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Ferguson James - Two Scottish Soldiers : A Soldier of 1688 and Blenheim a Soldier of the American Revolution and a Jacobite Laird and His Forbears

Hardback. A very good copy in dark green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Bevelled edges. A clean copy with no ownership inscription and little foxing. Pp.ix[iii],176. 8 illustrations including frontispiece and illustrations on front and rear board. Three essays on (1) Brigadier Ferguson who was in the Scots brigade, became a Colonel in the Cameronians and was a Brigadier at Blenheim; (2) Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Ferguson who invented the breechloading rifle and fought in the American War of Independence; and (3) the Forbeses of Blackton, a Jacobite branch of the Forbes family.
Published : D. Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen 1888, First Edition
£80.00

Ferguson James - Two Scottish Soldiers and a Jacobite Laird and His Forbears

A good copy in dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A loose gathering has been secured with sellotape at some point but it has been done fairly neatly. 162pp. 6 illustrations + cover illustrations. The first of these three sketches is of Brigadier Ferguson, a soldier of 1688 and Blenheim. The second sketch is of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Ferguson, a soldier of the American Revolution. The third sketch (A Jacobite Laird and his Forbears) concerns the Forbeses of Blackton.
Published : D. Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen 1888, First Edition
£65.00

Ferguson Joan P.S. - Scottish Family Histories

Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Pp.xii 254 SIGNED "Best Wishes Joan P.S. Feguson" on front end-paper. Very good price-clipped dustwrapper. This revised edition extends the scope and content of the earlier edition of 1960 and includes for the first time the extensive holdings of the National Library of Scotland.
Published : National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 1986, Revised Edition
£20.00

Ferguson John - Dalgarney Goes North

Hardback. A good plus copy in yellow cloth. First word of title lettering on spine a bit faded but clearly readable. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 384 pages. This is a tale set in Scotland in the aftermath of the 1745 Rising. According to the author "except for one or two changes in time and place, this tale adheres to established fact."
Published : Collins, London 1938, First Edition
£45.00

Ferguson Malcolm - A Trip from callander to Staffa and Iona, with Brief descriptive Sketches of the Route By Sea and Land, and the Sacred Rock-Bound Isle of I-Colm-Kill

Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt on upper board. Clearly lettered in gilt on the rather faded spine. Boards a little marked. Bevelled edges. Bookplate. Dated presentation inscription from the author. 164 pages. Frontispiece and 12 illustrations.
Published : John Leng & Co, Dundee 1894, First Edition
£98.00

Ferguson Malcolm - Rambles in Breadalbane

Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper board. Bevelled edges. Patterned end-papers. No ownership inscription and very little foxing. 164 pages + 4pp reviews of the first edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author and six other full-page illustrations including one folding. Sketches and reminiscences of Breadalbane in the latter half of he 19th century.
Published : Thomas Murray & Son, Glasgow 1891, Second Edition
£55.00

Ferguson Thomas - Scottish Social Welfare 1864-1914

A very good copy in dustwrapper but ex-library with the usual markings. Pp.xi,610. Frontispiece and 16 illustrations. A good reading/reference copy of a well-regarded work.
Published : E&S Livingstone, Edinburgh 1958, First Edition
£8.00

Ferguson Thomas - The Dawn of Scottish Social Welfare a Survey from Medieval Times to 1863

A good copy in original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Would be very good but for some fore-edge foxing. Pp.xi,321. 16 illustrations. A highly regarded study.
Published : Thomas Nelson & Sons, London 1948, First Edition
£9.00

Ferguson Thomas - The Dawn of Scottish Social Welfare a Survey from Medieval Times to 1863

A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which is chipped at top of spine and with some edge wear and tear. Ownership inscription and school logo on front pastedown. Some fore-edge foxing. Pp.xi,321. 16 illustrations. A highly regarded and authoritative work on all aspects of Scottish social welfare.
Published : Thomas Nelson & Sons, London 1948, First Edition
£10.00

Ferguson Thomas - The Dawn of Scottish Social Welfare; a Survey from Medieval Times to 1863

Generally a very good copy but ex-library with the usual markings. Pp.xi,321. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations.
Published : Thomas Nelson & Sons, London 1948, First Edition
£6.00

Ferguson W.R. - History of the High Constables of Edinburgh 1920-2008

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.vii,183. Illustrated. Originating in the need to enfoce law and order the first constables were appointed in 1611. In 1805 their name was changed to the High Constables of the City of Edinburgh "and their role gradually evolved to become largely ceremonial, social and charitable."
Published : Society of the High Constables of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 2008, First Edition
£25.00

Fergusson James - Alexander the Third King of Scotland

Hardback. A good plus copy in a fair to good dustwrapper which has smallish edge chips and tears. No ownership inscription. Pp.xiv,200. Frontispiece. This is the first full-length account of the reign of King Alexander the Third of Scotland who reigned from 1249 to 1286.
Published : Alexander Maclehose, London 1937, First Edition
£15.00

