Books and Manuscripts
Lanna Antique has an extensive range of rare Asian art books and an excellent, and wide-ranging, stock of antiquarian and collectible books. We are specialists in Asian art books, including Chinese art. We also stock South East Asian Buddhist manuscripts and have many interesting publications and oddities for sale. We also aim to bring you interesting titles covering a wide range of subject matter, and update our online stock frequently.
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Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story, George Eyre-Todd, 1923, Library binding
Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story. By George Eyre-Todd, With an Introduction by Neil Munro. Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, ...
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Reminiscences of The Monks of St Giles, Printed for Private Circulation, 1883-1891
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...
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Lord Dunsany; The King of Elfland's Daughter, 1924. First trade edition.
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.
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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A Tour in Sutherlandshire, Charles St. John, 2 Volumes complete, John Murray 1849. Lord Tweedmouth provenance.
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...
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Hudibras in Three Parts, Samuel Butler, with notes by Zachary Grey. In 2 Volumes complete, 1810.
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...
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Charles Dickens; Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England, Chapman and Hall. c. 1875.
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 Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations, 1764
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...
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The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying, Jeremy Taylor, 1719
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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Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione, Libri Octo, Thomas Hutchinson, Glasgow 1814
Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione, Libri Octo, En Recensione, Et Cum Notis, Thomas Hutchinson A.M. Published by Andreas Duncan (Andrew Duncan), Glas...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, with Numerous Portraits, Robert Chambers, Rev. Thomas Thomson, 1855. Vol. V.
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. In Four Volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition, Revised Under the Care of the Pu...
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Sir Walter Scott; Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland), Robert Cadell, 1851
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 ...
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The Illustrated Family Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, Rev. John Brown, Fullarton, c. 1860
The llustrated Family Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, &c., &c. With the Self-Interpreting and Explanatory Notes, and Marginal...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); The Great Bank Fraud; An Urgent Warning to Business Men, Signed
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); Cynicus - His Humour and Satire, 1894
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); Symbols and Metaphors, 1892, hardback
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); The Humours of Cynicus, 1892, hardback
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); The Satires of Cynicus, Signed, paperback
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); The Satires of Cynicus, Signed, paperback with Castle Cynicus postcard
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson); The Satires of Cynicus, 1892, Signed, hardback
Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Seventeeth Edition, 1952
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Seventeeth Edition. Published by Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1952. A fair cloth ha...
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South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801), Lady Anne Barnard, 1926
South Africa A Century Ago (1797-1801); Part I: Letters Written from the Cape of Good Hope; Part II: Extracts from a Journal Addressed to Her Siste...
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The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1914
The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. Published by Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1914. First edition...
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The Amateur Gentleman; A Romance, by Jeffery Farnol, with Drawings by C.E. Brock, c. 1916
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
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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The Chronicles of Barsetshire; The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope, Chapman and Hall, 1879
The Chronicles of Barsetshire; The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope. 2 volume set complete. Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 187...
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Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 1902
Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by the Author. Kipling's classic stories of animal tales such as 'How the Camel got his Hump', 'Ho...
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The Intimate Thoughts of John Baxter, Bookseller, Edited by Augustus Muir, 1942
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.
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.
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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Jazz Book Club; Trumpet on the Wing, Wingy Manone & Paul Vandervoort II, 1964
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...
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Nepal; The Mountain is Young, Han Suyin (韓素音), 1958
The Mountain is Young, by Han Suyin (韓素音). Han Suyin was the pen name of Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (周光瑚), c. 1917-2012. She was a physician and ...
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The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, Chiang Yee (蒋彝), 1950
The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, by Chiang Yee (蒋彝). Chiang Yee, 1903-1977, was the self-styled 'Silent Traveller', a writer, painter and calligr...
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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
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
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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δεισιδαιμονία (Superstition); A contribution to the knowledge of the religious terminology in Greek. Doctoral Thesis. Peter John Koets, 1929
δεισιδαιμονία (Deisidaimonia - Superstition); A contribution to the knowledge of the religious terminology in Greek. Doctoral Thesis. By Peter John...
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Walking on Glass, Iain Banks, Macmillan, 1985 First edition
Walking on Glass, by Iain Banks. The second novel by one of Scotland's most influential authors in modern times. Published by Macmillan London Limi...
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, BCA Edition, 1980
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Classic British science fiction from Douglas Adams - the first in the Hitch Hiker's series...
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Miniature Painters British and Foreign, J.J. Foster, Signed Edition Royale, No. 13/45. 1903.
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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Les Martyrs, ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chrétienne, François René de Chateaubriand, 2 vol. set, 1809
Les Martyrs, ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chrétienne, François René de Chateaubriand, 2 vol. set. Published by Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Par...
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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
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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Orkney Shore, Robert Rendall, 1960
"A personal record of the Orkney shore, including observations on its marine fauna and biographical notes on early Orkney naturalists. It also pres...
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Glimpses of Old and New Dundee, A.H. Millar, 1925
Glimpses of Old and New Dundee, by A.H. Millar, LL.D., City Librarian, Dundee. Published by Malcolm C. Macleod, Dundee, 1925. First edition. A scar...
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Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott by George Cruickshank, 1871
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
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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Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story of The Prince of Wales, Evelyn Graham, 1929
A biography of Edward, Prince of Wales, prior to his ascension, and subsequent abdication, of the throne. Edward P.; A New and Intimate Life Story ...
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A Collection of Works by Ian Hay, mostly first editions, 1911-1941
Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh cover design; Rambles Among Our Industries; Leather and Bootmaking, 1913
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Blackie and Sons to design the covers for two series of their books - The Rambler Travel Books and Ra...
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