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2020rif. Gyan-9789358214727Facsimile Publisher 2020. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 4.58 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2020rif. Gyan-9789358214727Facsimile Publisher 2020. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 4.58 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
rif. 1527925072.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2026rif. LRB540206Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 502 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1890. A historical source document relating to the Jacobite Rebellion presenting lists of persons concerned in the uprising as transmitted by the supervisors of excise in Scotland together with supplementary evidence. The volume is enhanced by a prefatory note by the Earl of Rosebery and annotations by Walter MacLeod making it of interest to researchers of Scottish history the Jacobite movement and documentary evidence from the period. This work reproduces a historical compilation on the Jacobite Rebellion with prefatory remarks by the Earl of Rosebery and scholarly annotations by Walter MacLeod. It is a useful reference for historians genealogists and collectors interested in eighteenth-century Scottish political and social history. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2022rif. Gyan-9789358215731Facsimile Publisher 2022. Hardcover. New. 28.94 x 22.59 x 4.56 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2022rif. Gyan-9789358215731Facsimile Publisher 2022. Hardcover. New. 28.94 x 22.59 x 4.56 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
rif. 0265851823.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
4to, xxviii, [234], 105-189pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
1822rif. 174081Edinburgh: Printed for Macredie Skelly & Co. and T. Nelson 1822. First edition of a first-hand account of what is known as the "King's Jaunt" the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland since Charles II and the first since the Act of Union in 1707. This work is institutionally rare appearing only in the National Library of Scotland and Princeton. The anonymous author of this work wrote about the excitement and preparation that went into preparing for the king's arrival the lists of Scottish nobility who dined with the king and the trip to Holyrood which is now the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. Duodecimo 2 pp. 124. Original printed drab boards front cover decoratively panelled and lettered in black edges uncut. Bookplate of "Macfie of Dreghorn". Spine rather worn covers foxed and bumped edges toned contents clean. A very good copy. hardcover
1779rif. 57356Rouen, Peter Machuel 1779 Texte en anglais avec traduction française en regard. 2 tomes en 1 volume. In-16 9 x 17 cm. Reliure de l’époque pleine basane fauve, dos à 5 nerfs, fers dorés, XXI + 247 - 301 pp. Dos cassé, coiffes usées, coins usés, mors internes fendillés, intérieur jauni, attaques de vers soutenues en pied de page ne gênant pas la lecture. En l’état.
1638rif. 143649Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius 1638. Very Good. Amsterdam Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius circa 1638/ 1630. A hand-coloured engraved map printed surface 368 × 540 mm sheet size approximately 490 × 570 mm with letterpress text in Latin on the verso headed 'Lauden sive Lothien'. With the imprint 'Henricus Hondius excudit'. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; light tanning; small creases to bottom corners well clear of the printed surface; old guard mounted on the verso; an excellent copy with ample margins. An attractive map of the shires of Lothian and Linlithgow from the Latin edition of the famous Mercator-Hondius-Jansson atlas 'Atlas Novus sive Descriptio Geographica Totius Orbis Terrarum' 1636-1638 following the pioneering surveys of Scottish cartographer Timothy Pont. It was first published in Hondius' 1630 edition of Mercator's atlas with the imprint giving credit to Hendrik's father Joost de Hondt: 'Jodocus Hondius caelavit sumptibus Andrae Hart'. Interestingly the plate was likely engraved as early as 1603 which would explains the imprint and the dedication to James I and VI. Henricus Hondius and Jan Janssonius unknown
1810rif. 55309London ca. 1810. Folio. 45 x 28 cm. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering on upper cover. 4 pp. in folio. engraved map 44 x 52 cm. Chart of the East Coast of Scotland Bu John Thornton. Left and right margins shaved no loss of image. Light browning and a few brownspots. hardcover
1810rif. 55309(London, ca. 1810). Folio. (45 x 28 cm.). Later hcloth. Gilt lettering on upper cover. 4 pp. in folio. + engraved map (44 x 52 cm.) Chart of the East Coast of Scotland Bu John Thornton. Left and right margins shaved (no loss of image). Light browning and a few brownspots.
rif. B9781020906268Hardback. New. hardcover
rif. 45419002-nnew. unknown
1988No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight fading to front spine edge and no bumping to corners. 64pp. A brief history of Glasgow's tramways plus a wealth of extensively captioned photographs of trams including a few in colour.
1935Sm. 8vo., Ninth Edition, with coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and maps and plans (a number folding); original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, a near fine copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1912Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and maps and plans (a number folding); original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.` With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
rif. 0243402813.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 0484121839.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19608vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked, and frayed and creased at edges. Variety of extracts emphasising the importance of the Clyde in WWII; includes the sinking of U-33, the explosion of the Maille Breze at Greenock, the sinking of Curacao, TORCH, PQ17, X-craft and Tirpitz, and others. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Enser, p.190; Law, 1801.