Fergusson Robert - The Works of Robert Fergusson

Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. No 392 of 750 copies, being a facsimile of the 1807 edition. 364 pages. Includes a sketch of the life of Fergusson, an 18th century Scottish poet who wrote in both Scots and English and who was much admired by Robert Burns.
Published : James Thin - the Mercat Press, Edinburgh 1970,
£15.00

Fergusson Robert - The Works of Robert Fergusson

Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in silver. This is no. 127 of 750 copies of this facsimile of the 1807 edition of Fergusson's works. A nice clean copy without foxing or ownership markings. 364 pages. Frontispiece.
Published : James Thin, Edinburgh 1970,
£15.00

Fergusson Robert (Edited By William E. Gillis) - The Unpublished Poems of Robert Fergusson

A very good copy in limp card wraps. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 30 pages.
Published : M. MacDonald, Edinburgh 1955, First Edition
£10.00

Fergusson, J.D. - Modern Scottish Painting

Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. In a fair to good dustwrapper which has a number of edge chips. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 151pp.+3pp publisher's adverts. Frontispiece. The author was one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists school of painting. A scarce book in dustwrapper.
Published : William MacLellan, Glasgow 1943, First Edition
£35.00

Findlay Alan - Football Boots for Christmas

Softback. Nd. c.2000? A very good copy. 230 pages. Title page vignette. A look at life in Winchburgh, West Lothian, in the late 1940s through the eyes of a ten year old boy.
Published : The Greenshale Publishing Corporation, Winchburgh, First Edition
£8.00

Findlay Ian R. - Education in Scotland

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 143pp. Covers the historical development of Scottish education but is mainly concerned to describe the system existing at the date of the book.
Published : David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1973, First Edition
£8.00

Findlay W.H. - Heritage of Perth

4to. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 256pp. A book of photographs, including colour and with accompanying text, celebrating the heritage of Perth. Signed by the author and with a gift inscription which may or may not be from him.
Published : Perth and Kinross Libraries 1996, Second Edition
£23.00

Findlay William - Robert Burns and the Medical Profession

A very good copy in red cloth which is dulled on spine. 162pp (including list of subscribers). Frontispiece and 12 illustrations.
Published : Alexander Gardner, Paisley 1898, First Edition
£23.00

Finlay Ian - Columba

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 254pp. Illus. An interesting biography of the famous saint.
Published : Victor Gollancz, London 1979, First Edition
£6.00

Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Edited By Ken Cockburn) - The Dancers Inherit the Party; Early Stories, Plays and Poems

Softback. A very good copy. Pp.xxvi,245. Includes short stories written by Finlay from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, plays written in the late 1950s, and two poem sequences and several uncollected poems from the early 1960s.
Published : Polygon, Edinburgh 2004, First Edition
£7.00

Finlayson Clarence - The Strath the Biography of Strathpeffer Scotland's Famous Spa and District

A very good copy. Card covers. 96pp. Illustrated.
Published : The Saint Andrew Press, Edinburgh 1979, First Edition
£6.00

Finlayson Malcolm J. - An Anthology of Carrick

Hardback. A very good copy. A little wear at spine ends. Moderate edge and end-paper foxing. 416 pages. An anthology of poems by natives of Carrick and about Carrick.
Published : The Standard Press, Kilmarnock 1925, First Edition
£8.00

Firth C. H. (Editor) - Scotland and the Commonwealth : Letters and Papers Relating to the Military Government of Scotland from August 1651 to December 1653

Hardback. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Partially unopened. Pp.lv,383.
Published : Scottish History Society, Edinburgh 1895, First Edition
£35.00

Firth C. H. (Editor) - Scotland and the Commonwealth: Letters and Papers Relating to the Military Government of Scotland, from August 1651 to December 1658

Hardback. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. No ownership inscription. Some edge foxing. Unopened. Pp.lv,383.
Published : T & A Constable for the Scottish History Society, Edinburgh 1895, First Edition
£32.00

Firth Howie (Editor) - In from the Cuithes; An Orkney Anthology

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 240 pages. One full-page illustration. Tail-pieces.
Published : The Orkney Press, Kirkwall 1995, First Edition
£12.00

Firth, C.H. (Editor) - Scotland and the Protectorate : Letters and Papers Relating to the Military Government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659

Hardback. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Bookplate. Pp.lxii,432. Four maps and plans. Comprises letters etc from General Monck and others during the period of the Cromwellian Protectorate in Scotland.
Published : Scottish History Society, Edinburgh 1899, First Edition
£24.00

Firth, Jack - Scottish Watercolour Painting

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 96 pages. 15 colour illustrations. 45 black and white illustrations.
Published : The Ramsay Head Press, Edinburgh 1979, First Edition
£19.00

