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1 Royle, Trevor: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature. Edinburgh: Mainst 1993. x 350p 24cm hb, dj, as new £ 12.-

2 Accounts of the Chamberlain of Scotland in the Years 1329, 1330 and 1331, from the Originals in the Exchequer, with some Other Curious Papers. Ed. John Davidson. Edinburgh: Murray/Cochran 1771. 31p 25cm disbound pamphlet, VG £ 26.-

3 [Australia] The Heather in the Sun. A Scottish Australian Entertainment. Ed. Bill Wannan. Lansdowne 1966. xv 189p 24cm hb, dj (sl loss), an anthology of Scottish literature in Australia £ 14.-

4 [Barrie] Ormond, Leonee: J M Barrie. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic 1987. (Scottish Writers 10) viii 154p 17cm card cover, edges smokesoiled, VG £ 6.-

5 Brahan Seer: Prophecies of the Brahan Seer. Introd A Lang. Sirling: Mackay 1953. viii 92p 18cm hb, dj, dealing with second sight in the Highlands of Scotland £ 4.-

6 Buchanan, George: Poemata quae extant. Amsterdam: Wetstein 1687. 546p 13cm (tiny) full calf, top board almost detached, engraved allegorical tp, contains his lat transl of psalms etc: pocket poet (complete) in small type £ 38.-

7 [Burns] A Critique of the Poems of Robert Burns. Edinburgh: Brown 1812. 79p 22cm papercovered boards worn, paper spine w/ faults, engr frontisp, many engr plates, most tissueguards preserved, one tear repaired, 1 pl missing (Lamma's night - End) Pictorial critique in action: "The sole object of the present publication is to enable men of less cultivated minds to instruct themselves, by aid of Engravings, illustrative of the poetry." £ 46.-

8 Carlyle, Thomas: Scottish and other Miscellanies. Ed. J Lowell. Dent Everym 1964. xi 339p 18cm cloth £ 8.-

9 Thomas Carlyle 1981. Papers given at the Centenary Symposium. Ed. H Drescher. Frankfurt: Lang 1983. 418p 23cm card cover, index, lib stamp cancelled, VG+ £ 10.-

10 Chambers, Robert: Traditions of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Tait 1825. 2 vols, 314 300p errata to vol 1, 17cm, new half leather, VG+, early pub by Chambers £ 64.-

11 Clark, Arthur: Murder under Trust. The Topical MacBeth and other Jacobean Matters. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic 1981. xii 195p 25cm hb, dj, frontisp, as new, the Scottish point of view: Quidnuncs, Scot Law, Clan Feud, Gowrie £ 15.-

12 Cockburn, Henry: Memorials of his Time. Edinburgh: Foulis 1910. xxxv 445p cloth, index, portraits in colour by H Raeburn, restores passages which were not printed in the first ed £ 15.-

13 Crawford, Thomas: Society and the Lyric. A Study of the Song Culture of 18th Century Scotland. Scottish Academic 1979. x 237p 22cm hb, dj, index, new £ 10.-

14 Cunninghame-Graham, R B: Faith. Duckworth 1913. 246p 19cm cloth, edges sl foxing, VG £ 12.-

15 [Cunninghame-Graham, R B:] Maitland, Alexander: Robert and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham. Edinburgh: Blackwood 1983. xi 193p 21cm hb, dj, notes, author inscription, VG+ £ 10.-

16 Dilworth, Mark: The Scots in Franconia. A Century of Monastic Life. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic 1974. 302p 22cm hb, dj, indices, appendices, plates, very scholarly, as new, "The History of the Scottish monastic community at Würzburg has the appeal of the unusual ..." £ 12.-

17 Dorward, David: Scottish Surnames. Blackwood, 1979. 70p 21cm, pb, indexes, illus, as new £ 3.-

18 Bawcutt, Priscilla: Gavin Douglas. A Critical Study. Edinburgh UP 1976. 245p 22cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, notes, new. The first English translator of Vergil, a Scot £ 14.-

19 The Edinburgh Almanack, or Universal Scots and Imperial Register for 1817. 427p 17cm full leather edges worn, almost detached, from skating club to dissenting clergy, stage coach times to tides: all £ 20.-

