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Victorian Ledger and Almanac for 1876

Unknown
1876
A small, good looking blank ledger in distinctive orange/tan embossed paper boards with the word ledger prominently displayed to the upper board in a decorative gold font within a gold ornate border. In spite of a few flaws, a very appealing object. Corners knocked; spine top and tail scuffed; tear to lower spine; remnants of tape marks visible acr… Read more…
#9807

£70.00

A Country House Comedy

Duncan Swann
1914
Scarce First Edition. Publisher’s green cloth boards in good condition, bumped to lower corner, age spotted to text block edges. Binding square and sound. Endpapers and preliminaries age toned and lightly spotted. Full page frontispiece illustration of ‘The Lady Victoria Stacey’ plus 3 further illustrations by Olive Snell throughout. Publisher’s er… Read more…
#9788

£150.00

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY WITH SIGNED LETTER FROM DAME SYBIL - Sybil Thorndike Casson with a foreword by Dame Sybil

Elizabeth Sprigge
1971
An uncorrected proof copy in good soft back green paper wrappers stamped ‘UNCORRECTED’ to upper. Original dust jacket in fair plus condition, scuffed to edges, spine top and tail, age toned. Text block sound, annotated occasionally in blue biro throughout. ‘Enjoyable, charming and very genuine - even their imperfections. 430 pm 2/10/71’ written to… Read more…
#9791

£95.00

A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ or, the last Speeches and Testimonies of those who have suffered for the TRUTH in SCOTLAND Since the Year 1680s Together with an appendix containing the Queen's-Ferry paper, Torwood excommunication, a relation concerning Mr. R. Cameron, Mr. D. Cargil and H. Hall ; and an account of those who were killed without process of law, and banished to foreign lands: with a short view of some of oppressive exactions.

John Henderson Thomson - attributed
c. 1754
Fifth edition of an original Scottish text with a rather grim frontispiece which documents the final speeches, letters and testimonies of martyrs executed for their faith between 1660 and the late 1680s, serving as a primary record of religious persecution during the reign of King Charles II and James VII. It is considered a cornerstone text for un… Read more…
#9675

£350.00

Turning Points in Spiritual History. Six Lectures Compiled from Transcripts Unrevised by the Author

Rudolf Steiner
1934
First Edition. Publisher’s blue cloth boards in good condition, titled in gilt. A lovely square binding; sunned to spine; text block edges age spotted; endpapers age toned; very light foxing to preliminaries. Printed in Guernsey by the Star and Gazette Co. Ltd. 301 pp. A compilation of lectures given by anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner between Januar… Read more…
#9787

£100.00

‘TO ALASDAIR [GRAY] FROM PHILIP’ Essentials of Literary Criticism

Philip Hobsbaum
1983
Alasdair Gray’s inscribed copy of this guide to the discussion of English literary texts, designed primarily for the first-year university student. A near fine paperback, covers and edges lightly soiled. Inscribed by the author to verso of front cover “To Alasdair love from Philip July 1983’. A near fine copy. Provenance: from the recent Glasgow di… Read more…
#9806

£75.00

PRESENTED BY EDINBURGH ARCHITECT CHARLES KINNEAR Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

William Buckland - Francis T Buckland
1858
Presentation copies inscribed in both volumes by the leading Scots baronial-style architect, and pioneering Edinburgh photographer, ‘Charles Kinnear, Esq. Kinloch. 1863’ to his friend James Pottie. Original maroon pebbled cloth, spines lettered in gilt and relaid with some loss to original cloth showing through. Original yellow coated endpapers wit… Read more…
#9829

£350.00

‘THIS BOOK BELONGS TO JOHN ANGUS TOWN CLERK, ABERDEEN’: Poole’s Gentleman’s Pocket Memorandum Book for 1872

John Angus
1872
Owned and extensively annotated by the influential Town Clerk of Aberdeen whose portrait was painted by Sir George Reid three years after he filled this Memorandum book with his notes and records. John Angus (1841-1913) held a key position at the heart of Aberdeen civic life during the city’s most wealthy period as an industrial and economic powerh… Read more…
#9801

