Volume 2 inventory of the ancient historical monuments from Melrose to Yeltholm; glossary index. Title on dust jackets: County of Roxburgh. Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office and usually only seen in ex-library or worn condition tiny wear on lower front corner and dust jackets with chips or closed tears protected in mylar. H.M. Stationery Office unknown books
0114952043.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1821fa391A Paris, chez Janet et Cotelle, Libraires, rue Neuve-des-petits-champs, n°17 Relié 1821 3 volumes in-8, (13.5x21 cm), relié pleine peau, pièces de titres sur les dos avec des décors dorés, tranches jaspées, 508, 413 et 552 pages, xx pages de préface du traducteur, xxvij pages de préface de la 1re édition par Robertson ; rousseurs, petits manques sur les cuirs, dos frottés, état très correct. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
First Edition, [6], 97, [1], xxxpp., with half-title, engraved title with an engraved vignette drawn and engraved by W. H. Lizars, inscription on title "Jas. Hay 16 April 1821", date shaved from the imprint, large folding pedigree, disbound. "It will be seen, involves the question of the Male Representationship of the ancient Sovereigns and Princes of the isles; for whoever is Heir Male of Ranald of the Isles Founder of Clanranald, is also the Male Representative of his remote Ancestor Donald of the Isles, Grandson and Heir of Somerled first King of the Isles, after whom the Macdonalds are surnamed at the present day. It is well known that the descendants of Somerled (who lived in the 12th century) were Sovereign Princes, and treated as such by Foreign Powers."
First Edition, half-title, [2], 22 pp., a little dusty, disbound.
First Edition, 4 parts in one, lxiv, 274pp., limited to 275 copies, this is 1 of 250 on small paper, with the title-pages to the original parts and an 8pp., `Hand-List of Books Printed at Aberdeen Printers 1620-1736' bound in at end, orig. quarter calf, head of spine chipped, uncut, t.e.g. The majority of the book (274pp.,) is a list of works published in Aberdeen or by Aberdeen printers, most of them being described in great detail, the other 64pp., are historical notes about the printers.
21 numbers [all published], 12mo, stain on blank margin of I2, a few other scattered spots in the text, vi, [1], 4-248 pp., contemporary half calf, lacks spine. The Glasgow University and National Library of Scotland copies only on Copac.
12mo, 191,[1]pp., folding engraved map, small area (75 x 12mm) torn away from head of map, slightly intruding into the border and headline text, duty stamp on title, cont. sheep, rubbed, spine chipped, upper hinge cracked. ESTC listing just one copy (L) for this year.
First edition, 8vo (222 x 135 mm), 26pp., disbound. Scarce, ESTC gives 4 locations in the UK and 2 in North America. Rothamsted, p.137; Not in Perkins.
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
12519Eskdale Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. 1855 and 1874. 2pp. folio. In fair condition on aged and lightly creased and chipped paper. The whole of the first page is filled in the same hand in two columns with the first column beginning '4 Cops 1 Peck or "Sleek"; i.e. a sleekit peck - not a heaped one as with potatoes or apples. 4 pecks make 3 Imperial or Winchester bushels. 1 Carlisle Bushel is 4. pks. 1 or 3 imp. Bushels.' The right-hand column begins: '1. Imp. Bush. of Barley weighs 56 lbs. The common sized cart will hold 24 pks. or sleeks: or 18 Imp. Bush: a cart of white turnips will thus weigh 6 3/4 Cwts or 54 Stones . 1 rood of mason work 36 sq. yds. A ploughman's wage for a year is in money say £12 . 0 . 0 A Cows milk - 5 . 10 . 0 65 stones of meal - 5 . 0 . 0 .'. Other statements include 'A potato drill commonly 30 in. wide' and 'In weighing wool Mr. Borthwick gives net weight and weighs a pack at once allowing 4 lbs to every 10 stones as Cast. A packsheet should weigh 12 lbs - most of them - weigh more 12 1/2 & 13 lbs'. The reverse of the leaf carries nine lines in another hand dated 1874 and is docketed 'Local weights & Measures &c 1855.' [Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.] 1855 and 1874. unknown
19109032Ordnance Survey 1910. Good. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 15 segments linen-backed. Covers an area from Prestonpans to Oldhamstocks. The area consists predominantly of Silurian Devonian and Carboniferous strata with some igneous intrusions. Ordnance Survey unknown
19249031Ordnance Survey 1924. Fair. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 18 segments linen-backed separating at two of the folds. Covers an area from Cambuslang to Grangemouth. The area consists predominantly of Carboniferous strata with some igneous intrusions. Ordnance Survey unknown
18969033Ordnance Survey 1896. Good. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 8 segments linen-backed. Covers the south-western part of the Island of Skye including much of the Cuillin range and also Soay. The area consists predominantly of Tertiary igneous rocks. Ordnance Survey unknown
9035Ordnance Survey n.d. Fair. Folded map mounted on linen Map in 8 segments linen-backed. Covers parts of Stirlingshire and Perthshire. The area consists predominantly of metamorphic rocks with coal measures of the Carboniferous period near Alloa. This copy has evidently been used in the field as it shows considerable signs of wear and has been neatly annotated in various places with names of coal seams and in a few places other sedimentary strata. Ordnance Survey unknown
1971984N12Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". Unknown. A scarce book on the fascinating and mysterious The Kingis Quair attributed to James I of Scotland. Analysis introduction and notes by scholar John-Norton Smith. A scarce book on the intriguing medieval poem The Kingis Quair attributed to James I of Scotland with analysis and notes by medievalist John Norton-Smith. Published by Clarendon Press in 1971.In the publisher's original turquoise cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a frontispiece of King James I of Scotland.Attributed to James I of Scotland the semi-autobiographical poem narrates his imprisonment in England from the age of eleven to thirty. James also tells of his falling in love with English noblewoman Joan Beaufort and a dream vision in which he learns about good and bad fortune from Minerva. The poem incorporates the popular Chaucerian style with the original Middle Scots dialect. The result is a fascinating poem that Norton-Smith helps the reader to understand. In the publisher's original turquoise cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition. The dust wrapper is bright and clean with sunning to the spine and extremities. End papers are bright and clean with the rare spot to extremities. Marginal dirt trapped in top fore-edge. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Clarendon Press hardcover
1998Q-0715207539St Andrew Press 1998. Spiral-bound. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! St Andrew Press unknown
0902220551.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 138 plates from photographs (one folding), 5 folding maps (3 coloured), 6 full-page maps (5 coloured), and 23 illustrations and diagrams, and several tables, in the text, endpapers lightly spotted, small label scars on front free endpapers, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down of first volume, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal); original blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut and partially unopened, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 480 COPIES. Includes a bibliography. Nice copy of a scarce standard reference.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition
xiv, p., 1 l., 222, 277, 154, [6] p. incl. front., illus., ports. 31 cm. Hardcover Good condition, some foxing
