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viii, 272 pages. Bibliography. Index. Footnotes. "Pursues the story of the militia issue and its intellectual significance from its introduction into political debate before the Union by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. Demonstrates the extent to which the themes of Scottish political debate were absorbed and generalised in the thought of the Enlightenment. Argues that the philosophy of the Enlightenment was not only a reflection of Scottish social experience but also yielded critical and enduring lessons for Scottish political life." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. This book explores the greatest building project in recent Scottish history, the Scottish Parliament. Very well illustrated. Tucked in are four extra leaflets - 'Discover the Scottish Parliament', 'Welcome to the Scottish Parliament', 'Your Visit to the Scottish Parliament' and brief details of three documents displayed at the Parliament - the Declaration of Arbroath, the Lubeck Letter and the Ayr Manuscript. Also included are two Scottish Parliament serviettes.
210 pages. Index and selected bibliography. "Flaws in the personality of political leadership seldom work to the advancement of national interest. An exception to this is James Hamilton, the second earl of Arran and governor of Scotland during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots." - from Preface. Usual library markings. Light wear. Sound copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. Culture, history, arts, literature, politics and book reviews etc on Scotland.
Faint ink highlighting to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 68pp. Culture, history, arts, literature, politics and book reviews etc on Scotland. Illustrated in colour and black & white.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 60pp. Culture, history, arts, literature, politics and book reviews etc on Scotland.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 59pp. Culture, history, arts, literature, politics and book reviews etc on Scotland.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Culture, history, arts, literature, politics and book reviews etc on Scotland.
Illustrated by William Semple.
pp. 660-743, 1 fold. chromolithogr. geol. map with sections, 1 fold. letterpress tab., 11 sections in text, refs. Plain new wrs., uncut.
DJ with light rubbing to top spine ; Color Photographs; 8vo; 496 pages
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper edge and slightly sunned spine. 288pp. An exploartion of the Shetland Island's history, folklore, landscape and the characters who live there. Well illustrated with photographs which focus partly on these characters. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Shell Shilling Guide No. 46.
From series of short, illustrated travel/guide books first published in Britain by Blackie & Son around 1910 and continuing in print until the 1950s. Each title featured a particular region, town or city and was illustrated by watercolour landscape painter, E. W. Haslehust. This vintage copy from the "Beautiful Scotland"series contains 12 charming full colour plates. 68p. Contents clean and bright, but cover a little soiled and a strip from the lower spine is missing. Name of previous owner on ffep. Book
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.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of second volume; cloth, gilt backs, all very good, clean copies in the dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises 'The Ballad and the Plough. A Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish Farmtouns' (1978), 'Willie Gavin, Crofter Man. Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle' (1980) and 'The Cornkister Days. Portrait of a Land and its Rituals' (1984). David Kerr Cameron's masterly study of the old Scottish rural way of life is carefully structured. In the first volume he tells of the larger farms or 'farmtouns'; in the second he examines the more numerous smallholdings or crofts. In his final volume he broadens the focus to include the life of the fields, the seasons and rituals, and the culture of the agrarian background in general. In its scope, its detail and its rigorous objectivity the trilogy is unique. A handsome set of an important contribution to the agricultural history of Scotland.
First edition, 4to (185 x 135mm), [12], 118, [2]pp., the first leaf is blank except for marginal rules and signature-mark "A", the last leaf is blank except for marginal rules, woodcut devices on title, new endpapers, recent full calf, gilt lettered red morocco label to spine. "On the accession of James I, Egerton was reappointed lord keeper and advanced to the peerage on 21 July 1603 as Baron Ellesmere, of Ellesmere in Shropshire (where he was given a large estate), but at the king's behest relinquished the rolls in favour of the Scottish lawyer Edward Bruce. On 24 July Egerton was appointed lord chancellor, relinquishing his position as lord keeper. He presided over the chancery and Star Chamber for another fourteen years, and also conducted a number of state trials, notably those of Sir Walter Ralegh (1603), and the gunpowder plotters (1605)."?(ODNB.) This speech took four hours to deliver and concerns the rights of Scots born after the accession of James I, the case concerns 'Robert Calvine, sonne and heire apparant of James L. Calvine of Colcrosse in the realme of Scotland.' - (pp.4-5). Provenance: Early signature of Davenport Talbot on A1. STC, 7540.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece maps, 9 plates, numerous illustrations and tables in the text; original blue cloth, small age-stain on upper boards else a very good,bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition
"Rose Fenemore is taking a break from her Cambridge teaching post in an isolated cottage on the Hebridean island of Moila. One evening, she is shocked to discover an attractive stranger, Ewen Mackay, in her kitchen, who claims to have grown up in the cottage. She is tempted to believe him when another man seeks shelter from the storm. John Parsons also rouses Rose's skepticism and more tender feelings as well. And as the truth about the two men unfolds, the stormy petrels, fragile elusive birds who fly close to the waves, come to symbolize Rose's confusion and the mystery of her future." Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. SCARCE
60 pages. Select bibliography. Numerous black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative local history. Book
64 pages. Archival black and white photos. "The original Lenzie, extending from Kirkintilloch to Cumbernauld, was a feudal barony belonging to the Comyn family." - from page 3. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 20 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 21.
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece and 7 coloured plates; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in darker blue, an unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. First published in 1915. The present edition is updated to include an account of the Great War.
First edition, folio, [12], 270pp., limited to 375 numbered copies, title page printed in red and black with vignette at its centre, 20 photoengraved plates after the artwork of D. Y. Cameron, tissue guards, orig. green buckram decorated in blind and gilt, uncut, t.e.g. light rubbed otherwise a very nice copy.
