The Wine-Drinker's Manual

By: N/A

Price: $1,531.25

Publisher: London, Marsh and Miller: 1830

Seller ID: Books011001

Condition: Very Good

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xii, 296 pages. Contemporary half leather, 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 handsome volume with sound binding. View more info

Report of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Agricultural Society for the year 1810 : with a short account of its institution in March, 1809.

By: N/A

Price: $4,375.00

Publisher: Dumfries, Geo. Johnstone & Co.: 1811

Seller ID: Books011946

Condition: Very Good

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104 pages, and one page in manuscript bound in. Signature of one Alex. Maitland to head of title page. This I presume to be Lt. Col. Alexander Maitland. "Colonel Maitland" is listed as one of the subscribed members of the Society, with his place of residence amended from Camphill to Chipperkyle in ink on page 89. On p. 95 Colonel Maitland appears in the Committee of Management list. Bound in near-contemporary half leather with marbled boards, with two free endpapers at front and rear. Binding is sound; light foxing throughout. The page of ms. bound in facing p. 76 deals with corn. View more info

New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository for the Year 1846

By: N/A

Price: $93.75

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1845

Seller ID: Books012440

Condition: Very Good

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552 pages, and 120 page Advertising List at rear. Leather rubbed, and chipped at head of spine. Advert ticket for the fourth volume of D'Aubigne's History tipped in at front. Binding is sound. View more info

The Book of Common-Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments; and other parts of Divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland. With a paraphrase of the Psalms in metre by King James the VI

By: N/A

Price: $431.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Watson: 1712

Seller ID: Books012747

Condition: Good

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[30], 308, [2], 309-429 pages. Separate title page for Psalms, between 308-309. Customary wear and toning. Pastedowns and endpapers grubby and inscribed, with small stamps of the Bibliotheca Puseiana, Oxford. Rebacked; binding sound. View more info

Nadur An Duine 'ma staid cheithir-fillte, no staid ceud Ionracais, staid Truaillidheachd iomlan, staid Saorsa air Toiseachadh, agus staid Sonais no truaighe iomlan

By: Boston, Thomas

Price: $531.25

Publisher: Duneidinn, Clodh-Bhuailte le D.R. Collie: 1837

Seller ID: Books011534

Condition: Good

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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 info

The Life of Samuel Johnson, and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [five volumes in publisher's binding]

By: Boswell, James

Price: $843.75

Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: Books012025

Condition: Very Good

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xxxii, 291; viii, 298; viii, 298; viii, 300; xxvi, 360 pages. Five volumes (complete). Attractive publisher's blue cloth stamped in black to front and blind to rear; gilt to spine. Two title pages and frontispiece with tissue guard in each. Profusely illustrated. No date of issue specified. The Journal has the Robert Carruthers introduction (dated 1852) and notes. Pencil signature to front free endpaper of four volumes. Bindings are sound. View more info

Thorne Lodge; or, The Wheel of Life

By: By the author of The Losing Game

Price: $306.25

Publisher: Glasgow / London / Edinburgh, Scottish Temperance League / Houlston and Sons and national Temperance League / John Menzies: 1881

Seller ID: Books012066

Condition: Good

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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 info

Second Book of Drawing, including Perspective

By: Clark, John

Price: $1,093.75

Publisher: Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers: 1840

Seller ID: Books011942

Condition: Good

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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 info

Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire

By: Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall

Price: $93.75

Publisher: Toronto, C. Blackett Robinson: 1885

Seller ID: Books012051

Condition: Good

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x, [5]-257, xciv pages, followed by 10 leaves of Genealogical Tables printed recto only. 1792 notice regarding Sir William Fordyce pasted to rear endpapers. Cloth sunned and worn; one gathering loose but remains attached. 1886 Fordyce inscription to front free endpaper, and a recent small name plate below. An Addenda was published in 1888, not present here. View more info

The Legend of Birse and other poems

By: Gordon, Granville

Price: $243.75

Publisher: London, Bliss, Sands, & Foster: 1894

Seller ID: Books010580

Condition: Very Good

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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 info

A New Method of Cookery or, Expert and ready Way for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Foul, Fish, either Baked, Boiled, Roasted, Stewed, Fryed, Hashed, Frigasied, Carbonaded, Forced, Collared, Soused, &c. After the Best and Newest Way,...

By: Houdlston, Thomas; [Huddleston ?]

