Creaking Shelves Books

Pitlochry: Heritage of a Highland District

Liddell, Colin · 1993

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Perth & Kinross Libraries, 1993. Soft Cover. 159p profusely illustrated with endpaper maps. The results of much detailed study and well presented. This 2nd edition published 1 year after the 1st edition. Clean and unmarked with minimal edges wear. See scans. (ISBN: 0905452143)...

Fascinating Walking Sticks

Boothroyd, A.E.W. · 1973

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

White Lion Publishers Ltd, 1973. Hardcover. The White Lion edition - the updated second edition of this work, with a colour plate added, an additional preface by the author, and a few updates throughout. 205pp with a colour photo frontispiece plate, a cartoon by Cummings of th...

The Dog Book. A Manual on the Dog: His Origin, History, Varieties, Breeding, Education and General Management in Health and Disease

Mills, Wesley · 1898

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

T.Fisher Unwin, 1898. Hardcover. xvi+408p with forty-three full-page cuts, one coloured plate and numerous other illustrations. The book is clean and tight. Original grey blindstamped boards show a little wear at spine and corners only; internaly endpapers satisfyingly browned...

Festival of Britain. Catalogue of an Exhibition of 18th-Century Scottish Books at the Signet Library Edinburgh. (August 3 to September 15 1951)

1951

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Scottish Committee of the Fesival of Britain, 1951. Soft Cover. 187p+ notices listing and describing 779 books. Signed on title page by R.O. Dougan, the Exhibition Organiser and catalogue compiler. Some corner wear but still VG. See scans. . Very Good

The English Malady; or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, As Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, and Hysterical Distempers, &C. In Three Parts.

Cheyne, George M.D. · 1734

£485.00 (€581.34 | $640.76 | ¥102,288)

Printed for G. Strahan in Cornhill, and J. Leake at Bath, London, 1734. Hardcover. George Cheyne M.D. R.C. E.d. R.S.S. (1671-1743) was a pioneering physician, early proto-psychologist, philosopher and mathematician who pioneered vegetarianism and wrote of animal rights[6], xxx...

Know Your New Zealand Birds

Westerkov, K.E.: · 1967

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967. Hardcover. 144p;16 colour plates and 75 black and white photographs. 3 text figures. Primarily a field identification book but with a systemic list of all birds recorded in New Zealand , a map of 100 N.Z. localities with references. Slim pocket book is...

A Noble Smuggler and Other Stories

Miller, Hugh · 1997

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

M. Gostwick, 1997. Soft Cover. 101p+2p adverts. This book revives some of the early journalistic pieces of Hugh Miller, the Cromarty Stonemason turned author, churchman and editor of The Witness. A diverse collection from witchcraft, tragedy a sea, superstition and etc. These ...

Rambles in Sweden Being Notes of a Tour Made in the Summer of 1873. Original 1st Edition Printed for Private Circulation.

Richards, Matthew W. · 1875

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

Printed for Private Circulation, 1875. Hardcover. 127p with a number of plates and woodcuts.Plates include views of Gothenburg, Sundswall, Malar Lake, Dalecarlians, Upsala, canal, Trollhattan Falls, several of Stockholm, street scenes, buildings etc. Portrait frontis of author...

Greenock on the Clyde- Original Daniell Aquatint

Daniell, William · 1817

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

Longmans & Co, 1817. . Original hand coloured aquatint from Daniell's Voyage Around Great Britain of Grenocxk on the Clyde with some fine sailing and rowing boats in the foreground. 15 x 10 1/2 ( (38x27cms). Colour excellent with no fading or marks. Slight toning at the edges ...

Edinburgh, with Part of the North Bridge & Castle - Original Daniell Aquatint

Daniell, William · 1822

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Longmans & Co, 1822. . Original hand coloured aquatint from Daniell's Voyage Around Great Britain of Edinbugh with a view from the Castle including the north side of the castle and North Bridge.15 x 10 1/2 ( (38x27cms). Thick paper/card issue Colour excellent with no fading or...

Armidale, the Seat of Lord Macdonald, Isle of Skye - Original Daniell Aquatint

Daniell, William · 1818

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

Longmans & Co, 1818. . Original hand coloured aquatint from Daniell's Voyage Around Great Britain of Armadale (Titled Armidal) Castle, the seat of Clan Donald. on the Island of Skye. 15 x 10 1/2 ( (38x27cms). A fine print with rowing and sailing boats on the foreground. Colour...

Frivolling and Scurrifunging: A Lundy Gathering - Numbered Edition - No. 250 with Author's Signature.

Ternstrom, Myrtle · 2004

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Pubd. By Author, 2004. Soft Cover. 98p illustrated. Short sections on aspects of the history of Lundy Island. Light reading wear but otherwise unmarked apart from the authors signature See scans. (ISBN: 0952306247).. Very Good

Map of Ceylon - 4 Miles to the Inch 1927

1927

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

The Survey Office, 1927. . Coloured small scale map of Ceylon dated 1927 on a scale opf 4 Miles to the inch. The country covered in 4 maps - this in Map No.2 - the North East part. Mounted and disected on linen; covers from Pattus and Vandeloos Bay in the south to Mullattivu i...

Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, 1802-1816 Volume 2 of 2

Adam, Robert James · 1972

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Scottish History Society, 1972. Hardcover. 348p including index. Volume 2 of 2 only. Clean, tight and unmarked without d/w as issued. See scans. (ISBN: 0950026042).. Very Good +

Poor Law in Norfolk, 1700-1850 - a Collection of Sourve Material

Crouther Gordon, Rev.T · 1983

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

EARO, 1983. Soft Cover. 4160p of reproductions of letters, posters, documents and photos being a rich source of the story of the Poor Law in an English County. Book clean and unmarked. See scans. (ISBN: 0904463907).. Very Good

Modern Practical Farriery, a Complete System of the Veterinary Art As at Present Practised by the Royal Veterinary College London

1880

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

The Gresham Publishing Company, . Hardcover. Undated c.1880, Title page continues: Including Practical Treatises on Cattle, Their Management in Dairy and Stall, by John Walker. Pasture Grasses and Forage Plants, by Samuel R. Preston. The Practice of Sheep Farming, by Charles ...

A Pictorial Atlas of Skin Diseases and Syphilitic Affections: In Photo-Lithochromes from Models in the Museum of the Saint Louis Hospital, Paris. With Explanatory Woodcuts and Text.

Pringle, J.J. (Editor) · 1897

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

Rebman Pubiishing Company Ltd, 1897. Hardcover. 3020. Magnificent chromolithographs colured illustrations of florid skin diseases - many relating to Syphilis. A fine exhibition of the printers art - though the plates are not for the faint hearted! Book in VG condition - intern...

The Scottish Geographical Magazine Vol. XXVI 1910

1910

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,116)

Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1910. Hardcover. Professor James Geikie Hon. Editor, Marion I. Newbigin, Acting Editor. xii, 702, index; hardcover bound by the society of 12 monthly issues for 1910 with embossed gilt seal on cover and gilt titles on spine. Important journ...

The Australian Sugar Year Book - Volume 27 - 968

1968

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Strand Press Publishing Pty, 1968. Hardcover. 368p profusely illustrated . Some marks on boards and owners stamp on fep but stll Good +. See scans. . Good +

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000 (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)

2011

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 2011. Hardcover. 301p.A review of the challenges of remote and rural medicine as evidenced by experiences in Russia, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Newfoundland, Greenland and Canada. in the last 200 years. Fine unmarked condition. See scans for...