Creaking Shelves Books

Forkhill Protestants Forkhill Catholics 1787-1859

Madden, Kyla · 2006

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Liverpool University Press, 2006. Hardcover. xiv +240p Maps, tables & photos. In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Protestant settlers to the mainly Catholic parish of Forkhill on the Ulster borderlands provoked clashes between natives and newcomers. None was more horr...

Kaitness Fowk - Dialect Poems and Stories

Horne, John · 1979

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

John Humfries, Caithness Books, 1979. Soft Cover. 52p with a glossary. Clean and unmarked. See scans . Very Good +

The Hospitals of Lochaber: Their Origin and History (History of Highland Hospitals)

Jim Leslie; Stephen J. Leslie · 2013

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Old Manse Books, 2013. Soft Cover. 5p meticulous coverage of the Hospitals of the West Highland District of Lochaber. Glencoe Hospital, Belford Hospital, Invergarry sanatorium and etc with contemporary photos. Clean and as new but for a slight mark on the front card cover. See...

The Narrow Gauge - 2007 -3 Quarterly Issues from

2007

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Narrow Gauge Railway Society, 2007. Soft Cover. Each 42-52 pages. Articles on Hong King, Forney, French Industrial Narrow Gauge, Camber Tram, Sudan, Sible Hedingham, Garrats at Usakos, Crown Metal Products, Guatemala, Bavarian City Mining Railway, Statfold Railway, Chester tra...

The Highlander Genealogy Challenge - Stories of the Past

2010

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

A'Chraobh - The Highland Family, 2010. Soft Cover. 19p with illustrations. Brief biographies from 35 Highland family research. Clean and unmarked but label on front cover. See scans. . Near Fine

The Irish Monthly - a Magazine of General Literature - Thirty-First Yearly Volume 1903

Russell, Rev.Mathew · 0

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

M.H. Gill & Sons, 0. Hardcover. vii+712p. The book is clean and tight in a green buckram binding with gilt titling on the spine. The fep is missing and a tear on the title page has been meticulously repaired with the titling replaced in longhand. See scans. . Near Very Good

The Itinerary of Scotland; Containing All the Direct and Cross Roads Necessary for the Information of the Traveller, and Notices of Every Object Which May Contribute to His Amusement, with an Appendix, Comprising the Tour to the Trossachs and Western Lake

1816

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

A. and J. Aikman, 1816. Hardcover. 108p. Contents lists Direct Roads from Ediburgh, Direct Roads from Glasgow, Cross Roads through the Counties, New Roads through the Highlands and the Trossachs appendix. The book has been reboud some while ago in soft calf with raised bands o...

Voyages Aux Montagnes D'Ecosse. Geneva. 1785. 2 Volumes Complete with Folding Map and 8 Plates

(Coxe, Williaml) · 1785

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

Paul Barde, 1785. Hardcover. Text in French: Le premier volume contient une description des Isles Scilly par Guillaume Borlasse illustrée dun beau panorama de la baie de Ste-Marie, puis de lIle dAnglesey, du Pays de Galles puis un voyage en Ecosse et aux Iles Hébrides par Thom...

Sunart Atlantic Oakwoods

2006

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pubd. Locally, . Soft Cover. nd c.2006 28p beautifully illustrated card covered booklet covering the Sunart woodlands and their wildlife. see scans. Clean and unmarked but some sunning alongside the spine. See scans, . Very Good

Memoir of George Heriot; with the History of the Hospital Founded by Himself in Edinburgh; and an Account of the Heriot Foundation Schools

Steven, William · 1845

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Bell & Bradfute, 1845. Hardcover. The Memoir and the Account of the Foundation number 282 pages. Then follows a separately paginated appendix of 256 pages. Engraved frontispiece showing the hospital, one other engraved plate showing the school, and a part coloured folding plan...

Wheels Around Caithness and Sutherland

Grieves, Robert · 2002

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Stenlake Publishing, 2002. Soft Cover. 48p of pictures of trains, cars buses - and whellbarrows! Clean and unmarked. See scans. (ISBN: 1840332018).. Near Fine

Scottish Witchcraft (Viewing Scotland Series)

Macleod, D.C. · 1975

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

James Pike Ltd, 1975. Soft Cover. 32p introduction to the history of Witchcraft, trials for withcraft and a geographical tour o Scottish witches. Clean and unmarked but the spine is sunned. See scans (ISBN: 0859321150).. Very Good

Victorian Policing

Gaynor Haliday · 2017

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Pen & Sword History, 2017. Soft Cover. 186p illustrated. The book is near fine and appears unread but has two sets of gift inscriptions inside the cover and on the title page. An excellent reading copy. See scans (ISBN: 1526706121).. Very Good

Excavations in Unst

Small, Alan · 1966

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pubd. Author, 1966. Soft Cover. 20p plans and photos. Clean and umarked. See scans. . Very Good

The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland

Davis, Graeme · 2007

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

John Donald, 2007. Soft Cover. 132p map illustrated. In as new condition. See scans. (ISBN: 085976687X).. Fine

Wartime in Glengarry

Sangster, Gillean · 2006

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Glengarry History Society, . Soft Cover. Undated - c.2006. 32p stapled boklet with local history about Glengarry in the Highlands of Scotland in the first and second world wars. With a list of those who served and those killed - 22 in WWI and 5 in WW2. Book clean and unmarked ...

Blackburn's Birds - the Bird Paintings of Jemima Blackburn

Fairley, Rob (Editor) Jemima Blackburn · 1993

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Canongate, 1993. Hardcover. 1st; 4to; 112p.Profusely illustrated with fine colour bird paintings. Fine in fine priceclipped d/w. See scans. . Fine

Chapels of the Rough Bounds

Roberts, Alasdair · 2015

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Mallaig Heritage Centre, 2015. Soft Cover. 159p illustrated. The Rough bounds was traditionally an outpost of Catholicism.Covers the Roman Catholic chapels in Morar, Knoydart, Arisaig and Moidart. Glenfinnan, Glenuig, Mingarry, Inverailort, Sandaig and Inverie. Clean and apper...

Recollections of an Argyllshire Drover and Other West Highland Chronicles

Cregeen, Eric R. · 2004

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

John Donald Publishers Ltd, 2004. Hardcover. 265p Illustrated. A series of articles by the late Eric Cregeen on droving, flailing in Argyll, Oral Tradition of Tiree, Oral Tradition of Mull, Tiree Bards and etc.With a bibliography opf Cregeen's works. The book is probably in fi...

Annals and Recollections of Sunart

Cameron, Alastair North Argyll · 1961

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Oban Times, 1961. Soft Cover. 72p from the pen of North Argyll Roadman and local historian of Ardnamurchan. The author describes historical anecdote, place names, populations along the road on the north side of Loch Sunart from Salen to Strontain, to include the Strontian lead...