Abraham, Ashley P.

ROCK-CLIMBING IN SKYE.

Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. xxii + 330pp. + [i]. 30 full page ills. in collotype, 9 diagrams of the chief routes, folding map in rear pocket. Some light browning, modern e.ps., ex.-Manchester Free Lib. with blind stamps, original gilt lettered cloth, rubbed, recased with repairs and faint signs of label and gilt accession no. to tail of spine.
¶ Neate A01 ‘Third part of the classic Jones-Abraham trilogy. The author was a mountain photographer who, with his brother George and O.G. Jones, was largely responsible for the development and popularization of rock-climbing in the Lake District and other parts of the British Isles.’

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Beattie, William.

CALEDONIA Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for the Work by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and Others. The descriptive Text by ...

George Virtue, 1st Ed. 4to. 2 vols. x + 200pp. + [iv] + 172pp. Additional engraved title pages, map, 167 engraved plates. Light age toning, some foxing to plates, engraved half title and t.p. with sm. marginal waterstain, rebound in half faux pigskin, gilt ruling and gilt lettered label to sl. sunned spines, t.e.g.

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Billings, Robert William.

THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND. Illustrated by ... Vol. 1 (containing Volumes I and II of the original publication). Vol. 2 (containing Volumes III and IV of the original publication). With an new Introduction by Ian Gow.

Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 2008. Reprint. 2 vols. 4to. [xxx] + 408pp. + [ii] + [vi] + 386pp. 240 plates, numerous woodcuts. Original gilt lettered green cloth backed boards, cloth sl. rubbed, tail of boards stained, together in sl. rubbed green cloth covered slipcase.
¶ No. 558 of a Limited Edition of 600 Copies.

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Bone, Stephen.

THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND. Skye to Oban.

Faber & Faber, 1952. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 64pp. Numerous b/w. ills. mainly from photos., 8 colour maps at rear. Title page sl. creased, verso of front f.e.p. sl. spotted, illus. e.ps., good in sl. chipped d/w.
¶ Shell Guide.

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Brøgger, A.W.

ANCIENT EMIGRANTS. A History of the Norse Settlements of Scotland.

OUP, 1929. 1st Ed. xi + 208pp. Numerous maps and ills. including folding plate. Age toning, from the Library of Dr James Bynon and with his signature J. Baynham, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, spine faded and with sm. shelf label to tail, leading corners lightly stained.

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Card, Nick; Edmonds, Mark and Mitchell, Anne. (Editors).

THE NESS OF BRODGAR. As it Stands. With contributions by Neil Ackerman, Megan Allington ... Roy Towers, Sigurd Towrie and Cecily Webster. Foreword by Nick Card.

Orcadian (Kirkwall Press), Orkany, 2022. Reprint. 4to. [iv] + 380pp. Profusely illus. throughout, mainly in colour with photos., plans, tables, maps etc. Colour illus. e.ps., very good in original colour pictorial laminated boards.
¶ University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Research Series: 3.

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Chambers, Robert.

TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. Illustrated by James Riddel.

W & R Chambers, 1912. New Ed. Royal 8vo. xxiii + [iv] + 377pp. Numerous colour plates, numerous ills., double page map. Very light browning, original bright gilt dec. cloth, spine very sl. bumped, t.e.g.

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Christison, David.

EARLY FORTIFICATIONS IN SCOTLAND Motes, Camps and Forts.

William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. 1st Ed. Square 8vo. xxv + 407pp. 137 figures (one with sm, ink sketch and note), 3 folding maps. From the Library of Dr James Bynon and with his signatures, age toning, original gilt lettered cloth, spine sl. bumped and with sm. shelf label to tail, minor marking.
¶ Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1894.

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Cochrane, Robert.

PENTLAND WALKS With Their Literary and Historical Associations. Compiled and Edited by ...

Edinburgh Andrew Elliot ..., 1920. 6th Ed. Tenth Thousand. Sm. thin 8vo. x + 156pp. Double page map, many ills. and route maps. Upper wrapp. bound in, rebound in modern red morocco backed marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine.

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Gilpin, William.

OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO PICTURESQUE BEAUTY, Made in the Year 1776, On Several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the Highlands of Scotland.

London : printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. vii + xi + [i] errata + 221pp. + [ii] + 195pp. + xvi. 40 plates including 1 diagram, 5 hand coloured plans, 34 sepia soft ground aquatints. Some light browning, contemporary mottled calf with intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards, corners sl. rubbed, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt tooled bands with gilt motifs and modern gilt lettered labels to spine, minor wear.
¶ ESTC T99001. Abbey Scenery 487 (First Edition). William Gilpin (1724–1804) English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. Gilpin travelled widely in Britain, with his notebook and sketching materials, in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit', as he wrote the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'.

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Houston, R.A.

MADNESS AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000. 1st Ed. [xiv] + 450pp. 4 tables, 1 figure. Very good in d/w.
¶ Oxford Studies in Social History.

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Houston, R.A.

SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: Edinburgh, 1660-1760.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994. 1st Ed. [x] + 443pp. + [iii]. 14 figures, 9 tables. Good in lightly rubbed d/w. with sm. closed tear at head of spine.

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Hunter, Mary Y. and J. Young.

THE CLYDE. River and Firth. Described by Neil Munro.

A and C Black, 1907. c.[1915]. Reprint. xi + 206pp. + 8pp. publishers adverts. 67 colour plates, folding map. Light age toning, with the signature of ‘Mrs D Kingsmond Easter 1917 ...’ to browned front f.e.p., original blue cloth decorated in colour, tail of upper joint cracked and repaired, spine chipped and faded.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 14. Published several days before the Limited Edition.

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Leighton, John M.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF FIFE, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. with Numerous Engravings in the Line Manner on Steel by Joseph Swan. From Original Drawings Taken Expressly for the Work by James Stewart.

Glasgow Joseph Swan, 1840. 1st Ed. 3 vols. 4to. Additional engraved title pages, 47 engraved plates. Some light browning, some staining and foxing to plates, marbled e.ps., contemporary intricately blind tooled calf, some marking and wear, gilt lettering and blind tooled spines with loss to head of spine of vol. 3. and tail of spine of vol. 2., upper board detached to vol. 1.

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Mackie, Charles.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF DUNDEE.

Glasgow Published by Joseph Swan ... London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1836. 1st Ed. 4to. 229pp. + [i]. 13 mounted engraved plates including additional title page. Some foxing, original cloth backed cloth boards, gilt armorial device and title with ‘proof’ in gilt to upper board, minor soiling and fading, sm. scorch mark to lower board.

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