You Met Such Nice Girls in the Wrens (1946)
Published by Robert Hale Limited in 1946, You Met Such Nice Girls in the Wrens is a humorous and lively diary of Lola Brown, a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS).
£45.00
A Hundred Years in the Highlands (1949)
Published by Geoffrey Bles in 1949, A Hundred Years in the Highlands is the memoir of Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie of Inverewe, offering a vivid account of life in the Scottish Highlands. This edition includes an additional chapter by Mackenzie’s daughter, M. T. Sawyer of Inverewe, providing further insight into the life and times of the author.
£15.00
The Remotest Pint (2022)
Published by Book Printing UK in 2022. This is a paperback edition. The book recounts humorous and engaging stories about running the remotest pub in mainland Britain, located in Knoydart.
£19.00
Rare 1845 Edition of Plutarchi Vitae Parallelae (Plutarch’s Parallel Lives)
Published in 1845 by the Leipzig-based firm Tauchnitz, this edition of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives features the lives of Julius Caesar, Phocion, Cato Minor, Agis, and Cleomenes. The text is in Greek, with an inscription dated 1880 on the first free endpaper (FFEP), adding historical interest to this ex libris copy.
£97.00
Sea Kings of Britain (1907)
Sea Kings of Britain by G. A. R. Callender covers the naval history of Britain, spanning from Hawkins to Blake
£17.00
Hungarian Tragedy (1956)
Published in December 1956 by Dennis Dobson, Hungarian Tragedy by Peter Fryer provides an insightful analysis of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
£21.00
How to Be Danish (2014)
Published by Marble Arch Press in 2014, How to Be Danish by Patrick Kingsley offers a thoughtful journey into Denmark’s cultural landscape.
£19.00
Herodotus VII (1891)
Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, in 1891, this edition of Herodotus VII includes scholarly notes by Agnata F. Butler.
£42.00
Herodotus Book IX, Part I (1887)
Published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1887, this edition of Herodotus Book IX, edited with notes by Evelyn Abbott, M.A., LL.D., is part one of two.
£34.00
Upper Strathearn: From Earliest Times to Today (undated)
A historical study of Upper Strathearn, tracing its development from ancient times to the present. This edition is a softcover published by Jamieson & Munro.
£17.00
Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady (1943)
This is a first edition copy published by B.T. Batsford Ltd in 1943.
£19.00
Forty Years in Kincardineshire (signed) & Forty Years in Buchan and Banff (1990-1991)
This lot includes two works by Alexander Smith: Forty Years in Kincardineshire, 1911-1951 (signed by the author) and Forty Years in Buchan and Banff, 1951-1991.
£29.00
Traditional Farm Architecture in Scotland (1976)
Traditional Farm Architecture in Scotland by Robert Scott Morton, first edition published by Ramsey Head Press in 1976.
£47.00
3 Booklets: Johnshaven and Miltonhaven, A Man-Made Haven, Stonehaven of Old (1989-1991)
A collection of three local interest booklets about Johnshaven and Stonehaven.
£25.00
The Hundred Years (1936)
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, reprint edition, November 1936. This historical account covers the century following the Napoleonic Wars with insights into political and social changes across Europe
£12.00