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A Companion and Useful Guide to The Beauties of Scotland
Price: £12.00 | |
Murray, Sarah
First published in 1799, this guide is now re-edited and illustrated with contemporary engravings - a fascinating travelogue of its time Strong ink name to ffep, o/w VG p213
Byway Books
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A Planet Through a Field of Stars
Price: £10.00 | |
Patterson, Andrew
A Sacred Land Project book, recounting a pilgrimage to Compostela, by motorcycle. VG. p292
G C Book Publishers
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An Orkney Estate - improvements at Graemeshall 1837-1888
Price: £5.00 | |
Schrank, Gilbert
Research into agricultural changes on the Graemshall estate on Mainland in Orkney. Ex-lib, in illustrative laminated hard library binding, missing ffep, o/w good, clean, tight and sound. p131
Tuckwell Press
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Ayrshire Idylls
Price: £16.00 | |
Munro, Neil
With tipped-in illustrations by George Houston. Green decorated cloth, stained and marked, small split to hinge, no inscriptions, internally VG, in tattered DJ. p139
Adam & Charles Black
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Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland
Price: £7.00 | |
Black
The twentieth edition of this celebrated guidebook. 85 pages of advertisements. Poor, but believed complete. The covers are badly worn and marked, the spine has been firmly glued to the back-strip, making it stiff to open, the hinges and gatherings are weak, fold-out maps are present but the folds are worn through and secured with ancient cellotape - reading copy only, with a great deal of good will. p622
Adam & Charles Black
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Botanical Guide to the Wild Flowers in the West of Scotland
Price: £25.00 | |
Fleming, John
Fleming, former head gardener at Kilmahew Castle, gives a clear description of the plants according to Linnaean classification; the book is not illustrated, but he describes how to make photographic prints of plants. Blue cloth covers worn and marked, no inscriptions, some grubby marks to pages, tight and sound, good. p149
Alex Malcolm
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Edinburgh
Price: £10.00 | |
Masson, Rosalind, illus. John Fulleylove
Reprint. Good. Covers worn and marked, spine badly chipped to the top and worn to the tail, gilt on top, no inscriptions. p176
Adam & Charles Black
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Edinburgh Old and New
Price: £7.00 | |
Cruft, Catherine
Old and contemporary b/w photographs on facing pages show the changes in Edinburgh street scenes. Covers a little creased and curled, generally VG p98
EP Publishing
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Edinburgh. Official guide issued by the Corporation.
Price: £20.00 | |
n/a
No publish date or publisher stated but 1929-1930. Scarce Edinburgh Corporation guide. Card covers. Good, internally VG. Colour frontis and 3 other colour plates. VG colour folding map of contemporary Edinburgh fixed to the bind. p135
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Exploring Scotland's Historic Landscapes
Price: £8.00 | |
Whyte, Ian and Kathleen
Eighteen trails covering most of Scotland that show how the landscape has developed over the centuries, with maps, drawings and photographs. Light wear to the covers, no inscriptions, generally VG. p314
John Donald Publishers
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Galloway Gallimaufry
Price: £10.00 | |
Wigtownshire Local Development Group for English
Undated. An anthology of Galloway literature past and present, describing land and people in this corner of South-West Scotland. VG - staple-bound type-script. p188
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God Bless the Borders
Price: £5.00 | |
Derwent, Lavinia
Signed by the author Good - missing fep, pages a little yellowed p144
Arrow
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Hail! Caledonia, land of isles and glens
Price: £25.00 | |
MacDonald, Mrs Coll
A guide-book with a difference, as history, folklore, tales and place-names are woven into the story, with many Gaelic references. Yellow cloth covers worn and much marked, name to ffep, o/w clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p243
Oliver and Boyd
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Johnston's Gazetteer of Scotland
Price: £5.00 | |
Johnston, revision by B B Hartop and M Rodger
Second edition. Including a glossary of the most common Gaelic place names. Brief details of every inhabited place in Scotland. 24 pages of maps. Stiff card covers worn and sunned, no inscriptions, tight and sound, good. p248
W & A K Johnston & G W Bacon Ltd
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Let's See the Orkney Islands
Price: £50.00 | |
Thomson, William S, photographs; Brown, George M, story (George Mackay Brown)
Undated, late 1940's. This guide book is the first published work of the Orcadian poet. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn, pages yellowed, generally VG. p64
William S Thomson
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Mammals in Scotland
Price: £5.00 | |
Royal Scottish Museum
Descriptions and photographs from the museum's collection. Stapled booklet, good. p36
HMSO
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Mauchline in times past
Price: £5.00 | |
Lyell, D I ed.
Old b/w photographs of this Ayrshire village, many of places associated with Robert Burns, compliled by the Mauchline Burns Club. Stapled booklet, good. p48
Lancashire Books
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Papay - a guide to places of interest
Price: £5.00 | |
Rendall, Jocelyn
Reprint. The history of this small Orkney island. Stapled booklet, some marks to pages, good. p46
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Pitlochry Past and Present.
