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Plan General Du Bango Paris - Original Large Scale Plan

1787

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

, 1787. . Plan Général du Bagno (Bain) Jardin Anglais, Francais, Chinois, de S.E.I.M. le cCompte de Bentheim, Steinfort & Regnant leve par F. de Schazmann A Paris. 1787. Impressive large scale folding map (disbound from a book) to include the gardens with a detailed key. On th...

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. LXIII. Part I 1955-56

1957

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Oliver & Boyd, 1957. Soft Cover. p.220 plates cold folding geological map of Glen Roy area and etc. 10 Articles include - Acipenser Ruthenus (the White Sturgeon); Rocks of Glen Roy and Monadhliath Mountains (Scotland); Arthur's Seat Volcano; Leadhills-Wanlockhead Lead and Zinc...

Stories Frae Aberdeen-Grave and Gay-Mostly Gay

Esslemont, Peter · 0

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

John Avery & Co., . Soft Cover. 32p neat collection of Epigrams, Quotations, jokes - collected and edited. Bit dusty and staples a little rusted but otherwise clean and firm. . Near Very Good

The History of Scottish Education (Two Volumes)

Scotland, James · 1876

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

University of London Press, 1876. Hardcover. Vol. 1 (to 1872) xix + 385pp. Vol. 2 (from 1872) xix + 294pp. Monochrome plates. Previous owner's small neat name and address labels ob front pastedowns. Vol. 1 is the second impression (1970). Price clipped dust wrappers spines sun...

Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War

Sanson, George S. · 1982

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Castle Carey Press, 1982. Hardcover. p.100 + Appendix of Plates. Published on the 70th anniversary of the Pioneer Girdle Traverse of Scafell. Green cloth boards in v.good condition, and contents are v.good condition. With illustrations and photographs. Fine but for dusty top e...

History of the Burgh Schools of Scotland

Grant, James · 1876

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Wiliam Collins, 1876. Hardcover. xvi + 571p; comrehensive work in first edition. Pages toned and book professionally rebound by Bovill in smart brown cloth as original with new endpapers and original spine replaced (neat library number at base). . Very Good

Movements of Salmon of the North West Coast of England

Hartley, W.G. & Brayshaw, J.D. · 1955

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

HMSO, 1955. Soft Cover. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - Fishery Investigations Series I Vol.V No.8 1955 18p & map. Describes the capture near Whitby, Yorkshire, release and recapture of adult Salmon. Ex-library but with little evidence of use. . Near Very Good

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes. Sufi Philosophy-Whirling Riturals-Poems of Ecstasy-Miniature Paintings

Halman, Talat Sait and And, Metin · 1992

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Dost Yayinlari, 1992. Soft Cover. 112p; 25 colour miniatures, several b/w photos.Glossy pictorial soft covers. One of the most up to date and serious references on Maulana Jalaluddin-i Rumi and sufi culture by renowned Turkish scholars. No marks or signatures but some shelf we...

Case of James Earl of Balcarres Claiming the Title, Honour, and Dignity of the the Earldom of Crawford and (Later) the Original Dukedom of Montrose Created 1488 - 3 Volumes 1845 & 1850-1853

1845

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Ballantyne & Hughes Glasgow & William Clowes London, . Hardcover. Three large volumes relating to Court Case 1845 and 1850-53 when James Earl of Balcarras claimed first the Earldom of Crawford and later the title of the Duke of Montrose. Comprises: 1) Case for James Earl of Cr...

Round the World Eastwards in 140 Days - Privately Printed Monologue 1899

1899

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

, 1899. Hardcover. Beautifully produced 63 page record of a world tour in 1899. Printed by W.Wicking, Steam Printer, Sevenoaks, Kent with two small woodcuts in text. Red boards with gilt titling and design; marbled endpapers and pages with serrated edge. Detailed monologue - t...

Victorian Sepia Plates of the Scottish Highlands & Pisa Italy

0

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

J.V. John Valentine G.W.W. George Washinington Wilson, . Hardcover. Victorian Album with sepia plates pasted in - (mostly 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 ) of the Scottish Highlands - On the Ness at the Islands by George Washington Wilson, Inverness Catheral by J.V. and Urquhart Castle, Fort Au...

Eton College Chronicle - Alphabetical School List for the Lent School-Time 1942

1942

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Eton College, 1942. Soft Cover. No.2597 of the Chronicle with an alphabetical list of the School in 1942. With Pages 1257-1272 and several pages of period adverts. Each name accompanied by the name of the House Tutor, year of ebntry and name and adddress of Parent or Guardian....

Strawberries and Cream

Tarrant, H.P. · 1930

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

E.Wild, . Soft Cover. Neat 12p booklet of Poetry . The third collection published by Herbert Percy Tarrant. Undated but apparently 1930. Generally clean but staples rusted with some loosening of the card pages. Nicely prodced with pink card covers. Author states there is no ot...

Railway Materials Handbook

1953

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

The United Steel Companies Ltd, 1953. Soft Cover. 372p Catalogue. AEG. Illustrated with many photographs, drawings etc. Includes sections relating to Steel, Peech and Tozer and Workington Iron & Steel Company. In soft leatherette covers with lettering faded - but clean and tig...

Gunpit - Journal of the R.A. T.D. No. 5 April 1945

Emery, Major F.C. (Editor) · 1945

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Tipografia Degli Artigianelli, 1945. Soft Cover. Single issue of this publication designed for allied (? British) Troops in Egypt in the North Africa Campaign, World War II.25p in illustrated coloured card cover. Short articles, war time gossip and jokes, primitive cartoons, p...

Reserves Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage

1994

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

SNH Scottish Natural Heritage, 1994. Soft Cover. Scottish Natural Heritage Handbook - Green ringbound working volume consisting of c.200 individual yellow cards - each one on a specific SNH nature reserve in Scotland with a map and site details. With a key map of the country, ...

A Century of Scottish Mountaineering. An Anthology from the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal

Brooker, Bill (Editor) · 1993

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Scottish Mountaineering Club, 1993. Hardcover. Blue endpapers reproducing correspondence at time of the S.M.C.'s inaugeration. xii, 372pps., with numerous plates and illustrations. No dustjacket, as issued. Since 1890 the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal has continuously r...

History of Anthropology

Haddon, A.G. With the Help of A Hingston Quiggin · 1911

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Watts & Co, 1911. Hardcover. Nice copy of this monologue in Watts History of Science Series.Issued for The Rationalist Press Association Ltd. All volumes published in dark blue buckram with blind titling to front board and gilt titling to spine. Illustrated and with index. ix+...

History of Modern Philosophy

Benn, A.W. · 1912

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Watts & Co, 1912. Hardcover. Nice copy of this monologue in Watts History of Science Series.Issued for The Rationalist Press Association Ltd. All volumns published in dark blue buckram with blind titling to front board and gilt titling to spine. Illustrated and with index. vi+...

History of Geography

Keltie, J. Scott; Howarth, O. J. R. · 1913

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Watts & Co, 1913. Hardcover. Nice copy of this monologue in Watts History of Science Series.Issued for The Rationalist Press Association Ltd. All volumes published in dark blue buckram with blind titling to front board and gilt titling to spine. Illustrated and with index. xi+...