Creaking Shelves Books

A Minister's Week in Argyll.

Donaldson, Rev. John · 1879

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

John Anderson, 1879. Hardcover. The book is bound with the author's The Standard of Zion: A Scotch Sermon for the Times 32p and 16p A Minister's Week in Argyll vists Staffa, Fingal's Cave, Oban, Iona, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Glencoe, Corpach, Banavie, Ballachulish, Loch Eil an...

By Loch and River

Sinton, Thomas · 1910

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Northern Counties Newspaper & Printing Co., 1910. Hardcover. 306p teg. Classic local history of the sparsely populated areas of Upper Laggan, Corrie Arder, Upper Spey and Ben Alder in the Central Highlands of Scotland. The book is tight and clean without nmarks or signatures;a...

Three Clanranalds: Highland Tales of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Morar · 1900

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

T.Fisher Unwin, 1900. Hardcover. vi +110p. Blue cloth loth lettered in gilt. Endpapers browned. No ownership inscription. Highland tales, told in verse, of Allan Clanranald, Donald Clanranald and Allan Dearg, the last of the old Clanranalds. The book is clean and tight but the...

Dellburn House, the Doughty Deeds of Dominie Mclear and Other Scottish Characters

Whamond, Alexander · 1894

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Menzies & Co, 1894. Hardcover. This novel weaves a story around the sacking of Dalzell House near Motherwell by the Jacobite Army on retreat from Derby in 1745.The ancestral home (and castle) of the Hamiltons of Dalzell is houses a 15th century keep now enclosed by an 18th and...

Isle of Rhum National Nature Reserve: Kinloch Glen & South Side Nature Trails

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£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Nature Conservancy Council, . Soft Cover. 26p illustrated. Crudely produced booklet with map and illustrations. Though undated it dates from the days when overnight stays on the island required permission from the Nature Conservancy. Describes walks around Loch Screesort and K...

Witch-Hunting in England

Pickering, Andrew; Pickering, David · 2010

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Amberley Publishing, 2010. Soft Cover. 224p illustrated with some memorable reproductions and prints. Clean, tight and unmarked in original card covers. See scans. (ISBN: 1848686250).. Near Fine

Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast

Doyle, Mark · 2009

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Manchester University Press, 2009. Hardcover. xii(2) 296p map. Book in fine unmarked condition. See scans. (ISBN: 0719079527).. Fine

Old Ardnamurchan, Moidart, Sunart, Morvern and Ardgour

Hutton, Guthrie · 2012

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Stenlake Publishing, 2012. Soft Cover. 50p of superb photographs with text. Clean, unmarked and appears as new. See scans (ISBN: 1840336005).. Fine

St. Kilda: Church, Visitors and Natives

Robson, Michael J.H. · 2005

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Islands Book Trust, 2005. Hardcover. 2What were the key factors leading to population decline and eventual evacuationof St Kilda? How were the attitudes and beliefs of the St Kildans shaped and changed?In this remarkable and dispassionate study, based on hitherto usnused r...

The History of the Highland Clearances

Mackenzie, Alexander · 1946

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

A & W MacLaren & Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Stated second edition of this classic in green embossed green boards with gillt spine. No marks or signatures. d/w shows a little edge wear but still a VG attractive collectors copy. Endpapers tanned but no foxing.See scans. . Near Fine

Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History

Alistair Moffat · 2005

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Thames & Hudson, 2005. Hardcover. 352p illustrated. The author begins his history of Scotland 10,000 years ago - with the ice melt. In fine unmarked condition as is the unclipped d/w. See scans (ISBN: 050005133X).. Fine

Highland Games: The Making of the Myth (Edinburgh Education & Society Series)

Jarvie, Grant · 1991

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Soft Cover. This is the first attempt to put the colourful Scottish Highland Games into a sociological, historical and cultural context. Often dismissed as just an eccentric summer spectacle the Games are shown to have played an important role...

The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche)

Mackenzie, Alexander · 1935

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Sutherland Press, 1935. Hardcover. This edition with a Forewprd by the Duches of Sutherland. 111p Dealing with Second-Sight in the Highlands of Scotland Book complete without marks or signatures. D/w unclipped and v/g but with slight edge wear. . Very Good

Let's See Ardgour and Ardnamurchan

Thompson,W.S. & Andrew Paton · 1955

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Pubd.W.S.Thomson, 0. Soft Cover. Small view album with monochrome photos of the the Ardnamurchan Peninsula starting at Corran Ferry and Ardgour. Includes a photo of the entrance to the sand mine t Lochaline, Achateny from Kilmory, Kilchoan, Ben Hiant, the Scottish six day tria...

The Maiden's Stone of Tullibody and Other Poems

Beveridge, Andrew · 1871

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Andrew Beveridge, 1871. Hardcover. Original first edition in original plum boards with gilt titling. 108p. The book is complete in oroginal condition. Boards darjkened with wearto cirners;Bookplat probably removed from front pastedown. With Beveridge's Compliments by author on...

Jemima - the Paintings of and Memories of a Victorian Lady

Fairley, Robert · 1998

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Canongate, 1998. Hardcover. 215p Finely produced illustrated first biography of this prolific Victorian Painter. Much on Roshven West Highlamnds where the Blackburns spent their summers. Also Stt.Mary's Isle Kirkcudbright and London. Many bird portraits.Fine coloured reproduct...

Stories of Second Sight in a Highland Regiment

Kirk, William · 1933

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Eneas MacKay, 1933. Hardcover. 123p + book catalogue. Much food for the imagination. Boards clean and book clean and tight but prelims and edges foxed. Good reading copy. See scans. . Near Very Good

The Letter-Book of Bailie John Steuart of Inverness 1715-1752 : Scottish History Society Second Series IX (9)

MacKay, William (Editor) · 1915

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

T.and A.Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1915. Hardcover. lx 505p plate folding map of Inverness.Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gold on spine and with gold vignette on front cover. The book is clean tight and unmarked; endpapers toned. Spine sunned extending...

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations. Original Complete 4 Volume Set of the First Edition to Include the 2 Volume Supplement

Jamieson, John, D.D. · 1808

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

The Unversity Press, 1808. Hardcover. Full Title: An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish language: illustrating the words in their different significations by examples from ancient and modern writers; shewing their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the n...

Ready Steady Go

Kellas, Arthur · 1999

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Inverockle, 1999. Hardcover. 202p. The author wrote a book about his wartime experiences in 1990 but this book offers some autobiographical sketches of undergraduate life and politics in Scotland and Oxford, cadet training, an apprenticeship, cross country running, boxing and ...