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BOSWELL, James.
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The Life of Johnson..in two volumes.
London
printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly
1791
W. Strong is addressed in the letter as Rev.d Archdeacon Strong – he has used the blank page of the letter to make notes on…More details Price: £15,500.00 -
MACGILLIVRAY, William.
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The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar.
London
printed for private circulation [by command of Queen Victoria, who had purchased the manuscript after MacGillivray’s premature death]
1859
There is an elaborate printed presentation note pasted to the front free endpaper ‘This work, printed by command of the Queen, is presented to The…More details Price: £2,000.00 -
![The Scottish toleration argued: or, an account of all the laws about the Church of Scotland ratify'd by the Union Act. In a letter from a Scots gentleman to a member of Parliament by [CARSTARES, William].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/10239---200.jpg?v=1687285824)
[CARSTARES, William].
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The Scottish toleration argued: or, an account of all the laws about the Church of Scotland ratify'd by the Union Act. In a letter from a Scots gentleman to a member of Parliament
London
printed for S. Popping at the Raven in Paternoster Row
1712
Although Carstares was a strong and pivotal supporter of the Act of Union, and the Hanoverian succession, as this pamphlet shows, he was alarmed by…More details Price: £480.00 -
HUTTON, James.
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The Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. In: ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. I, 1788’, pp. 209-304 + plates I-II with explanation leaf.
Edinburgh
J. Dickson
1788
Hutton gave his ground breaking address in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1785 and this 1788 printing was the Society’s…More details Price: £9,000.00 -
GRAHAME, Kenneth. SHEPARD, E.H.
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The Wind in the Willows.
London
Methuen
1931
The book was originally published in 1908 but this was the first edition with illustrations that Kenneth Grahame approved and the only edition he signed.…More details Price: £11,000.00 -
BRUCE (James, of Kinnaird).
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.
Edinburgh
1790
An amazing survival being uncut in the original publishers boards.
Born in Stirlingshire, Bruce went to Harrow and then studied Law at Edinburgh University, a degree…More details Price: £5,800.00 -
MACKENZIE, Alexander.
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Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country.
London
T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Cobbett and Morgan & W. Creech
1801
In 1789, Mackenzie's crew which included French-Canadian voyagers, his wife and several others, paddled off in a birchbark canoe from Fort Chipewyan in Central Canada.…More details Price: £10,000.00 -
SCOTT, Walter.
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Waverley; or, ‘Tis sixty years since.
Edinburgh
James Ballantyne & Co & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London
1814
With this romance of the Jacobite rebellion, begun in 1805, laid aside, and then completed within three weeks in 1814, Scott ‘at one blow... established…More details Price: £7,800.00
![The Scottish toleration argued: or, an account of all the laws about the Church of Scotland ratify'd by the Union Act. In a letter from a Scots gentleman to a member of Parliament by [CARSTARES, William].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/10239---800.jpg?v=1687285824)
