Biography Books

Aberdeen University; Record of the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen, from 25th to 28th September, 1906. Edited by P...

Aberdeen University; A History of the University of Aberdeen 1495-1895, by John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collec...

Aberdeen University: Roll of Graduates, 1860-1970, 4 Volume Set; SOLD Vol I: Roll of the Graduates of the University of Aberdeen, 1860-1900. By Col...

Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae Aberdonensis: Selections from the Records of the Marischal College and University, MDXCIII - MDCCCLX; plus Officers a...

Transactions of the Franco-Scottish Society (Scottish Branch), 1897-1935. A set of 8 volumes as follows; Vol. I: 1897; Vol II: 1898-1901; Vol III: ...

A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell, Esq. To Which are Added, Anecdotes by Hawkins...

Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men, who have died during the last thirty years, and in their lives did much to make the city what it ...

The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, by Byron Farwell. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a famous Welsh-American explorer, sol...

The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous King...

England in 1819; The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, by James Chandler. Provenance; from the library of the late...

The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, by Sydney Checkland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St ...

Leabar A' Chlachain; Home Life of the Highlanders 1400-1746. Printed for the Highland Village Association Limited; Scottish Exhibition of National ...

The Highlanders of Scotland, by the Late William F. Skene, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A. (Scot). Edited, with Excursus and Notes, by Alexander Macbain, M.A...

Argyll's Highlands: or MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne; With Traditional Tales and Legends of the County of Argyll and the Campbells and Macd...

The Genealogie of the Mackenzies, Preceeding Ye Year M.DC.LXI. (1661); Wreattin in Ye Year M.DC.LXIX (1669), by a Person of Qualitie (unnamed, but ...

W.G. Gillies; A Very Still Life, by W. Gordon Smith. SOLD Published by Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 1991, first edition. With 8pp Exhibition Catalogue...

Hill and Adamson's Photographs of Linlithgow, by Roddy Simpson. Published by West Lothian History and Amenity Society, Linlithgow, 2002 first editi...

Famous Women of Scotland Series: Volume One; Famous Women of Fife, by Lillian King. Published by Windfall Books, Fife, 1997 first edition. Uncommon...

The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, General Editor – Douglas Mack: James Hogg; Selected Stories and Sketches. Edited by Douglas S. Mack....

Early Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D. (Late principal of New college, Edinburgh), 1850-1864, selected and edited by his Son, Marcus Dods, M.A., Advoca...

Stanley Gibbons Royal Wedding Stamp Collection 1981, 3 Volume Set; The Royal Wedding, H.R.H. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, 29th July 1981....

Piracy, The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - ...

The Courtesan's Revenge; Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King, by Frances Wilson. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...

The Business of Enlightenment; A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800, by Robert Darnton. Provenance; from the library of the late Will...

Joseph Severn, A Life; The Rewards of Friendship, by Sue Brown. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British hi...

The Courtesan's Revenge; Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King, by Frances Wilson. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late Wil...

Arthur Miller: Collected Essays, 1944-2000; Echoes Down the Corridor. Edited by Steven R. Centola. Provenance; from the library of the late William...

Andrew Lang, A Critical Biography with a short-title bibliography of the works of Andrew Lang, by Roger Langelyn Green. Published by Edmund Ward, L...

The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland. By William Anderson. Publis...

The Dictionary of Scottish Painters, 1600 to the Present, by Paul Harris & Julian Halsby. Published by Canongate, Edinburgh. 1998 second editio...

Highways and Byways in the West Highlands, by Seton Gordon. With illustrations by Sir D.Y. Cameron R.A. and a Glossary of Place-Name Elements with ...

Publishing, Editing and Reception; Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman. Edited by  Michael Edson. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...

Thomas De Quincey; His Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence by H A Page (pseudonym of Alexander Hay Japp). In Two volumes. Vol. I. (t...

An Early Suitor of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Elizabeth Nitchie. An official Reprinted Extract from PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Associat...

Visionary Daughters of Albion; A Bicentenary Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, May 3 - September 13, 1997, The New York Public L...

Visionary Daughters of Albion; A Bicentenary Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, May 3 - September 13, 1997, The New York Public L...

Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

England's First Family of Writers; Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, by Julie A Carlson. Provenance; from the library of the late ...

The Regent Library; Mary Wollstonecraft, by Camilla Jebb. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British his...

Mary Shelley by Eileen Bigland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. Hi...

Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Ralph M. Wardle. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Briti...

Mary Shelley's Journal. Edited by Frederick L. Jones. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, a...

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844; Volume I: 1814-1822 and Volume II 1822-1844. Edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert. SOLD Prove...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922. Doctorate Thesis. Text is in En...

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 3 Volumes complete. Edited by Betty T. Bennett. comprising; Volume 1: "A Part of the elect"; xlv + 591p...

A Clyack-Sheaf by Hugh MacDiarmid, Not for Publication; Uncorrected Proof. Includes a signed letter from William McCreadie, dated 22nd April 1969) ...

Akros, Special Hugh MacDiarmid double issue, August 1977. Published by Akros Publications, Preston. Volume 12, Numbers 34 & 35, published simul...