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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay, 1883, Riviere binding.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...
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The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns, T.F. Henderson, 1906
The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns, by T.F. Henderson. Published by T.N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1906. First edition. A very good, approachi...
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, 1856, 2 Vols bound as one.
The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Library Edition. In Four Volumes. Offered here are Volumes one and two only, bound a...
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Chatterton; A Story of the Year 1770, David Masson, 1874
Chatterton; A Story of the Year 1770, by David Masson, M.A., LL.D. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1874. First edition thus. The Prefatory N...
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Charles Kingsley; His Letters and Memories of His Life, edited by His Wife, 1884
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), was an English professor, writer, clergyman, social reformer, historian and poet. He was one of first to embrace Char...
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The Idler Magazine, Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr, Vol IV; August 1893 to January 1894 (Conan Doyle story)
Published between 1892 and 1911, The Idler was an illustrated gentleman's magazine, published in Great Britain, and also distributed in America. Th...
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Popular Library of Literary Treasures; Decision of Character, Representative Men and English Traits, Essays on Love, Friendship, Heroism, Character, and Essays Civil and Moral
Ward, Lock and Co.'s Popular Library of Literary Treasures. Edited by G.T. Bettany, M.A.; 4 volumes bound as one; On Decision of Character and On A...
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Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, Forty-Seventh Annual Publication, 1907
Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Scotland, and Ireland, containi...
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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, W. Warde Fowler, 1904
Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, by W. Warde Fowler. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Knickerbocker Press, New Yo...
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Hudibras in Three Parts, Samuel Butler, with notes by Zachary Grey. In 2 Volumes complete, 1810.
Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. By Samuel Butler, with Select Notes by Zachary Grey, L.L. D. The Author's Remains; a...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations, 1764
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, with Numerous Portraits, Robert Chambers, Rev. Thomas Thomson, 1855. Vol. V.
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. In Four Volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition, Revised Under the Care of the Pu...
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Seventeeth Edition, 1952
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Seventeeth Edition. Published by Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1952. A fair cloth ha...
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South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801), Lady Anne Barnard, 1926
South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801); Part I: Letters Written from the Cape of Good Hope; Part II: Extracts from a Journal Addressed to Her Siste...
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The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller, Edited by Augustus Muir, 1942
The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller. Edited by Augustus Muir. Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. A scarce copy of Scottish writer...
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The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote, William Cooke, 1889. Numbered, Limited edition.
The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...
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Miniature Painters British and Foreign, J.J. Foster, Signed Edition Royale, No. 13/45. 1903.
Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...
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Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott by George Cruickshank, 1871
Published as a 'souvenir' to commemorate the National Celebration at Edinburgh of the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott. Pictorial Illustr...
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Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles, Evelyn Graham, 1930
A biography of Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles; An Intimate and Autho...
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Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story of The Prince of Wales, Evelyn Graham, 1929
A biography of Edward, Prince of Wales, prior to his ascension, and subsequent abdication, of the throne. Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story ...
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A Collection of Works by Ian Hay, mostly first editions, 1911-1941
Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...
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The Hooded Hawk, or the Case of Mr. Boswell, D.B. Wyndham Lewis, 1946
The Hooded Hawk, or the Case of Mr. Boswell, by D.B. Wyndham Lewis. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. First edition - July, 1946. Print...
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The Works of Robert Burns; with a Complete Life of the Poet, Professor Wilson, Two Volumes complete, 1847
The Works of Robert Burns; with a Complete Life of the Poet, and An Essay on His Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Also Numerous Notes, An...
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Old Glasgow; The Place and the People; From the Roman Occupation to the Eighteenth Century, Andrew MacGeorge, 1880
Old Glasgow; The Place and the People; From the Roman Occupation to the Eighteenth Century. By Andrew MacGeorge. Published by Blackie and Son, Glas...
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Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the XXth Century, 1901 first edition
Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the XXth Century. A historical and biographical account of the important figures in the development of Glasgo...
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Joy Adamson; First edition set of Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, 1960-1962
First edition set of Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, by 2.5k: Born Free; A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's L...
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O.H.M.S. An Illustrated Record of the Voyage of S.S. "Tintagel Castle", W. McLean and E.H. Shackleton, 1900
"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea: "O.H.M.S." An Illustrated Record of the Voyage of S.S. "Tintagel Castle", Conveying Twelve Hundred Soldie...
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In Praise of Tweed, W.S. Crockett, 1899, numbered limited edition, signed by Publisher
In Praise of Tweed, by W.S. Crockett, Minister of Tweedsmuir. An anthology of poetic writings connected with the River Tweed, with biographical int...
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Roger Fry; A Biography, by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1940 1st impression
Roger Fry; A Biography, by Virginia Woolf. Biography of the English painter and art critic, Roger Fry (1866-1934), who was a hugely influential fig...
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Our Journey Around The World, Rev. Francis E. Clark, with Glimpses of Life in Far Off Lands as Seen Through a Woman's Eyes, Harriet E. Clark, 1895
Our Journey Around The World; An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand,...
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Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield. 8 volumes, 1881. Hughenden Edition
Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield (The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli), with Portrait and Sketch of His Life. 8 volumes (missing 3 from th...
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William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his published work on the subject.
William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...
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Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one, c. 1870
Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, With Life, Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh, c. 1902
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, With Life. Engravings on Steel. Published by Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh and London. Undated but with prev...
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Palmerston, Philip Guedalla, 1926
Palmerston, by Philip Guedalla. An illustrated Biography of Henry John temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), who was British Prime Minster t...
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Original Typed Letter Signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903
Original typed letter signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903. SOLD A rather splendid letter signed by Rudyard Kipling and typed o...
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