Creaking Shelves Books

The Scottish Tourist's Portable Guide to the Great Highland Tour with Excursions to Various Interesting Localities, Illustrated with Numerous Views and Travelling Road Map

Rhind, William (Editor) · 1845

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

W.H.Lizars, 1845. Hardcover. 83p a.e.g.in blind embossed gilt blue boards Complete with 4 plates as called for. Map, table of distances. The tour passes leaves Edinburgh for Dunkeld Loch Rannoch Glentilt Kingussie Aviemore Inverness Beauly Dingwall Caledonian Canal Loch Ness F...

Blackwoods' Edinburgh Magazine Vol CXIX January - June 1876

1876

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Wlliam Blackwood & Co, 1876. Hardcover. 788p inc index. Articles on the Aldershot Army corps, Bate's Tour of Edinburgh to Oban - Banavie Inverness, Quantity of beer consumed by German students, the pursuit of Bric-a -brac, Crimean war, Mountaineering in the Himalayas, Alphonse...

The Topographical, Statistical and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland - 4 Parts of 8: Part III, V, VI & VII. Original 1848

1848

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

A Fullarton & Co, 1848. Hardcover. All volumes have a few engravings - some full page; endpapers book advets; Dull green blind embossed boards and titling on the spine. Pagination complex; Vol III Edi-Gut p.481-720 map of Edinburgh. Part V Kin-Mon p.145-384; VolVI Mon-Rub p.38...

Caithness -Incorporating Wick and Thurso

Bremner, William · 1930

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Published for Caithness County Council, . Soft Cover. Undated c.1930's.88p including many local adverts. Illustrated with a folding map which has been badly opened and repaired wirth archival tape. Covers dusty with a number written top right on illustrated front card cover. S...

Romantic Badenoch. A Guide Book Compiled for the Benefit of Visitors to the District. With Map and Illustrations

1938

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Jas.Johnstone, 1938. Soft Cover. 83p + adverts and a folding map attached to the rear card cover. Though the staples are rusting the binding is tight with a little reading wear and a creased corner of the first few pages with a repaired blind 7mm tear at the lower egde lf the ...

The Badger - a Monograph

Pease, Alfred E · 1898

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

Lawrence and Bullen (ORIGINAL EDITION), 1898. Hardcover. Claims o be the first monograph on Badgers. Of its day - some natural history but much on badger digging using terries with pictures of the necessary tools. The author descrbes the loss of Badgers nation wide, especially...

A Checklist of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Main Argyll

Rothero, Gordon; Thompson, Bernard · 1994

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Argyll Flora Project, 1994. Soft Cover. 132p. A comprehensive list, records of locations, a bibliography and index. Clean and unmarked. See scans. (ISBN: 0952285207).. Near Fine

The Ring-Net Fishermen

Martin, Angus · 1980

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1980. Hardcover. 263p illustrated; map. The first and hardback edition. In near fine unmarked condition as is the unpriceclipped d/w. However a small blemish of bleeding from the coloured endpaper onto the corner of the half title. Otherwise near f...

Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770 to 1914

1984

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1984. Hardcover. 262p, tables & maps.1st Edition in hardback. Book clean, tight and unmarked and in near fine condition. D/w unpriceclipped and similar. See scans. (ISBN: 0859761053).. Very Good

Jemima Blackburn - Original Watercolour of Hunting Scene Dated 4th March 1867 and Signed Jb

Blackburn, Jemema · 0

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

, 0. . Original watercolour by the Victorian Artist Jemima Blackburn of Roshven in the West Highlands, known especially for her bird paintings. This hunting scene includes Jemima riding sidesaddle the last of five mounted horses in a wood.Size frame 21x17 (watercolour c.14x10)...

Eye to the Hills: A Scotsman's Memories of an Outdoor Life

Steven, Campbell · 2001

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd, 2001. Soft Cover. 176p well illustated autobiography of Campbell Steven. Commando and climber. Mountaineering, Commando training at Lochailort, Climbing at Lands End and Bosigran, attack on Walcheren Corrieyairack pass. The author wrote the Isl...

Culloden the Swords and the Sorrows: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the Battle of Culloden 1746

1996

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

National Trust for Scotland, 1996. Soft Cover. 96 pages. This book was published to accompany an exhibition in 1996. Weapons and equipment, and other contemporary artifacts were assembled from many sources, and are here displayed in quite stunning colour photos. Preface by Hug...

Twenty Years on Ben Nevis

Kilgour, William T · 1906

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

Alexander Gardner, 1906. Hardcover. Being a Brief Account of the Life, Work and Experiences of the Observers at the Highest Meteorological Station in the British Isles This is the original hardback second edition of 1906, with an additional chapter on meteorology. 171p many ph...

Kings Court Chandlersford, Hants - Auction Sale Catalogue 1904 with Large Scale Coloured Folding Map, Coloured Folding Plan and Several Photos - External and Internal. - Original Tape Bound Prospectus. So53 2gg

1904

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

John D.Wood & Co (Auctioneers), 1904. Hardcover. Original Auction Prospects. Full Title: Chandlersford, Hants on the high ground, close to the station.Views, Plans, Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the first rate modern Freehold and Excellent Residence known as Kings Cour...

The Cranachans - a Family History of Brae Lochaber - Glen Roy

MacDonald, Angus · 2021

£9.99 (€11.97 | $13.20 | ¥2,108)

Privately Published, 2021. Soft Cover. 48p illustrated, family tree, recently published booklet in a limited edition of 350. Follows the story of the Cranachans, named after their tenanted farm in Brae Roy, Lochaber. They were of the MacDonald of Keppoch clan. One member, Mary...

Miller's Royal Tourist Handbook to the Highland and Islands

1882

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

James W.Miller, 1882. Hardcover. This Guide was published in paperback in individual parts, whilst they are all in this volume. 33 Routes are indexed extending from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Inverness and the Outer Isles. The bulk of the book covers the immediate area within a ...

Nash, Buckinghamshire - Bucks - Auction Sale Prospectus 1877 - Properties in Nash Village Mk17 0ep Mk17 0nh Now Near Milton Keynes

1934

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Geo. Wigley, 1934. Soft Cover. Auction prospectus - Full title: Nash, Bucks, between Winslow and Stony Stratford. A valuable little Estate comprising 40 acres of good land principally grass.with farm house and buildings in the middle of the village. to be sold by auction by Ge...

Banningham, Aylsham and Tuttington, Norfolk. A Valuable Estate - Auction Catalogue with Coloured Map 1863

1863

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Luscas & StewardGreat Yarmouth, 1863. . Estate Auction Catalogue - Full title: Banningham, Aylsham and Tuttington, in the County of Norfolk. Particulars and Conditions of Sale of a Valuable Estate . which wil be sold by Auction at the Norfolfk Hotel, Norwich on Saturday, 27th ...

The Vascular Plants of Northern Ardnamurchan

Dobson> Ruth H. · 1983

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Reprinted from the Glasgow Naturalist Vol.20, 1983. Soft Cover. p.313-331. Maps. IOn CG condoition - light handling wear and a old price label on front card cover. See cans. . Very Good

'Tween Gloamin' and the Mirk Tales and Sketches of Scottish Life

Gilzean-Reid, Sir Hugh · 1894

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Alexander Gardner, 1894. Hardcover. 273p; Scottish fireside tales. Ex Mechanics Institution Library, Greenock. with labels and a stamp. Well read though binding tight. despite exposure of gutter beside the title pge. ? Missing leaf or frontis. Boards show some deterioration of...