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Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 189pp. Biography of Scottish football legend Jimmy Delaney who played for Celtic, Manchester United as well as his national team of Scotland.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original blue ribbed cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Provides 'reliable information on the campaign which preceded Culloden in 1746 by the commander of a volunteer regiment of cavalry' (Pargellis & Medley). This copy was formerly in the library of William Lumsden Walker (1919-2005), formerly Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and bears his signature on front free endpaper. Very scarce. See Pargellis & Medley, 3321.
8vo., First Edition, fore-edges lightly browned; original cloth, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter repaired, frayed and creased at edges.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 208pp. A historical, topographical and cultural account of the Scottish islands of Eigg, Rum, Canna, Muck, Coll and Tiree.
160 pages. Index. Bibliography. Fascinating black and white photographic plates. "Few people realize that until the beginning of this [the 20th] century the Hebridean island of St. Kilda, lying 110 miles west of the Scottish mainland, was inhabited by people who in many ways had more in common with the primitive tribes of the Amazon Delta than with the city-dwellers of their own country." - dust jacket. "This esoteric fragment of history is one of the most compulsively readable and alluring books I have perused in years." - dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings and front free endpaper removed. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 58pp. Beginning with the Roman army in AD79, the book tells the story of a series of invasions spanning the next 1000 years, which helped to create an intricate tapestry of peoples, culture and traditions..
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles (all original tissue guards present) in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 352).
Booklet in mint unread condition. 24pp. History and description of the Priory, set on an island in the Lake of Monteith. Tucked-in is a packet containing two brand-new colour postcards of the Priory.
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to ffep and title page only. No other inscriptions or marks. A very clean tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor bump to bottom of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with some creasing to upper and lower edges and very light creasing generally. 263pp. The author assesses all the evidence available to produce a fascinating and highly revealing account of the Celtic tribes who lived in Scotland north of the Forth-Clyde valley between AD 297 and 840. They left few written records but they did leave their extraordinary symbol stones, scattered across the landscape from Fife as far north as Shetland.
116 pages including index. This reference will be a boon to both professional and amateur researchers searching for their roots in Scotland. Well-worn with usual library markings. Title page removed. Chapters include; The First Step - Record What You Know; Why Stop Now?; New Register House; Beyond New Register House; Odds and Endings. Book
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, yellow top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp reissue of a Morton title first published in 1933. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, 21 fine sepia-toned plates (10 double-page) and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, covers mildly age-faded else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A difficult Morton title to find in the dustwrapper. First published in 1933.
264pp., 20cm., ingebonden in gecart. band (gemarbreerde platten, linnen rug met titel in goudopdruk), tekst helder, goede staat, uitgave van het Davidsfonds, [Zeldzaam reisverslag van kannunik Martens, leraar bij het Klein-Seminarie te Sint-Niklaas, in Schotland ; Lanark, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands, Loch Awe, Oban, Iona], A97665
3rd edition. VG in green cloth, with gilt lettering. Cover spine faded. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. Loose leaf map. 13392. eng
Green cloth covers. Silver title on spine. 350 pages. Index of persons; Index of place names and general references. Spine heavily mottled with lightened marks, less so the back cover. Light foxing on page edges. Foxing on dust jacket, with dark rubbing marks on back.
170 pages. Features: Meet Liz Brown and her Doncaster home; Pat and Andre Vrona and their impressive family home made from a wrecked Rutland farmstead; Gina Price and her Oxfordshire garden; Peter Gillies and Lin Dalgliesh and Ballencrieff castle in Scotland; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Book in mint condition. 31pp. Photographs and memories of Stirling in Scotland during the Second World War.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 641pp., some light foxing, orig. publishers brown cloth, rebacked with partial orig. spine laid-down, a good copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription to Capt. Gill of Calderwood Castle.
First edition, small 4to, 416pp., 48 coloured plates, orig. publisers red cloth, decorated in gilt and blind, some minor wear.
Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1842. 4to.; 314 pp. Encuadernación original, de la época, en tela gofrada y con estampaciones doradas.
Edinburgh, Printed by George Ramsay and Company, and Hurst, Robinson and Co. in London, 1823. Dos volúmenes en 4to.; CXXVII-468 pp. + V-508 pp. Excelente ejemplar. Encuadernación de la época, en tafilete verde claro, con doble filete en los planos, cantos y contracantos con ruedas doradas y lomera plana, a la inglesa, finamente decorada con nervios y casetones dorados.
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 184, [2]pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. publishers blue cloth, decorated in gilt and silver, a nice copy.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 33 facsimiles in the text and decorative endpapers, endpapers lightly browned; pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-soiled and backstrip mildly browned else a very good, firm copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 448pp., 3 plates showing 15 photographic portraits, inner hinge a little shaken, orig. publishers green cloth, lettered in gilt.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 24pp. Written and researched by the Ex-Provost of Stromness, this provides new insight into the history of Orkney. Of particular intterest is the extensive list of shops and businesses with names, some brief descriptions and dates Very scarce.
