Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Whitehead, Alfred North [Graeme Haldane] 8 volumes The Concept of Nature. Cambridge, 1920. First editions, 2 copies, one inscribed in pencil 'Hald...

[Almon, John] A New Military Dictionary or, the Field of War. Containing a Particular and Circumstantial Account of the most Remarkable Battles, S...

Churchill, Winston The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill London: Library of Imperial History, [foreword dated 1976]. Centenary edition, 4 ...

Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War London: The Educational Book Company Ltd, [1955]. 'Chartwell' edition, deluxe issue, 6 volumes, large 8...

Griffiths, Captain Anselm John Impressment Fully Considered, with a view to its Gradual Abolition London: J.W. Norie, 1826. First edition, 8vo, co...

[King Charles's Coronation] Ogilby, John The Kings Coronation: Being an Exact Account of the Cavalcade, with a Description of the Triumphal Arches...

Macpherson, Sir William Grant and other Medical Services Surgery of the War London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922. First edition, 2 volume...

Marine Engineering - Russell, John Scott The Modern System of Naval Architecture London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition, large folio, 3 volume...

Kay, John A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1838, 2 volumes, 4to, 329 engraved plates, contemporary ca...

[Shorthand] Bright, Timothy Characterie An Arte of shorte, swifte, and secrete writing by Character Invented by Timothe Bright, Doctor of Phisike....

[Jacobite Interest] Ascanius, or the young adventurer Manuscript copy after the edition: London: Printed for G. Smith, [n.d.] After 1746, 70 manus...

Mary, Queen of Scots Engraved portrait by the Wierix Brothers, 16th century Bust-length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, 26.5 x 35cm, trimmed, not...

Scotland - Parliament - Proceedings [Act of Union] Minuts [sic] of the Proceedings in Parliament Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderso...

Scottish History - Maitland Club and Spalding Club Publications Maitland Club. Macgrigor, Alexander, editor. Reports on the State of Certain Paris...

Scottish History and Literature 11 volumes including:Boece, Hector. The History and Chronicles of Scotland... translated by John Bellenden. Edinbu...

Scottish History and Literature 8 volumes [Defoe, Daniel] The History of the Union. Edinburgh: Heirs of Andrew Anderson, 1709. First edition, foli...

Falconer, William Remarks on the Influence of Climate Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life, on the Dispositio...

Caesar, Julius The Commentaries Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse concerning the Roman Art of War. By William Duncan. Illu...

Ferguson, Adam An Essay on the History of Civil Society Edinburgh: for A. Millar and T. Caddel [sic], 1767. First edition, 4to (25.6 x 20cm), cont...

Hume, David Political Discourses Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 8vo, [iv], 304, [vi], [ii (advertisement leaf)], er...

Hume, David Dialogues concerning Natural Religion London [no publisher], 1779. Second edition, 8vo, half-title, 264pp., original boards, uncut, bi...

Hume, David Four Dissertations I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard of taste. London: A. ...

Hutcheson, Francis A System of Moral Philosophy in three books. Published from the Original Manuscripts, by his Son Francis Hutcheson. To which is...

Reid, Thomas Essays on the Active Powers of Man Edinburgh: for John Bell, 1788. First edition, 4to (26 x 20.5cm), contemporary tan calf, red moroc...

Smith, Adam The Theory of Moral Sentiments ... To which is added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. London: A. Strahan [and others], 1797...

Smith, Adam The Theory of Moral Sentiments London: W. Strahan, J. & F. Rivington, [&c.], 1771. Fifth edition, 8vo, [viii], 478, [ii - advertisemen...

[Chetham Library] Buchanan, George Franciscanus & Fratres Quibus accessere varia eiusdem & aliorum Poemata quorum & titulos & nomina XVI indicabit...

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xlviii, 9-368, engra...

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: printed for author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8vo (21 x 12.5cm), contempor...

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz McGonagall's Ode to the King. [And:] Bonnie Montrose. A New Poem Edinburgh: [printed for the author], 1902. Broadsid...

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz The Clepington Catastrophe Dundee: [printed for the author], 1884. Broadside, 27.6 x 21.5cm, printed on recto only, ...

Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped [and:] Catriona London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1886-93. 2 works, 8vo, 20th-century crushed morocco gilt b...

Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First UK edition, 8vo (17.2 x 10.2cm), 20th-...

Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First illustrated edi...

Libertinism Records of the Most Ancient and Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland, Anstruther [Bound with:] Supplement to the Histo...

Brown, George Mackay A collection of manuscript and typed material 1) Sanatorium 1941. 20pp. manuscript account of Brown's tuberculosis diagnosis ...

Brown, George Mackay Books from his library A collection of books from the library of George Mackay Brown, with his sticker or signature, and seve...

Brown, George Mackay A collection signed or annotated works An Orkney Tapestry. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1969. 8vo, proof copy with jacket si...

Smith, Alexander McCall Autograph Poem Signed Poem on Love. "What we lose, we think we lose forever..." 11 lines, signed by the author, on cream c...

Wild Hawthorn Press - Ian Hamilton Finlay Concrete Poems, four posters Finlay, Ian Hamilton. Poster Poem [Le Circus!!], 1974, 57 x 44cm;Kriwet, Fe...

Finlay, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006) An extensive collection of letters, sent to Wilma Paterson Over 50 letters, dating from the 1970s to 1990s, many ...

Pornographic novel - circle of Oscar Wilde Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal A Physiological Romance for Today. Cosmopoli [probably Paris: Renau...

Wilde, Oscar Salome A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. Fi...

Sassoon, Siegfried Three works The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper lab...

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, top edge dyed blue, dust ...

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, shelf-lean, hinges split, erased ownership ...

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1996) Three first editions from the library of his lover Joyce Gill Decline and Fall, an Illustrated Novelette; Black Mischief...

§ Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) 'Impieta', 1925 woodcut, showing a bacchante carried by Bacchus and a faun, signed and dated by Waugh lower right, tit...

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) The Tragical Death of Mr Will. Huskisson Sept. MDCCCXXX, 1924 print after Waugh's drawing (published in The Golden Hind,...

Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago Milan: Feltrinelli, November 1957. First authorised trade edition in Russian, original pale green boards, dustwrap...

Powell, Anthony [A Dance to the Music of Time] London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951-1975. 13 volumes (including an additional volume of Books do F...

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings, signed by Tolkien in each volume The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of th...

Woolf, Virginia 10 works The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, s...

Modern literature including Fraser, George MacDonald Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman. London, 1976. Fifth edition, dust-jacket price-clipped; R...

Harris, Joel Chandler Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition, first state, with "presumptive" i...

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing ["First edition May 1894, reprinted June 1894"], plates, own...

Kipling, Rudyard Collection of works Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to, original p...

Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, 12mo, original dark green boards with mouse motif ...

Rackham, Arthur Collection of works The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: William Heinemann, 1918. Fir...

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh [and:] The House at Pooh Corner London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1926-8. First editions, first impressions, deluxe issue...