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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 Survey of Agriculture in the East and South-East of Scotland
Price: £8.00 | |
Witney, D
Bulletin no 53 of the Edinburgh School of Agriculture and the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. Stapled booklet, good. p60
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Ayrshire Idylls
Price: £16.00 | |
Munro, Neil
With tipped-in illustrations by George Houston Green decorated cloth, damp-stained and marked, in tattered DJ, internally VG 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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East Lothian Fourth Statistical Account 1945-2000 Volume One : The County
Price: £45.00 | |
Sonia Baker (editor)
This volume, the first of six, surveys the social, political and economic history, geography , environment and people of East Lothian, Scotland, since World War Two. VG (slight shelfwear) p288
East Lothian Council Library Service
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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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Galloway Gallimaufrey
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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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Geological Excursion guide to the Glasgow District
Price: £6.00 | |
Bassett, D A
With maps, plans, diagrams and plates. Cover worn, some age mottling, name to ffep, good. p104
Geological Society
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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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Let's See the Orkney Islands
Price: £85.00 | |
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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Moira Anderson's Scotland
Price: £6.00 | |
Anderson, Moira with Martin, Netta
A guided tour led by the Scottish singer. Many photographs. VG in VG (slightly edgeworn) DJ. Ex-lib but minimal markings. p160
Lutterworth Press
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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 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 Gardens
Price: £6.00 | |
Little, Allan G ed.
A beautifully illustrated guide to, and history of, some of Scotland's many fine gardens. VG in VG DJ p280
Spurbooks
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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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Some Light on the Past Around Glenrothes
Price: £7.00 | |
Bodie, Wm. G Rowntree
Privately printed, this gives a detailed description of the changing locality through history, illustrated with maps, plans, photographs and reproductions of original documents. Cover marked, worn and scribbled on by a child, primary school stamp to inner front cover, small marks to pages, but otherwise internally tight, sound and good. p103
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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: £15.00 | |
Gibson pub.
Undated but 1930's. Only PB and ex-lib to boot, but a good copy of Book 3, with a photographic record of contemporary Scotland, 'made entirely in Scotland, by Scots', a must for all Scottish patriots. 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. VG p20
Perth and Kinross Fabian Soc.
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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: £15.00 | |
Meek, James
VG in VG DJ (not ex lib) 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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The Scenery of Scotland - The Structure Beneath
Price: £5.00 | |
Baird, W J
The geological events behind the landscape. Aerial photography by Patricia Macdonald. Stapled booklet, VG p36
National Museums of Scotland
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The Western Isles
Price: £10.00 | |
Thompson, Francis
Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs by Sam Maynard and Murdo MacLeod. History, culture and the vibrant present in the Hebrides. VG in edge-worn, price-clipped but generally VG DJ, with the remains of a pressed flower glowing on the inner fold. p176
B T Batsford
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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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Writing the Way - a collection of journeys along the Southern Upland Way
Price: £5.00 | |
Johnson, Lynda and Young, Lorna eds.
A selection from walkers' diaries, to celebrate 21 years of this long-distance path VG p64
Southern Uplands Partnership
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