Miscellaneous Books

An interesting association copy of Peter Shaffer’s celebrated play, dramatising the rivalry between Mozart and the court composer Antoni...

An interesting association copy of Hugh Wheeler’s comedy about a disgraced former professor and the assorted friends who depend upon him...

An interesting association copy of Martin B. Duberman’s documentary play, drawing on letters, speeches and historical records to trace t...

An interesting association copy of John Osborne’s controversial play, based on the life of Alfred Redl, an Austro-Hungarian army officer...

An attractive annual volume of The Youth's Instructor and Guardian for 1847, a Wesleyan Methodist periodical combining religious and moral instruct...

An uncommon first edition of ten public lectures delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1880-81, aimed at making medical knowledge and practic...

An uncommon first edition of this collection of essays and descriptive sketches by John M'Diarmid (1790-1852), Scottish journalist, author and edit...

An attractive and uncommon sammelband of four works of Scottish humour, dialect stories and verse by James Smith, published by John Menzies & C...

An unusual and scarce collection of ten nineteenth-century Scottish pamphlets and essays, published in Edinburgh by Edmonston and Douglas between 1...

An uncommon illustrated survey of English social life, tracing changing customs and recreations from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Drawing...

Companion to Alfred Ronald's Fly Fisher's Entomology. The Extracts are printed from the Sixth Edition of the Work, by permission of Messrs. Longman...

Two scarce Victorian travel accounts by David Kennedy, Junior, describing the Kennedy family's professional tours performing Scottish songs in Indi...

A substantial study of the art of Jack B. Yeats, one of Ireland's leading twentieth-century painters. T.G. Rosenthal examines Yeats's distinctive a...

A particularly attractive early edition of one of Richard Jefferies' best-known works on English country life and natural history. Drawing extensiv...

An uncommon early history of British horse-racing, tracing the development of the sport and the establishment of its principal race meetings, toget...

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (182...

Rupert T. Gould's The Case for the Sea-Serpent is a serious and remarkably detailed investigation into one of the most enduring mysteries of mari...

Rupert T. Gould's Enigmas: Another Book of Unexplained Facts follows his successful Oddities with a further collection of historical mysteries, u...

Rupert T. Gould's Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts is a fascinating collection of historical mysteries, strange phenomena and apparently ine...

William Enfield's Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics is an engaging early nineteenth-century introduction to science a...

Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places is a short account of his journey through the Holy Land, combining observations on the sacred sites of Chri...

Ida Pfeiffer's A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North is the account of the celebrated Austrian traveller's journey to Iceland and Scandinav...

William Wagner's Asgard and the Gods is a substantial and attractively illustrated survey of Norse mythology, retelling the myths and legends prese...

H. A. Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen is a wide-ranging and highly readable account of Scandinavian mythology, drawing principally upon the Poetic ...

Alice S. Hoffman's The Book of the Sagas retells for younger readers a selection of the great legends and heroic stories of the medieval Scandinavi...

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant presents in English the dramatic histories of two of medieval Norway's most celebrated warrior...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is the first English translation of Kormáks saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas and an important example of t...

John Ward's The Young Mathematician's Guide was a successful early eighteenth-century mathematical textbook, intended to provide students and pract...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

Henry Tuke's The Duties of Religion and Morality is a concise work of Christian instruction by the prominent English Quaker writer and minister Hen...

A striking collection of traditional French children's songs and singing games, Vieilles Éternelles Rondes et Chansons was produced by the celebrat...

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's Bring on the Girls! is a lively and frequently irreverent memoir of their years in American musical com...

Written by Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), grandson and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, First Journey recounts the young author's a...

A useful collection of publications relating to the history and development of Freemasonry in Hong Kong, China and the wider Far East, principally ...

Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753-1806) was one of the great masters of Japanese ukiyo-e, celebrated particularly for his elegant and psychologically subtle...

Joan Blaeu / Timothy Pont - Insulae Quaedam Minores ex Aebudis quae Mulam et Skiam insulas interjacent. Some of the Smaller Westerne Yles lying bet...