Biography Books

Exhibition catalogue detailing the work of French neo-classical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). The exhibition took place at the ...

2 Volume biography of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who became Lord Chancellor of G...

The Highland Clans of Scotland, Their History and Traditions. By George Eyre-Todd. With an Introduction by A.M. Mackintosh. With One Hundred and Tw...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

Scott's importance to literature really cannot be overstated - his work was highly influential and immensely popular across Europe at the time of w...

A scarce first edition set of this family history with presentation inscription to 'David Bogie' from 'Patrick Annandale', the 11th Earl of Annanda...

From the 'Americans in the Greek Revolution' series. The account of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an American surgeon who went to Greece when just 24 ye...

Author's presentation copy, inscribed to half title. A very uncommon book, with Worldcat only identifying 3 institutional holdings. Voyage en Grece...

Gennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, by C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

From the Memorial Service for British artist, William Nicholson (1872-1949) at Saint Martin-In-The -Fields church in London. Nicholson was a fine a...

Lord Byron, Early Travellers, and the Monastery at Delphi, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

The Scottish School of Painting, by William D. McKay, R.S.A., Librarian to the Royal Scottish Academy. Published by Duckworth and Co., London, and ...

Robert Chambers, along with his elder brother William, were Scottish Publishers, and highly influential figures in 19th Century Scottish Society. A...

'Split into two main sections - 'The Ancient League with France' and 'The Scot Abroad, the book explores the relations of Scotland and Scotsmen wit...

History of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Translated from the original and unpublished MS. of Professor Petit, by Charles de Flandre, F.S.A. Scot. 2 ...

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

A set of two Victorian photo albums which appear to feature a Scottish family's life and travels in Scotland (it is unclear if both albums relate t...

A German publication on the work of Tōshūsai Sharaku, Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, particularly known for his portraits of kabuki actors. He is...

Alfred Lord Tennyson; A Memoir, by His Son. By Hallam Tennyson. Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited., London, 1899. First printed (in 2 Volumes...

The National Burns, Edited by Rev. George Gilfillan, Including The Airs of All the Songs and an Original Life of Burns, by the Editor. Essentially ...

Memories of Two Cities; Edinburgh and Aberdeen, by David Masson, LL.D., Litt.D., Late Historiographer Royal for Scotland, Late Professor of Rhetori...

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

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

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

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...

Chatterton; A Story of the Year 1770, by David Masson, M.A., LL.D. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1874. First edition thus. The Prefatory N...

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), was an English professor, writer, clergyman, social reformer, historian and poet. He was one of first to embrace Char...

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...

Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Scotland, and Ireland, containi...

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 Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. In Four Volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition, Revised Under the Care of the Pu...

The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller. Edited by Augustus Muir. Introduction by James Horatio Cockburn. A scarce copy of Scottish writer...

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...

Trumpet on the Wing, by Wingy Manone & Paul Vandervoort II. Foreword by Bing Crosby. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick &a...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

Published as a 'souvenir' to commemorate the National Celebration at Edinburgh of the Centenary of the Birth of Sir Walter Scott. Pictorial Illustr...

A biography of Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Princess Mary; Viscountess Lascelles; An Intimate and Autho...

Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...

The Hooded Hawk, or the Case of Mr. Boswell, by D.B. Wyndham Lewis. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. First edition - July, 1946. Print...

Amusements of Leisure Hours; or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; By the Late Reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberdeenshire. To...

The Works of Robert Burns; with a Complete Life of the Poet, and An Essay on His Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Also Numerous Notes, An...

Old Glasgow; The Place and the People; From the Roman Occupation to the Eighteenth Century. By Andrew MacGeorge. Published by Blackie and Son, Glas...

Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the XXth Century. SOLD A historical and biographical account of the important figures in the development of G...