THE SCOTTISH TOWN IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1740-1820
Written by Bob Harris; Charles McKean.
Stock no. 1830866
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition.

A pioneering study of 18th-century Scottish urbanism. The story of a profound transformation in the nature of the urban environment and urban society. It exxplores the development of Scots burghs, their changing material cultures, regulation and cultural life, and shows the true character of the Scottish urban experience in a period often identified with the intellectual flowering that later became identified as the Scottish Enlightenment. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w and a few colour illustrations. xx and 604 pages. ISBN: 9780748692576. Old barcode price to rear cover. Text block a little grubby. Else contents clean.

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JOHN LELAND'S ITINERARY: TRAVELS IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Written by John Chandler.
Stock no. 1830865
Published by Sutton Publishing Limited. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

John Leland was a humanist scholar and royal servant who wrote this famed account of his journeys through England as 'the king's antiquary' in the 1540s, though the Itinerary was not published until 1710. This edition retians everything in the Itinerary of historical or topographical interest, turning the text into modern English and arranging it by historic county. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxxvi and 601 pages including index. ISBN: 0750917512. Sight reading crease to spine. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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HAND, HEART AND SOUL: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN SCOTLAND
Written by Elizabeth Cumming.
Stock no. 1830861
Published by Birlinn Limited. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

A remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment and imagination. This book provides a national context for the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Lorimer, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Phoebe Anna Traquair. A look at public art, craft education and concepts of tradition, the rise of independent professional women designers, domestic and church buildings, the role of craft within communities, and how Arts and Crafts was finally transformed in the age of Modernism. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. xv and 240 pages. ISBN: 9781841586106. Spine slightly faded. Lowere edge of text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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TENT WORK IN PALESTINE: A RECORD OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE
Written by Claude Reignier Conder. Illustrated by J.W. Whymper.
Stock no. 1830859
Published by Richard Bentley & Son. 1880. Almost very good condition.

New Edition. This book details the author's journey and survey of Palestine as part of the Palestine Exploration Fund, blending personal experiences with descriptions of the terrain and ancient sites. Yellow/brown cloth with black titles and gilt vignette to front. B/w illustrations. xvi and 397 pages plus 1 page advertisement for books by the author to rear. Spine heavily browned, boards grubby. Knock to horizontal and vertical edges of rear board. Rear board marked. Text block browned. Name and price in pencil to front endpaper, 2 contemporary names in ink to verso of frontispiece. A little pencil annotation else contents clean.

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HISTORY OF THE BURGH OF DUMFRIES
Written by William McDowall.
Stock no. 1830855
Published by EP Publishing Limited. 1st thus 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprinted from the 1906 edition (originally published in 1867). This is the story of a large but beautiful town, with the advancement hand-in-hand of its civilization and material improvement, developing rapidly, in size, population and wealth, from a rude, insignificant, timber built village. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xii and 878 pages includuing index. ISBN: 0854097716. Light shelf-rubbing to top & tail of spine. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, lightly faded to spine, lightly creased.

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THE BRISTOL BLENHEIM: A COMPLETE HISTORY
Written by Graham Warner.
Stock no. 1330689
Published by Crecy. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book puts the impact of the Blenheim on aircraft development into perspective, and provides a very human insight into the courageous crews who flew the Blenheims into battle. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and colour illustrations of the camouflage markings. 639 pages including index. ISBN: 0947554920. Book sits a little 'twisted' on the shelf but is otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed.

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IRISH ARMY VEHICLES: TRANSPORT AND ARMOUR SINCE 1922
Written by Karl Martin.
Stock no. 1330682
Published by Karl Martin. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

An essential reference work for the modeller, wargamer or student of military or Irish history. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w and a few colour photos throughout. ISBN: 0954341309. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to top edge of front cover and to edges of rear cover. A few light spots to top edge of textblock else contents fine.

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ASSYRIA; HER MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, ART AND ARMS: RESTORED FROM HER MONUMENTS
Written by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208995
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1852. Good condition.

Library binding replaces original boards, blue cloth boards placed in a blue cloth wraparound, inside a blue cloth slipcase. B/w text illustrations. xviii and 642 pages. Ex-library with library stamp to inside of wraparound board and prelims, one or two to contents. The paper of this volume is very fragile, especially to prelims, edges are crumbling, prelims are detached. Once past the prelims, contents are less liable to crumble.

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GLENCOE & CULLODEN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by John Prebble. Illustrated by Harry Brockway.
Stock no. 1208986
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two volumes. Dramatic grey and black pictorial cloth. B/w engravings. Very slight browning to spines, Culloden volume has crinkling to the top of a few pages, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some shelf-scuffing.

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A CENTURY OF CONFLICT 1848-1948 (5 VOLUMES)
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1208981
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contains: The Struggle for Mastery In Europe Volumes I (1848-1878) and II (1878-1914); The First World War and its Aftermath 1914-1919; The Origins of the Second World War 1919-1939 and The Second World War and Its Aftermath 1939-1948. Top edge of text blocks very, very slightly dusty with a couple of tiny spots, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf-scuffed, especially to bottom, also some bubbling of the surface paper (not bad).

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WELLINGTON'S ARMY: THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER, 1812-1815
Written by Philip Haythornthwaite. Illustrated by Charles Hamilton Smith.
Stock no. 1830853
Published by Greenhill Books. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Full colour illustrations of British Military Uniforms from the the Peninsular War and Waterloo, drawn from life and completed in 1814, covering all the branches of service, including general officers and staff of the army; line infantry; light infantry and rifles; heavy and light cavalry; artillery and engineers; cadets and veterans; and foreign regiments. Very large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1853675016. Rubbing to base of spine. A few tiny white marks to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is damp stained.

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BIBLICA: THE BIBLE ATLAS
Written by Barry J. Beitzel.
Stock no. 1830852
Published by Global Book Publishing. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Social and Historical Journey Through the Lands of the Bbile. A Bible atlas serves to locate the events described in a geographic framework, making it an essential supplement to biblical studies. This Atlas goes beyond traditional atlases to place the biblical narrative and peoples into their historical, cultureal, social and geographic contexts. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w illustrations and maps. 575 pages including index. A heavy tome. ISBN: 9781740480949. Light scuffing to boards. Minor spotting to top edge of text block. A few edge creases on vertical margins. Else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased and scuffed.

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