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Robert Burns Chronicle 1958

No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing/rubbing to corners, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly dusty boards and no bumping to corners. 198pp. Annual publication celebrating the literary works of Robert Burns and the Burns Clubs throughout the world. Volume No 7. 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.

Robert Burns : Appreciations

Foxing to pages. No other marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to corners and upper edge. Clean tight pages with marking to rear, tanned page edges and rubbing to some corners. 43pp. Large paper copy of two speeches - in Dumfries and Glasgow - by Lord Rosebery celebrating the life of poet and writer Robert Burns on the centenary of his death. With five photographs.

Rob - Roy. Novela. Traducida por Don E. de C. V.

Barcelona, Imprenta de Luis Tasso, 1858. 4to.; 400 pp. y cuatro láminas aparte. Encuadernación moderna en tela. Rara traducción española, realizada con toda probabilidad por el valenciano Estanislao de Cosca Vayo, cuyas numerosas notas al texto evidencian un profundo conocimiento de la literatura romántica inglesa y su entorno social.

Road Book of Scotland. With Gazetter, Itineraries, Maps and Town Plans.

36 Maps.

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...

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

Reminiscences of Booksellers and Bookselling in Edinburgh in the Time of William IV. An Address Delivered To a Meeting of Booksellers' Assistants, in the Hall of the Protestant Institute, Edinburgh, October 1904.

First edition, small 4to (208 x 165 mm), 46, [2]pp., one of 250 copies printed for private circulation, portrait frontis., cloth-backed boards, title lettered in gilt on upper board.

Remarks upon the second part of Principles Political and Religious; being intended, as a Supplement to the Letter from Aberdeen, in Answer to Norman Sievwright, A. M. Minister of the authorised Congregation in Brechin.

First edition, 36 pp., disbound. Signed at the end: "Your friend and wellwisher." i.e. William Abernethy Drummond. The letter from Aberdeen is John Skinner's "A Letter to Norman Sievwright". Sievwright's "Principles, Political and Religious" was published in 1767. Copies at Aberdeen University, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian Library, University of Wales, Lampeter, General Theological Seminary and St. John's and Trinity Colleges Kinder Library.

Recumbent folds in the schists of the Scottish Highlands.

pp. 586-620, 1 fold. col. geol. map, 2 fold. pls. of sections, notes & refs., bibl. Plain new wrs., uncut.

Records of the Stirlingshire, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross Militia, Highland Borderers Light Infantry now 3rd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).

First edition, 4to, [10], iv, 255, [1]pp., 11 plates, some occasional light spotting, orig. publishers red cloth, gilt, spine faded, uncut, t.e.g.

Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908.

First edition, 4to, xxvi, 372pp., 47 coloured plates, orig. publishers green cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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]

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

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

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.