HISTORY BOOKS CATALOGUE June 2021

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British Myths and Legends. Vol I: Marvels and Magic; Vol II: Heroes and Saints; Vol III: History and Romance. London: The Folio Society , 2004. 6th printing. Complete 3 volume set in slipcase. Illustrations by John Vernon Lord. Slight mark to foredge in Heroes and Myths otherwise in fine clean condition. Small area of damage to slipcase. Near fine in good+ slipcase dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3883) £10.00

Cassell's Popular Natural History Vols I - IV. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin , Between 1858 and 1878. Early edition . Complete 4 volume set bound in 2. With 36 hand coloured plates and 4 hand coloured vignette title pages. A very cheap and popular work in its time and profusely illustrated. Rebound in full leather by Eday craftsman Colin Kerr for his personal collection. Colin frequently rescued books that were in a very poor state and this copy, although pretty complete is browned and spotty in places with 2 repaired tears to pages. It has had a tough time since the rescue and there is worm damage to the back board of Vol I and the bottom front corner of Vol II. The front board of Vol II has been damp at some point and there is a warp to the top edge near the spine. Fair. Full leather. (3152) £25.00

Studies of Shakespere: introductory volume, containing a history of opinion of the Writings of Shakespere; with the chronology of his plays.. Knight's Cabinet Edition. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, circa 1860-75. reprint . Issued originally in 12 volumes. This is the introductory volume with writings about Shakespeare. Nice clean copy. Full leather binding with wear to spine, edges and corners. Title labels lacking. Good +. Full calf . (1221) £5.00

Alan Palmer . Northern Shores. A History of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples. London: John Murray , 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0719562872. Fascinating study of the Baltic States including the trading links and routes at the time of the Hanseatic League. Slight wear to binding edges; jacket with light creasing at edges and a couple of marks. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3214) £12.00

Alexander Mackenzie. The History of the Highland Clearances; Containing a reprint of Donald Macleod's "Gloomy Memories of the Highlands"; Isle of Skye in 1882; and a verbatim report of the trial of the Border Crofters. Inverness : A & W Mackenzie , 1883. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding in fair condition - shaken with marking and wear. Internally there is splitting at the endpaper joints but the contents are in very clean condition. 528 pp including index. Fair. Hardcover. (264) £45.00 Alexander Mackenzie. The History of the Highland Clearances; with a new Introduction by Ian MacPherson. Glasgow: Alex. Maclaren & Sons, 1946. 2nd edition altered and revised . bookplate to front endpaper. Near fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (267) £12.00

Andrew B Wylie. Orkney's Legionnaires. A brief history of the British Legion in Orkney 1921- 1996. Kirkwall : Bellavista Publications, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952535017. Near fine. Softcover . (2755) £9.00

Andrew Marr . A History of Modern Britain. London: Macmillan, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781405005388. Some light marking to back board. Good +. Hardcover. (4374) £4.00

Ann Savours. The Voyages of the Discovery. The illustrated history of Scott's ship. Rochester : Chatham Publishing , 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1861761716. Very good. Softcover . (3857) £2.00

Barry Cunliffe . Cradle of England. An introduction through archaeology to the early history of England and a brief guide to selected sites in the south. London: BBC TV, 1972. reprint . Fair. Softcover. (2547) £2.00

Bill Bryson . A Short History of Nearly Everything. London : Doubleday , 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0385 408188. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (516) £8.00

Bill Lawson. Croft History. Isle of St Kilda. Isle of Harris : Bill Lawson Publications, 1993. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1872598145. An intensive study of crofting families in St Kilda. Very scarce. Good +. Spiral bound. (2738) £15.00

Bryan Sykes . Blood of the Isles. Exploring the genetic roots of our tribal history. London: Bantam Press , 2006. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0593056523. Nice clean copy - some bumping to corner of front board and wrapper price-clipped. Very good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2510) £4.00

