Scottish Interest Books

The Acts of Parliament in Scotland, Volume II (1424-1567) is part of the authoritative early nineteenth-century edition of Scotland’s statutory rec...

The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (2006) is a finely produced modern edition of one of the most important cartographic works ever devoted to Scotland, or...

Samuel Butler’s Evolution, Old and New remains one of the most provocative nineteenth-century critiques of Darwinian theory, setting the ideas of B...

A cornerstone account of one of the most ambitious Arctic undertakings of the nineteenth century, Sir George Naress Narrative of a Voyage to the Po...

Journals of the Western Isles: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Bo...

Joseph Swan (1796-1872) was one of Scotland's foremost 19th-century engravers and publishers, known for his finely detailed steel-plate views of Sc...

Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a richly imagined and deeply moving novel inspired by the life and loss...

A scholarly early 18th century Latin edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, the foundation of classical geometry. Edited and correcte...

The Ladies Calling. Edinburgh: James Glen, 1675. First Scottish Edition. The Ladies Calling (first published London, 1673 and attributed to Richard...

'Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 1...

A well-presented copy of Harry Graham’s engaging biographical study of remarkable Scottish women, spanning six centuries from Dervorguilla (1213–12...

The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks; Probably one of the most impactful and influential novels by a Scottish author in the 1980s. A work of dark brilli...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

Tales from Inverbothrie, by Frances Ryhnd Brightman. Described as "Written as a historical novel, Tales from Inverbothrie charts the fortunes of a ...

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

Records of Experiments on Living Animals, Bacteriology Department, University of Aberdeen, 1967-1980. A substantial large-format institutional ledg...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd is a cornerstone of 18th‑century Scottish literature, widely celebrated as the nation’s first major pastoral dra...

A smart 1829 volume of The Gem; A Literary Annual, edited by the poet and humorist Thomas Hood, featuring contributions from some of the era’s most...