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Mrs. Beeton's Household Management : A Complete Cookery Book with Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties. Carving and Trussing. Table Decoration. With 32 Plates in Colour and Nearly 700 Illustrations.

Beeton, Isabella (Edited by · 1910

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Ward Lock & Co., . Hardcover. Undated c. 1910. xvi+1680p. with 32 full colour plates including the Modern bedroom, fish ,game and monochrome plates of kitchen apparatus , mechanical crockery washers, electric radiators, ranges and stoves and etc and etc. The book is clean and ...

Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery and Housekeeping Book : A Useful Guide in Households, Both Large and Small

1901

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Ward Lock & Co., 1901. Hardcover. cxlviii, 640pp with large full colour fold-out frontispiece, handful of colour plates and many black and white illustrations. Quarter bound faded blue leather over brown cloth boards. Backstrip partially detached at the top and a strip wanting...

The Gateway to a Continent the Grand Central Zone

Architects of the Grand Central Zone New York · 1939

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Architects of the Grand Central Zone New York, 1939. Hardcover. 40p hardcover first edition in near fine condition with its original box in very good condition. 1939. A beautifully illustrated book extolling the virtues of the Grand Central Zone of New York. Includes a history...

A History of Borve Lodge ( Isle of Harris, Highlands of Scotland)

Scherr, Tony · 2017

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Pubd By Author, 2017. Soft Cover. 228p. Illustrated. History of this Hebridean fishing lodge in Harris. with reference to early island proprietors, Lord Leverhume, Harris Whaling Company, Walker family and etc. Much on fishing on the Estate with details of catches etc. Clean, ...

Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands - Recounting Highland & Clan History, Traditions, Ecclesiology, Archaeology, Romance, Literature, Humour, Folk-Lore, Etc.

Donaldson, M.E.M. · 1926

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,814)

Alexander Gardner, 1926. Hardcover. Recounting Highland & Clan History, Traditions Ecclesiology, Archaeology, Romance Literature, Humour, Folk-lore, & etc 511p. many plates and folding map at rear. MEM (Herself) was a woman before her time. Fiercely independent she travelled a...

Summer in the Hebrides - Sketches in Colonsay and Oronsay (1887)

Murray, Frances · 1887

£82.00 (€98.29 | $108.33 | ¥17,299)

James Maclehose & Sons for Private Circulation, 1887. Hardcover. First edition of 1887 printed for Private Circulation. Navy blue boards with the Oronsay Cross in gilt on front board. Illus. with one map of Colonsay and Oronsay, line drawings by Miss A.L. MacDonald and two sma...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. With a Memoir of the Author

Scott, Sir Walter · 1858

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Adam & Charles Black, 1858. Hardcover. Attractive binding in red half leather with raised bans on spine and marbled edges Owners name - David Clark dated 1858 on fep but no other marks or signatures. Illustrated with engravings 747p Binding secure but some wear to edges and co...

The Joys of Christmas: A Celebration in Three Dimensions, with Special Holiday Centerpiece

West, Cindy; Penick, Ib · 1985

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Atheneum, 1985. Hardcover. An attractive Christmas scene pop up book with 5 kinetic pages. A slot on the rear cover should contain a Christmas Scene for assembly - but this is missing and there is tear to the edge of the pocket. The pop ups however are in VG+ condition. See sc...

Shavings from a Shipyard

Ashcroft, Herbert James · 1908

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

John Ouseley, 1908. Hardcover. 264p + john Ousley's list of new books Spring 1908. Several plates. The book is clean but with significant toning about the end papers with an owners signature on the half title. The front hinge strained and the fep only just attached. But excell...

Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire

Learmonth, W · 1920

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Cambridge at the University Press, 1920. Hardcover. One of the County Series by Cambridge University Pres.150p with coloured end paper maps, photos and diagrams. A geographical tour de force! Internally cleaned but toned; the boards however are discoloured and the spine darken...

