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Hardback. Nd. c.1881. A very good copy in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A little wear to spine ends and board tips. Gift inscriptions on front free end-paper and verso of frontispiece. 291 pages + 16pp publisher's adverts. Frontispiece and four illustrations.
Published : Dunn & Wright, Glasgow, First Edition
£30.00

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 301 pages. Illustrated with many in colour.
Published : Macdonald Publishers 1983, First Edition
£9.00

Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. Many black and white illustrations. No inscriptions. 158 pages. Very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover. "The High Court trial under Lord Braxfield, perhaps Scotland's most famous criminal judge, locked in conflict the political adversaries and legal lights of old Edinburgh. Appropriately, Lord Cameron, the distinguished judge of today , contributes a Foreword in which he brings out the high importance of the trial and his respect for the great Braxfield."
Published : Paul Harris Publishing, Edinburgh 1977, First Edition
£10.00

Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xvii,802. 126 colour plates. Text figures and maps. This is the tenth volume in the Buildings of Scotland series.
Published : Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007, First Edition
£20.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 468 pages. 122 black and white plates. Maps and text figures.
Published : Penguin Books, London 2000, Reprint
£12.00

Hardback. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 683 pages. 125 plates. Maps and plans. "Aims to describe every building of importance from prehistory to the present in the Highland region, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland."
Published : Penguin Books, London 1992, First Edition
£18.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 732 pages + one page addenda. Numerous maps, ilustrations and figures. The standard work on the architecture of Edinburgh.
Published : Penguin Books 1984, Reprint
£10.00

Hardback. A good copy in the original blind-stamped maroon boards which are lettered in gilt on the spine. Newspaper clippings attached to end-papers. Pp.viii,271 + 2pp adverts. Pages browned. A book about Limekilns, near Dunfermline in Fife. The book appears to have been poorly produced on cheap paper and is now scarce. Chapters on the port, social life, education, peculiar people, the Elgin family etc.
Published : The Journal Printing Works, Dunfermline 1914, First Edition
£85.00

Softback. A very good copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.ix,139. "Contains the accounts of the population of the parish of Annan in Dumfriesshire taken for the censuses of 1801, 1811, and 1821 by Richard Forrest, schoolmaster." Includes indices of persons, places and trades.
Published : Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh 1975, First Edition
£28.00

Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in the original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the upper board. A clean copy without ownership inscription or foxing. Pp.xxvii + 85 full-page plates (including 16 in colour) with brief description on facing page. Tissue-guarded frontispiece self-portrait of Giles. Map. List of office-bearers and members of the Third Spalding Club. A nice copy of a sought after book.
Published : Third Spalding Club, Aberdeen 1936, First Edition
£120.00

Hardback. A near very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. Boards a little dusty. A nice copy internally - hinges sound, no ownership inscription. 236 pages.
Published : James Maclehose, Glsgow 1868, First Edition
£40.00

Illustrated by A. Scott Rankin.
Hardback. A fair to good copy in maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Some fading to spine. Cloth creased at top corner of front board. Bookplate. Ownership inscription. Top edge gilt (and with previous owner's name written on it). A fair amount of internal foxing although the plates are clean. Pp.xvi,154 + 6pp publisher's adverts. Numerous full-page illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Includes Easdale, Seil, Luing, the Garvellachs, Scarba, Craignish, Kilmartin etc.
Published : Virtue & Co, London 1909, First Edition
£45.00

Softback. A very good copy. Neat ownership inscription. Pp.xviii,202. Numerous illustrations. Contains papers from the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies held at Edinburgh in 1995.
Published : University of Edinburgh 2005, First Edition
£22.00

Hardback. A good copy in blue cloth. Spine faded and a little marked but title lettering still legible. Bookplate. Pp.xxvi,273. Preface by the Duke of Argyll.
Published : David Nutt, London 1906, First Edition
£34.00

Hardback. A very good copy in black cloth lettered in gilt. Lacks dustwrapper. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xvi,439. Numerous illustrations. Folding coloured map at end. The text is unaltered from the first edition of 1938 but 10 illustrations have been replaced. A history of the area around Loch Tay in Perthshire.
Published : Clunie Press, Strathtay 1980, Second Edition
£18.00

Hardback. This is no. 211 of 225 copies. A good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Stain (water?) to upper board does not affect the book internally. Top edge gilt. Foxing to end-papers. Pp.xiv,80. Some neat marginal ink writing. Folding coloured map at rear. A reasonable copy of a scarce title.
Published : J. Maxwell & Son, Dumfries 1912, First Edition
£50.00

A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. 167pp. Illustrated. This is an account of what it was like to be a patient in a Victorian hospital - the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - at the time when Lister was pioneering the use of antiseptics.
Published : Adam Hilger , Bristol 1987, First Edition
£5.00

Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. No. 68 of 400 copies. 192 pages. Folding frontispiece map. Title page vignette. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. This is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1806 whose title continues: "whereby every tradesman, merchant, carrier, and the shipping, connected with the commerce of that ancient borough, will readily be found; likewise farm steads twelve miles round the country."
Published : The Berwick History Society, Berwick-upon-Tweed 1999,
£40.00

