Creaking Shelves Books

Ardnamurchan: Annals of the Parish

1990

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Parish of Ardnamurchan., 1990. Soft Cover. 64p illustrated booklet offering a detailed background on people, places and facts from crofting to Mingary Pier, and Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair to the Free Church in the peninsula. VG+ condition . See scans. (ISBN: 0951589504).....

Notes on Dunoon and Neighbourhood: A Paper Read to Glasgow Cowal Society on 30th Oct. , 1885

Dunlop, Thomas · 0

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

Glasgow Cowal Society, . Hardcover. 32p inc. appendix. Printed by Robert MacKenzie, Rutherglen. Glasgow Cowal Society Mr. Thomas Dunlop then read his paper Notes on Dunoon and Neighbourhood, tracing the history of the disctrict from the earliest records downwards. The paper ...

The Bauxite Bulletin - Weipa's Community Paper

Foulkes, Mike (Editor) · 1983

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

, 0. . The weekly newspaper of the remote Bauxite mining community, Weipa in Northern Queensland. 5 issues No 737 October 1983; 4 issues from Oct-Dec. 1983. Nos. 854,85,857,860 & 862. Each 16p with photos, news cartoons and adverts. Good condition. See scans. Size: 4to - over ...

Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases and on Aneurisms

Abernethy, John · 1848

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Green, . Disbound from a larger Book. Eighth edition. 8vo. Pp xii, 346. Many case histories and anecdotal recital. Original publisher's paper covered boards. Text blosk clean ad tight but a 2 x 10cm cut out at top of fep has been neatly repaired....

Aberfoyle, Perthshire - G.W. W. (George Washington Wilson) - Original Sepia Photgraph C. 1900

0

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

, 0. . Sepia photo measuring 8 x 5 (13x20cms) depicting Aberfoyle Perthshire. G.W.W. 4449. Clean but a little faded toward the top. Mounted on toned card. See scans. . Good

Scarborough - 3 Sepia Photos from Above the Spa Buiding - One with a Fanciful Interpretation of the Wreck at the Spa

1880

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

, 0. . 3 sepia photos - each 8 1/2 x 5 depicting the Bay at Scarborough from above the Spa. One has the bay - calm and quiet; the second much busier with crowds gathered, bathing huts and the third has been fancifully altered to show a foundering ship, lifeboat and crowds watc...

Victorian Hospital - Asylum, Childrens Ward or Orphanage? -- 2 Original Sepia Photographs. ? Glasgow

0

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

, 0. . 2 undated original sepia photos - each 6 x 8 (15 x 20cms). Both appear to be from the same institution with similar patterned roll carpet: 1) Adult ward with nurse, patients and two bird cages on a table between the beds. 2) Children's ward - 6 children anxiously tucked...

Dispensing Chemist Shop - J.R. Peacock 83 Stirling Road, Glasgow - Posed Shop Window Photograph C. 1900

1901

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

, 0. . Original monochrome posed phorto of two shop owners in long aprons outside the Dispensing Chemist - J.R.Peacock. Reserach localises the premise to 83 Stirling Road, Glasgow. These premises were used by Chemists and Druggists under different names for over 40 yeras - whi...

Price of Adventure

MacInnes, Hamish · 1987

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. 192p illustrated - Mountain Rescue Stories fro FourContinents. Clean unmarked and tight in unpriceclipped d/w with some fding of the spine. Near finer but for significant toning of page edges. Se scans. (ISBN: 0340263237).. Near Very Good

Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau Alp

Cheever, George B. · 1850

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

William Collins, . Hardcover. Undated but c.1850. Common title page preceeds two books each with separate title page but continuously paginated. 367p many full page engravings with tissue guards facing. Decorative vignette about each page of text. Original yellow endpapers. Gi...

Notes on the Early History of Scotland in Three Books: I. An Examination of the Ancient History of Ireland and Iceland in So Far As It Concerns the Origin of the Scots. II Interpolations in Bede. III Ireland Not Hibernia.