Bryce Wilson. Stromness, a history. Kirkwall : The Orcadian Limited, 2013. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 1 902957 58 6. Light mark to bottom page edges and foredge. Wrap with some internal spotting. Signed by author. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4530) £12.00

C Stuart Macdonald . A History of Hopwood Hall; Including the life of Cardinal Langley, Lord Chancellor (1300-1437). London : Waldgrave (Publishers) Ltd , 1963. 1st Edition. Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (526) £15.00

C Willett & Phillis Cunnington . The History of Underclothes. London: Michael Joseph, 1951. 1st Edition. Wrapper tatty with loss to edges and sellotape repair at the spine. Binding clean and sound with light fading to spine. Signature to front endpaper. Contents in very good clean condition. Very good in poor dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2122) £12.00 Charles James Fox, Vassall Holland. A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second, with an Introductory Chapter. London : William Miller , 1808. 1st Edition. A fair copy of the 1st edition in contemporary binding with gilt compartments and title to spine. Produced after Fox's death, with an introductory chapter by Vassall Holland explaining the circumstances. Complete with frontispiece, title, preliminaries pp xl; text 1-293; appendix pp cli. The binding is complete but with a lot of wear, particularly to the spine joints which are splitting and to the corners which have significant leather loss. Board and spine surface scuffed. Contents are very clean. Armorial bookplate of Strathallan to front endpaper. Fair. Full calf. (685) £30.00

Christopher Harvie . Travelling Scot. Essays on the history, politics and future of the Scots. Argyll : Argyll Publishing , 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1874640998. Some creasing to back top corner of cover . Very good. Softcover . (4622) £6.00

Christopher Lee. 1603. A Turning Point in British History. London: Review , 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0747234086. Near fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2872) £4.00

Deborah Richmond Foulkes . My Truth Lies in the Ruins. a Novel from the annals of Scottish History. Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2004. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1418412880 . With inscription signed by the author on the title page. Clean internally. Covers with some corner turning. Scarce. Good. Softcover . (3670) £18.00

Derek Yalden . The History of British Mammals; Poyser Natural History. London: T & A D Poyser Ltd, 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 85661 110 7 . Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1566) £10.00

Diarmaid MacCulloch . A History of Christianity. London: Allen Lane , 2009. 3rd printing . ISBN: 9780713998696. Small mark to front board. Slight pulling to spine. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3612) £15.00

Donald Gregory . The History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland; With an introductory sketch. London : Hamilton, Adams and Co , 1881. 2nd edition . Bookplate of James Lumsden of Arden to the front endpaper. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and untrimmed page edges. Very good. Hardcover. (282) £40.00

Donald McIver. An Old-Time Fishing Town - Eyemouth. Its History, Romance and Tragedy with an account of The East Coast Disaster 14th October 1881. Greenock: James McKelvie & Sons, Limited, 1906. Memorial Edition . An account of the impact of the East Coast storm of October 1881 which took the lives of most of the fishermen in Eyemouth - a town that depended on fishing. Binding with wear, contents clean and sound with light toning to pages. With numerous photographs. Some splitting at rear endpaper joint. Good +. Hardcover. (1054) £35.00

Doris Ashley et al . Stories of Royal Children from English History. London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, circa 1917. Undated but with inscription to front endpaper dated 1917. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, 5 further colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by J H Bacon and H Davie. Binding with wear, particularly to corners. Contents generally clean. One page missing a corner tip. Good +. Pictorial boards. (1188) £5.00 Douglas Stedman . Captains and Kings. A second book of stories from history. London : Thomas Nelson and Sons , 1911. 1st Edition. In original decorative binding with colour frontispiece and 30 further colour plates. The binding has a bright front board but a very worn and dulled spine which is also cocked to the front. Corners with wear. Decorative endpapers with inscription dated Xmas 1911. Contents generally clean with some light foxing and slight staining to rear endpapers. Series of tales from Iceland, the Crusades, Medieval France etc. Scarce. Fair. Decorative cloth . (3893) £15.00