20 Ford, Robert: Thistledown. A Book of Scotch Humour Character, Folklore, Story and Anecdote. Paisley: Gardner 1930?. 402p 20cm hb, illus, index, VG £ 12.-

21 Geographical Essays in Memory of Alan Ogilvie. Ed. R Miller, J Watson. Nelson 1959. 245p 22cm, cloth, pl VG+ 10 essays, mostly on Scottish geography £ 12.-

22 Glover, Janet: The Story of Scotland. Faber 1960. 399p 23cm cloth, dj, plates, index, bib, fresh ex lib £ 10.-

23 Graham, Henry: The Social Life of Scotland in the 18th Century. Black 1909. xii 545p 20cm cloth (top of spine tiny loss), index, still VG. Country, Town, Poverty, Religion, Education, Crimes, Industry £ 14.-

24 Grant Of Rothiemurchus, Elizabeth: Memoirs of a Highland Lady. 1797 - 1827. Murray 1972. ix 296p 22cm hb, dj, index, plates, VG+ £ 8.-

25 Gunn, Neil: Selected Letters. Ed. J. Pick. Edinb: Polygon 1987. xxii 264p 24cm, hb, dj, as new £ 10.-

26 Gunn, Neil: The Shadow. Faber 1948 (1st ed) 240p cloth sl dusty, VG £ 10.-

27 Stokoe, C J L: A Bibliography of the Works of Neil M GUNN. Aberdeen UP 1987. X 245p 23cm card cover, Index, as New. Important Scottish author £ 15.-

28 Haldane, A R B: Three Centuries of Scottish Posts. A Historical Survey to 1836. Edinburgh: University Press 1971. 336p 24cm, cloth, dj, maps, index, bibliogr, plates, illus, handsome & scientific, as new £ 16.-

29 Hall, Trevor: The Strage Case of Ada Goodrich Freer. Duckworth 1980. xx 132p 22cm cloth dj, plates, index, VG. fascinating story on the fringes of the Society of Psychic Research and second sight in the Scottish Highlands £ 14.-

30 Home, Gordon: Edinburgh. Mine Own Romantic Town. A C Black 1927. xii 140p 25cm cloth (sl dusty), 24pl, index, VG £ 12.-

31 Hume Brown, P: A Short History of Scotland (1908). Rev Ed. Henry Meikle. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1953. xvi 350p 23cm cloth, index, lists, many plates, VG ex lib £ 10.-

32 Christlieb, Theodor: Leben und Lehre des Johannes Scotus Erigena. Gotha: Besser, 1860. viii 472p 20cm half leather, marbeled endp & edges, still VG £ 14.-

33 Kipling, Rudyard; de la Mare, W: St Andrews. Two Poems. Illus M Patterson. Blackie 1926. 16pl, VG £ 8.-

34 Liddall, W J M: The Place Names of Fife and Kinross. Newtong: Syne, ?1975 (1896) 58p 20cm, pb £ 3.-

35 The Living Doric. Ed. Cuthbert Graham. Murray Memorial 1993. 149p glossary, card cover, minor smoke damage, North-East Scots dialect poetry £ 8.-

36 Lockhart, John Gibson: Peter's Letter to His Kinsfolk (1819). Ed. W Ruddick. Edinb Scottish Academic 1977. xxiii 204p 21cm hb, dj, as new. Notorious satirist of the first issues of Blackwood's Magazine, mounting an attack on the the Enlightenment tradition of Hume and the Edinburgh Reviewers £ 8.-

37 Manning, Susan: The Puritan Provincial Vision. Scottish and American Literature in the 19th Century. CUP 1990. x 241p 24cm hb, dj, minor smoke damage. The lineaments of non-English literatures £ 8.-

38 M'Crie, Thomas: The Life of John Knox, containing the History of the Reformation in Scotland ...4th ed, Edinburgh: Blackwood 1818. Vol 2 (of 2) only 496p 22cm no boards, frontisp, index, appendix & supplement with unpub letters and other papers £ 6.-

39 MacMillan, Duncan: Painting in Scotland. The Golden Age 1707 - 1843. Oxford: Paidon 1986. 30cm card cover, 206p plates throughout, many in colour, edge sl smoke-soiled £ 15.-

