Category: Scottish History

Leaves from the Scrap-Book of a Scottish Exile

Price: £25.00

Publisher: ., W. & A.K. Johnston : 1904

Seller ID: 006481

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover in original decorative green cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine, floral endpapers, some rubbing and shelfwear to head and foor of spine and corners of boards, small red marks to front board but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, pp xii, 295. Poems, dances, music, anecdotes and scottish scenes for Scots in exile.
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Lord Crawford's Armorial formerly known as The Armorial of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount Secundus

By: Alex Maxell Findlater

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Heraldry Society of Scotland : 2007

Seller ID: 011927

ISBN-13: 9780952525882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Large hardcover in red cloth with gilt coat of arms on front board and gilt titles to spine, some light shelfwear and rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners, small bump to outer edge of front board, previous owner's bookplate but otherwise in Near Fine condition. First edition, pp 447, colour plates, index, bibliography. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 2KG, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
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Farmhand to Chief Constable

By: Alex Rennie

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bound Biographies : 2009

Seller ID: 006842

ISBN-13: 9781905178308

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good+

Illustrated card covers, some rubbing and marking to front covers (see scan), slight shelfwear but otherwise in Good+ condition. First edition, Signed and inscribed to a previous owner by author on title page, pp 280, b&w illustrations, appendix.
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Renfrewshire: A Scottish County's Hidden Past.

By: Alexander, Derek & McCrae, Gordon.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd : 2012

Seller ID: 011463

ISBN-13: 9781841587998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Softcover, previous owner's bookplate on fep but otherwise in Fine condition. First edition, pp288, b&w illustrations, diagrams and maps. Renfrewshire is largely ignored in the general studies of Scotland's cultural heritage. "Renfrewshire: A Scottish County's Hidden Past" redresses the balance and for the first time provides an overview of the archaeological evidence for the county, which includes Local Authority Areas of Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde. Surprisingly, close examination reveals a wide variety of sites and artefacts that relate to the full range of prehistoric ...
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The Making of Aberdeenshire: A Paper Read Before the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 20th March, 1888.

By: Alexander, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: A. Brown & Co. : 1888

Seller ID: 007188

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled pamphlet, some light shelfwear and marking, previous owners name on title page, staples rusted but otherwise in Very Good condition commensurate with age. First edition, pp 24.
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The Games: A Guide to Scotland's Highland Games

By: Allan, Charlie.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Famedram Publishers : 1974

Seller ID: 010953

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated card covers, some light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, cup mark to rear cover but otherwise Very Good. First edition, unpaginated, b&w illustrations.
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Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century.

By: Allan, David W.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Pearson Education : 2002

Seller ID: 011386

ISBN-13: 9780582382473

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover in Very Good condition. First edition, with pp220, map of Scotland in the eighteenth century, This is an introduction to Scottish history in the 18th which is completely up-to-date and gives equal emphasis to politics and religion. Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland it was emerging as an economic powerhouse, a major colonial power and an internationally acclaimed center of European philosophy, science and literature. This thematic investigation explores the experiences and responses of a people whose world w...
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The Goodwife at Home: Footdee in the 18th Century.

By: Allardyce, Mrs. Forgue

Price: £25.00

Publisher: William Smith & Sons. : 1918

Seller ID: 005294

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled booklet in cellophane cover. First edition, 1918. With some shelf wear and large tear in the title page, otherwise in Very Good condition, pp45. With b&w illustrations. With frontispiece drawing of an Aberdeen fishing lass, colourized. The Goodwife at Home: Footdee in the 18th Century.With the song 'Fiar in Kinrara'
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The Scottish Georgian Society.

By: Allen, Nic.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Scottish Georgian Society

Seller ID: 005958

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled booklet with illustrated card covers, In Very Good condition. With b&w illustrations, pp82. For the study and protection of Scottish Architecture.
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Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield.