£550.00

PRESENTATION COPY Lives of Eminent Men of Fife

James Bruce
1846
A volume of biographies of eminent Scotsmen including Michael Scot, Arnold Blair, Andrew Wynton, Sir Andrew Wood, Robert Henryson, Cardinal Beaton and Sir David Lindsay. Bound in contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards, pretty gilt and embossed decoration to the spine, red spine label and marbled edges. This is a handsome little book, the… Read more…
#9803

£60.00

‘FOR THE BENEFIT OF SCOTTISH KIN’ Manuscript Notebook of Scots & New Zealand Family History of the Murdochs and Yuilles of Darleith

William Young, John Wallace Murdoch, Yuille Family of Darleith
1891
Unpublished manuscript containing 40 pages of Murdoch and Yuille of Darleith family history written by William Young c1900. It is the second section that is the more intriguing, deriving from ‘an old book kept at Darleith, and kindly lent by the present proprietor, Mr Andrew B Yuille, Bellevue, Bridge of Allan’. The book is bound in parchment with… Read more…
#9804

£95.00

‘FOR ALASDAIR GRAY WHO UNDERSTANDS RLS WELL’ Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson

Nicholas Rankin
1988
Writer Alasdair Gray’s copy, apologetically inscribed to him by the author Nicholas Rankin who followed in the footsteps of author and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson from Edinburgh to the Pacific islands of Hawaii and Samoa. Very good paperback, covers bright, spine creased, edges lightly marked, text block browned but otherwise clean. Inscri… Read more…
#9805

£95.00

Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood Geological and Historical

Hugh Miller, edited by Lydia Miller
1864
Bound in Edinburgh publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering to the spine; lightly bumped. Brown coated endpapers, reinforced with brown tape to the inner hinge with the upper board. Booksellers ticket of Parker and Son, Oxford; frontispiece and two plates; pp314; 24pp adverts. A faint whiff of tobacco smoke hangs about the book when opened. An attra… Read more…
#9795

£85.00

MALDWYN HALDANE’S COPIES: Science and Education; Discourses Biological and Geological

Thomas Henry Huxley
1902
Two volumes of Huxley’s essays, owned and annotated at Glencorse Barracks in Midlothian by ‘Muldoon’ Haldane, nephew of the Secretary for War, the Scottish lawyer Viscount Haldane. At the time he acquired these books in 1902 Maldwyn Haldane had recently been commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment following on from study at University College, Lon… Read more…
#9798

£250.00

Scottish field magazine 1947-1949

Various
1947; 1949
Five copies of the Scottish Field magazine in vibrantly illustrated covers, capturing the cultural moment around the post war period, focusing on Scottish heritage, travel, food, whisky and rural life. Bursting with high-quality, aspirational advertising, weddings of the month, photographs and general interest articles. Each issue is circa 55 pp. I… Read more…
#9709

£95.00

SCOTTISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM in an Autograph Album

[Matt Busby, William Waddell, Billy Cotton, Harold Lloyd]
c. 1944/5
A pocket sized autograph book containing a sporting collection of over 55 signatures collected circa 1945 including those of the Scotland national football teams, cricketers and occasional entertainers of the day. Included within are: 1. A single pasted in sheet titled ‘Scotland (Wembley Feb 1944)’ signed by 13 of the Scottish players who lost 6-2… Read more…
#9725

£150.00

Life of Rev James Grant & Grant Family of Aberdeenshire: Family Scrapbook & Archive 1750-1902

Reverend James Grant and Descendants; Lucy Gwendoline Duff
1750 - 1902
A rich family album compiled by Lucy Gwendoline Duff, grand daughter of the Rev James Grant, in the early 20th century preserving family documents, printed obituaries and tributes and a fine selection of photographs which together trace the achievements and history of the Grant family dating, back to the mid 1700s in the Glenbuchat, Badenoch and To… Read more…
#9755

£450.00

Cities of Splendid Progress: The Royal Visit to Dundee and Perth, July 1914

Dundee Advertiser
1914
Very good copy of an original Royal Visit Supplement from the Dundee Advertiser dated July 9, 1914 marking the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary to Dundee and Perth. Printed just weeks before WW1, a lasting record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. Each leaf is packed full of advertisements, articles o… Read more…
#9646

