Caledonia Railway: 160 pages, 9 sepia plates, and (part of) folding map. Followed on blue paper by: London and North-Western Railway, West Coast Tourist Guide to Scotland: 44 pages, and 4 sepia plates. NB: lacking covers, any leaves prior to page 1 at front, and any following 44 at rear. Only a lower portion of the folding map remains (roughly 6 x 20 inches); first and final two leaves worn and detached. Title inferred: 'Caledonian Railway Tourist Guide' is printed at foot of the Caledonia plates. Date inferred: code at foot of page 1: B-1/7/82, and notice re. applications to insert advertisem... View More...
658, 40 pages. Each part with its own title page (all Bryce and Paterson, 1755). A Short Sum of the First Book of Discipline includes A Second Book of Discipline. Leather worn; endpapers grubby; light toning and foxing throughout; binding is sound. 7 x 4.1 inches. View More...
Unpaged; New Testament with separate title page, also Watson 1716. Two leaves of Tables between OT and NT: weights and measures; money; time, kindred and affinity, offices and conditions of men. Loss of leather at heel of spine. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Cropped quite closely to text. John Hailstone 1724; S. Hailstone 1781; John Hailstone 1852. Binding is sound. 5 x 2.6 inches. View More...
40, 92, 23, 174 pages: [First, and Second reports, Supplement to the Second report (with appendix), and Appendix to the Second report]. Corners rubbed, and long ago reinforced. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. View More...
xii, 296 pages. "The love of Wine may almost be classed with the innate principles of our very being" [p.1]. Contemporary half leather (extremities rubbed), with feathered paper over boards. Gilt and raised bands to spine; all edges sprinkled. Armorial bookplate of Alexander Speirs, Elderslie, to front pastedown. Offsetting to corners of first few and final few leaves; foxing to front endpapers. A small presentable volume soundly bound. View More...
viii, 456; iv, 480; iv, 384, [27] pages. The three volumes complete in contemporary unrestored bindings with the appealing association of inscriptions noting the gift of these from then Nova Scotia Chief Justice Thomas Strange to Alexander Gray in 1796 at Kings College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. "Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (November 30, 1756 - July 16, 1841) was a chief justice in Nova Scotia, known for waging 'judicial war' to free Black Nova Scotian slaves from their owners. From 1789 - 1797, he was the sixth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia [1790-1797].... He was instrumental in freeing sla... View More...
vi, 522, [1] pages. Full leather; front board bowed somewhat. Endpapers stained, toned, and inscribed; stains diminishing through the adjacent 10 leaves front and rear. Edges toned. Binding sound. The 1837 issue of this Scottish Gaelic translation of Thomas Boston's Human Nature in its Fourfold State. View More...
A1-P10, [2], A1-C12. Each work with self title page, all Kincaid 1761. Contemporary burgundy morocco with gilt decor, and all edges gilt (top darkened). Chip off spine label. Contemporary marbled endpapers, with nameplate of A.V. Radford to front pastedown. Binding sound; no inscriptions. A particularly pleasing example. 7 x 4.4 inches. View More...
viii, [1], 244 pages, frontispiece and three plates as called for. Soiling to jacket, with tape and paper repairs verso. Head of spine sunned; upper outer corner bumped. No inscriptions. 7.75 x 5.4 inches. View More...
vi, 294 pages and 16 pages of ads for Temperance Works at rear. Cloth rubbed and mottled; top edge stained; pencil signature to front pastedown and pencil inscription at head of Contents leaf; one gathering loose (a touch proud but remains well attached). Binding is sound. Uncommon temperance novel. View More...
[10], 258 pages. Clear tape to upper panel - not to stabilize the spine (which is sound) but seemingly to fix the lifting marbled paper. Paper chipped and lifting from rear panel. Lacking all leaves before title page; two blanks at rear. Foxing to pastedowns and the few adjacent leaves. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. View More...
91 pages. Chambers's Educational Course. Titles in gilt to front and spine. Cloth worn and bubbling, but stable. Tideline and foxing to endpapers; front free endpaper with loss to foot and a contemporary inscription. Pages 62-67 quite heavilly foxed; light foxing to a few other leaves; binding is sound. Uncommon, with OCLC noting no copies this early. This has 1840 at foot of title page; the Preface is dated July 10, 1840. View More...
lxvi, 503; 584 pages. Complete in two volumes, the poems in Gaelic, and with Macpherson's and Clerks' translations into English. Small date stamp top right of half title in each; else unmarked. Spines somewhat dulled, but overall a tidy, substantial set. Original bookseller's ticket of James Hope & Sons, Ottawa Ont., to rear pastedown of each. View More...
From the French, with an appendix containing fifteen of Mary's letters and additional notes by M.I. Ryan. Fifth thousand. 391 pages, 5 x 7 1/2". Loss of cloth at head and foot of spine, foxing throughout, child's numerals to verso of last page. View More...
xv, 150 pages, with the three portraits called for (two with tissue guard, one drawing); errata slip tipped in at Contents leaf. Spine sunned; cloth worn at extremities. Endpapers a bit grubby, three ownership instances at front including an 1898 Dunlop presentation. Pencil correction to a few lines of text on page 49. Some splitting of paper along rear hinge but binding fully sound. View More...
Addenda to Volume I (issued 1885): 60 pages, and Appendix: clxxiii (i.e. 173) pages. With frontispiece photo. Insect predation to cloth extremities; no inscriptions; binding sound. View More...
vi, 141 pages. Gilt to front and spine faded; Covers toned. Offsetting to endpapers; top corner of front free endpaper cut away. Corner crease to frontispiece. Initial letter in red throughout. Binding is sound. Due to weight, shipping overseas will be more expensive than the default: please inquire. View More...
186 pages, but lacking A4 [i.e. lacking the third leaf of text: pages 7,8]. Measures 5.8 x 3.6 inches. No free endpapers; title page chipped at fore-edge and splitting along gutter [all text present]. Front board secure; rear board all but detached; half of spine panel gone; textblock sound. Of this first edition: one copy at the National Library of Scotland; and one auction record [Dominic, 2012]. Scarce. Title continues: with their several Sauces and Sallads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also making Variety of pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With the Art of Pres... View More...
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