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Report on Major W.J. May's Inventions Relating to Navigating and Bombing Apparatus for Use on Aircraft (Preliminary Report)

May, Major W.J. · 1945

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Haseltine, Lake & Co - Chartered Patent Agents, 1945. Soft Cover. 5p text giving history of Major W.J.May's Inventions relating to Navigating and Bombing Apparatus for use on Aircraft. He started work on it in 1917 and was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Continimg histo...

The Duenna; a Comic Opera, in Three Acts

Sheridan , R.B. · 1810

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, . Disbound from a larger Book. 74p. In original wrappers - probably disbound from a book of pamphlets. Full title - The Duenna; A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. as performed at the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Cove...

Speeches and Letters - Volume 1 & 2. , Volume 3 Is Titled - Letters & Verses

Bullough, Sir John · 1892

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Printed for Private Circulation, 1892. Hardcover. Set of 3 books; p.382,399 & 392p. John Bullough was one of the Great Lancashire textile manufacturers. His father perfected a several textile machines and joined John Howard in 1856 to create the 'Howard and Bullough' textile e...

Speech of J.C. Curwen, Esq. In the House of Commons, on the 21st of February 1817, on a Motion for a Committee to Take Into Consideration the Poor Laws.

Curwin, J.C. · 1817

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

(ORIGINAL PAPER - NOT A REPRINT), 1817. Soft Cover. Disbound from the Pamphletere No. XIX. Vil.X D. Title page and pages 51-70. Clean and without marks or signatures. . VG

Views of Stowe by Jean Claude Nattes in the Buckinghamshire County Museum

Gowing C N, Clarke G B · 1983

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Buckinghamshire County Museum and Stowe School, 1983. Soft Cover. 51 full page plates of Stowe with accompanying key. Illustrated soft covers. No marks or signatures. (ISBN: 0860592820).. Near VG

A List of the Published Writings of Percy Simpson

1950

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950. Soft Cover. 30p biography and bibliography of Percy Simpson. No marks or signatures. VG. . Very Good

Attleborough (Norfolk) - (Auction Prospectus) Particulars and Conditions of Sale of a Highly Desirable Estate Comprising Small Farms, Cottages, and Accommodation Lands. To Be Sold by Auction 1884

1848

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Salter & Simpson, 1848. Soft Cover. Attleborough, Norfolk Particulars and Conditions of Sale of a Highly Desirable Estate comprising Small Farms, Cottages, and Accommodation Lands. to be sold by auction at the Royal Hotel. 28th day of August 1884. 7pp., folding plan, coloured ...

Their Past Your Future - Personal Wartime Memories

1989

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Grantown Museum, 1989. Soft Cover. 87p ill. A collection of personal memories, published by Grantown Museum , is part of the 'Their Past Your Future' project organised by the Imperial War Museum to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The ...

Miscellanea Invernessiana, with a Bibliography of Inverness Newspapers and Periodicals. Edited, with Introduction, Preface, and Index, by John Whyte, with Appendix by William Mackay, Bookseller.

Noble, John · 1902

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

Eneas MacKay, 1902. Hardcover. Large Paper Copy of this useful source of Inverness history.8vo. pp. xii, 236, [2]. 13 plates. tissue guards with legends. several text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Including chapters on the site of Macbeth's Castle, ...

Medical Archives of Glasgow and Paisley

Tough, Alistair G. · 1993

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1993. Soft Cover. 69pages illustrated. . Very Good

A Description of Ordnance Survey Medium Scale Maps

Ordnance Survey · 1955

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ordnance Survey, 1955. Soft Cover. iv +20p + 14 plates (some coloured) including folding map indexes etc.bound at end. Errata slip. Coloured boardered front board.Tight, clean, no marks. Code O.S.O.318/10,00 9-55. Very collectible. . Very Good

A Description of Ordnance Survey Medium Scale Maps

Ordnance Survey · 1949

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ordnance Survey, 1949. Soft Cover. v +21p + 14 plates (some coloured) including folding map indexes etc. Errata slip. Coloured boardered front board.Tight, clean, no marks. Code O.S.O.- R.7,500 1-49. Very collectible. . Very Good

The Heather in the South - a Scottish Australian Entertainment

Wannan, Bill · 1966

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Lansdowne Press Pty. Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. Variously sub-titled 'Lore Literature and Balladry of the Scots in Australia', and 'A Scottish-Australian Entertainment', this book surveys the Scottish influence on Australian life and culture; includes collections of poems and prose...

Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland - Explanation of Sheet 14. Ayrshire: Southern District

1869

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Murray & Gibb for HMSO, 1869. Soft Cover. An early Geological Memoir; 27p in original wrappers with a ?coloured map of Scotland indicating which areas have been surveyed and published. Boards slightly dusty and stamp of The Mining Institute for Scotland on front and rear wrapp...

Mull and Iona

MacPherson, John · 2006

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Birlinn, 2006. Soft Cover. np - c.100 coloured photographs with text by Lorn MacIntyre. People, places, weather and wonders in Mull & Iona. Fine condition - no marks or signatures. (ISBN: 1841584436).. Fine

The Scottish Peasant's Fire-Side: A Series of Tales and Sketches Illustrating the Character of the Peasantry of Scotland.

Bethune, Alexander · 1843

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Adam and Charles Black, 1843. Hardcover. 330p in original ornate full leather binding with raised bands and gilt decorations and title. Marbled endpapers and edges with a neat dated (1848) copperplate prize inscription on foretitle (no label). Chapters on The Drunkard, te ille...

Zoutpansberg Consolidated Mines Limited (South Afrrica) Large Scale Map & Balance Sheet Booklet 1903-4

1904

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Zoutpansberg Consolidated Mines, 1904. Soft Cover. 14p booklet for the Annual Shareholders meeting to be held 4th Feb 1904 at 20 Copthall Avenue London. There is a rather defensive report from the director followed by a detailed report from the General Superintendant (A.J.Bens...

Morning Musings: On Things New and Old in Scottish Life

Walker, Francis H. · 1929

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

The Standard Press, 1929. Soft Cover. Uncommon production of 42p with photographic frontispiece of the Convalescent home Ochiltree. Chapters on the convanescent home,the music festival, modern transport etc. In original brown card cover with light browning of e.p.'s but genera...

A Handbook of Medical Hypnosis: An Introduction for Practitioners and Students.

Ambrose, Gordon and George Newbold · 1956

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1956. Hardcover. 255p. Book fine without marks apart from some very minor offsetting from old sellotape on fep & rep. . Very Good

The Chambered Tombs of Scotland 2 Vols.

Henshall, Audrey Shaw · 1963

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Edinburgh Univ.Press, 1963. Hardcover. The definitive work on the Chambered Tombs of Scotland. 1st Volume pubd. 1963; second in 1972. 456p + 654p. Profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographic plates. 2 folding maps in slip case at end of vol.2. Both volumes appea...