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Stansfield, G.: Dumries & Galloway's Lost Railways.
Ochiltree: Stenlake, 1998 Oblong 8vo Pict. Card 1st Edn. Illus.49 pp. V.g. (Book ref. 36529) £9.00
Offered for sale by Mair Wilkes BooksDONALDSON, DESMOND: Bygone Dumfries and Galloway from Old Photographs. Volume Three.
Printed by McQueen Printers,Galashiels. Published by M.Anderson,Edinburgh.N.d. Oblong 4to.Pict Card covers. 1st edn. Illus 79 Plates. Sl. browning o/w V.g. [Street markets and fairs,shops,worthies,sport etc.,etc. (Book ref. 36534) £10.00
Offered for sale by Mair Wilkes BooksSIMPSON, Rev. Robert.: Traditions of the Covenanters: or Gleanings among the Mountains.
Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, [1890]. New Edn. pp. x, 500. With 5 full page engraved plates. In the original dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black pictorial embossed spine and front board. School Prize label to front pastedown. A very good plus hardback copy. (Book ref. 5501) £16.50
Offered for sale by Richard Roberts Bookseller.CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS AT GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE, DUMFRIES.
Dumfries: Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council., 1984. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. Fine. Paperback 59 page Catalologue of the Art Collection at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries. a fine collection of over 350 works, mostly Scottish Artists. including fine examples of works by Peploe, Philipson, Arthur Melville, William Gilles,Joan Eardley, Mary Fedden. Clausen, Thomas Faed etc. with 30 illustrations including 9 colur plates. Fine copy of the First edition of the Catalogue of the collection. (Book ref. 001978) £8.00
Offered for sale by Fine Art CataloguesMacLeod, I. (Ed): Where the Whaups are Crying. A Dumfries and Galloway Anthology.
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2001 Large 8vo Pict. Card 1st Edn. ix, 454 pp. Browning o/w V.g. (Book ref. 36311) £8.00
Offered for sale by Mair Wilkes BooksDONNACHIE (IAN) Industrial Archaeology of Galloway: South-west Scotland including Wigtown, Kirkcudbright and parts of Dumfries.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. 8vo, 271pp, 32 monochrome plates, numerous text diagrams, bibliography, blue boards, gilt, d-j. A very good copy in like d-j. (Book ref. RHB6780) £24.00
Offered for sale by Robert Humm & CoSalter, Mike: The Old PARISH CHURCHES of SCOTLAND
Malvern, Worcestershire: Folly Publications, 1994 Booklet with pictorial card cover. Size: 210x150mm. 124 pages illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, with square spine and title on spine. Includes a survey of church history in the area and a gazetteer of churches arranged by county. New, not previously read. Copies posted next day to customers all over the world. ISBN: 1871731178. We currently have available from stock companion titles covering various parts of Wales and England (Book ref. 4432) £7.00
Offered for sale by David Spenceley BooksSalter, Mike: The CASTLES of SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND
Malvern, Worcestershire: Folly Publications, new edition 2006 (1993) Booklet with pictorial card cover. Size: 210x150mm. 182 pages illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, with square spine and title on spine. Includes a survey of castle history in the area, separate gazetteers arranged by county. New Book, not previously read. Copies posted next day to customers all over the world. ISBN: 1871731704. We currently have available from stock companion titles covering other parts of Scotland and also Wales. (Book ref. 4296) £10.00
Offered for sale by David Spenceley BooksGlasgow and its Environs:a literary,commercial,and social review past & present;with a description of its leading mercantile houses and commercial enterprises With illustrated tour of the Highlands
1st 1891 London Stratten & Stratten. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall quarto.,frontis and other illustrations of the commercial life of the city,nearby towns and highland views,index,pages 358, orig green gilt dec clth (Book ref. 11658) £39.00
Offered for sale by Brian AnnesleyMACLEOD Innes: SAILING ON HORSEBACK - William Daniell and Richard Ayton in Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway.
Dumfries. Farries. 1988. lst edn. Hardback. 143 pages. Colour illustrations. Map. Mint in simulated brown leather on boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a mint d.w. Ex shop stock - unread book. A lively account of the people and traditions of Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway. ISBN: 0-948278-06-4. (Book ref. 4980) £9.95
Offered for sale by Virginia Bank BooksSTELL Geoffrey: EXPLORING SCOTLAND'S HERITAGE - DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY.
Edinburgh. HMSO. Reprinted with minor revisions 1990. Large format paperback. 184 pages. B.w. and colour illustrations. Maps. Fine in fine Papercover. ISBN: 0-11-492459-7. (Book ref. 2755) £9.95
Offered for sale by Virginia Bank BooksAnderson, David Scottish Steam in the 1950s and '60s
Yeovil: OPC, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0860934799 192pp, approximately 400 captioned b+w photographs. Black boards, VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Covers the whole of Scotland, from Dumfries and Stranraer, to Wick in the far north, taken from the collections of David Anderson, Stuart Sellar and Ian Swanson. Extra shipping required to non-UK address. (Book ref. 014284) £35.00
Offered for sale by Sedgeberrow BooksStell, Geoffrey Dumfries and Galloway (Exploring Scotland's Heritage Series).
Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1986. 1st Edition. Soft Card Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0114924597 184pp. 550g. Oblong format pictorial card covers, slightly creased to front corners. Near FINE with sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w and some colour photographs and drawings. (Book ref. 10608) £6.00
Offered for sale by Dereks Transport BooksHawick DECREET The High Court of Admiralty of the Kingdom of Scotland and Isles holden at Edinburgh twenty eighth day of July Miri and Eighty years...
Copy 1780. Set out judgment in a case of debt brought by John Allan, Sadler in Hawick, against the heirs of Richard Bell, of Hawick, now living in Cumberland. 5p, small folio, manuscript in a clear hand. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK26-2204) £18.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.ukEccles, Dumfriesshire MEMORIAL FOR THE HERITORS of the Parish of Eccles. 20. April 1815.
1815. 7pp., 4to, with an Appendix of 6 large folding tables, the first setting out the different teinds for the various husband lands, with owners, and the minister's old stipend in Bear, Oats, Scots Money, with Augmentation for 1776, 1795, 1806; State of the valued Stock and Teind of Eccles, giving names of lands, Proprietors, Stock and Teind etc.; Cess Roll and Valuation Roll for the Parish; Valuation Roll, 1802; Scheme of the Poven Rental. At the end is a separately paginated 'Valuation of the Paroch of Eccles, for Teiths of the Lands of Litchome and Peel, 16th June 1634.' 6pp. Folded. First page dusty, with two small holes at folds. One of the major landowners was Lord Home. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK26-2179) £28.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.ukDumfries THE TESTAMENTAR and Inventory of Umquhile James Anderson, Painter and Glazier in Dumfries, 1849.
1849. 13p, sewn at edge. Includes a long list of debts due to the deceased, naming the person, trade, and amount, shares in the Dumfries Theatre, Observatory, Billiard Room, etc.,... together with... Inventory and appraisement of the Stock in Trade (including crown, fluted, sheet glass, various paints), 8p., with 'List of Accounts due by Purchasers at the Sale of the Stock in Trade... ', 2p., 80 purchasers listed alphabetically, with prices... together with... Inventory and Appraisement of Furniture and Household Goods, 8p... together with...Lease of a house and shop in Friars Vennel, Alan Anderson to Thomas Turner, 1837, 2p., all documents small folio. Together with other documents relating to his estate, lawyers' bills, list of title deeds of the Anchor Inn, etc. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK26-2176) £30.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.ukDumfries ARTICLES AND CONDITIONS OF THE ROUP AND SALE of All and Whole these two Parks or Inclosures... within the Burrow Roods of Dumfries in that part called Carsewell... in the King's Arms Tavern... 7th day of November... 1787...
1747-1787. Manuscript, 3«p, folio. Each page signed by the two commissioners named by Sophia Corrie, who had inherited the property from her brother Joseph, Merchant in Dominica. Together with a document appointing Hugh Corrie, Writer, and Thomas Goldie, Commissary, to act for her and her husband as they live at some distance... together with... Extracted copy of an arbitration, 1747, between Joseph Corrie and John Fraser of Laggan, relating to a dispute about a dyke and ditch between their properties at Milldamhead, plus a receipt for money paid to Fraser by Corrie for 'thorns crabs and gardener's workmanship', 1747, and the Cognition and Seisin relating to the property (which was seven acres), on vellum, 12" x 23", ink slightly faded in parts. Joseph Corrie was Town Clerk of Dumfries. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK26-2175) £24.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.ukCaerlaverock REGISTERED MORTIFICATION Doctor John Hutton, In favour of The Poor of the paroch of Carlaverock and others.
1883. 3pp., small folio, printed on blue paper, giving the complete text of the mortification of 1719... together with... A different printing of the same mortification, on slightly larger paper, 2pp... together with... Memorandum of Information by the Trustees of Dr. John Hutton to the Commissioners appointed under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act, 1882. 2pp., folio, setting out the objects of the Trust and describing the funds and the existing and previous Schools, with subjects taught. 3 items. John Hutton had made a considerable fortune as physician to 'their late Majesties William and Mary', and left œ900 to the Elders of Carlaverock to pay a schoolmaster and educate and apprentice four local boys 'native born of honest parents'. He also (although this is not mentioned here) left a collection of books to the Presbytery of Dumfries, including the prayer book used by King Charles on the scaffold. --- Please e- mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SCOTLAND [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] --- (Book ref. UK26-2165) £26.00
Offered for sale by LESLEY AITCHISON - www.localhistory.co.ukSloan J.M. The Carlyle Country with a Study of Carlyle's Life
London: Chapman & Hall, 1904. First Edition. Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in dark greenish-blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pp.xiv,283. Many illustrations. A book about Thomas Carlyle and his native countryside of Ecclefechan and Annandale. (Book ref. 14327) £50.00
Offered for sale by Blacket BooksMacDonald's Tourist Guide to Dumfries, Ayr and South-West of Scotland; Glasgow, the Clyde and Loch Lomond; the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; Aberdeen, Dundee and Central Scotland; Edinburgh and South-East Scotland
Edinburgh: William Macdonald & Co. Ltd.. Softbacks. Five volumes in good condition. Spine of two volumes a little torn. All undated but seem to be 1930's. Pages from 95pp (Dumfries) to 184 pp (Edinburgh). Many illustrations in each volume. (Book ref. 13898) £20.00
Offered for sale by Blacket Books