Fittis Robert Scott - The Mosstrooper. a Legend of the Scottish Border

Hardback. A good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board. Some fading to spine. Ownership inscription. Some foxing to end-papers and early pages. Pp.xv,156. Frontispiece and one other illustration. This is described as a memorial volume to the author and includes an introductory biographical sketch of him by A. H. Millar. A fictional tale of the Scottish border.
Published : Wood and Son, Perth 1906,
£18.00

Fleming David Hay (Editor) - Register of the Minister Elders and Deacons of the Christian Congregation of St. Andrews Comprising the Proceedings of the Kirk Session and of the Court of the Superintendent of Fife Fothrick and Strathearn 1559-1600 Part First and Part Second

Hardbacks. The two volume set, published in 1889 and 1890, in the original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Some damp-spotting/fading to the boards of both volumes. Both volumes very good internally and unopened. Pp.cvi,1016 (continuous pagination). Illustrated. Preface and Notes by the editor.
Published : T & A Constable for the Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, First Edition
£95.00

Flinn Derek - Travellers in a Bygone Shetland: An Anthology

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with one closed tear. Small ownership label on front fixed end-paper. 278pp. Frontispiece map. 22 plates. An anthology of extracts from the writings of visitors to Shetland between 1550 and 1850.
Published : Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1989, First Edition
£17.00

Forbes Anne L. - Trials and Triumphs: The Gordons of Huntly in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

Softback. A very good copy. Covers a little soiled. A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or other marking. Pp.x,(ii),288. Frontispiece and 35 plates. Maps. Descrtibed as "an important addition to the historiography of the Gordons of Huntly, who as rulers of the north were involved in most significant events of sixteenth-century Scotland."
Published : John Donald, Edinburgh 2012, First Edition
£12.00

Forbes Margaret - Beattie and His Friends

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete, untorn and now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.vii,[1],332. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and one other illustration. Beattie was a Scottish philosopher and a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Only 300 copies were printed of this new edition of a book first published in 1904.
Published : J. Martin Stafford, Altrincham 1990,
£9.00

Forbes, Rev. Robert (edited By Henry Paton ) - The Lyon in Mourning or a Collection of Speeches Letters Journals Etc. Relative to the Affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart [3 Vols. Complete]

Hardbacks. A very good, bright, three volume set in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and with the Scottish History Society's logo in gilt on each front board. A clean set, largely unopened, with no ownership inscription or other internal marking. Vol. I, pp.xxii,382. Vol.II,pp.x,380. Vol.III,pp.xvii,416. Described as "a collection of Journals, Narratives, and Memoranda relating to the life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at and subsequent to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The formation of this collection was to a great extent the life-work of the Rev. Robert Forbes M.A., Bishop of Ross and Caithness." This is a major source for the history of the 1745 Rising. [Please note this heavy set will require extra postage for an overseas order.]
Published : Scottish History Society, Edinburgh 1895, First Edition
£260.00

Forrest George - An Account of the History and Antiquities of St. Leonard's, Edinburgh, Its Chapel and Hospital

Hardback. A very good copy in the original boards which are lettered in gilt on the upper board. . Bevelled edges. Page edges stained red. No ownership inscription and only a little foxing. Pp.[viii],72 + 3 unpaginated illustrations at rear. Folding frontispiece. A small Edinburgh local history scarce in first edition.
Published : MacLachlan and Stewart, Edinburgh 1865, First Edition
£40.00

Forrester Ronald W; Hopkins Ian; Menzies Doug - The Birds of Bute : A Bird Atlas and Local Avifauna

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 360 pages. 200 maps. 171 photographs. Described as "a complete and up to date island avifauna" which provides "in-depth historical and current information for all species recorded."
Published : Buteshire Natural History Society and the Scottish Ornithologists' Club 2012, First Edition
£40.00

Forsyth Renee - Memories of Dunoon and Cowal

A good copy Softcover. Inscribed presentation copy from the author and with a short type-written card from her loosely enclosed. 160 pages. Illustrated. Map end-papers.
Published : Argyll Reproductions 1983, First Edition
£9.00

Forsyth Robert - The Beauties of Scotland : Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages Etc. Of Each County Vol. 111

Hardback. A fair to good copy in a half-leather binding with marbled boards. A fair amount of rubbing to spine although lettering remains readable. A little wear to spine ends and some rubbing to boards. Trace of a crease on upper board. Small ownership label on front free end-paper and older ownership inscription on title page. Evidence of a label having been removed from front fixed end-paper. 548 pages including index to this volume + 8 engraved plates at end with some edge foxing. (There is no list of plates in this volume and I am unsure if the plates are complete). Engraved title page. This volume includes Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Stirlingshire etc.
Published : Arch. Constable and Co and John Brown et al, Edinburgh 1806, First Edition
£45.00

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