Creaking Shelves Books

Good Housekeepig Booklets - 30 Bound in Easibind Titled Folder . 1950's

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£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,967)

National Magazine Company Ltd., 0. Hardcover. Good Housekeeping Booklets bound in an easy bind hard-covered folder with Good Housekeeping Booklets on spine - .: Continental Cookery, Comfort in the Home, Laundry Book, Simplified woodwork for the handyman, Country Fare, Book of...

Edinburgh and Its Environs

1901

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

James Wilson, 0. Hardcover. Valentine & Sons, Dundee. Stiff Card Boards with crossed swords on tartan motif.: Over 250 black and white photo views of Old Edinburgh. Undated, but circa 1901 from internal evidence. 3pp of explanatory text. Signs of wear and dusty endpapers; gutt...

The Royal House of Hanover: Volume 1 History of the House of Hanover and Highlights of the Sale October 5-15, 2005

Sotheby's · 2005

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Sotheby's, 2005. Soft Cover. 342p sumprtuous catalogue of the sale with many colour photographs. Text is in English and German CD is not included. The history of the family and highlights of the sale including: a selection of 400 loss all with Royal Promenons, the family tree....

A Medical History of Liverpool from the Earliest Days to the Year 1920

Bickerton, Thomas H. · 1936

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

John Murray, 1936. Hardcover. Turquoise Cloth Gilt Lettered. Boards. Folding linen backed map of Liverpool in 1765, half title, frontis of author, titlepage, (xx), 313 pp, 81 illustrations, which include 8 maps, plus another folding map of Liverpool i n1829 at rear. Book tight...

Abridged Catalogue of the London Cigarette Card Co. Ltd - Tenth 1939 Edition

1939

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

The London Cigarette Co.Ltd, 1939. Soft Cover. 30p priced listings of what must be a comprehensive listing of prer WWII cigarette cards. No marks or signatures but card covers dusty with some corner wear; some fading of edges and a blind tear rear cover hidden under an addenda...

How We Lived and Laughed (with the 195)

Austin Young, E. · 1945

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,858)

61st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment - for Private Circulation, 1945. Soft Cover. The regiment served under 37th AA Brigade at the outbreak of war and was still under command of the brigade in February 1941 in the Thames North area. The regiment left Gourock, Scotland on 30 Septe...

Twenty Years on Ben Nevis

Kilgour, William T · 1906

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

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...

Penton, Cumberland - Estate Auction Catalogue 1920 for the Green and Birchtimber Hill with Map Ca6 5ry

1920

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Robert Dalton & Sons, 1920. Soft Cover. Auction Catalogue titled Particulars and Plan of Estates called The Green and Birchtimber Hill situate near Penton Cumberland to be sold by Auction in the Lowther Hall, Carlisle on Saturday June 26th, 1920 at 2.30pm by Robert Dalton & So...

Christchurch - New Zealand. Eatrly Album of Photographs of the City

1840

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Frank Duncan, 0. Soft Cover. 21 monochrome plates of Christchurch New Zealand - some full page some two two to a page. Undated but in tranquil times. Front card cover reads In 1840 a waste of tussock grass; now a splendid city set in lovely gardens Tourist Series No.19. A numb...

Highland Railway Journal - Continuous Run of 32 Quarterly Journals - Nos 69-100 2004-2012

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£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

The Highland Railway Society, . Soft Cover. A continuous run of 32 issues of the quarterly Highand Railway Journal. Each issue substantial with 30-44 pagw and many photos, many coloured. All clean and unmarked. Heavy - extra postage may be necessary at cost. See scans . Near Fine

Later Reminiscences

Story, J.L. · 1913

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

James Maclehose, 1913. Hardcover. 366p illusstrated, portrait frontis. A sequel to Mu=rs Story's Early Reminiscences , the book covers the time from her marriage to her husband's death in 1907. It thus includes the period during which Dr. Story was Principal of Glasgow Univers...

Essays, Addresses and Translations 2 Vols of 3

Henry Howard Molyneux, Fourth Earl of Carnarvon (Lord Carnarvon) · 1896

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

John Murray, 1896. Hardcover. Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of Carnarvon, (1831- 1890, London) was the father of Carnarvon of Tutankamen fame and the family estate was at Highclere in Berkshire , incidentally the mansion used in shooting the series Downton Abbey. A B...

Reminiscences of My Voyage Round the World 1855 - 1858

Jackson, Thomas Hughes · 1834

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

Privately Printed, . Soft Cover. Rare travelogue of Jackson aged 21; 16p no title page (appears as issued. Text inside thick card cream covers with faded patterned paper overlying. Blue quarter bound cloth. Rt. Hon. Thomas Hughes Jackson was born on 26 February 1834 at Liverpo...

Tales of a Field Ambulance 1914-1918

Told By the Personnel · 1935

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Borough Printing & Publishing Co., 1935. Hardcover. History of a Field Ambulance unit (2/4th London) which served in France, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine. during WWI. 282pp., very many plates ( complete). Portrait frontis of the C.O. Unmarked and appearently in original flims...

Hazardous Mediterranean Fish

Zammit, Dr. Louis · 1970

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

Aberdeen Daily Journal Office, . Soft Cover. No publication details or date. c.1970? 29p opf descriptions and outline drawings ofr fish. Map of the distribution of weever fish. Stapled booklet in VG conditon despite light label removal evidence rear card cover and rusting of s...

Norway: Its People, Products and Institutions,

Bowden, Rev. John · 1867

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

Chapman & Hall, 1867. Hardcover. 250p with a comprehensive review of Norway in the mid twentieth century. Bowden was the British Consular Chaplain at Christiania, Norway - now Oslo. In a fine full leather gilt decorated prize binding from Edinburgh Academy with raised bands an...

Debate. The High-Compression High-Speed Engine V the Low-Compression Moderate-Speed Engine for General Use in Motor Vehicles. Paper Published in Anticipation of a Debate to Be Held at the Institute of Automobile Engineers, Westminster London November 1922

Strickland, F & Ricardo, H.R. · 1922

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

The Institution of Utomobile Engineers, 1922. Soft Cover. An important proof copy of a paper which must not be published in the Press until November 9th (1922). 23p in original wrappers with a few graphs. From contemporary artice: Low-Speed v. High.Speed Engines. Points For an...

The Cottage of My Day Dreams and Otyer Poems, Seriouys and Mirthful

Greening, Claude · 1930

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Brixton Free Press, 1930. Soft Cover. 40p rather whymsical poery . Book rather dusty and grubby with ring mark on front card cover. See scans. . Good

Handlist of Editions of the Poem Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus, by Girolamo Fracastoro

Fracastoro, Girolamo · 1933

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Privately Printed at the University Press, 1933. Soft Cover. Fracastoro, d 1553, first introduced the name 'syphilis'. vii+19p. A few neat relevant additions have been added in longhand. Book clean and unmarked apert from a little foxing. Card covers dusty and darkened toward ...

Parish of Girthon - Kirkcudbrightshire - Poor Law Letter Book 1870-1877 in Photocopy.

1870

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

, . Hardcover. The Parish of Girthon in Kirkcudbrightshire SW Scotland centres around the Town of Gatehouse of Fleet. This lot consists of unbound direct photocopies taken from the copy letter book of the Inspector of the Poor John Hunter from 1870 until 1877. This letter book...