Hill-a-Hoy-O

Counntry Cousin · 1892

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Alexander Gardiner, 1892. Hardcover. 129p of Poetry no mention of the author. Appears rare - there are references in Alexander Gardner's lists of publications but no other references or copies available on line. The book is clean though a little toned with some top edges badly...

War History of the 5th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers with Associated Ephemera

Elliot, G.F. Scott · 1928

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Robert Dinwiddie, 1928. Hardcover. The Battalion saw service at Gallipoli, Palestine and the Western Front. Appendices include awards and decorations and soldiers who died in the war. Very detailed with many photographs , maps and plans which are all pesent. Thereare additiona...

The First Captain - the Story of John Paul Jones

Johnson, Gerald W · 1947

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Coward-McCann, 1947. Hardcover. The Story of John Paul Jones, the founder of the American Navy. The book is clean and tight without marks or signatures but the end papers are significantly toned.See scans . Very Good

Peter and the Armada

Buchanan, Dorothy A · 1988

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Hargreen Publishing Co, 1988. Soft Cover. Historically true account of events that took place during the reign of Elizabeth I, when Phillip II of Spain was determined to invade England.55p. Beautiful colour illustrations from watercolours. Clean and little used but a number wr...

Borgue - the Land and the People

Gray, Adam · 2001

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, 2001. Hardcover. 463p ill. 1st and only edition. Hardback. Gift inscription dated 21-9-01 on title page. Clean, tight and otherwise unmarked in original laminated boards illustrated with a local map. Unfaded. Relatively rare. See scans. (ISBN: 1872350...

Photographic View Album of Gatehouse of Fleet & District

1900

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Mrs K.Stark Watchmaker, Optician and Ironmonger, 1900. Soft Cover. Though apparently published locllay it was produced by Valentine & Co. Several views of High Street Gatehouse with horse and cart, Cally House, Girthon Cemetry, Cardoness House, Ardwall House, the Harbour etc. ...

Kirkcudbright: A Royal Burgh : A Book of Drawings with Letterpress

King, Jessie M · 2000

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Dumfries and Galloway Museums Service, Dept. for Community Resources, Dumfries and Galloway Council, 2000. Soft Cover. A Book of Drawings with Letterpress by Jessie M.King. This is the reprint of 2000 by Dumfries & Galloway Library Service. The cover has an attractive coloured...

Jessie M. King. 1875 - 1949. (Exhibition Catalogue and Bibliography - Fine Art Society, London December 13 1971-January 14 1972)

Oliver, Cordelia. (Selects and catalogues) · 1971

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Scottish Arts Council, 1971. Soft Cover. 59p some illustrations. Errata slip. The catalogue of a travelling exhibition of Jessie M.King's works and memorabilia, much lent by her daughter Meryle E.Taylor. With a brief bibliography and a list of her printed works and covers. Boo...

Lloyd's Register of Yachts 1932, Containing Particulars of Yachts and Motor Boats; an Alphabetical List of Owners, with Their Addresses; Distinguishing Flags of Yachts; Also the Flags of the Principal Yacht and Sailing Clubs, with the Names of the Officers, &C. , for the Year 19323. No. 1080

1932

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

Lloyd's Registe of Shipping, 1932. Hardcover. 856p + 13p Announcements In original green buckram gilt boards with aeg. Extensive coloured section on distinguishing flags. The endpapers and binding are sound with an owners name on the half title but otherwise no significant mar...

A Dictionary of the Scottish Language : In Which the Words Are Explained in Their Different Senses, Authorized by the Names of the Writers by Whom They Are Used, or the Titles of the Works in Which They Occur, and Derived from Their Originals (1846)

Jamieson, John, D.D. · 1846

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

William Tait, 1846. Hardcover. [The first posthumous abridgment, and the second abridged Jamieson. It is the first edition of Jamiesons work to integrate the Dictionary and Supplement material. Finely rebound - not recently in full calf with raised bands and spine label. No ma...