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The Chambered Cairns of the Central Highlands
UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0748606432 First edition, paperback, as new condition, uncreased glossy card covers, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, 256 pages including index, illustrated with b/w photo and line illustrations and maps------ "An inventory of the structures and their contents. Chambered cairns are the earliest architectural achievements of the peoples of Scotland. In this comprehansive and fully illustrated volume the burial monuments of the early inhabitants of Northern Scotland are examined and the surviving remains are described, offering an indispensible reference source for the neolithic period in this area. The Chambered Cairns of the Central Highlands describes and discusses in detail the monuments in Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire." (Book ref. 2554) £12.00
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The Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799 Edited By Sir John Sinclair Volume XVII Inverness-Shire, Ross and Cromarty
EP Publishing Ltd., 1981. 0715810006 Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.liv,682,[4]. 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. 15420) £50.00
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THE ROSS AND CROMARTY BOOK.
The Northern Times. 1984. pp.289,illus.,maps,8vo..1st and only edition. An almost mint unmarked hardback copy in an almost mint dust-wrapper. (Book ref. 3648) £17.50
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The Buildings of Scotland: Highlands and Islands
London: Penguin, 1992 First edition. Blue leatherette, gilt, maps, plans, bw plates, glossary, index Pagination: 683. This volume, the fifth in the Buildings of Scotland series founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, aims to describe every building of importance from prehistory to the present in the Highland region, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland. The vast area covered by the book contains buildings and monuments as varied as its landscape – brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both medieval and Victorian; churches of every period and denomination, their interiors and graveyards often shielding unexpected delights. Castles and tower houses and a string of Hanoverian forts contrast with prehistoric farmsteads and Georgian and Victorian farmhouses. Country houses range from a display of ducal splendour through Georgian elegance and Victorian baronial to expressions of the high ideals and simple life of the Arts and Crafts movement. Towns and vilalges are equally varied; some are of medieval origin, others new creations of the Georgians and Victorians. All these are covered by John Gifford with scholarship and insight.<P>This comprehensive and excellently illustrated volume, its gazetteer elucidated by numerous maps and plans, is an illuminating guide to the architecture of a little-known region, for visitors, for specialists and, not least, for local inhabitants. Contents: Topography and building materials; Prehistoric, Pictish and Viking Highlands and Islands; Medieval churches; Post-Reformation churches; Mausolea and monuments; Castles, tower houses and palaces; Country houses; Forts; Roads, railways, canals, harbours and lighthouses; Burgh and village buildings; Rural buildings; Industrial buildings; Highlands and Islands (Badenoch and Strathspey; Caithness; Inverness; Lochaber; Nairn; Orkney; Ross and Cromarty; Shetland; Skye and Lochalsh; Sutherland; Western Isles). Book: Fine, Jacket: unclipped, edges of inner flaps v sl yellowed, VG+ (Book ref. 2856) £24.00
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Romantic Scotland, The Story of the Shires
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1947 Reprint [First 1938]. Green cloth, gilt titling, map endpapers, 65 bw photos Pagination: 310. Contents: Lanarkshire; Renfrewshire; Ayrshire; Galloway; Dumfries-shire; The Border Shires; East Lothian; Midlothian or Edinburghshire; West Lothian; Stirlingshire; Dumbartonshire; Argyllshire; Perthshire; Clackmannan and Kinross; Fifeshire; Angus; Kincardineshire; Aberdeenshire; Banffshire; Moray and Nairn; Inverness-shire; Ross and Cromarty; Sutherland and Caithness; The Hebrides; Orkney; Shetland. Book: extremities bumped, VG, Jacket: front gutter torn, other extremities worn and torn with some loss, dusty, creased, Fair only in removable protective sleeve (Book ref. 1800) £14.00
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The Strath, The Biography of Strathpeffer
Edinburgh: St Andrew Press, 1979 First edition. Paperback, bw ills Pagination: 96. ‘This book,’ writes Lord Cromartie, ‘has been a joy to read. It is well researched and gives a vivid and well balanced account of our strath through the ages.’<P>And so it does, with charming historical allusions, old legends and tales, and sparkling humour. The author, born and reared in Strathpeffer, describes ‘this jewel in the Highland casket’ with the devotion of a Highlander. He outlines the prehistory of the area and its development down to our own time: the establishment of the Spa, the arrival of the railway, the appearance of the first aeroplane, the social and religious life, the fascinating prophecies of the Brahan Seer, all these and so much more.. Book: SIGNED by author to title page, rear cover sl yellowed to margins, corners of covers v sl bumped, VG, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 1750) £7.00
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Census 1971 Scotland. County Report. Ross and Cromarty.
Edinburgh: HMSO, 1973 Folio Wrappers. 2nd Impr. 141 pp. V.g. (Book ref. 10403) £10.00
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A BILL to make fresh provision with respect to the reorganisation, development and regulation of CFROFTING in the CROFTING COUNTIES of SCOTLAND; ......
