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Art & Architecture

42 Books, including 3 large folios

Russia: Art & History

12 Books, comprising

Stevenson, Alan

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

Arrowmith, Aaron

Map of Scotland, constructed from Original Material obtained under

Delisle, Guillaume

Atlas Nouveau

Fehr & Du Bois, publishers

Troye's Map of the Transvaal

Children's Books

26 books and a box of Photographs

Potter, Beatrix

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

Potter, Beatrix

Four first editions, comprising

Potter, Beatrix

The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator

Four Children's Books

Thomas, Edward

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds

[Etruria - Etruscan] Inghirami, Curzio

Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta...

[Incunable] Boccaccio, Giovanni

Genealogie [Deorum gentilium]

Alphabetum Arabicum

Rome, 1592

Continental Books, mainly vellum bound

6 volumes, comprising

Diderot, Denis

[Encyclopédie]

Matet, M.M.

Tapis Modernes

Petrarca, Francesco

Il Petrarca con le Ossrvationi di Messer Francesco Alunno

A collection of books

13 bindings

Acts of Parliament, Parliamentary Papers & Reports

Including Whaling, Fisheries, Lighthouses, Agriculture & other subjects

Holland, James

The Battle of Britain

Jacobite Interest: Acts of Parliament

Relating to the 1715 Uprising

Plinius Secundus, Gaius

The Historie of the World

Rae, W.F.

Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: the Opposition under George the Third

Robert Strange - Jacobite Banknotes

Proof Printed and Signed by Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.

Scotland

73 works, including

Scotland, 8 volumes, comprising

Lindsay, Patrick

Sibbald, Robert

A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio

Williamson, Peter

French and Indian Cruelty

1870's Literature

22 volumes, comprising

1890's Literature

a collection, including

1920's Literature

24 volumes, some signed, comprising

1930's literature

24 volumes, including

1940's Literature

38 volumes, including

19th Century American History and Literature

18 volumes, including

5 First editions, comprising

Thomas, Edward

A collection of literature, mainly 20th century

35 books, including

American Literature and History, 20th century

a collection, comprising

Banks, Iain

17 books, including 10 signed by the author

Banks, Iain M.

14 books, 6 signed by the author

Bibliography

38 volumes, comprising

Boyd, William, and others

28 works, comprising

Braine, John - Lawrence Durrell - Olivia Manning - Anthony Powell - Simon Raven - L.P. Hartley

32 Books, comprising

Brontë, Charlotte - Brontë, Emily - Brontë, Anne

The Shakespeare Head Brontë

Christie, Agatha

8 First editions, comprising

Conrad, Joseph

6 books

De L'Isle-Adam, P.A., Count

Axel

Dickens, Charles

12 books, first and early editions

Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist

Du Maurier, Daphne

Rebecca

Fleming, Ian

For Your Eyes Only

Fleming, Ian

6 James Bond Novels

Fleming, Ian

Diamonds are Forever

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

Fleming, Ian

Moonraker

Fleming, Ian

Thunderball

Fraser, George MacDonald

16 books, including 2 signed by the author

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

A Scots Quair

Haggard, H. Rider - Neil Munro

15 books in original cloth

History & Literature

86 Books, including

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

26 items, 15 signed, comprising

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

Selected Lyrics

Masters, John - McIlvanney, William - Monsarrat, Nicholas

20 books

McDonald, Alexander [Alistair MacDomhnuill]

A Galick and English Vocabulary / Leabhar a Theagasc Ainminnin: no a Nuadhschocloir Gaoidhelig & Beurla

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Animal Farm

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair] - Aldous Huxley

37 volumes

Rowling, J.K.

The Harry Potter Gift Set, Signed

Sackville-West, Vita

Sissinghurst

Scott, Sir Walter

A collection of first editions

Snow, C.P.

30 volumes, comprising

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A collection of 7 works

Trollope, Anthony

Collection of 37 volumes, comprising

Virgil - Gavin Douglas, translator

Aeneis, translated into Scottish Verse

Waugh, Evelyn

Vile Bodies

[18th century religious manuscript account] Wilson, William

Memorial of Free Mercy

Archive of the Gill / Hutchison Family

Including the naval adventures of Commander Thomas Gill, b.1774

Bishop of Durham, Halmote Court Documents

21 historic documents, comprising

Collection of Scottish documents & Theatrical Programmes,

comprising

Edinburgh. Scarce medieval deed, dated at Edinburgh 20th September 1481

In which George Elder, burgess of the borough of Edinburgh, grants and sells to William Craik

Edward (Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, later Duke of York, son of Edmund of Langley, 1373?-1415)

Charter, granting the reversion of the Manor of Oxhey, [Watford, Hertfordshire]

Gaitens, Edward (1897-1966), short story writer & novelist

Circa 60 typescript or manuscript letters, including from

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

A Guide to Contemporary Scottish Literature I

Marlborough, John Churchill, First Duke of

Warrant signed ("Marlborough"), as Master General of the Ordnance,

Signatures, letters and cards of well-known British figures

Including Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)

The British Mount Everest Expedition to China

Postcard cover signed by expedition members

Warwickshire - King James VI & I. A Royal Confirmation of title and interest

in a messuage and tenement with land, as it appears in the Court Rolls of "Over Brayles" [Brailes]

19th century and early 20th century Magic, a Collection

comprising:

19th Century and early 20th Century Magic

including a large collection of Professor Hoffmann [John Angelo Lewis]

19th Century Magic and related, 10 volumes, comprising

Accum, Frederck

19th Century Magic and related, 12 volumes, comprising

Accum, Frederick

19th Century Magic, 8 volumes, comprising

Anderson, John Henry

3 works including Feinagle, Gregor von

The New Art of Memory

4 volumes, comprising

Scott, Sir Walter

5 Magic books in attractive pictorial bindings

comprising:

5 volumes, comprising Hutton, Charles

A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary