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Farming and the Land: Scottish Life and Society Volume 2: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology

By: Alexander Fenton; Kenneth Veitch

Price: £35.00

Publisher: John Donald Short Run Press: 2011

Seller ID: 005683

ISBN: 1906566054

Condition: As New

Hardcover, As New with As New dustwrapper. First edition, pp xlii, 1172, b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams throughout, indices. An interest in rural life and culture has long been a feature of ethnology in Scotland. This multi-author volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of farming and the land. The 43 chapters are divided into ten thematic sections: the environmental setting; settlement, society and landscape; crops and livestock; buildings; the workforce; types of land use; tools, techniques and processes; industry, engineering, communications and trade; writing, museu...
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Rural life in Victorian Aberdeenshire.

By: Alexander, Alexander.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Mercat Press: 1992

Seller ID: 006467

ISBN: 187364406X

Condition: Very Good

Softcover in Very Good condition. First edition, with pp168. With glossary of Doric words. Rural life in Victorian Aberdeenshire.
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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

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 Place-Names of Aberdeenshire.

By: Alexander, William.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: The Third Spalding Club: 1952

Seller ID: 005624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardback rebound in Fine terracotta buckram binding for Tillypronie Shooting Estate, with gilt titles to spine, one or two very small marks to boards but otherwise in Fine condition. With pp lii, 419. With phonetic notation and appendices.Place names of Aberdeen Town, East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire. A comprehensive list of Aberdeenshire place names, their origins, history and meaning.
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Oyne: Past & present

By: Algy Watson

Price: £30.00

Publisher: A. Watson: 1999

Seller ID: 006849

ISBN: 1873891407

Condition: Near Fine

Illustrated card covers, some light creasing to front hinge and spine slightly faded but otherwise in Near Fine condition. First edition, Signed by Author on title page, pp 62, b&w and colour illustrations, map of area on inside rear cover.
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The Great Tapestry of Scotland

By: Alistair Moffat; Andrew Crummy

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd: 2013

Seller ID: 008274

ISBN: 1780271603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Hardcover, New with dustwrapper in New condition. First edition, pp xv, 313, colour illustrations. The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep. Like the Bayeux tapestry, the Great Tapestry of Scotland has been created on embroidered cloth, and is annotated in English, Gaelic, Scots and Latin. This book, with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith, tells the...
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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

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: 0

Seller ID: 005958

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: 1845962397

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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Historical Aspects of Newmilns

By: Alloway Publishing

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Alloway Publishing Ltd: 1990

Seller ID: 008705

ISBN: 0907526446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover in brown faux leather with gilt titles to front board in Fine condition, dustwrapper with some very slight shelfwear but otherwise Near Fine. First edition, pp 117, b&w illustrations throughout.
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Adomnan's Life of Colomba.

By: Anderson, Alan Orr & Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Nelson: 1961

Seller ID: 003870

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover in Near Fine condition with edgeworn dustwrapper now enclosed in clear archival wrap. First edition, pp xxiii, 590, index.
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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: 1780274939

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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Fae Rosehearty tae Fittie.

By: Anderson, Donald.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Self Published: 0

Seller ID: 004624

Condition: Near Fine

Large illustrated card covers, some light shelfwear but otherwise in Near Fine condition. First edition, pp 306, colour and b&w illustrations throughout. An illustrated look at the histories of 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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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: 0

Seller ID: 004625

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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Robert Stewart: Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland, 1533-93

By: Anderson, Peter D.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd: 1982

Seller ID: 008183

ISBN: 0859760820

Condition: Fine

Hardcover in Fine condition with Fine dustwrapper. First edition, viii, 245, b&w illustrations and maps, appendices, notes, glossary, index.
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Dumfriesshire: A Frontier Region

By: Andrew J. McCulloch

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd: 2018

Seller ID: 008317

ISBN: 1912476282

Condition: New

Hardcover in New condition, New dustwrapper. First edition, pp xii, 586, b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 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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An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

By: Andrew Meirion Jones; Andrew Jones; Davina Freedman; Blaze O'Connor; Hugo Lamdin-Whymark

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Windgather Press: 2011

Seller ID: 007414

ISBN: 1905119410

Condition: Fine

Illustrated card covers in Near Fine condition. First edition, pp xxviii, 356, colour illustrations, appendices, bibliography. 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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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: 1910021024

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: 1899966013

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: 1845022572

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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