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By: N/A
Price: $1,531.25
Publisher: London, Marsh and Miller: 1830
Seller ID: Books011001
Condition: Very Good
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
By: N/A
Price: $4,375.00
Publisher: Dumfries, Geo. Johnstone & Co.: 1811
Seller ID: Books011946
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. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $93.75
Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd: 1845
Seller ID: Books012440
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. View more info
By: Boston, Thomas
Price: $531.25
Publisher: Duneidinn, Clodh-Bhuailte le D.R. Collie: 1837
Seller ID: Books011534
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. View more info
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By: Boswell, James
Price: $843.75
Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons:
Seller ID: Books012025
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. View more info
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
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
By: Clark, John
Price: $1,093.75
Publisher: Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers: 1840
Seller ID: Books011942
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. View more info
By: Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall
Price: $93.75
Publisher: Toronto, C. Blackett Robinson: 1885
Seller ID: Books012051
Condition: Good
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
Price: $243.75
Publisher: London, Bliss, Sands, & Foster: 1894
Seller ID: Books010580
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. View more info
By: Houdlston, Thomas; [Huddleston ?]
Price: $18,750.00
Publisher: [Dumfries ?], For the Author: 1760
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books011902
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... View more info
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By: Kennedy-Fraser, Marjory and Kenneth MacLeod
Price: $106.25
Publisher: Edinburgh, West Port Books: 2002
Seller ID: Books010711
Condition: Very Good
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
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Dunoon, E. & R. Inglis:
Seller ID: Books011395
Condition: Very Good
24 pages. Clean and unmarked; no indication of date of issue. Shipping cost will be reduced. View more info
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Price: $118.75
Publisher: Arbroath, Brodie & Salmond: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: Books011428
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Ross, Rev. D. K. [Daniel Keith]
Price: $187.50
Publisher: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Hector Publishing: 1958
Seller ID: Books012018
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Seton, George
Price: $406.25
Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas: 1873
Seller ID: Books012156
Condition: Very Good
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
Price: $306.25
Publisher: Stranrarer, Galloway Advertiser and Wigtownshire Free Press: 1894
Seller ID: Books012551
Condition: Very Good
viii, 187 pages. All edges gilt. Cloth rubbed at head and foot of spine, and at tips. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. View more info
By: Stark, J. [John]
Price: $218.75
Publisher: Edinburgh, J. Stark: 1805
Seller ID: Books012127
Condition: Very Good
Unpaged. Frontispiece, and three portrait plates within. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards; all edges red. Leaves toned; small section of 15 leaves warped. Ink notation to title page and final leaf of the addenda. Binding is sound. View more info
Price: $3,125.00
Publisher: Paisley, Caldwell and Son: 1835
Seller ID: Books011891
Condition: Good
[3]-288 pages, seven plates - one folding, two copies of plate 6. Prussian blue cloth sample present on page 121. Parts 1 through 6 [Numbers 1 through 30 of the Chemical Experimentalist, and Numbers 1 through 6 of the Panoramic Dictionary, each under the running title of Stuart's Useful Information for the People]. Scarce in any condition, this copy good only though complete from page [3] through 288, with all plates [OCLC notes a Part Seventh and Eighth, not present here]. Front board detached, general title page taped to it noting Third Edition 1834, chipped and stained. Long closed tear to ... View more info
Price: $156.25
Publisher: Castle-Douglas, Adam Rae: 1901
Seller ID: Books010579
Condition: Very Good
469, iii, and publisher's list at rear. Extremities rubbed; top edge gilt, light foxing to fore-edge. Attractive endpapres, with publisher's ticket to front pastedown and J. Robinson bookplate beneath. Verso of first free endpapers and facing leaf foxed. Binding is sound. Due to weight, shipping overseas will be more expensive than the default: please inquire. View more info