(James Watson) · 1883

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

Pubd. By Author? James Watson, 1883. Hardcover. Notes on the Early History of Scotland in Three Books: I.An Examination of the Ancient History of Ireland and Iceland in so far as it Concerns the Origin of the Scots.(88p) II. Interpolations in Bede's Ecclesiastical history and ...

Dixon's Gazette Spring 2016 Catalogue of Medals Numbering1464 Items Over148+ Pages

2016

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

C.J. & A.J. Dixon Ltd, 2016. Soft Cover. Dixon's Gazette No.85. Significant reference work - though also a dealer's catalogue. Includes Militay Crosses Waterloo campaign medals and etc. Clean and unmarked. Postage in the UK will be £2 - I will redice it. See scans . Near Fine

Domestic Architecture and Old Furniture

Adams-Acton, Murray · 1928

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Geoffrey Bles, 1928. Hardcover. . xv + 123pp. B/w photo pls in text and at back. This book is near fine without marks or siagntures apart from slightly uneven fading of the edge of the boards and spine and a touch of light foxing on the prelims. See scans. . Very Good +

Mrs. Greet's Story of the Golden Owl.

Greet, Mrs [Dora Victoire Greet] · 1892

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)

Leadenhall Press, 1892. Hardcover. Descrbed by Wolff in his Nineteenth Century fiction as An extraordinary piece of bookmaking. Adventure, melodrama, Russia. .ix+271p; 24 inserted plates with illustrations by Ambrose Dudley, design of golden owl impressed in gold on recto of t...

The Stock of Salmon Its Migrations, Preservation and Improvement (the Buckland Lectures 1947)

Menzies, W.J.M. · 1949

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Edward Arnold & Co, 1949. Hardcover. 96p including bibliography; 4 folding maps. The definitinve work of the time. Book is clean, tight, unmareked and near fine as is the unclipped d/w. Appears little used. See scans. . Near Fine

European Influences on Celtic Art: Patrons and Artists

Laing, Lloyd · 2010

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Four Courts Press Ltd, 2010. Hardcover. Printed in Cornwall, UK. 247p; illustrated. Detailed volume on the European influence on Celtic art.. current studies reveal hidden meanings, symbols, and codes that early medieval artists incorporated into individual art work such as ma...

Cheltenham in Antarctica: The Life of Edward Wilson

Wilson, David M.; Elder, David B. · 2000

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

Reardon Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. 144p well illustrated with many of Wilson's drawings and paintings - some in colour. Wilson was a son of Cheltenham. In VG condition though light reading wear and one corner lightly turned. Otherwise clean and unmarked. See scans. (ISBN: 18...

The New Forest

Tubbs, Colin R. · 1986

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Collins New Naturalist Series, 1986. Hardcover. 300p illustrated. This is fine unmarked and unread copy of the 1st Collins edition in hardback in the New Naturalist Series. Book near mint as is the unpriceclipped d/w which however has light fading of the spine (of the d/w) wit...

The West Highland Railway: Plans, Politics and People

McGregor, John · 2005

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

John Donald, 2005. Soft Cover. 274p illustrated comprehensive history of the West Highland Railway by its modern historian. Very good clean and unmarked condition apart from a small 10x3mm stain on the free edge. Very light reading wear only. See scans. (ISBN: 0859766241).. Ve...

Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London Containing the Description of a Capital Town in That Northern Country . In Two Volumes. Volume I of 2 Only

Burt, Edward; Jamieson, R [intro · 1822

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,858)

Ogle, Duncan, and Co., 1822. Hardcover. Burts letters relate to the period 1725-1726 when he was an engineer officer with General Wade. First published in 1754. xiv + 348p frontis plate. Vol.I of II only. In original? brown cloth boards but spine crudely repaired with tape. Bi...