Creaking Shelves Books

The Beatons: A Medical Kindred in the Classical Gaelic Tradition

Bannerman, John · 1998

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

John Donald Publishers Ltd, 1998. Soft Cover. 161p - the first paperback edition of the Beaton family, traditional doctors to the Lord of the Iskes. Unmarked and little used - would be fine apart from sunning of the spine and adjacent card cover. See scans. (ISBN: 0859764893)....

Moidart

Robertson, Tim ( Editor) · 2004

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Moidart Local History Group, 2004. Soft Cover. 32p illusrated. A detailed survey of Moidart, between Lochailort to the north, Glenfinnan to the East, Shiel Bridge near Acharacle to the south and Eilean Shona on the West. Map and details of many facets of the area from lazybeds...

A Scottish Shtetl - Jewish Life in the Gorbols 1880-1974

Hutt, Charlotte & Kaplan, Harvey · 0

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Published By Author?, 0. Soft Cover. 21p illustrated. In unmarked but read condition. See scans. . Very Good

France

Home, Gordon · 1918

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

A & C Black, 1918. Hardcover. Revised edition of 1918 (1st was 1914) with double the number of illustrations. ix + 219pp. 64 full page cold. ills. with tissue guards, map to rear, internally clean with no foxing; unmarked, rear hinge superficially cracked. Spine ad edges of fr...

Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia

Haines, Robin F. · 2006

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

National Maritime Museum, 2006. Soft Cover. 365p ill. Landmark volume about the experience of migration from the UK. to Australia during the nineteenth century, gleaned from diaries of those on board telling of hopes for the future and grief over children buried at sea. In cle...

Hugh Macdonald: Highlander, Jacobite, Bishop

Watts, John · 2002

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

John Donald, 2002. Soft Cover. 246p illustrated. paperback (not issued in hardback). In VG unmarked and probably unread condition. See scans. (ISBN: 0859765601).. Good +

Families of the Mount - the Pioneers of Mortlake and District, 1839 -1880

Proctor, Craige & Charles, Florence · 2010

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Mortlake & District Historical Society Inc., 2010. Soft Cover. 291p. Illustrated. The lives of the district's earliest pioneers and profiles 120 families and individuals who settled in the district between 1839 and 1880. No marks or sigantures biyt the ook has been well used. ...

The Country of Clanranald

Donaldson, MEM · 1931

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

Morton & Co., 1931. Soft Cover. In 1931 M.E.M. Donaldson states that she agreed to constant repeated requests for pocket books.instead of your knapsack books dealing with wider areas. I have agreed, with the publishers' consent, to the separate issue of a few chapters out of ...

Cogadh Mor, 1914-18

Acair; Community Education Project Western Isles · 1982

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Acair, 1982. Soft Cover. Not paginated but 60p. Text in Gaelic. Stories and photos of Scottish soldiers in the Great War - includes section on the Iolaire. The book is i fine unmarked and little used condition. See scans (ISBN: 0861520165).. Fine

Wiltshire Local History - a History of Limpley Stoke, from Roman Times to the Present Day - a Local History Project on Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire

Hooker, Richard · 1977

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Pubd. By Author, 1977. Hardcover. 44p privately produced local history of this small Wiltshire village in the Avon valley, between Bath and Freshford. It is both above and below the A36 road. . With an index to source numbers and three pages of photographs. Signed by the autho...

The Travellers Guide Through Scotland and Its Islands. Volume 2 of 2

1818

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

John Thomson and Company, 1818. Soft Cover. Vol 2 of 2 only - though Vol.1 also listed but in different binding. 295p; counties described mostly with an accompanying map - Argyllshire Stirlingshire, Fifeshire, Inverness-shire and etc. in orginal paper covered boards which are ...

The Travellers Guide Through Scotland and Its Islands. Volume 1 of 2

1818

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

John Thomson and Company, 1818. Hardcover. Vol1. of 2 only - though Vol.2 also listed but in different binding. 300p; following a general description of Scotland Edinburgh follows with a folding map; Mid-lothian, description of main roads leading from Edinburgh with road maps,...

The History of over 850 Years of Mining at Nostell

Fraser, Bryan · 1997

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Published By Author, 1997. Hardcover. 62p well illustrated. the book is clean, tight and unmarked; the d/w also clean but rubbed about the spine. See scans. . Near Fine

Rocks and Rivers or Highland Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell

Colquhoun, John · 1849

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

John Murray, 1849. Hardcover. viii 185p.The following irregular sketches of wild expeditions, now loosely thrown together, were begun in the year 1841.. In original faded embossed green cloth. tear at top of spine, fep missing and rear fep loose. Much reading wear and front gu...

Bradshaw's (Illustrated) Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland in Four Sections, Each Section Forming a Complete and Distinct Handbook, with Maps, Town Plans, and Steel Engraved Illustrations. Section No. III

1873

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

W.J. Adams, 1873. Soft Cover. Undated but 1873 from adverts.Section No. III contains tours in the English and Scottish Lake Districts, Ayr (the Land of Burns); also a comprehensive hand book to the following Railways:.Ayrshire, The Caledonian, The London and North Western , La...

The Galloway Herds : A Lampoon, Chiefly on the Clergy in the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright in the Years 1820 and 1821

Sturgeon, Samuel (Attd) · 1909

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Thomas Fraser, 1909. Hardcover. 87p. Folding broadsheet concerning Queen Caroline. This poem. The Galloway Herds is a lampoon on the clergy about Kirkcudbright, who were apparently forbidden to pray for the much berated wife of King George IV. The Rev William Gillespie of Cros...

Armstrong's Guns, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. (Sales Brochure C. 1896)

1895

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Armstrong & Co, 0. Soft Cover. 40p undated but adverts mention 1895 and the years preceeding. Pictures of guns, ammunition, traps, gun cases, Armstrong's inanimate bird trap, cartridge belts, revolvers and several patterns of Armstrong guns. The staples have been removed and t...

Watch and Warn

Coggon, Allan F. · 2004

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Trafford Publishing, 2004. Soft Cover. Substantial small book of 151p illustrated with photos, maps, letters and reproductions. Clean, tight and unmarked apart from a short signed dedication by author on fep. See scans (ISBN: 1412031923).. Near Fine

Kirkcudbright's People at War

McKenzie, Willie · 1995

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Dumfries & Galloway Libraries, 1995. Soft Cover. 54p illustrated. Brief biographies with pictures of about 38 men and women from Kirkcudbright in relation especially to their experiences in WWII. At the time of publication most were still alive. The book is clean, tight and un...

Memorable Edinburgh Houses

Harrison, Wilmot · 1898

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1898. Hardcover. 208p illustrated. This is the second and perhaps best edition revised and enlarged by Oliphant Smeaton. The book is clean, unmarked without signatures and has a very little light foxing of the prelims. A very collectable or pres...