London: HMSO, 1961. iv pp + 25pp + i pp + 28pp (as amended by the Scotish Standing Committee). 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary papers. Bill 59 and Bill 140. Crofters (Scotland) Bill. Very clean copies. Neat library mark on title pages. (Book ref. 153747) £7.00
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Genealogy of the Mackenzies of Ross and Cromarty Fochabers and Aberdeen in Scotland and of Johannesburg in South Africa
Hardback Published privately Johannesburg 1st Edition 1977 228 Quarto All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order Monday to Friday (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK de Very Good (Book ref. 472395) £75.00
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Romantic Scotland, The Story of the Shires
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1947 Reprint [First 1938]. Green cloth, gilt titling, map endpapers, 65 bw photos Pagination: 310. Contents: Lanarkshire; Renfrewshire; Ayrshire; Galloway; Dumfries-shire; The Border Shires; East Lothian; Midlothian or Edinburghshire; West Lothian; Stirlingshire; Dumbartonshire; Argyllshire; Perthshire; Clackmannan and Kinross; Fifeshire; Angus; Kincardineshire; Aberdeenshire; Banffshire; Moray and Nairn; Inverness-shire; Ross and Cromarty; Sutherland and Caithness; The Hebrides; Orkney; Shetland. Book: extremities a little bumped, o/w VG+, Jacket: lower edge worn and torn, a little dusty, owner details to inside flap, VG- (Book ref. 1446) £14.00
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Scotland in Colour
London: Batsford, 1954 First edition. Red cloth, 32 col photos Pagination: 111. Scotland, more than any other part of the British Isles, lends itself to photography in colour. The changing hues of the sea and the islands, the lochs and the Highlands, the towns and the Lowlands, are at once subtler and more brilliant than anywhere else in Britain. In A F Kersting they have found a photographer who is both an artist and an extremely skilled technician. Mr Kersting is well aware that the general run of colour photography presents a travesty of the scene it is supposed to represent. As the illustrations to his earlier book, The Face of England, showed, he himself is able to achieve a degree of faithfulness in the representation of nature which has seldom been equalled, and certainly never before in the illustrations to a book on Scotland.<P>Moray McLaren, who has written the long essay which accompanies Mr Kersting’s photographs, claims that he knows the country of his birth as intimately as any man alive. Be that as it may, his account of the face of Scotland is sensitive, fresh, and written with an obvious affection which will endear it to Scot and Sassenach alike. Contents: Colour photos: The castle of Macleod of Dunvegan, Skye; Clouds over Ben Nevis seen from Corpach; Morning sun on Calton Hill, Edinburgh; The view from Arthur’s Seat across Edinburgh; The River Tweed near Tweedsmuir, Peeblesshire; Looking south-east across Dundee and the Firth of Tay; The River Dochart at Killin, Perthshire, with Ben Lawers; The Bruar Falls near Blair Atholl, Perthshire; Looking west along the River Tay between Aberfeldy and Kenmore, Perthshire; Evening on Loch Insh near Kincraig, Inverness-shire; Monument to Bonnie Prince Charlie, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, Inverness-shire; Inverness: bridges over the River Ness; Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty; Looking to Bidean nan Bian above Glen Etive, Argyllshire; Ruins of Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire; Looking across Gruinard Bay to Ben More, Coigach, Ross and Cromarty; Kintail Hills at the head of Loch Duich, Ross and Cromarty; Brig o’ Dee, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; St Andrews from the golf links; Looking to Slioch from Loch Maree near the Bridge of Grudie, Ross and Cromarty; Dunfermline Abbey, Fife; Loch Coruisk and the Cuillin Hills, Skye; Balmoral Castle and the mountains of Balmoral Forest, Aberdeenshire; Aberdeen harbour; Crail harbour, Fife; Barcaldine Castle and Loch Creran, Argyllshire; Elgin Cathedral; Dunblane Cathedral, Perthshire; Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty; Hart Fell from the Devil’s Beef Tub, Moffat, Dumfriesshire; Lighthouse and harbour at Macduff, Banffshire; Stonehaven harbour, Aberdeenshire. Book: head/tail sl bumped, endpapers v sl foxed, gift inscription, VG, Jacket: clipped, a little dusty, a little edge wear with one tear, VG (Book ref. 1165) £14.00
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A Highland History
Berkhamstead: The Gavin Press, 1979 First edition. Blue cloth, gilt, map endpapers, glossary, index Pagination: xvii, 345. Planned and written by the Earl of Cromartie while a prisoner of war in Germany, this book was completed on his return home when the necessary research could be made. Information has been collected from many sources national, clan and local; histories, letters, diaries, biographies, church and burgh records; and a manuscript History of Clan Mackenzie written by Sir George Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, 1st Earl of Cromartie, during the 17th century. Contemporary papers, charters and letters including the Cromartie Papers in his own family possession, the Munro Papers and Balnagown (Ross) documents all covering the period from the 13th century were consulted. As a Highlander gives his own tradition and legend, so the Earl of Cromartie himself as a Highlander gives his view of Scottish and world events. Although