By: Allison, Hugh, G.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing : 2008

Seller ID: 007130

ISBN-13: 9781845962395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardback in Very Good condition with dustwrapper, also in Very Good condition. Reprint. SIGNED COPY. With pp224. Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield.
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Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape

By: Anderson, Carolyn; Fleet, Chris

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Birlinn : 2018

Seller ID: 008273

ISBN-13: 9781780274935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Hardcover, New with New dustwrapper. First edition, pp vii, 232, colour illustrations throughout, index. Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the two world wars, as well as the Cold War, all resulted in significant cartographic activity. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
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Looking Back: A Collection of Photographs and Historical Images, with Comments and Thoughts, Gathered by the Author Over a Lifetime.

By: Anderson, Donald.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Self Published

Seller ID: 004625

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Large illustrated card covers, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Near Fine condition. First edition, pp 273, colour and b&w illustrations throughout. An illustrated look at the histories of Peterhead Whaling and North East fishing villages. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
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Kings & Kingship in Early Scotland

By: Anderson, Marjorie O.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Scottish Academic Press : 1973

Seller ID: 011819

ISBN-13: 9780701116040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in Fine condition, dustwrapper with some light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, ppxviii, 310, appendices, regnal lists, index.
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Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae Aberdonensis: Selections from the Records of the Marischal College and University MDXCIII-MDCCCLX - Three Volumes Complete

By: Anderson, Peter John

Price: £150.00

Publisher: New Spalding Club : 1889

Seller ID: 009650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three Volumes in original olive cloth with gilt titles to spines, some light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities of boards, previous owner's bookplates on fep, endpapers browned, rough cut pages but otherwise in Very Good condition. Limited First edition of 525 [194], pp xxx, 577, xix, 596, 200, 19, illustrations, fold out charts, indices in volume 3. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 3KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
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Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen.

By: Anderson, Peter John.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Aberdeen University Press : 1890

Seller ID: 009443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover in original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and emblem to front board, very light shelfwear, slight spotting to edge of text block, very light sporadic spotting throughout, folding map has some browning and foxing but otherwise in Near Fine condition. Limited First edition, Number 237 of 500 copies printed, Pp xxxv, 466, frontispiece illustration of King William the Lion's Charter to the Burgesses of Aberdeen with tissue guard, With fold-out map of Aberdeen at the rear. Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, ADDITIONA...
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The Glasgow Enlightenment

By: Andrew Hook; Richard B. Sher

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Tuckwell Press Ltd : 1995

Seller ID: 011302

ISBN-13: 9781898410959

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Illustrated card covers, very slight shelfwear but otherwise in Fine condition. First edition, pp xi, 252, b&w illustrations, index. This text presents the selected proceedings of a conference sponsored by the 18th-century Scottish Studies Society. It looks at the achievements of intellectual and academic figures who made Glasgow into a centre of Enlightenment in the 18th century. The book looks at the achievements of Adam Smith and his fellow scholars, including Frances Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, John Millar and John Anderson. At a time when the Glasgow economy was booming on the strength of it...
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Scotland's Still Light: A Photographer's Vision Inspired by Scottish Literature

By: Andy Hall

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd : 2014

Seller ID: 007787

ISBN-13: 9781910021026

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated card covers, some very slight shelfwear but otherwise in Very good condition. First edition, pp 95, colour illustrations.
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John Fyfe: One Hundred and Fifty Years, 1846-1996.

By: Ango, A. C & Downie, Duncan A.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Time Pieces Publications : 1996

Seller ID: 005530

ISBN-13: 9781899966011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Softback, 21 x 21 ", in Fine condition. With b&w illustrations, With foreword of John M Hume, Managing director. Frontispiece portrait of John Fyfe, by John Singer Sargent from the City of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collection. The story of John Fyfe and the quarrying industry.
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Tales from the Scottish Countryside: New Walks with the Man with Two Dogs

By: Angus Whitson

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Black and White Publishing : 2009

Seller ID: 007678

ISBN-13: 9781845022570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover, some slight shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrapper with slight shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, signed by author, pp xi, 272.
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Prehistoric Scotland

By: Ann MacSween; Mick Sharp

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Batsford Ltd : 1989

Seller ID: 006881

ISBN-13: 9780713461732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Large hardcover, some light shelfwear and previous owners bookplate but otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrapper with some light shelfwear, one small tear to top edge internally repaired but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, pp 208, b&w illustrations, index.
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Category: Scottish History