40 Massie, Alan: Edinburgh. Sinclair 1994. xviii 266p 25cm, hb, dj, index, wonderfully illus, VG+ £ 15.-

41 Nicoll, Robert: Poems and Lyrics, With a Memoir of the Author. Paisley: Gardner 1877. lxix 204p 21cm cloth, label on spine, VG+ £ 15.-

42 Norrie, Jessie: Memories of the Old High School. Dundee: Kidd 1924. 188p 22cm, pb, sl soliled, binding weak, spine partly detached, plates; going back to 1881, when Mr Arnold did come for a visit £ 4.-

43 The Norther Isles. Ed. F T Wainwright. Nelson 1962. xii 224p cloth, dj, 24plates, index, VG+ £ 14.-

44 The Nuttis Schell. Essays on the Scots Language for A J Aitken. Ed. C Macafee, I Macleod. Aberdeen UP 1987. xviii 247p 23cm cloth, bibliogr, VG with minor smoke damage £ 12.-

45 The New Orkney Book. Ed. John Shearer et al. Nelson 1967. 182p hb, dj, plates, index, VG £ 8.-

46 Original Prints 3. New Writing from Scottish Women. Edinb: Polygon 1989. 125p 20cm card, anthology £ 4.-

47 Pigeon Holes of Memory. The Life and Times of Dr John MacKenzie. Ed. from his MS Memoirs by C Byam Shaw. Constable 1988. 443p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, plates, VG+ £ 14.-

48 Piggott, Stuart: Scotland before History. Nelson 1958. 111p cloth, dj, woodcuts by K Henderson, VG w/ a few neat pencil annotations £ 12.-

49 Piggott, Stuart: The Prehistoric Peoples of Scotland. Routledge 1962. 165p cloth, dj, maps, index £ 12.-

50 The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland. Festschrift Gordon Donaldson. Ed. Ian Cowan. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic 1983. x 261p 25cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr of GD, new £ 12.-

51 Rodger, Alexander: Jean Adam of Cartsdyke. Her Authorship of the Ballad "There's Nae Luck About the House" Vindicated. Greenock: Mackenzie 1866 (priv pr?). 51p 18cm half morocco marbeled bds, bookpl, nice copy £ 20.-

52 Roman and Native in North Britain. Ed. I A Richmond. Nelson 1958. x 174p cloth, dj (grubby), appendix annotated in pencil, VG £ 14.-

53 St Ninian's Isle Treasure. A Silver Hoard Dicovered on St Ninian's Isle, Zetland, 1958. Notes by Andrew O'Dell. Aberdeen Univ St 141, 1963. 47p 38cm card cover, 40 pages of wonderful plates VG+ £ 18.

54 St Ninian's Isle and its Treasure, by Alan Small et al. Aberdeen UP/OUP 1973 (Aberdeen Univ Studies 152) Vols 1: Text, Vol 2: Plates. x 193p; ix plus 57plates, 28cm cloth, dj, unused ex lib set £ 30.-

55 Scott, P H: Walter Scott & Scotland. Blackwell 1981. xi 100p 23cm hb, dj, frontisp, VG £ 10.-

56 Scott, Sir Walter: The Pirates. By the Author of Waverly. Edinburgh: Constable, 1822. 1st ed, but without vol 3. 322 332p 19cm, orig blue cloth (sl rubbed) spine gilt, original £ 24.-

57 [Scott, Sir Walter] Millgate, Jane: Walter Scott. The Making of the Novelist. Edinburgh UP 1984. xii 223p cloth, dj, index, as new. How Scott became The Author of Waverley became Scott. Good book £ 12.-

58 [Scott, Sir Walter] Sultana, Donald: The Siege of Malta Rediscovered. An Account of Scott's Mediterranean Journey and His Last Novel. Scottish Acad 1977. xii 215p 24cm hb dj, plates, maps, index, bib, new. £ 10.-

59 [Scott, Sir Walter] Saintsbury, George: Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson 1897. (Famous Scots) 158p 18cm cloth gilt, ex lib with sm faults £ 8.-

60 [Scott, Sir Walter] Davie, Donald: The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott. Routl 1961. vii 168p 23cm cloth, index, VG+ £ 12.-

