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1839001823London: George Virtue 1839. Hardcover. Scattered foxing but most plates clean. Spine worn some splitting joints but covers tight. Overall Very Good. W. H. Bartlett. Two quarto 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in one full gilt-decorated morocco leather volume. Illustrated with two steel-engaved title pages three portraits and 84 engraved views and engravings after paintings. Many of the engravings are views by W. H. Bartlett. There is no printed title page though there are two engraved title pages. No information could be found for this particular title which is similar to Wilson's book issued the next year. <br/><br/> George Virtue hardcover
35481London Paris New York . Cassell & Company. 1902. Hardcover. oblong4to 23x 30cm xii2244p. ads. views from photographs original pebble grain dark blue cloth gilt and black stamped pictorial decorations gilt titles all edges gilt a fine bright copy scgar. London, Paris, New York . Cassell & Company. 1902 hardcover
19006631Dundee: Valentine & Sons Ltd 1900. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 20. Illustrated with black & white heliogravure photo reproductions. Textured red cloth titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the cover saddle stapled. Covers moderately bowed and stained gilt darkened edges rubbed first leaves lightly foxed staples oxidized. Souvenir views of Scottish Borders sights mostly Abbotsford House inside and out plus Dryburgh and Melrose abbeys. The photos are exquisite. Uncommon. Valentine & Sons, Ltd hardcover
1844019816London Edinburgh & Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co @1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to a few plates but most plates clean. Rubbing to spine edges and corners. Very Good. Two small folio 8-1/2" x 10-5/8" volumes bound in half brown morocco leather and cloth with matching leather corners gilt-decorated and lettered spines marbled edges. Illustrated with a steel-engraved title page and 79 steel-engraved views. Apparently lacking the printed title page and half-title page <br/><br/> A. Fullarton & Co hardcover
1851200128AG1851. London & New York John Tallis & Company 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by H. Winkles. Plate Size: 33 cm x 25 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Published in the Illustrated Atlas And Modern History Of The World Geographical Political Commercial & Statistical Edited By R. Montgomery Martin. Handsome town-plan of Perth in central Scotland bordered to the south by the River Tay. Railway street and district areas of the city are also included. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much-anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
mon0000982346The Royal Commission. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book. Pages clean and bright no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. The Royal Commission hardcover
451520HMSO. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Hardback with blue cloth boards and titles in gilt to spine and cover in good condition. Dustjacket also good with chipping along the top and a small tear at the spine. A few faint small circular marks to title page.Includes black and white line drawings and fold out colour maps and a section of black and white photographs at the back. HMSO hardcover
19679335<p>Royal Commission/HMSO 1967. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Royal Commission/HMSO 1967. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. pp194 plates 10; pp195:391 plates 11-143 map in rear pocket. All plates BW. Quarto. Blue cloth binding with silver lettering in illustrated DW. DWs have light creasing wear to edges. Interiors clean and tight. Please check postage due to weight.</p> Royal Commission/HMSO hardcover
1967831B68Scotland: The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1967. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 11" by 8.5". not stated . Two wonderful volumes on the ancient and historical monuments of Peeblesshire richly illustrated throughout. A complete two volume set that contain descriptions of all the ancient monuments and historical buildings in Peeblesshire from earliest times to 1707. The relationship of the monuments to one another and to their geographical historical and linguistic background is discussed in the introduction. The two volumes are richly illustrated with drawings photographs and maps. The volumes were published by The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.With a folding map and nine other plates to the first volume and four folding folding plates and one hundred and forty three plates to the second volume. A folding map in a pocket at the rear of volume two.Collated complete.In the original unclipped dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with some scattered spots to the first and last few pages of the volumes. In the original unclipped dust wrappers which are smart with some chipping to the spines and some marks to the wraps and joints. Near Fine The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland hardcover
1967237567Edinburgh: The Royal Commission on the ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1967. First Edition. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. Two volumes. Complete. 1967. First editions. Both volumes in near fine condition in very good jackets. Original publisher's buckram blue cloth boards - gilt embossed to the spines and to the front boards. Numerous photographic reproductions and fold-out plans illustrate the text plus numerous line drawings. Upper edges dyed blue as they should be. A former owner's neat printed bookplate is pasted to each paste-down of the two volumes. 391 pages in all plus 143 plates. Loosely inserted fold-out map in pouch at the rear of volume two. The jackets have not been price-clipped £20 for both volumes or £336 in today's money - they are a bargain! - they have some edge wear and rubbing to the peripheries but are essentially in very good clean tight condition and free from dust soiling. A lovely clean tight near fine set in very good jackets. The Royal Commission on the ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland hardcover
16275154London George Humble 1627. Copper engraving 8.7 x 12.3 cms recent hand-colour. Trivial soiling. English text on verso. From the first edition of the so-called minature Speed which used maps by van den Keere to illustrate a pocket edition of Speeds text and which Humble appears to have printed to coincide with editions of the larger atlas. Map unknown
74479c.1920. . Silver gelatin print. Very good tonal range and in good condition pasted on card.<br /> <br /> [c.1920]. unknown
1900037817Fort Augustus Scotland: Williamson 1900. First Edition. Original Boards. Very Good. Strip map in full color image 27" x 7.5". Pictured are landmarks on shore along the Canal. Printed at The Hills Press Sunderland. Tipped into a folder of red leatherette gilt cover lettering. Pasted inside the cover is a leaf of descriptive text. 4.75" x 8.5" WorldCat locates only the National Lib of Scotland holding although U Wisconsin has a similar title with variant imprint. Williamson unknown
1990S255581990. 178 40 b/w photographic plates. . HB. Buckram. Vg. PhD thesis Department of Botany NHM and University of Reading. hardcover
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2026__0192870815Oxford University Press 2026. Paperback. New. 2nd revised edition edition. Oxford University Press paperback
2026x-0192870815Oxford University Press 2026. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 448 pages. 8.66x0.98x10.83 inches. Oxford University Press paperback
194121141151941. London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. 1941. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth spine lettered in gilt front board lettered and ornamented in gilt; in the original dust wrapper lettered and ornamented in red; outer and lower edges untrimmed; pp. ix 91; with 11 photographic plates one being the frontispiece; a little rubbing to dust-wrapper with a few small unobtrusive marks; light foxing to edges and endpapers else a very good copy.First edition. 'The present brief synopsis of the history of the Bank was suggested by the general manager Mr. J. M. Erskine D. L. 'The record is merely a collection of facts gleaned from many sources but the hope is expressed that it may serve the purpose fro which it is intended' Preface. John Erskine became an apprentice at the bank in 1910 aged 16 and went on to become the bank's general manager in 1932. The bank has since merged with the National Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland. hardcover
dola760London.: Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd. 1941. First Edition. 8vo. pp. ix 91 1. 16 plates incl. portraits some double-sided. A very good copy in full red gilt-stamped crushed morocco all edges gilt. Signed by three of the bank's directors London...: Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd., [1941] unknown
185481635Edinburgh:: W. H. Lizars 1854-1855. First edition. publisher's green cloth with printed paper labels on spines. Light foxing to the first few and last few leaves in each volume; the cloth of one volume quite faded; moderate use to both bindings but both are tight and sound. . Folio. Two large folding maps. Additional postage particularly international applicable. W. H. Lizars, hardcover
B9781018844695Hardback. New. hardcover
1890Map 726Scotland: Ordnance Survey Office 1890. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. Folding map. Folding map dissected in 18 sections the rare first series edition laid on linen and cased in the original green cloth boards 6.75 x 4.5 inches with a hand-written paper label. Surveyed 1855-1861 and published in1890. Small grid of adjoining maps for the one inch and six inch series pasted to inside cover. 25x19 inches with hand-coloured roads. A nice copy with no wear or loss. There were 132 sheets for the complete Scottish ordnance maps and a second edition appeared in in 1898-1904 with coloured parishes. The one inch maps were based on larger scale surveys of 1843-1878 and published between 1856 and 1895. <br/> <br/> Ordnance Survey Office hardcover
1890Map 728Scotland: Ordnance Survey Office 1890. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. Folding map. Folding map dissected in 18 sections the rare first series edition laid on linen and cased in the original green cloth boards 6.75 x 4.5 inches with a hand-written paper label. Surveyed 1859 -1863 and published in1890. Small grid of adjoining maps for the one inch and six inch series pasted to inside cover. 25x19 inches with hand-coloured roads. A nice copy with no wear or loss. There were 132 sheets for the complete Scottish ordnance maps and a second edition appeared in in 1898-1904 with coloured parishes. The one inch maps were based on larger scale surveys of 1843-1878 and published between 1856 and 1895. <br/> <br/> Ordnance Survey Office hardcover
1867Map 731Scotland: Ordnance Survey Office 1867. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. Folding map. Folding map dissected in 18 sections the rare first series edition laid on linen and cased in the original green cloth boards 6.75 x 4.5 inches with a hand-written paper label. Surveyed 1859-1864 and published in1867. Small grid of adjoining maps for the one inch and six inch series pasted to inside cover. 25x19 inches with hand-coloured roads. A nice copy with no wear or loss. There were 132 sheets for the complete Scottish ordnance maps and a second edition appeared in in 1898-1904 with coloured parishes. The one inch maps were based on larger scale surveys of 1843-1878 and published between 1856 and 1895. <br/> <br/> Ordnance Survey Office hardcover