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First edition, small 4to, xii, 136, [2]pp., 18 plates (7 coloured), orig. full vellum binding, lettered in gilt, some light spotting and small nick to spine.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and very numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, gilt top, purple endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the personal bookplate of Percy Edward Clark on front paste-down.
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 182pp. Detailed study of Scotland's Highland Railway. Illustrated.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs and map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright copy.
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).
Oversize, 252p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
252 p. + Index and full page color illustrations of Scottish Tartans. Profusely illustrated with photographs by David Hicks. Numerous drawings. Endpapers decorated with a Conjectural Tree. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Very good. GENEALOGY 2
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 great Scot's hero Patrick Hepburn was known simply as The Hepburn. Strong, hot-tempered, and reckless, he is the chief supporter of James IV of Scotland and finds himself locked in the dangerous schemes and plots of his new king as he fights to keep his throne and conquer Henry VII of England.In appreciation for the Hepburn's valor and loyalty, Jamie Stuart awards The Hepburn the hand of a beautiful noble woman. However, the willful and spirited Jane Gordon boldly refuses to be possessed and makes every meeting between them a fiery battle of wits.... The result is an action-filled, compelling novel with a full complement of courtiers and courtesans, ladies of high and low degree, dramatic fights, bold ventures, historical intrigue, and sizzling romance. Neat sound copy. Name of previous owner Book
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and slight bumping to rear corners. Price clipped dust jacket with light creasing/small tears to upper edge. 192pp. Produced to coincide with Glasgow being the European City of Culture in 1990, this book is a celebration, a guide, a tribute to the city. With a wealth of black & white photographs showing the city throughout the twentieth century.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 20pp. The story of Glasgow's Coronation trams, reprinted from Modern Tramway. Well illustrated.
362p., illus Hardcover Good condition, light edgewear, minor annotation
8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front wrapper and pocket on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations; strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front wrapper and pocket on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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.
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
379 p. Some copies have a map, but there is none here. Inked ownership of Elisa Hooker on title page. Pencil markings in margins. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. Small 8vo. 195mm. Original full red cloth binding. Spine crudely repaired with red tape. Fourth edition. ENGLAND BX 4
Two Volumes. pp. 310; 316 (pp. 122-124 blank and/or excised with no loss of text). Foxed. 12mo. 175 mm. Original leather spines and corners over marbled boards, rubbed. Hardbound. Good. A Scottish romance set in the early 1600's. The first edition was published in the same year in three volumes at Edinburgh. First American edition. S&S/AI 10197. PAIMP 22
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor scratch to front and with slightly sunned spine. 468pp. The fullest and most comprehensive survey of the flora of Britain's northernmost group of islands. The study lists 827 Shetland species with their distribution, habitat and frequency plus any other details of interest. The middle pages comprise twenty-six maps of the islands. 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.
Covering the meteoric rise of Scottish and Welsh nationalism ; 8vo; 158 pages
Scotland as described by some 19th. C. travellers : Thomas Gray, William Gilpin, Sarah Murray, Thomas Thornton, William & Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Felix Mendelssohn & Karl Klingemann, Hans Christian Andersen & Queen Victoria . 296p. plates index. Book
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.
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.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Clean tight pages in booklet form with slightly sunned unmarked boards, rusty staples, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 24pp. An account of the financial development of Scotland in the 18th and 19th centurues. Historical Association Leaflet No 91.
