Framed Certificate Recomending the Character of Isabella Forsyth of Kircowan Parish, Galloway Scotland, Signed by the Minister and an Elder. 1844

, 0. . Framed certificate - printed with a decorative border reading: Certificate : That the Bearer, Isabella Forsyth, an unmarried woman resided in the Parish from infancy to the date hereof, behaving soberly an honestly, free from Public Scandal, or any ground of Church Censure, known to us, is attested at Kirkowan, this twenty seventh day of May, 1844 by Anthony Stewart, Minister (and) Alexander William, Elder. Has been well used and folded before faming. Some soiling in old frame measuring 8 x 6 1/2. with a copy of the 1842 census identifying Isabella living at Kildarroch with her father, a farmer, her mother and siblings.See scans . Good

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Book number: 011304

France Hill School, Camberley, Surrey - (News (Newsletters 1998 & 2001 (Last Edition))

, 0. Soft Cover. Two colourful copies of France Hill News - 50th Anniversary Edition July 1998 and No. 105 - last edition - Summer 2001. Includes BBC filming at the school,the Rocky Monster Show and Japanese Experience See scans. . Very Good

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Book number: 009046

The Francillian - the Magazine of France Hill County Secondary School - Camberley Surrey 1959

France Hill School, . Soft Cover. 40p illustrated. This edition marked the revival of the School Magazine. Prefects, plays, house reports(Cobbett, Howard, Evelyn and Onslow) , sports, clubs and societies, the Rhineland Tour 1959. Many short articles by pupils.Local adverts. No marks or signatures. See scans, . Very Good

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Book number: 008931

The Francillian - the Magazine of France Hill County Secondary School - Camberley Surrey 1960

France Hill School, . Soft Cover. 58p illustrated. This edition has a bold portaro of the Headmaster William Streel as areversed frontis.Prefects, plays, house reports(Cobbett, Howard, Evelyn and Onslow) , sports, clubs and societies, a Visit to Austria and Germany 1960. Many short articles by pupils.Local adverts. No marks or signatures. See scans, . Very Good

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Book number: 008932

The Francillian - the Magazine of France Hill County Secondary School - Camberley Surrey 1962

France Hill School, . Soft Cover. 88p illustrated. This edition has a bold portrait of the Headmaster William Streel as a frontis.Prefects, plays, house reports(Cobbett, Howard, Evelyn and Onslow) , sports, clubs and societies, a Visit to Austria 1961, Expedition to France. . Many short articles by pupils.Local adverts. No marks or signatures. See scans, . Very Good

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Book number: 008933

Francis & Day's Folk Songs Featured by John Pearse

Francis Day & Hunter Ltd, 1967. Soft Cover. 44p; neat owners name on title/contents page. Signs of use but otherwise clean and stapled binding firm. See scans . Good +

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Book number: 008978

Friends in High Places: Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team

Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Association, 1988. Hardcover. 94p illustred. The Cairngorm Mountain Rescue team to date in 1988. Clean and unmarked. See scans (ISBN: 0904405540).. Very Good +

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Book number: 009980

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Frome Area of Somerset Wiltshire Border - Old Large Scale Map O.S. 2 1/2 to the Mile - Flat Unfolded Sheet

Ordnance Survey, 1957. . Sheet ST74. Map Size - 16 x 16; Sheet Size 22 X 19. Very Good condition. Map of Somerset/Wiltshire border with Frome Trudoxhill Nunney Whatley Mells(B) . Very Good

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Book number: 003558

Full Set of Six Maps of England and Wales 1852 - by Charles Knight

Superintendant for the Society Diffusion of Local Knowledge (SDUK), 1852. . A full set of six maps of England and Wales - hand colured in outline - main roads, railways, county boundaries, coastline etc. By Charles Knight, Londom dated Jan 1st 1852. Each map measures 14 x 17 (37 x 43 cms) including a 1 (2.45 cm) margin. Published under the Superintendant for the Society Diffusion of Local Knowledge (SDUK). Heights of Mountains given in yards and population of England and Wales listed as 17,922,768 in 1851. Maps clean and unmarked . . Very Good

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Book number: 003311

Gaelic Books - 3 Catalogues of Book in Gaelic 1979 1991 1993liists Sn G

, 0. Soft Cover. Leabhraichean Gaidhlig - A Classified Catalogue of Gaelic Books in Print 2nd edition 1979 44p indexes; Gaelic Books from Gairm publications 1991 23p; Gairm List of Gaelic Books Summer 1994/1995 40p illustratred. All 3 clean and umarked. See scans. . Very Good

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Book number: 009976

Gairm - New Books and Complete List 1994/1995

Gairm Publcations, 1993. Soft Cover. 40p listi of Gaelic books and some in English concerning Gaeldom. Clean and unmarked. See scans. . Very Good

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Book number: 009971

Galloway Hills - the Grey Man of the Merrick - Original (?) Pen and Ink Coloured Drawing

, 0. . A mounted coloured pen and ink drawing of The Grey Man of the Merrick - a rock feature on the slopes of the Merrick , the highest hill in Southern Scotland. The pen and ink sketch is mounted in a simple card frame but titling beneath it reveals The Grey Man of the Merick. Difficult to judge whether this sketch is original or a high quality print.There are initials bottom right - LMc? Measures 16 x 12 (the picture 13x 9). In excellent condition though the mount is ageing. See scans one of which shows a photograph of the feature. . Very Good

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Galloway Glimpses or Guides from Newton Stewart to I. Glen Trool. II. Up Among the Minnigaff Hills. III. The Top of Cairnsmore. IV Ravenshall. V. Cumloden Valley, the Palnure Valley, Murray's Monument, and Bargaly Valley

Galloway Gazette, 1902. Hardcover. 141p, aeg; First Edition in soft leather boards with gilt titling on the spine. Articles which mostly had appeared in the Galloway Gazette. Good + - VG but for loss of the bottom of the backstrip. Gift inscription in light pencil opposite the title page dated 1935. Tight and clean. See scans. . Good +

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Book number: 010917

Gateway to Taijiquan for Overseas Learners

, 0. Soft Cover. Undadted c.2000. 208p with text in Chinese alongside good English. Taijiquan, a health-building boxing which integrates self-defence, health-care, disease elimination and moral cultivation, is a precious legacy of Chinese martial arts. . Book clean without marks or signatures but signs of handling. See scans, (ISBN: 756190892X).. Very Good

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Book number: 010068

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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement

Printed for Sherwood, Neel, and Jones, 1813. Hardcover. XV, (1), 636p+errata+ 1p catalogue, folding map of the soil of Bedfordshire (uncoloured); 5 engraved plates. This General Report has chapters on the Geographical State, State of Property, Buildings, Occupation, Implements, Enclosing, Arable Land, Grass land, Gardens and Orchards, Woods and Planatations, Wastes, Improvements, Live Stock, Rural Economy, Political Economy, Obstacles to Inmprovement, and Miscellaneous Articles. Plates of the portrait of the Duke of Bedford and the square form of a farm house appear not bound in. Book bound in half leather with new but not recent endpapers; hinges reinforced and some toning and scattered foxing. Blind stamps of Birmingham Free Libraries and Birkbeck College with withdrawn stamp. Book tight and clean however with some rubbing to corners and some marks to leather on spine. Much better than it may sound.! See scans and email for many more. . Very Good

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Book number: 007560