Creaking Shelves Books

Scottish Prose, 1550-1700 (Scottish Library)

Ronald D. S. Jack · 1971

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Calder & Boyars, 1971. Hardcover. 220pp. Hardback copy in VG condtion. Protected price clipped d/w. Bit dusty. No marks or signatures but a bit dusty. See scans (ISBN: 0714507989).. Very Good

Literatura Medica Externa Recentior Seu Enumeratio Liborum Plerorumque Et Commentariorum Singularium As Doctrinas Medicas Facientium Qui Extra Germaniam Ab Anno Inde 1750

Sprengel, Curtio · 1829

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

F A Brockhaus, 1829. Soft Cover. This medical bibigraphy is complete with foretitle, full index and bound tightly in original paper covered boards without significant signatures or marks. Each page double paginated - one page for each of the two columns of text. 630p (in fact ...

British Plant-Galls: A Classified Textbook of Cecidology

Swanton, E.W. · 1912

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Methuen & Co, 1912. Hardcover. XV+287p; original dark green-grey cloth with gilt titles and colour illustration to spine. All colour and b/w plates and illustrations (16 plates in colour) as called for. Neat owners name on fep and inserted is a stamped postcard from Foyles add...

Kirkcudbright Shipping 1300-2005

Collin, David R. · 2007

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Kirkcudbright History Society & The Stewartry Museum, 2007. Soft Cover. Substantial detailed book of 394 pages listing hundreds of boats and their histories; many illustrated. Unmarked. See scans. (ISBN: 0955163854).. Near Fine

Original Galloway Letter - 1844 - Wrangle over Tax John Anderson Buittle and Robert Gordon

1844

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

, . . Original entire letter from James Lidderdale, Writer, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright to Robert Gordon 1844 on behalf of tenant John Anderson of Blackerne Farm, Buittle. A cursory reply sent by Gordon the next day - written within the same entire contesting the solicitors ...

Nelsons' Hand-Book to Scotland: For Tourists. Illustrated with Maps, Plans and Views.

1862

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

T Nelson & Sons, 1862. Hardcover. Substantial volume . xxxvii+536p + catalogue. Multiple folding coloured maps and attractive engraved plates of Steamers, Lochs towns and views. In original worn gilt decorated blind stamped soft cloth. Tight but signs of much usage with dog ea...

The Annual Rise and Fall of the Nile (with Diagrams)

Waite, Percival C. · 1904

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1904. Soft Cover. A 15 page article disbound from the Scottish Geographical Magazine September 1904. With diagrams. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall . VG

Menzies' Tourist Pocket Guide for Scotland with Five Maps and Plans, and Eighteen Engravings

1852

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

John Menzies, 1852. Hardcover. xii+555p+list of guide books and views for Tourists sold by John Menzies (32p). All maps and plates present. Rather thick for a pocket guide. Remarkably good condition - little wear to slightly dusty boards with gilt on spine. Tight with sound hi...

Where Shall We Go - a Guide to the Watering-Places and Health Resorts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales

1896

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Adam & Charles Black, 1896. Hardcover. xxv+348p+128p Advertiser. Much detail about many resorts in the UK - see scans for index and email for details of each resort mentioned. Book remarkably clean and tight - one map neatlly repaired otherwise fine. See scans . Near Fine

The County Directory of Scotland (for 1901-1904). Containing the Postal Addresses of Mansions. Tweltfh Issue 1902 with the Map

1902

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

R.Grant & Son, 1902. Hardcover. Publishers red cloth with gilt crest to front. xxxi + 1056p.+ xxxiv. Major reference source The XXth Century Edition Respectfully inscribed to E.P.W. Redford Esq., Secretary to the Post Office for Scotland. Book is complete with many period adve...

The King's Dinner to the Poor. Large Gilt Scroll/Poster Thanking R. Hamlyn for Musical and Other Entertainment Sevices. 1902sr

1902

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Printed By Blades East and Blades, 1902. . A large scroll/plate (measurese with a photographic portrait of Edward VII and text: The King's Dinner to the Poor in celebration of his Coronation, 1902. The Mansion House Committee tender to R.Hamlyn (written in longhand) their sinc...

'Old Take Care': The Story of Field Marshall Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

Roy, James McLiver · 1985

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Pubd By Author, . Hardcover. 126p photo frontis. Undated but apparently 1985. Limited edition of 100 (unnumbered) copies. Typescript font and looks home produced but binding sound with gilt titling on front board. Appears a labour of love. In fine unmarked condition - see scan...

The Alexander Collection, Ayr

Alexander,A.S. · 1935

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

John Smith & Son, 1935. Soft Cover. 72p card covered book being an attack/defence? directed at Ayr Town Council by the Author detailing the circumstances around the resiting of Alexanders exrtensive collection once exhibited in Belleisle Mansion Ayr, where it occupied eight ro...

The Glasgow Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure - a Bound Run 1773

1773

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

, 1773. Hardcover. No publisher stated. A bound run of 24 issues of this Glasgow weekly periodical from Wednesday Feb.10th, 1773 to Wednesday 21st July 1773. From 14th July the Magazine is titled The Glasgow United Magazine or the Weekly Instructor with pagination starting afr...

The Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland. A History 1847-1997

Hatvany, Doris · 1997

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Pubd. By The Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland., 1997. Soft Cover. 78pp. History of the society which gives aid to distressed professional and gentlewomen. Illustrated. An interesting book from a social histpory perspective. Near fine unmarked co...

An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse Not in Any Other Collection: With Several Pieces Never Before Published. A New Edition

1785

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Printed for J. Debrett (ORIGINAL EDITION), 1785. Soft Cover. A new edition including many pieces not in the former edition and several never before printed. First edition of the first volume of this serial anthology; the seventh, and final volume, appeared in 1799. viii+ 5-404...

Genealogy of the Rainier Family - Ancestors in the Male Line of the Rainiers According to Ms. In Bib. R. A Paris

Calvert, Christopher Alderson · 1903

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

Privately Published, 1903. Hardcover. iv+72p + 6p manuscript notes + blank leaves. 15 plates : two of coloured coats of arms; many portraits; one residence; one sepia portrait tipped in of Josephine Rainier. This publication is a transcript of a manuscript completed in 1845 by...

Drymen and Buchanan: A Further Selection of Old Photographs

Bruce, Mary B.; Brown, A; Stirling District Libraries · 1993

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Stirling Council Libraries, 1993. Soft Cover. 64p. This collection of old photographs of Drymen and Buchanan feature the local communities and school photographs. Clean and tight without marks or signatures, though light crease on free edge of rear coiver. See scans. (ISBN: 18...

Train's History of the Buchanites: A Religious Sect That Had Its Origin in Irvine.

Train, Joseph · 1883

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Charles Murchland, 1883. Hardcover. 170 page Victorian reprint of Joseph Train's Buchanites from First to Last from Irvine, Ayrshire in 1883. Titling as above with Reprinted from Author's Edition on title page. As original 1846 Edinburgh edition but no illustrations and a few ...

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan

Buruma, Ian · 2002

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Phoenix House Ltd, 2002. Soft Cover. 330p. Slightly toned but clean and tight without marks or signatures.See scans. (ISBN: 0753813122).. Near Fine