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The National Burns, Including The Airs of All the Songs and an Original Life of Burns, Rev. George Gilfillan, William Mackenzie, c. 1880
The National Burns, Edited by Rev. George Gilfillan, Including The Airs of All the Songs and an Original Life of Burns, by the Editor. Essentially ...
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Memories of Two Cities; Edinburgh and Aberdeen, David Masson, 1911
Memories of Two Cities; Edinburgh and Aberdeen, by David Masson, LL.D., Litt.D., Late Historiographer Royal for Scotland, Late Professor of Rhetori...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, July - December 1807
The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...
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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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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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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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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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Amusements of Leisure Hours; or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, John Skinner, 1809
Amusements of Leisure Hours; or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; By the Late Reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberdeenshire. To...
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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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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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Lochleven, and Other Poems, Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie, 1837
Lochleven, and Other Poems (also known as 'Life and Poems' from the half title page), Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie. Poetry by the Scottish...
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