61 [Scott, Sir Walter] Gibson, John: Reminiscences of Sir W Scott. Edinb Black 47p boards, w/ label, spine minor loss, VG £ 10.-

62 Scottish Population History. From the 17th Century to the 1930ies. Michael Flinn et al. CUP 1977.xxv 547p hb, dj, many tables, maps, index, bibliogr, VG ex lib £ 14.-

63 Dickinson, W C: Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603. Nelson 1961. [New History of Scotland] vii 408p cloth 24cm index, biblio, folding map, fresh ex lib, but w/out the companion volume £ 14.-

64 Scottish Methodism in the Early Victorian Period. The Scottish Correspondence of the Rev Jabez Bunting, 1800 - 1857. Ed. A J Hayes. Edinburgh UP 1981. viii 143p 24cm cloth, dj, plates, index, as new £ 8.-

65 Scottish Pageant. 3 Vols. 1513 - 1625; 1635 - 1707; 1707 - 1802. Ed. Agnes MacKenzie. 327p 369p 401p 19cm cloth, dj, indices, nice ex lib set, covers all aspects of Scottish life and letters, but without vol 1 (55BC - 1513) £ 20.-

66 The Book of Scottish Song, Collected and Illustrated with Historical and Critical Notices and an Essay on Song-Writers by Alex Whitelaw. Glasgow: Blackie 1853. xlii 608p (index not compl), 17cm engr frontisp, engr tp, pages with coloured border, mild spotting, full leather gilt old repair (stiff spine), still VG £ 15.-

67 The Old Scots Surnames. Secrets and Origins of Your Name. Newtongrange: Lang Syne, ?1975. 69p 20cm. Pb, illus, as new, Reprint of 1860 ed. £ 3.-

68 Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland. (=Proceedings of the Royal Soc of Edinburgh, B, vol 84, 1983). viii 373p 24cm card cover, many illus, VG+. Essays by various authors, on various sciences, incl brewing £ 12.-

69 Nicolson, James: Traditional Life in Shetland. Hale 1978. 206p hb, dj, index, 38 plates, glossary, VG+ ex lib £ 10.-

70 Smout, T C: A History of the Scottish People, 1560 - 1830. Collins Fontana 1973. 540p large pb, plates, indices, notes, still VG £ 8.-

71 [Stevenson] Kelman, John: The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: Anderson & Ferrier 1903. 302p cloth (soiled), morocco label, indices, VG £ 12.-

72 Stevenson, David: The Origins of Freemasonry. Scotland's Century, 1590 - 1710. CUP 1990. xii 246p 23cm, pb, index, plates, appendix, VG £ 12.-

73 The Kingis Quair of James Stewart. Ed. Matthew McDiarmid. Heinemann 1973. 161p 22cm coth, dj, frontisp, 70p introd, glossary, notes, phonological description, text of poem itself with some pencil annot, James 1 as poet £ 12.-

74 Stuart, Louisa: Memoire of Frances Lady Douglas (1750 - 1817). Ed. Jill Rubenstein. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic 1985. xxi 106 22cm hb, dj, as new £ 8.-

75 Tayler, Alistair & Henrietta: 1745 and After. Nelson 1938. ix 274p 23cm cloth (worn w/ faults), index, 10pl, ex lib, ed of a MS by O'Sullivan, one of the Seven of Moidart, of Prince Charles Edward's Campain in Scotland, incl letters £ 12.-

76 [Thomson] Scott, Mary Jane: James Thomson, Anglo-Scot. Georgia UP 1988. xiv 373p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, notes, appendix, new: Thomson as a Scot in exile £ 12.-

77 Leonard, Tom: Places of the Mind. The Life and Work of James Thomson (B.V.) Cape 1993. xv 407p notes, index, appendix (80p), hb, dj, as new, (25.-) B V, Scottish author of City of Dreadful Night £ 16.-

78 The University of Edinburgh and Poland. An Historical Review. Ed. Wiktor Tomaszewski. Edinburgh: priv pub 1968. ix 96p + 64 full page plates, 24cm illus cloth, appendix, signed by editor VG+ £ 14.-

79 Urquhart, Thomas: The Jewel (1652). Ed. R Jack, R Lyall. Scottish Academic 1983. vii 252p 22cm hb, dj, unpublished letters, as new, notes, introd £ 14.-

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