Price: $18,750.00

Publisher: [Dumfries ?], For the Author: 1760

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books011902

Condition: Good

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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 info

A Journey to The Western Islands of Scotland

By: Johnson, Samuel

Price: $1,187.50

Publisher: London, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell: 1775

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books012749

Condition: Very Good

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384, [1] pages. First issue, with the cancels, page 296 misnumbered, and 12-line Errata at rear. Scattered foxing throughout; front hinge tender. Small bookplate of Thomas Grimston Estcourt to front pastedown. A pleasing unsophisticated example. View more info

Songs of the Hebrides. Collected and arranged for voice and pianoforte, with Gaelic and English words. Volumes One, Two, Three [i, ii, iii; 1,2,3]

By: Kennedy-Fraser, Marjory and Kenneth MacLeod

Price: $106.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, West Port Books: 2002

Seller ID: Books010711

Condition: Very Good

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xxxx, 168; xxx, 244; xxiv, 192 pages. A clean unmarked set, with no creasing to spines. This is the 2002 quality facsimile reprint; first published by Boosey and Hawkes in 1909. Due to size and weight shipping overseas will be more expensive than the default quote: please inquire. View more info

Sketches of the History of Clan Lamont. (Being a Lecture Delivered by the late Sir Norman Lamont, Bart., at the First Annual General Meeting)

By: Lamont, Sir Norman

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Dunoon, E. & R. Inglis:

Seller ID: Books011395

Condition: Very Good

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24 pages. Clean and unmarked; no indication of date of issue. Shipping cost will be reduced. View more info

Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians, Their Posterity The Picts, and the British and Irish Scots

By: Macpherson, John

Price: $406.25

Publisher: Dublin, Boulter Grierson: 1768

Seller ID: Books012751

Condition: Very Good

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xxx, [2], 351 pages. Rebacked, and with new endpapers. Two excisions to title page not affecting text; occasional discreet penciling. Gatherings O and L on blue paper. Binding sound. View more info

Arbroath: Past and Present. Being Reminiscences Chiefly Relating to the Last Half Century. [inscribed to his granddaughter]

By: McBain, J. M. [James]

Price: $118.75

Publisher: Arbroath, Brodie & Salmond: 1887

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: Books011428

Condition: Very Good

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357, ix pages. Publisher's pictorial cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, and light soiling to cloth. Author's warm inscription to his granddaughter Janet R. Stoddart on dedication leaf. View more info

A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX [WITH} A Tour in Scotland, and a Voyage to the Hebrides MDCCLXXII [WITH} A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXXII. Part II [three volumes, complete]

By: Pennant, Thomas

Price: $1,437.50

Publisher: Warrington; Chester; London, W. Eyres; John Monk; Benj. White: 1776

Edition: First / Third edition

Seller ID: Books012765

Condition: Very Good

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Volume I is third edition, the others first. 1774, 1774, 1776 respectively. vi, 400; vii, 439; iv, 481, [1 - errata]. With with "frontispiece" engraved vignettes to title pages; Vol. I: large folding map (with closed tear) and 42 copper engraved plates; Vol. II: 44 plates; Vol. III: 45 plates. Complete; plates 46 and 47 called for in Vol. 3 as Addittions are (more appropriately) bound into the Appendix of Vol. I. Contemporary full calf, edges worn. Upper joint of each is tender but holding. Plates and contents clean, with occasional browning, offsetting, and light peripheral foxing. Bookplate ... View more info

The Pioneers and Churches : The Pioneer Families of Big Brook, West Branch E.R. And Surrounding Sections Including Lorne, Glengarry, Elgin, Centerdale, Hopewell, Marshdale, FoxBrook

By: Ross, Rev. D. K. [Daniel Keith]

Price: $187.50

Publisher: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Hector Publishing: 1958

Seller ID: Books012018

Condition: Very Good

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239, [5] pages. No date of issue specified, but not before 1957 [January '57 mentioned on p. 238]. Annotated in pencil throughout by the former owner, Rev. Lewis Murray, with his nameplate to front cover. Binding is sound. View more info

Gossip About Letters And Letter-Writers

By: Seton, George

Price: $406.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas: 1873

Seller ID: Books012156

Condition: Very Good

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x, [1], 256 pages. The "cheap edition" of 1873 (first was 1870). Fine contemporary binding in full leather, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William Strang Steel to front pastedown, with bookseller's ticket of James Lewis, Selkirk. Light rubbing only; binding sound. View more info

An Analysis of the Galic Language

By: Shaw, William

Price: $531.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, W. and T. Ruddiman for R. Jamieson: 1778

Edition: Second edition

Seller ID: Books012748

Condition: Very Good

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xviii, [19]-171 pages. Extremities rubbed, binding sound. View more info