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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, July - December 1807

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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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Wild Flowers as they Grow, H. Essenhigh Corke, G. Clarke Nuttall, 1912

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Wild Flowers as they Grow. Photographed in Colour Direct from Nature by H. Essenhigh Corke, F.R.P.S., F.R.H.S. With Descriptive Text by G. Clarke N...

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Charles Darwin; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, John Murray, 1872, First edition, second issue

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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. With Photographic and Other Illustrations. Published by...

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Charles Darwin; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, John Murray, 1873, Tenth Thousand

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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. With Photographic and Other Illustrations. SOLD Publish...

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Charles Darwin; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, John Murray, 1899, Second edition, Thirty-Fifth Thousand

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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. With Illustrations. Pub...

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Charles Darwin; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, John Murray, 1909

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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With Illustrations. Published by John Murray, London, April, 1...

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Charles Darwin; Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Under Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., John Murray, 1928

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Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Under Comm...

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Charles Darwin; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1901, John Murray

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin, M.A., L.L.D...

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Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1901, Ward, Lock

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Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles ...

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Charles Darwin; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Round the World, 1889

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The Minerva Library of Famous books, edited by G.T. Bettany; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited Du...

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Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle, Nora Barlow, Pilot Press, 1945. Chiswick Press.

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Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle. Edited with an introduction by Nora Barlow. Published by Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1945 first edition. ...

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Charles Darwin; The Living Thoughts of Darwin, with Julian Huxley and James Fisher, 1958. Signed Presentation copy from Julian Huxley.

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Charles Darwin; The Living Thoughts of Darwin. Presented in a New and Revised Edition with a Preface by Julian Huxley, assisted by James Fisher. Ju...

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Radio-Activity, Ernest Rutherford, Cambridge, First edition, 1904

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Cambridge Physical Series; Radio-Activity, by 660. A classic work by the New Zealand Physicist, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), considered to be one...

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Oxford edition; The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hutchinson, 1908

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Oxford edition; The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Edited with Textu...

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The Treasury of History; Comprising a General Introductory Outline of Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Samuel Maunder, 1870

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The Treasury of History; Comprising a General Introductory Outline of Universal History, Ancient and Modern, and a Series of Separate Histories of ...

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A Short History of the English People, John Richard Green, Alice Stopford Green, 1921

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A Short History of the English People. By John Richard Green. Revised and enlarged by Alice Stopford Green. With Maps and Tables. Published by Macm...

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A Familiar History of Birds, Edward Stanley, 1890

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A Familiar History of Birds, by the Late Edward Stanley, D.D., F.R.S., Late Bishop of Norwich. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and Ne...

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The Insect World; Being A Popular Account of the Orders of Insects, Louis Figuier, 1892

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The Insect World; Being A Popular Account of the Orders of Insects, Together With A description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Inter...

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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay, 1883, Riviere binding.

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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 Rise of The Dutch Republic; A History, John Lothrop Motley, 1882

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The Rise of The Dutch Republic; A History. By John Lothrop Motley. A New Edition. Complete in One Volume. Published by George Routledge and Sons, L...

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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, 1856, 2 Vols bound as one.

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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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Popular Library of Literary Treasures; Decision of Character, Representative Men and English Traits, Essays on Love, Friendship, Heroism, Character, and Essays Civil and Moral

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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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Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland, Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace, Signed, Limited edition, 1927

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Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland. By Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace. With ...

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The Megalithic European, Julian Cope, 2004, Signed First edition

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The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...

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The Modern Antiquarian, Julian Cope, 1998, First edition

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The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. S...

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A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Funk & Wagnalls, 1907

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A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, upon original plans; designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most ...

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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, W. Warde Fowler, 1904

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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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The Story of Insect Life, W. Percival Westell, 1907

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The Story of Insect Life, by W. Percival Westell, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. With 138 Illustrations from Photographs by Messrs. H.W. Shepheard-Walwyn, M.A.; ...

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Poems of Tennyson, T. Herbert Warren, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912

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Poems of Tennyson, including; 'The Princess', 'In Memoriam', 'Maud', 'Idylls of The King', 'Enoch Arden', etc. With an Introduction by T. Herbert W...

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A Thousand And One Gems of English Poetry, Charles Mackay, Illustrated Millais, Gibert and Foster, 1867

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A Thousand And One Gems of English Poetry. Selected and Arranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D. Illustrated by J.E. Millais, R.A., Sir John Gibert, R.A.,...

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Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Definitive Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940

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Rudyard Kipling's Verse; Definitive Edition.  Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1940. Would appear to be a first edition thus, fol...

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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. The Albion Edition. Frederick Warne, 1892

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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, With Explanatory Notes, &c. By Thomas Moore. The "Albion" Edition.  Thom...

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Lord Dunsany; The King of Elfland's Daughter, 1924. First trade edition.

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Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

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Lord Dunsany; The Charwoman's Shadow, 1926 first edition.

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Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

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Charles Dickens; Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England, Chapman and Hall. c. 1875.

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Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England. Two books bound as one. By Charles Dickens. SOLD Little Dorritt was originally released in serial...

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The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying, Jeremy Taylor, 1719

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670670Two volumes bound as one; The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living; In Which are Described The Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Vertue,...

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The Amateur Gentleman; A Romance, by Jeffery Farnol, with Drawings by C.E. Brock, c. 1916

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The Amateur Gentleman; A Romance, by Jeffery Farnol, with Drawings by C.E. Brock, R.I. Published by Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., London. Und...

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The Children of Dickens, Samuel McChord Crothers. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, 1931

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The Children of Dickens. By Samuel McChord Crothers. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. Repr...

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Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 1902

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Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by the Author. SOLD Kipling's classic stories of animal tales such as 'How the Camel got his Hump'...

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The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller, Edited by Augustus Muir, 1942

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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.

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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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Coridon's Song And Other Verses from Various Sources, Hugh Thomson, Austin Dobson, 1894.

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Coridon's Song And Other Verses from Various Sources. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. A beautifully illust...

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Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide and The Minor Poems, with Life of the Poet by Sir Harris Nicolas, 1846

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Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide and The Minor Poems, with Life of the Poet, by Sir Harris Nicolas. In three volumes, complete. ...

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A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, Henry Boyd, 1785

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A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, with Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. To Which is Added, A Specimen of a...

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Miniature Painters British and Foreign, J.J. Foster, Signed Edition Royale, No. 13/45. 1903.

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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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A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, William Campbell M.D., and Dr. Gordon, 1822

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A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, To Which is Added an Appendix, containing the Essay of the Late...

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Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott by George Cruickshank, 1871

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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

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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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