1835rif. 8487Edinburgh: Various publishers 1835. 9 works in one vol. 8vo various paginations. Bound in near-contemporary half calf marbled boards spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules red morocco label titled ‘Voluntary Controversy’ edges sprinkled red and blue. Somewhat rubbed small chip to foot of spine. Ownership inscriptions of James Blackadder to some title-pages most trimmed or shaved manuscript contents list to flyleaf. A collection of pamphlets from the mid-1830s dealing with theological and presbyterical disputes within the Church of Scotland prior to the Great Disruption of 1843 which led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland. Thomas Chalmers who authored the first three tracts here went on to be the first moderator in the Free Church. The full contents are: Chalmers Thomas. On The Evils which the Established Church in Edinburgh has Already Suffered and Suffers Still in Virtue of The Seat-Letting being in The Hands of the Magistrates; with Remarks on the Unjust and Injurious Tendency of a Late Document Published by their Authority on the Subject of the Unlet Sittings. Edinburgh: John Anderson Jun. 1835. 8vo pp. 88 1 folding table. Chalmers Thomas. The Right Ecclesiastical Economy of A Large Town. Edinburgh: John Anderson Jun. 1835. 8vo pp. 39 1. Chalmers Thomas. An Attempt to point out The Duty which The Church Owes to The People of Scotland; and more especially to settle the question of precedency between these two objects The Work That Should Be Done and The Payment That Should be Made for The Doing of It; being An Argument on Chapel Bonds. Edinburgh: John Anderson Jun. 1836. 8vo pp. 43 3. ‘A Churchman’. A Letter to The Right Honourable The Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh on the Question of Church Accommodation and the Necessity of an Official Document to satisfy The Public on The Subject. Edinburgh: John Anderson Jun. 1835. 8vo pp. 12. Macgregor S. Report of Speeches delivered at A Public Meeting of the Friends of the Established Church of Scotland Desirous of Obtaining through the Aid of the State an Extension of the Means of Religious Instruction and Parochial Superintendence Held in the Assembly Rooms. Wednesday April 15. 1835. Taken in Short-Hand by My S. Macgregor. Edinburgh: Fraser & Co. 1835. 8vo pp. ii 44. Clason Patrick. Strictures on the Statement of the Central Board of Scottish Dissenters in a Series of Letters to Bailie M’Laren. Letter 1. Edinburgh: Published by Fraser and Co. 1835. 8vo pp. 43 1. Edinburgh Young Men’s Association for Promoting the Interests of the Church of Scotland. Drop-head title: General Statement of Principles and Objects. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone Printer 1834. 8vo pp. 11 1. Welsh David. Drop-head Title: A Letter to the Author of a Tract entitled ‘State of The Edinburgh Churches - Tory Church Building Scheme.’. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone Printer 1835. 8vo pp. 16. Maclaren Duncan. History of The Resistance to the Annuity Tax under each of The Four Church Establishments for which it has been levied; with a Statement of its Annual Produce since 1690. From Authentic Documents. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black 1836. 8vo pp. 96. [Various publishers] hardcover
rif. 5554WORLD WAR II IN SCOTLAND. ALS. 6pgs. October 5 1940. Drummakill Alexandria Dunbartonshire. An autograph letter signed Hector and written during World War Two. The author discusses hosting evacuated children and the fact that Scotland has so far been lucky in avoiding air raids. Our first lot of 3 boys are no longer with us. One of them the nicest lad died last Xmas from appendicitis the other two took themselves off to a farm as they objected to being kept in order! But lately I hear they returned home to Clydebank. Whether we get others depends on the severity of air raids! So far Scotland has really been lucky in this respect. Of course there are some here & there. We hear the hum sometimes usually at night and have heard bombs exploding but quite a bit away! But you never can tell when it might not be a bigger affair!! It is wonderful how England is standing up to her ordeal & the amazing cheerfulness of people with it all. I have a cousin & her husband in London & she writes now & then saying that life is noisy in London! But she manages to do a lot of war work often taking it to their air raid shelter. But I believe people get used even to the sound of many guns!. Clydebank where the two remaining boys had returned home would suffer a deadly blitz the following year. In fine condition and including the original mailing envelope sent to Chevy Chase Maryland. unknown
rif. 5554WORLD WAR II IN SCOTLAND. ALS. 6pgs. October 5 1940. Drummakill Alexandria Dunbartonshire. An autograph letter signed Hector and written during World War Two. The author discusses hosting evacuated children and the fact that Scotland has so far been lucky in avoiding air raids. Our first lot of 3 boys are no longer with us. One of them the nicest lad died last Xmas from appendicitis the other two took themselves off to a farm as they objected to being kept in order! But lately I hear they returned home to Clydebank. Whether we get others depends on the severity of air raids! So far Scotland has really been lucky in this respect. Of course there are some here & there. We hear the hum sometimes usually at night and have heard bombs exploding but quite a bit away! But you never can tell when it might not be a bigger affair!! It is wonderful how England is standing up to her ordeal & the amazing cheerfulness of people with it all. I have a cousin & her husband in London & she writes now & then saying that life is noisy in London! But she manages to do a lot of war work often taking it to their air raid shelter. But I believe people get used even to the sound of many guns!. Clydebank where the two remaining boys had returned home would suffer a deadly blitz the following year. In fine condition and including the original mailing envelope sent to Chevy Chase Maryland. unknown books
rif. 0483789046.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