£75.00

The Glasgow Herald Royal Visit Supplement

Glasgow Herald
1914
Six Glasgow Herald Royal Visit photographic supplements dated July 7th - July 13th 1914, bound together to mark the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary. Printed just weeks before WW1, bursting with 100s of wonderful images, a lasting photographic record of a seemingly prosperous united Britain before the Great War took its toll. The supplements… Read more…
#9648

£85.00

7 Swiss songs, scottish & italian songs: 31 Musical imprints bound together

I. Moscheles; F. Stockhausen; W. Ball; John Parry; George Linley; JT. Craven; Michael Kelly; Mrs Philip Millard; Mrs. Bemans; Herbert Rodwell; Henry R Bishop; Signor Mayer; Signor Rosfini; Felice Blangini; Signor Cavaliere Alfonso di Michereux
1810 - 1820
A bound collection of 31 pieces of engraved sheet music including a collection of 7 songs, several sung by Madame Stockhausen, relating to Switzerland. Handsomely half bound in brown calf over marbled boards measuring 35 cm x 25 cm. Binding square and firm. Hand numbered 229 pp. Hand written index to front flyleaf. All in very good condition throug… Read more…
#9590

£650.00

A BBC ‘LADYKILLER’ AS FEATURED BY LUCY WORSLEY: Report of the Trial of Madeleine Smith before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh... for the Alleged Poisoning

Pierre Emile L’Angelier, Alexander Forbes Irvine [Madeleine Smith]
1857
Court report on the trial of a young woman in high society Glasgow who was accused of murdering her secret lover, Alexander Forbes Irvine. Publisher’s brown textured cloth with a printed spine label, worn to head and tail of spine. Early ownership inscription, possibly American of a ‘Lesset Stephen’(?) beneath a paper ‘55c’ price. Two hand-tinted e… Read more…
#9197

£150.00

AUTHORIAL TYPESCRIPT WITH CORRECTIONS OF A NOVEL OF THE SCOTTISH ISLANDS: Eilean More

Arthur Aitken Davidson
1928
Full length pre-publication typescript with extensive authorial corrections to this novel set on a remote Scottish Hebridean island off the coast of Wester Ross. The island - Eilian More - is the beautifully described backdrop to the machinations of its Chief, Evan Urquhart, whose castle is burned to the ground in the final chapter by his greatest… Read more…
#9388

£850.00

A Telegram from Pope Pius XI congratulating a Scottish couple on their Golden Wedding

Cardinal Pacelli; Pope Pius XI
1935
How many receive a telegram with a special blessing from His Holy Father the Pope on the occasion of their golden wedding? Mr and Mrs Patrick Dempsay did. This original pencil written Post Office Telegram originating from Cita Del Vatican is stamped on receipt at Spean Bridge, a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig in the Highlands of Scotland and… Read more…
#9467

£95.00

A Clockwork Orange - with the Signed Bookplate of Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess
1982
Anthony Burgess's influential novel, A Clockwork Orange, signed on a bookplate by the author in black ink - and laid into the book. This mid 1982 reprint is near fine in a very good jacket, a very attractive copy of a cult novel. Read more…
#9718

£125.00

SIGNED LIMITATION STATEMENT - Chiasmadon

Ted Hughes [Sylvia Plath, Frieda Hughes]
1977
A limited edition, limitation statement signed by Ted Hughes which originally accompanied a Charles Seluzicki, 1975 edition of Chiasmadon. The statement is numbered XXXX of 175. Very good, lightly marked and creased white card. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonha… Read more…
#9735

£75.00

Three Manuscript Poems

Norman MacCaig [Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frieda Hughes]
1970
Three Manuscript Poems by Norman MacCaig. The Rougemont Press, Exeter 1970. (Ted Hughes was one of the directors). Limited edition, number 8 of 300, signed by the author "Norman MacCaig Oct. '70". Very good in lightly marked grey card wrappers, internally fine. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of '… Read more…
#9736

£100.00