Price: £40.00 | |
Dixon, John H
Cover very slightly worn, age mottling to prelims and edge of page block, inscription to ffep, generally VG 99 b&w photogr plates and coloured frontis. In good repaired DJ. p284
L. Mackay
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Ralph's Far North
Price: £25.00 | |
MacGregor, Ralph
Illustrated with charming drawings by Moira Webster, these are evocative accounts of hill-walking in the north of Scotland. Signed by the author to the title page, with his motto - 'Live Adventurously!' VG p213
Curlew Cottage Books
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Scotland - a description of Scotland and Scottish life
Price: £7.00 | |
Meikle, Henry W
Reprint. Illustrated with plates in colour and half-tone. VG, map end-papers, small neat name to front paste-down, in edge-worn, slightly chipped, mended, good DJ. p281
Thomas Nelson & Sons
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Scotland Coast to Coast - a long-distance walk from Glen Shiel to Arbroath
Price: £20.00 | |
Brown, Hamish
A guide and route-planner to this unmarked, strenuous, cross-country trail (known as the Ultimate Challenge), with much historical detail. VG p224
Patrick Stephens
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Scotland's Grand Canal - the Glasgow branch of the Forth & Clyde
Price: £15.00 | |
Cooper, Tony; McCann, Linda; McIntyre, Angus
Illustrated with artwork and photographs by Andrew Crossan and Alan Leary, this has research into the origin and construction of the canal, the industries and pleasure craft that used it, and the plans for its renewal. Stapled booklet, cover marked, internally clean and sound, good. p55
Woodside and North Kelvin Local History Project
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Scottish Counties - A Book of Photographs
Price: £8.00 | |
Dixon-Scott, J
Blue cloth, a little faded, internally VG p37
Thomas Nelson & Sons
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Shetland - a photographer's notebook
Price: £12.00 | |
Peterson, J
Fine b/w photographs of island life before the oil. VG, small name to illustrative ffep, no other inscriptions, some yellowing to pages, tight and sound in chipped, worn, mended, good DJ. p96
Lindsay Drummond Ltd
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South West Scotland - Locations
Price: £10.00 | |
South West Scotland Screen Commission
Undated but contemporary - superb colour photographs illustrating the wealth of varied scenes in Dumfries and Galloway to inspire potential film-makers and draw them to the region. VG. p40
SWSSC
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St Andrews - ancient city in the twentieth century
Price: £12.00 | |
Willsher, Betty
VG p210
Librario
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St Kilda Mail No.19
Price: £5.00 | |
Maynard, Archie and Thomson, George eds.
The April 1995 issue of this occasional magazine devoted to the island of St Kilda, with contributions by Robert Thomson, Jonathan Warren, Leslie Ker Robertson, Joan Orchard, Andrew Fleming, Ron Barge, Chris Mylne, Ben Buxton, Ed Thompson, and Robin Turner. Stapled booklet, good. p44
St Kilda Club
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Studies in Geography - Book III - pictorial Scotland
Price: £10.00 | |
Gibson pub.
Undated but 1930's. A photographic record of contemporary Scotland, 'made entirely in Scotland, by Scots'. Ex-lib, stamps to title and last page, remains of label to title, good. p64
Robert Gibson & Sons
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The Acreocracy of Perthshire - Who Owns Our Land?
Price: £5.00 | |
Perth and Kinross Fabian Society
Undated - but 1960's? - a pamphlet investigating land-ownership in Perthshire. Stapledbooklet, good. p20
Perth and Kinross Fabian Soc.
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The Geomorphology of the British Isles - Scotland
Price: £12.00 | |
Sissons, J B
University Paperback no. 589. Slight marks to cover, neat name to half title, o/w VG. p150
Methuen
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The Joy of Hillwalking
Price: £5.00 | |
Storer, Ralph
Covers sunned, marks to the upper edges of most pages, good. p139
Luath Press
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The Land and People of Scotland
Price: £10.00 | |
Meek, James
VG in VG DJ. p244
J.B. Lippincott
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The Outer Hebrides - handbook and guide
Price: £5.00 | |
MacDonald, Kenneth ed.
An introduction to the lifestyle, history and culture of the islands, gathered by local experts through the rotary Club. VG p96
Kittiwake Press/Bartholomew
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The Queen's Scotland - The Border Counties
Price: £10.00 | |
Lang, Theo
Stories and pictures of places of interest in Peebleshire, Berwickshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Dumfrieshire. Illustrated, sepia photographs. VG, neat name to ffep, in DJ that is sunned, chipped and edge-worn but basically sound p239
Hodder & Stoughton
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The Ruins of Craibstone Limekilns
Price: £6.00 | |
Brown, N A
Regional and Thematic Studies No. 4. A site survey of the former lime kilns at Deskford in Moray. Stapled booklet, VG p51
Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group
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Through the Trossachs
Price: £5.00 | |
Humble, B H
Undated - '50's? Guidebook, with pictorial maps, by the author of Tramping in Skye, The Song of Skye, etc. Stapled booklet, pictorial cover worn, pages yellowed, good. p20
William MacLellan
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Travellers' Tales from the Highlands
Price: £7.00 | |
Fairweather, Barbara
Quotations culled from early visitors to the Highlands (rather than from Scottish Travelling people). VG, Paper wrapper, slightly yellowed, staples slightly rusted, otherwise VG internally. p45
Glencoe and North Lorn Folk Museum
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Travels in a Small Country - a Scottish journey
Price: £12.00 | |
Roy, Kenneth
'Scotland from the inside' - an insight into how Scotland looked and felt at one particular time. VG, pages a little yellowed, in DJ with very slight edge-wear, not price-clipped, generally VG p191
Carrick
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West of Scotland Rambles
Price: £5.00 | |
Smith, Sydney
A useful guide to Glasgow and environs. Covers a little scratched, pages yellowed and mottled, good, p142
Richard Drew
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With Gold and Honey Blest - Edinburgh in Autumn
Price: £30.00 | |
Jones, Ken
Illustrated by William Inglis, photographs, and rapsodies, by Ken Jones Green cloth lettered and illustrated in gold, small smudge to decorated ffep, no inscriptions, in DJ that is edge-worn, especially to spine head and foot and to corners, but generally VG, not price-clipped p214
Volturna Press
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