Books and Manuscripts

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Cambridge Physical Series; Radio-Activity, by Ernest Rutherford. A classic work by the New Zealand Physicist, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), consid...

Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel, 1918 & A Child's Garden of Verses, With an Introduction by And...

Round the Grange Farm; or, Good Old Times, by Jean L. Watson, author of "Bygone Days in our Village", etc; and joint author of the "Songstresses of...

Democratic Readings from the World's Great Teachers. Reprinted from "Reynolds's Newspaper." Compiled and Edited by W.M. Thompson, L.C.C. Numerous P...

The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, by J. Seeley. Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1886. Printed in Great Britai...

The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Glasgow. Editors: J. Cunnison and J.B.S. Gilfillan. Published by Collins, Glasgow, 1958. First edition. ...

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Ayrshire. By John Strawhorn and William Boyd. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1951. ...

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...

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

Wallis & Wallis; Catalogues of Antique Arms and Armour, Militaria, Etc, including Coins and Military Medals; 10 bound Auction Catalogues, 1979....

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...

A New and Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, on the basis of Cruden. Edited by John Eadie, D.D., LL.D. With introduction by David King, L...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bijou Shakespeare; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. In Six Volumes. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shake...

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

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

Proverbial Philosophy; In Four Series, Now First Complete. Including the Fiftieth Edition of the Two first Series. By Martin F. Tupper, D.C.L., F.R...

Fifty-Two Stories of The Indian Mutiny, and The Men Who Saved India. By Alfred H. Miles and Arthur John Pattle. Published by Hutchinson & Co, L...

Ministry of Reconstruction 1919; Reconstruction Problems Parts 23-38 in leather bound volume. This volume comprises a variety of UK Government Pamp...

Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story. By George Eyre-Todd, With an Introduction by Neil Munro. Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, ...

Reminiscences of The Monks of St Giles (Founded 1852); Volume First. Various contributors from St Giles in Edinburgh. A very good copy of this scar...

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...

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...

A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from the Field-Books of A Sportsman and Naturalist. By Charles St. John, Esq. With Woodcuts. In Two Volume...

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...

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

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

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

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

Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland). By Sir Walter Scott. SOLD Originally intended as a series of tales on Scottish history for Scott's 6 ...

The llustrated Family Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, &c., &c. With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal...

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

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'...

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...

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