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The High Girders. 'Appalling Catastrophe at Dundee'. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by Peter Dunbar. Prebble's vivid retelling of the Tay Bridge disaster. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

The Highland Clearances. [BCA Edition. Sixth Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., Sixth Impression thus, with title-vignette, 8 plates, and 2 full-page maps in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published by S&W in 1963. Second volume of Prebble's masterly trilogy of Scottish studies, following 'Culloden' (1961) and preceding 'Glencoe' (1966).

Culloden.

The National Trust for Scotland guide

1st edition. VG/VG. General introduction by Magnus Magnusson. 10691. eng

The National Trust for Scotland guide

1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/VG (price clipped). "A complete introduction to the buildings, gardens, coast and country owned by National Trust for Scotland". 14370. eng

The National Trust for Scotland Guide

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with sunned spine and a little creasing to edges. 320pp. A comprehensive reference to the National Trust's houses, castles, gardens, islands, historic sites and the people associated with them.

Highland Landforms

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 109pp. The geology and geography of the Scottish Highlands. Well illustrated in black & white.

The Scottish Country Dance Book : Book 24

No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16pp. Twelve dances with music and instructions.

The Scottish Country Dance Book : Book 27

No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16pp. Twelve dances with music and instructions.

The Masterpieces of Raeburn.

London, Gowans & Gray, 1908 ('Gowans's Art Books'). 8vo.; 66 láminas en negro. Cubiertas originales mudas y sobrecubiertas

The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600 . . . Published by Allan Ramsay . . .

2 vols. (288, 286 p.) Hardcover Very good condition, original calf, neatly rebacked From the library of Alexander Lindsay with his armorial bookplate and his inittilas on front covers.

THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, A PASTORAL COMEDY; With Illustrations of the Scenary: An Appendix, Containing Memoirs of David Allan, the Scots Hogarth. To Which Are Prefixed, An Authentic Life of Allan Ramsay.

Two Volumes. Illustrated with full page engravings in very good state, and a folding map (soiled and slightly chipped). The lovely engravings are mostly by R. Scott after drawings by J. Stevenson. On title page of Volume One there is an inked inscription "Edward James Foote, to his beloved Wife Mary Foote. On title page of Volume Two inked inscription "Edward James Foote to his beloved Wife Mary Foote: and since her lamented death to our Daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Eleanor & Anna". 235mm. Original full leather bindings, very worn. Boards very fragile or detached. The early owner of this set - Vice-Admiral Sir Edward James Foote (1767-1833) was a prominent Royal Navy officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served on a number of ships and at several actions, but is best known for becoming caught up in the aftermath of the collapse of the Parthenopean Republic at Naples in 1799. The Gentle Shephered was first published in 1725. The author, Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker! VERIA BX 2

REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTER

Light rubbing to spine ends. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Front hinge weakening. Very light foxing to endpapers ; Numerous beautiful tipped-in color illustrations ; 8vo; 370 pages

Practical ethics. Being lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence, and the law of nations. Edited from the manuscripts with an introduction and a commentary

xiv + 556pp., 25cm., hardcover (cloth), dustwrapper, VG

Thomas Reid on practical ethics. Lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence and the law of nations

lxxxix + 404pp., 24cm., hardback (cart.cover with dustwrapper), fine condition, ISBN 978-0-7486-1709-8, F70791

La Isla Azul. Traducción de Beatriz de Moura. Ilustraciones de Walter Lorraine.

Barcelona, Editorial Lumen, 1972. 4to.; 91 pp. Ilustraciones entre el texto. Enc. original en cartoné.

Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland : Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

293 pages. Notes, bibliography and index. "Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland were similarly conceived as major colonizing attempts by France, England, and Scotland, respectively. In this comparative study, Professor Reid explores the colonizing styles of the parent countries and describes the interaction of the Europeans with the native peoples and with the physical environment of the northeastern seaboard." - from dust jacket. "As jurors, we have unanimously selected the manuscript of this book as the winner of the 1976 Saint-Marie Prize for its original contribution to the study of seventeenth-century Canadian history." - from verso of half-title page. Book clean, bright and unmarked with slight wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Quality copy. Book

WILLIAM BLACK. Novelist. A Biography.

pp. (15), 400. Photogravure frontis from a photograph by Elliott and Fry. Short 8vo. 22 cm. Handsome original publisher's blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Scotsman William Black (1841-1898) is, as a novelist, almost completely forgotten today - but his highland themes still have a following. His life (as told here) is actually more interesting than most of his novels. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. W140.

The Site of the Battle of Bannockburn

No 85 on front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. Clean pages in booklet form with slightly sunned boards, rusty staples and covers loose and taped together. Large fold-out coloured map (25 x 28 inches) of the site at the end in excellent condition. 28pp. An account of Bannockburn and the site where the battle was fought. Historical Association Leaflet No 85. Scarce.

REVUE DES DEUX MONDES. 15 AOUT 1857.

Paris Au Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes 1857 , In-8 broché, 200 pages. Bon état. M. DE LAMENNAIS ET SES OEUVRES POSTHUMES par Ernest RENAN -- JOHN WILMOT, COMTE DE ROCHESTER. UN SATIRIQUE A LA COUR DE CHARLES II par E.D. FORGUES -- EDIMBOURG ET LA SOCIETE ECOSSAISE A LA FIN DU SIECLE DERNIER par M.C. CLARIGNY -- HISTORIQUE ET ESPRIT DE LA LIBERTE DU COMMERCE EN ANGLETERRE par M. CHEVALIER Etc...

Old Gretna

No marks or inscriptions. A few very tiny creases to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub to front and no bumping to corners. 49pp. Local history of Old Gretna, just inside Lowland Scotland's border with England. Essentially photographs with extensive captions to each.

A Brief Chronicle of Douglas and the Douglas Family. Brief Chronicle of Douglas and the Douglas Family.

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; boards, cloth back, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. Scarce. Thomson, p.52

A History of the Highland Clearances. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; original cloth, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. The set comprises Vol. I: Agrarian Transformation and the Evictions 1746-1886; Vol. II: Emigration, Protest, Reasons. COMPLETED SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

Dirleton Castle

Small mark to upper spine corner of front cover and inside cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out plan in excellent condition. Photos plus 19pp. The story of the 13th century castle, now a ruin, in East Lothian in Scotland. With 8 photographs.