Ecosse

Pennymuir, Woden Law and Dere Street. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

8vo., with a plate and a large folding plan; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'The History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club', vol. xxxi. Bonser 8214.

PERSPECTIVES OF THE SCOTTISH CITY

Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Octavo. 314pp illustrated. Heavyweight work. Academics investigate perspectives of the Scottish city over the last 150 years.

Picts and the Scots

172p. Hardcover Very good condition good

Picturesque and Romantic Edinburgh

Small introduction for visitors to the capital of Scotland. Illustrated with photographs in both B & W and colour, as well as pretty watercolours. 63p. map. No date ,but seems c.1930 ( predates WWII ) Book

Pitlochry & Highland Perthshire

1st edition. Fine pbk. ISBN 0948387025. 16941. eng

Place-Names of Glengarry and Glenquoich and their Associations. Second and Revised Edition.

8vo., Second Edition, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. Best Edition and very scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper

Pleas for Education: being Addresses delivered to the Pupils of the Apprentice Schools. At a Meeting held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, February 7, 1849. By Sheriff Gordon, N. M'Leod, W. L. Alexander, A. S. Logan, G. Lees. Revised by the Speakers'

First Edition, 12mo, title lightly browned, [2], 28, [2] pp., later stiff marbled boards. The final leaf dated 27th November 1848.

Poems.

Boston, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1854. 4to. menor; 190 pp. Enc. original en tela gofrada.

Portrait of the Clyde. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map in the text; original series binding of blue tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, blue top, a very good, bright,clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE VERSO.

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

Precipitous City : The Story of Literary Edinburgh

Celebration of Edinburgh's literary evolution from the Renaissance Poets to the novelists and poets of the 20th century, the pubs and taverns and market-places - Edinburgh as reflected in the work of major Scottish writers. 210p. plates bibliography. index Book

Pride of Perth

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a few tiny indents to front and no bumping to corners. 151pp. The story of scotch whisky distillers Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd.

Primary Education. A Report of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland. [Scottish Education Department].

Prince Charlie (De Jure Charles III, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland)

Neat tight copy, minor signs of library ownership. 167p. frontis index Ex-Library

Prince Othon. Traduit de l'anglais par E. CASTLE. Preface de G. SIGAUX.

in-16, 316 pages, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee. Tres bel exemplaire. [DD-1]

Proceedings of the General Court-Martial, held at Mussleburgh on the 24th, 25th, & 26th days of September last, for the Trial of Major Tho. Clarkson Moncrieff, of the First, or Berwickshire, Regiment, by orders of His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, Commander in Chief &c. &c.

First Edition, with the circular stamp of the "Birmingham Law Society" on title, [2], 73, [1] pp., disbound. The charge preferred against Major Thomas Moncrieff of the Berwickshire Regiment of Militia, was "for not resisting immediately, and endeavouring, as far as in his power, to prevent, the outrage committed in the mess-room on the 30th January 1807; whereby a gross insult was offered, not only to the Major, but every officer present, contrary to his duty as an officer then commanding the regiment, and contrary to good order and military discipline." COPAC locates copies at the British Library, National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University.

Professor John Cruickshank LL.D.

147 pages. Biography of John Cruickshank (1787 - 1875) who made a significant impact at Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, Scotland as an educator and administrator. Number 179 of only 250 copies printed. Seven b/w illustrations. Black bevelled boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Endpapers discoloured with age. Binding sound. Blind stamp atop front free endpaper. A quality copy. Book

Queen Victoria's Life in the Scottish Highlands - depicted by her watercolour artists

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped, not torn or creased. 152pp. The Queen and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842 and from that time began to assemble a notable collection of watercolour paintings for their Souvenir Albums, recording the places they had seen. Many of these paintings, from the Royal Collection, are shown here to complement the text.

Qui a peur de Charles Dickens (The Dead Man's Knock).

in-16, 249 pages, broché, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [VA-2][LP-6]

Railway Magazine: January 1979

Topics: Royal Merseyrail; The Train in "Table Z"; Three Days on the Settle & Carlisle; Doncaster Revisited; A Scottish Restoration; Locomotive Practice and Performance - Scotland for the New Year. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book

Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland AD 1803. Edited by J.C. Shairp. [Third Edition]. IN FULL MOROCCO

8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With the very appropriate nineteenth-century trade ticket of Sam Read of Grasmere on front paste-down. Includes Poems Illustrative of the Journal, 1803-1831. With small note and blind stamp on title. A lovely copy.

Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, 1803. Introduction, Notes and Photographs by Carol Kyros Walker. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with 210 illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Record of the 9th [Volunteer] Battalion (Highlanders) The Royal Scots or The Raising of a Volunteer Regiment and its Conversion into a Full-Strength Battalion of the Territorial Force. 1900-1909.

First edition, 8vo, viii, 182pp., frontis., 22 plates (4 coloured), orig. publishers red cloth, gilt, spine faded otherwise a nice copy.

Records of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry with some Account of the Officers of the Corps. 1819-1910.

First edition, 4to, viii, 140pp., one of 100 numbered copies, coloured frontispiece, 16 plates, orig. publishers blue cloth, gilt, small indent to fore-edge of boards otherwise a nice copy. A rare privately printed regimental history. Provenance: With the bookplate of the Marquess of Linlithgow, signed in ink, 1910.