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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

Log Book and Ephemera charting trips around Anglesey on board the small cabin cruiser ‘Bonito’ throughout 1957 - 1962

Dr. K K Wood
1957 - 1962
A Weymouth Log Book absolutely bursting with meticulous detail which charts ‘Bonito’s’ journey to Wales and its daily runs from its moorings in Moel y Don on Anglesey throughout the years 1957 - 1962. The vessel, a Vedette Mk II is owned by Dr K. K. Wood of Bury who has paid scrupulous attention to charting every twist and turn, adding many items o… Read more…
#9726

£200.00

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

Four New Plays, Viz: The Surprisal, Committee Comedies;, The Indian Queen, Vestal-Virgin Tragedies - As they were Acted by His Majesties Servants at the Theatre-Royal

Robert Howard; John Dryden
1665
[pp] 12, 242 [2] Howard's first plays including his collaboration with his brother in law John Dryden in The Indian Queen and his inflammatory preface on dramatic verse. The book is bound in half brown rexine over marbled boards with new endpapers. The text is collated and complete with much toning to the paper stock and the following paper repairs… Read more…
#6722

£400.00

R S SURTEES’ COPY The Life of Beau Brummell

Captain Jesse
1854
Novelist R S Surtees’ copy: the New Edition, bound in half red leather over red cloth, titled in gilt to spine within a red marbled slipcase. Front pastedown reveals the library bookplate of celebrated Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees of Hamsterley Hall. Original 1884 volume bound within in very good condition, with wrappers, a little age sp… Read more…
#9722

£200.00

IRISH NATIONALISM - Guilty or Not Guilty? Speeches From the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part 1; The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell; The ‘Wearing of the Green’ or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession.

Timothy D Sullivan; Alexander M Sullivan; Denis B Sullivan [Theobald, Wolfe Tone]
1868
Decorative Irish binding commemorating the political trials of Irish nationalist, with a six panelled spine and a decorative Irish harp in the top compartment. In very good condition, half bound in green and brown roan; endpapers age toned and inscribed in a contemporary hand ‘W[illia]m Burns’ to front pastedown. All 3 sections of this second editi… Read more…
#9713

£350.00

Classic Tales: Comprising in One Volume the Most Esteemed Works of Imagination: Rasselas, Castle of Otranto, Gulliver’s Travels

Horace Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Johann Goethe
1835
Ten separate imprints including Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto dating from the early 1830s, bound together by the publisher together with an additional engraved frontispiece by ‘R Cooper’. 19th century half calf over cloth, worn and scuffed but soundly bound. Marbled endpapers; marks to title page and browning to frontispiece with the stub of a… Read more…
#9302

£300.00

When We Were Very Young; Winnie-The-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner

A A Milne
1927
Four volumes of A A Milne's classic children's books bound in a Deluxe Publisher's Binding of brown calf with the author's monogram to upper covers and gilt decoration to the spines featuring characters from the books, all edges gilt. These volumes date from 1927-29, the editions being 16th, 6th, 4th and 3rd respectively. They are in good plus cond… Read more…
#9583

£100.00

GALLOWAY RARITY The Tales of the Solway

James Aitken - a Gallovidean
1873
An inscribed copy of this rare book about the manners and customs on the Solway Firth. Small format bound in embossed blue-green cloth, neatly repaired, with yellow-coated endpapers and an albumen portrait of the author tipped in opposite the title page, inscribed below. Collates complete: pp208; a little paper decay at the foot of the title page a… Read more…
#8661

£175.00

THE GENTLEMAN’S RECREATION: In Four Parts; Viz Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing... Fourth Edition

Nicholas Cox; Nathaniel Rolls; Ichabod Dawks; William Sherwin; William Dolle; John Manwood
1697
Nicolas Cox’s compendium of hunting, hawking, fowling, and fishing lore in one of the three variant imprints published in 1697. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked with a new spine, retaining the original endpapers. Extensively provenanced: ‘Ch: Parry 1742’ on the front pastedown looks to be the earliest owner follow… Read more…
#8482

£500.00

ANNOTATED PRESENTATION COPY Sketches of the Origin, Process, and Effects of Music with an Account of the Ancient Bards and Minstrels

Rev Richard Eastcott
1795
Annotated presentation copy of the third edition with an affectionate note about the author’s life in Exeter, ‘now (1823) quite blind’ written by the book’s recipient, George Westlake. Half calf binding overlaid and strengthened with red cloth at some later stage - over marbled boards. Westlake’s bookplate appears on the front pastedown with offset… Read more…
#8504

£250.00

PRESENTATION COPY FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL’S STEP-FATHER The Life and Letters of Admiral Cornwallis

George Cornwallis West
1927
Smart copy of the life of Nelson’s friend Admiral William Cornwallis written and inscribed by Winston Churchill’s step-father, a man just 16 days older than his distinguished stepson. The subject of the biography, Admiral Cornwallis, an ancestor of the author, was the brother of the defeated British general at Yorktown, Charles Cornwallis, and hims… Read more…
#8571

£240.00

RAMORNIE HOUSE, FIFE - DIARY TURNED COMMONPLACE BOOK

Douglas Haig’s FAMILY
1910
Pre-printed diary used interestingly by a member of Earl Haig’s family as a commonplace/ day book. Chunky small quarto bound in full calf, splitting slighly at outer hinges but very robust still. Laid in is a selection of quotations from Carlyle written on ‘Ramornie Ladybank’ headed paper. Marbled endpapers. Preceding the diary pages are two albume… Read more…
#8214

£200.00

‘MY STUDIO COPY HUGH PATON’ Etching, Drypoint, Mezzotint. The Whole Art of the Painter-Etcher

Hugh Paton
1895
The author’s heavily annotated personal copy with corrections and emendations by the Manchester-based artist throughout. Bound in pictorial publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed to the extremities. Paton’s inscription appears on the half title ‘My Studio Copy Hugh Paton Oct/ 10’. The book is a lavish production which contains an original etched fronti… Read more…
#8120

£250.00

Sacra Congregatio Rituum: Instructio de Musica in Sacra Liturgia

Cardinal Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui; Cardinal Giacomo Lercamo; Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli
1967
A presentation copy of this guide to the use of sacred music in the liturgy. Tipped onto the title page a Vatican compliments slip from 'Secretarius consillii ad exsequendam constitutionem de sacra liturgia' - the secretary of the counsel for the implementation of the constitution on the sacred Liturgy. Opposite is the bookplate of Prinknash Abbey… Read more…
#4428

£75.00

‘Graveyard Poets': A Sammelband of 11 Imprints - An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard The Eleventh Edition [AND] Four Elegies Descriptive and Moral [AND] An Epistle from Lady Jane Gray to Lord Guilford Dudley ETC</p><p> </p><p>

Thomas Gray; William Whitehead; John Delap; Reginald Heber; John Scott; Edward Jerningham; George Keate; Edward Young; Thomas Denton
1752
Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Thomas Gray, Edward Young, John Delap and Reginald Heber. Small quarto bound in eighteenth century speckled calf, the boards decorated with a border of c… Read more…
#7062

£445.00

PETER MEDAWAR’S ANONYMOUS SCIENTISTS REVEALED Advice to a Young Scientist

Peter Medawar
1979
The book’s dedicatee has annotated this inscribed copy of Medawar’s Advice by revealing the names of the otherwise unnamed scientists cited by Medawar in his text. Alongside the relevant sections Todd has added the names Herman Kahn, Harry Johnson, Herbert Samuel, R E Billingham, effectively decoding Medawar’s anonymised text. Medawar has inscribed… Read more…
#9775

£750.00