unpublished for thirty years, with so much attention in 1979 on Scotland this history has a place in the current debate. Starting with prehistoric ancestors and the arrival of the Iberians, the Pictish Kingdom of Alba and the tribes in the Province of Ross are described in those far off days. The way of life, dress and homes of the inhabitants of the Highlander are given in detail as the history evolves. The Norsemen and their influence is shown with the emergence of the clans and clan systems. The history of Scotland from the Highland viewpoint also shows how the families, clans and septs played their part. The Appendices given detailed ancestry of the major Highland clans with commentary and the Table of Scottish and English Kings shows the growth and joining together of the two kingdoms. The glossary contains much of interest and amusement for those who believe in legends’ place in history. The opinions of the Earl of Cromartie expressed in A Highland History have a meaning both for today and the future of Scotland.. Book: tail bumped, VG, Jacket: unclipped, crease to inner flap, spine sunned, a little edge creasing, VG (Book ref. 735) £16.00
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Scotland Historic and Romantic
Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1911 New edition. Blue cloth, gilt, plates, maps, foldout genealogical chart, index Pagination: xxxi+581. Outline history of Scotland from the War of Independence, arranged topographically by county Contents: Edinburgh from its earliest history to the death of John Knox; Edinburgh from the founding of the University (1582) to the close of the eighteenth century; Edinburgh from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day; The Lothians; The Border counties: Berwick and Roxburgh; The Border counties: Selkirk and Peebles; Dumfries; Galloway; Ayr; Lanark; Renfrew; Dumbarton; Stirling; Clackmannan; Kinross; Fife; Forfar or Angus; Kincardine or the Mearns; Aberdeen; Banff; Elgin or Moray; Nairn; Ross and Cromarty; Sutherland; Caithness; Orkney and Shetland; Inverness; Perth; Argyll and the Isles. Book: 2 cm split at head of spine, extremities bumped and a little rubbed, boards sl marked, endpapers foxed and browned, owner signature [Lamb], pulled at frontis, prelims sl foxed, extreme margins sl browned, VG-, Jacket: n/a (Book ref. 363) £14.00
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The CASTLES of WESTERN and NORTHERN SCOTLAND
Malvern, Worcestershire: Folly Publications, 1995 Booklet with pictorial card cover. Size: 210x150mm. 164 pages illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, with square spine and title on spine. Includes a history of castles in the area, separate gazetteers arranged by county. New Book, not previously read. Copies posted next day to customers all over the world. ISBN: 1871731224. We currently have available from stock companion titles covering other parts of Scotland and also Wales. (Book ref. 4299) £10.00
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Modern Agriculture; or, the present state of husbandry in Great Britain. Including, an account of the best modes of cultivation practised throughout the island; the obstacles to farther Improvements No 1 & 3
Edinburgh: Printed By Adam Neil & Co, 1795. First Edition. Decorated Paper. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall pagination 56, original paper covers detached; 113 - 168 no 3 ( some uncut ) lacks paper covers - 2 items (Book ref. 14309) £89.00
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The Book of Ross and Sutherland and Caithness
Dingwall: George Souter. First Edition. Decorated Paper. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall (circa 1925) illustrated,corner cut from fep. original paper covers good (Book ref. 12930) £38.00
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Place Names Highlands & Islands
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall frontis , map, index, pages 381 page tear , ownership ? name erased with tip x several places not to text o\w good in original faded cloth (Book ref. 12894) £189.00
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History of the Ancient Province of Ross ( The County Palatine of Scotland ) from the Earliest to the Present Time
Dingwall: The Pefferside Press Ltd, 1899. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. map,illustrated, index,front hinge cracked,red gilt dec cloth,spine cover rubbed top & tail (Book ref. 10627) £128.00
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THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. SCOTLAND. REPORT BY Mr H RUTHERFURD UPON THE COUNTIES OF CAITHNESS, ORKNEY, SUTHERLAND, AND ROSS
London: Houses of Parliament, 1893. 11pp. Folio. Extract from the British Parliamentary report rebound in card covers. A detailed report on the conditions of agricultural labourers. Wages, housing, hours of work etc. (Book ref. 140219) £15.00
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CROFTERS (Scotland). A BILL (as amended by the SCOTTISH STANDING COMMITTEE) to Make Provision for the Reorganisation, Development and Regulation of CROFTING in the CROFTING COUNTIES of SCOTLAND; .....
London: House of Commons, 1955. ii + 45pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Paliamentary Paper. Bill 57. Neat library mark to title wrappers. *Together with earlier Bill of the Session, Bill 31, iv + 44pp, Very clean copies. The establishment of the Crofters Commission .... (Book ref. 138426) £12.00
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