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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: $4,812.50

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

Seller ID: Books011946

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository for the Year 1846

By: N/A

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1845

Seller ID: Books012440

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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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: $465.75

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Watson: 1712

Seller ID: Books012747

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[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.
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The Wine-Drinker's Manual

By: N/A

Price: $1,653.75

Publisher: London, Marsh and Miller: 1830

Seller ID: Books011001

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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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: $584.38

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

Seller ID: Books011534

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

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

By: Boswell, James

Price: $928.13

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

Seller ID: Books012025

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $1,005.75

Publisher: London, Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly: 1785

Seller ID: Books012908

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xx, [1], 534, [1]. Complete, with half title, and advert leaf at rear. Ding to top corner of front board. Old bookplate and signature to front pastedown; signature again at head of title page. Light foxing/offsetting to first few and final few leaves; else remarkably clean. A pleasing unsophisticated example in contemporary sound binding.
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments.... WITH: A Companion to the Altar.... WITH: A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

By: Brady, N.; N. Tate

Price: $1,073.25

Publisher: Edinburgh, Alexander Kincaid: 1761

Seller ID: Books012902

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Thorne Lodge; or, The Wheel of Life

By: By the author of The Losing Game

Price: $336.88

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

Seller ID: Books012066

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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Second Book of Drawing, including Perspective

By: Clark, John

Price: $1,203.13

Publisher: Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers: 1840

Seller ID: Books011942

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic; with a literal translation into English and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems by the Rev. Archibald Clerk

By: Clerk, Archibald; James Macpherson; Ossian

Price: $1,005.75

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1870

Seller ID: Books013261

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Dunlop of that Ilk : Memorabilia of the Families of Dunlop

By: Dunlop, Archibald

Price: $101.25

Publisher: London, Kerr and Richardson: 1898

Seller ID: Books012959

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Elements of Gaelic Grammar. Based on the work of Rev. Alexander Stewart

By: Gillies, H. Cameron

Price: $60.75

Publisher: London, David Nutt: 1902

Seller ID: Books013194

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 186 pages; with ads at front and rear. Second edition, with appendix. Clean and unmarked, save for gift inscription to half title.
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The Legend of Birse and other poems

By: Gordon, Granville

Price: $268.13

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

Seller ID: Books010580

Binding: vellum

Condition: Very Good

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.
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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: $10,125.00

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

Seller ID: Books011902

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

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...
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A Journey to The Western Islands of Scotland

By: Johnson, Samuel

Price: $1,282.50

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

Seller ID: Books012749

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Zion Travailing : A Sermon, preached before the Dumfries Missionary Society, and published at their request

By: Laing, Decision

Price: $600.75

Publisher: Dumfries, Robert Jackson: 1804

Seller ID: Books013051

Binding: wrapper

Condition: good

38 pages, but lacking most of the upper wrap which is counted in pagination. Leaves toned; loss to lower outer corner of leaves without loss of text. Inscription to verso of rear wrap. Uncommon.
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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: $41.25

Publisher: Dunoon, E. & R. Inglis:

Seller ID: Books011395

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

24 pages. Clean and unmarked; no indication of date of issue. Shipping cost will be reduced.
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The History of Galloway, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

By: Mackenzie, William

Price: $330.75

Publisher: Kirkcudbright, John Nicholson: 1841

Seller ID: Books012873

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

v, [2], viii, 544, 48; vii, 498, 75, ix-xix, 21-224 pages. Complete in two volumes, with folding frontispiece map in each. Half leather rubbed, cloth lightly stained. All edges marbled. Toning to some leaves, and to map in vol. 2. Two leaves [pages 229-232 in vol. 2] have slipped away from the upper cords and are barely attached. Pages 367-382 in vol. 1 dogeared at lower corner. Bindings sound. A Mackenzie, Glasgow, in an old hand to second free endpaper in each. W. and R. Holmes, Glasgow, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of each.
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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: $438.75

Publisher: Dublin, Boulter Grierson: 1768

Seller ID: Books012751

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Category: Scotland