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Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress, Church Organisation, The University, Home Life
Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1861 First edition. Maroon cloth, gilt, glossary, index Pagination: xx, 624, 20 pp publisher's ads. Contents: Church organisation (The Parish; The Cathedral (Bishopric of Glasgow; Bishopric of Caithness; Bishopric of Aberdeen); The Monastery (Melrose; Scone; Newbattle; Arbroath; Kelso; Inchaffray)); The university (Glasgow; Aberdeen); Home life (Family papers of the family of Morton; Breadalbane Papers; The Cawdor papers; Kilravock papers); Appendix (Preservation of the records of the Bishopric of Glasgow; Oath of a suffragan to his archbishop; Early Scotch; Serfs - colliers and salters; The complaint of the Abbot of Arbroath 1460-1470; Family jewels and valuables of Glenurchy, Entailed; Letters at Taymouth; The Thane of Cawdor's western journey 1591; The murder of John Campbell of Cawdor; How the Thane of Cawdor won Islay; Account of the expenses of the family of Cawdor about 1698; Dr Clephane's journey to Kilravock 1750). Book: rebacked some time ago with remnants of faded spine laid onto new backstrip, extremities bumped and rubbed, new endpapers, a little foxing, contents VG binding VG-, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 3070) £35.00
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''Dounreay. An Experimental Reactor Establishment''.
Wick [1990]. Published by the author. 122pp; many illustrations. Brown boards. Fine in dustwrapper. [a history of the UKAEA establishment in Caithness where the author worked for 28 years]. (Book ref. 3323) £15.00
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The Illustrated London News - February 19, 1966
London: Illustrated London News, 1966. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Cover photograph of Prince Andrew on his sixth birthday; articles and photos include: Dounreay atomic research centre and life in Caithness, Scotland; does London need a Third Airport? Prince Charles at school in Australia; feature on the poet Edmund Blunden; Cranko's new Ballet; Graham Sutherland explains his art; motoring, cinema, theatre, books; contemporary adverts in colour & b/w. (Book ref. 6920) £4.00
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Caithness - a Field Guide
. Stapled. Very Good. 8vo 46pp. Covers lightly rubbed, small ink notation to front, else a clean and tidy copy. (Book ref. 001088) £10.00
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The Highland & Island of Scotland;
Glasgow, Collins, 1976; 1st edition; Hardback; 11.5" x 8"; N fine/ Dj Nr fine; 160pp profusely illustrated; Dark green cober swiht gilt tiotle on spine; Dust jacket has price intact.. " Written with provocative wit and perception the author communicates a very personal journey through the Highlands & Islands---- a land of many paradoxes and landscapes of incomparatible beauty, a hard life for the poor, a good life for the rich." (Book ref. 10397) £10.00
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Div Ye Mind?. A Miscellany by Caithness Writers for Folks at Home and Abroad;
Glasgow, nd ( c 1958); 11" x 8.5". Good condition. 36pp with illustrations & photographs. The written contributions to the magazine include prize-winning papers as well as articles from ' guest' writers All contributers are of Caithness birth or lineage.... (Book ref. 14598) £18.00
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Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, the Jarls and the Freskyns
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1922. First Edition. Hardback. A good sound copy in blue cloth which is faded on the spine but with the lettering still clear. Bookplate. A little edge and end-paper foxing. Pp.xii,191. Folding frontispiece map. Covers mainly the period from about 870 AD to 1266 AD. (Book ref. 16889) £35.00
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The Mey Letters: Being the Correspondence of the Sinclairs of Mey in Caithness and Their Friends between 1693 and 1772
Sydney: J.P.H. Donaldson, 1984. First Edition. 0959135502 Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A nice clean copy without foxing or ownership inscriprion. 238 pages. Frontispiece and one other illustration. Correspondence illustrating the day-to-day life of the Caithness gentry in the 18th century. (Book ref. 16195) £35.00
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Caithness And the War, 1939-1945 : A Record
Wick: North of Scotland Newspapers, 1994. Reprint. 1871704103 Hardback. A good copy in laminated boards. Some wrinkling to page corners indicates previous water damage. 166 pages. Illustrated. First published in 1948 this book looks at the involvement of Caithness and Caithnessians during the Second World War. Includes a Roll of Honour. (Book ref. 15969) £10.00
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The Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799 Edited By Sir John Sinclair Volume XVIII Caithness and Sutherland
EP Publishing Ltd., 1979. 0715810189 Hardback. A very good copy without dustwrapper. Pp.xlvi,487,[3]. This edition of the 18th century parish by parish account of Scotland has a new Introduction, an Index, and is, for the first time, grouped according to county making this a very worthwhile reprint of an incomparable source work for those interested in Scottish history. (Book ref. 15444) £40.00
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Memoirs of Sir George Sinclair, Bart., of Ulbster
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1870. First Edition. Hardback. A poor copy externally as the boards are detached and there are tears to the spine. Good internally, apart from a bookseller's stamp, and suitable as a reading or rebinding copy. Pp.x,484. Frontispiece. Uncommon. (Book ref. 13645) £25.00
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Looking Back at Caithness
Privately Published. First Edition. Nd. c. 1975? Softcover. 20 pages. Poetry by an exile from Caithness, with some poems in English and others in the Caithness dialect. (Book ref. 10468) £7.00
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Caithness
London: Skilton & Shaw, 1979. First Edition. A very good copy in laminated boards. 112pp. Plates. Drawings by Elliot Rudie. (Book ref. 6276) £6.00
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''Memorials of Caithness Ministers. Being Memoirs and Sermons of Rev W Ross Taylor, Thurso, and Rev Alexander Auld, Olrig. With brief Notices of some of their Co-Presbyters''.
W F Henderson (Edinburgh) 1911. 392pp. Blue cloth faded and worn. Contents VG. (Book ref. 4911) £15.00
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All Hands Aloft!
London: Jarrolds, 1969. 8vo, 255pp, numerous monochrome illustrations, map endpapers, black cloth, gilt, d-j. A very good copy in like d-j. An account of sailing round Cape Horn aboard the Caithness-Shire in 1909. (Book ref. RHB4660) £14.00
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SKETCH OF THE CIVIL AND TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF CAITHNESS FROM THE 10TH CENTURY.
Wick. 1887. pp.368,illus.,map,8vo..3rd and last edition,revised and updated. An almost mint hardback copy of the 1973 reprint(never issued with a dust-wrapper). (Book ref. 718) £20.00
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SKETCH OF THE CIVIL AND TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF CAITHNESS FROM THE 10TH CENTURY.
Wick. 1887. pp.368,illus.,map,8vo..2nd edition,revised and enlarged. A fine unmarked hardback copy. (Book ref. 3972) £30.00
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Caithness County Survey
. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 4to. 110 pp typed manuscript, photographic plates and hand coloured maps, extremities browned, otherwise only light browning, good plus in blue cloth gilt, some light edgewear, small tear to cloth at bottom spine., good. (Book ref. 20653) £85.00
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The Caithness Croft.
Laidhay Preservation Trust., 1976. An eight page stapled pamphlet inc b/w plates, examining the Layout, Construction, Furnishings and steadings etc, of The Caithness Croft. (Book ref. 000504) £5.00
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Twelve Light Years
Haddington: Albyn Press, 1988. Illustrated by Ian Macinnes. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 028498776X Account of life inside Scottish lighthouses Stroma in Pentland Firth and Buchan Ness off the Aberdeenshire coast. (Book ref. 032077) £15.00
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