Books and Manuscripts

Founded in 1817, and initially called Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, it was more successfully relaunched as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Also known...

A scarce collection of the records of Edinburgh City Council in 5 volumes, covering the period 1913-1918. A record of their activities during the e...

A scarce collection of comprehensive financial accounts for the City of Edinburgh. We have been unable to trace any other copies in institutional h...

The Penny Pictorial Magazine, 3 bound volumes of issues, 1899-1900. The Penny Pictorial Magazine was sold weekly and its one penny price tag was de...

Democratic Readings from the World's Great Teachers. Reprinted from "Reynolds's Newspaper." Compiled and Edited by W.M. Thompson, L.C.C. Numerous P...

The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, by J. Seeley. Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1886. Printed in Great Britai...

The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

Fifty-Two Stories of The Indian Mutiny, and The Men Who Saved India. By Alfred H. Miles and Arthur John Pattle. Published by Hutchinson & Co, L...

Ministry of Reconstruction 1919; Reconstruction Problems Parts 23-38 in leather bound volume. This volume comprises a variety of UK Government Pamp...

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...

The Graphic; An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper; A bound set of approximately 7 months of The Graphic magazine in a typical library binding. Comprisin...

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...

William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...

Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...

Palmerston, by Philip Guedalla. An illustrated Biography of Henry John temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), who was British Prime Minster t...

Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...

All the Trouble in the World; The Lighter Side of Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death, by P.J. O'Rourke. Signed by the author to the title pa...

Studies in Romanticism, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1977. This issue with articles on Marxism and Romanticism. With various contributors. Provenance;...

Siecle de Louis XIV, Edition Stereotype, Augmentee d'une Tables des Matieres, Paris, 1810, 2 Volume set. Published by Stereotype de Mame, Freres, P...

The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the K...

Everybody's Political, What's What?, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Please ...

The Common Sense of Municipal Trading, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Pleas...

The New Statesman; Special War Supplement; Common Sense About the War, by Bernard Shaw. Vol. IV. No. 84. Saturday, November 14, 1914. Additional Pa...