A very good copy. Softcover. 68 pages with several drawings on each page. Subtitled "a closer look at some of the city's charms and features. 500 grouped drawings and concise comments".
Published : Privately Published 1981, First Edition
£7.00

Softback. A very good copy of this attractive small book. Signed by the author. One word ownership inscription. Unpaginated (16 pages). Drawings and text relating to the seven hills of Edinburgh.
Published : Tantallon Press, North Berwick 1979, First Edition
£8.00

Hardback. A very good copy. Vertical crease in boards. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. 183 pages. Numerous illustrations, some in colour. Described as "the incredible story of the Shetlanders who fished for cod around Faroe, Rockall, Iceland and Greenland."
Published : Shetland Heritage Publications 2017, First Edition
£20.00

Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xxxvi,244. Gordon was a Scottish soldier of fortune who achieved high office under Czar Peter the Great of Russia. This is a facsimile of the Spalding Club edition of 1859.
Published : Frank Cass & Co Ltd 1968, Reprint
£28.00

A very good copy in a similar dustwrapper. Ownership inscription hidden by inner flap of wrapper. Pp.x,281. Nine studies into various aspects of Scottish urban history.
Published : Aberdeen University Press 1983, First Edition
£8.00

A good copy in green cloth. A little wear at head of spine. Some fore-edge foxing. Pp.xii,223. Many illustrations. One of the author's best-known books.
Published : Cassell, London 1920, First Edition
£14.00

Hardback. A good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. Cloth a little faded in places and with a wrinkle to the front cover. Small ownerahip inscription on front end-paper. Pp.xi,99 + 108 photographs mostly taken in the Scottish Highlands.
Published : Cassell, London 1936, First Edition
£25.00

Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt. One corner slightly bumped. In a near fine dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xi,720. Covers every aspect of the work of the Kirk Sessions of the Church of Scotland in the days before the welfare state. Described as "an invaluable record, which will delight both academic and amateur alike."
Published : The Pentland Press 1992, First Edition
£25.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. Small ownership label on front fixed end-paper. Pp.xi,720. "This meticulously researched and fascinating book covers every aspect of the work" of the Kirk Sessions of the Church of Scotland." Covers education, morals, burial of the dead, witchcraft and superstition, relief of poverty etc. Mainly deals with the 18th and 19th centuries.
Published : The Pentland Press 1992, First Edition
£25.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. A nice clean copy without ownjership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.ix,170. Frontispiece and four plates.
Published : Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1972, First Edition
£9.00

Softback. A near fine copy. 197 pages. Illustrations. Maps. The author was born in Newstead in 1916. This book looks back at the village in the time of his youth.
Published : Privately Published, Melrose 1997, First Edition
£8.00

Illustrated by Sir D.Y. Cameron.
Hardback. A near very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Rear board a little marked. Some edge and end-paper foxing. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. Pp.xix,428. Numerous illustrations. Folding map at rear.
Published : Macmillan & Co, London 1935, First Edition
£8.00

Hardback. A very good copy in the original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a little faded but lettering clear. In an almost good dustwrapper which has some closed tears and edge chips but the spine lettering is almost intact. The wrapper has been strengthened at the edges internally and is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Two small ex libris plates/labels of previous owners. A little foxing. Pp.xii,220. Frontispiece and 26 illustrations. Map end-papers. A difficult book to find in dustwrapper.
Published : Cassell, London 1925, First Edition
£58.00

Softback. 4to. A very good copy. 13 pages. 4 maps at end (3 folding). One of a series of Reports for the Scottish Burgh Survey.
Published : Department of Archaeology University of Glasgow 1977,
£8.00

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 141pp. Illustrated. An account of a Highland estate from the Victorian period until well into the 20th century.
Published : Canongate Academic, Edinburgh 1993, First Edition
£7.00

Hardback. A near very good copy. with paper title label lettered in black. Some edge foxing. No ownership inscription. Pp.xx,202. 8 illustrations. A study of Border history with particular reference to the Graham Clan.
Published : George Routledge & Sons, London 1907, Second Edition
£30.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which has one small closed edge tear. A clean copy with almost no foxing and no ownership inscription. Pp.xxvii,124. This is both an authoritative reference book on the Shetland dialect and a working dictionary.
Published : The Thule Press, Stornoway 1979, First Edition
£30.00

Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered and decorated in white on upper board and lettered in white on spine. The spine lettering is faded but readable. Bookplate. Pages rather browned. Some ink writing on rear end-paper. 91 pages. Frontispiece. The story, told in prose, of Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach.
Published : J. Gardner Hitt, Edinburgh 1908, First Edition
£25.00

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xvii,141. Illustrations. Maps. "An affectionate and gently humerous account" of an estate in Kintyre from the Victorian period until well into the 20th century.
Published : Canongate Academic, Edinburgh 1993, First Edition
£7.00