Dr. James Mackay (editor) . Scottish History. A Parragon Micropedia. London: Parragon , 1999. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0752530380. Comprehensive reference. Clean copy. Wrap with some crinkling to edges . Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4642) £3.00

Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vols I-IV. London: The Folio Society , 1999. 10th printing . Edited with introduction by Betty Radice. All 4 volumes appear unread are in tight clean condition. Slipcase has fading and is splitting at the base. Fine in fair slipcase dust-jacket. Full elephanthide . (4504) £40.00

Edward Hyde: Earl of Clarendon . The History of the Great Rebellion. London: Oxford University Press and the Folio Society , 1967. 1st thus . Edited by Roger Lockyer. Internally near fine. Spine slightly faded. Near fine. Hardcover. (3243) £6.00

Eric Linklater. The Survival of Scotland. A review of Scottish history from Roman times to the present day. London: Heinemann, 1968. 1st Edition. ISBN: 434425508. Clean copy. Binding with light wear to edges. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2374) £6.00

Eric Richards. A History of the Highland Clearances; Vol 2: Emigration, Protest, Reasons. London : Croom Helm , 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 7099 2259 0. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (270) £28.00

Eric Roker . The History of Cricket; The Lonsdale Library of Sports and Pastimes Vol XXX. London : Seeley Service & Co Limited, 1950. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (513) £5.00

G M Fraser, Moira Henderson. Aberdeen Street Names. Their History, Meaning, and Personal Associations. Aberdeen : James G Bisset , 1986. 2nd edition . ISBN: 0948246049. First published in 1911, this copy has been updated, with new information provided by Moira Henderson. Scarce work . Near fine in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1933) £10.00

George Barry. The History of the Orkney Islands. Edinburgh: James Thin, 1975. Facsimile of the 1805 edition . A facsimile copy of 1805 1st edition, complete with folding map, frontispiece and 10 further plates. The wrap is complete but edge-nibbled and marked. The book is in very good clean condition - binding has a little fading at the top and bottom of the spine; text with occasional light spotting - mostly to top and side margin; some spotting to the foredge. George Barry's history was held in high regard at the time and is very comprehensive. Much of the natural history came from George Low's work, but he was not credited for it. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (107) £60.00 George F Black. The Surnames of Scotland. Their origin, meaning and history. New York: New York Public Library, 1999. 10th printing. ISBN: 0871041723. Very good + in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2880) £12.00

George Low, Olaf Cuthbert (editor). Low's History of Orkney. The History of the Orkneys introduced by A Description of the islands and their inhabitants, by George Low, edited by Olaf Cuthbert. Orkney Heritage Society, 2001. Limited Edition - no 100 of 120. A very scarce limited edition of Low's History of Orkney edited by Olaf Cuthbert, who was given access to Low's original manuscripts. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (30) £50.00

Gilbert A A'Beckett. The Comic History of England Vols I & II. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld, 1890's. Reprint. Nice 2 volume set complete with 20 hand coloured engraved plates and numerous in-text illustrations by John Leech. Bindings with wear to spine ends and corners. Vol II has a bump to the top front corner. Contents generally clean with occasional light spotting. Some pages poorly opened eg Vol I pp 85-8. Good +. Hardcover. (3910) £50.00

Gilbert White. White's Natural History of Selborne; 1860 illustrated ediiton. Old Woking : Gresham Books, 1979. facsimile edition . ISBN: 0 905418 22 0 . Very good + in very good dust- jacket. Hardcover. (1382) £8.00

Gilbert White . The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. London: George Routledge and Sons, ca 1897. Sir John Lubbock's hundred books edition. Profusely illustrated. Contemporary binding with newer matching spine retaining the original title label, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Tight to open. Contents clean. Good +. Half leather and marbled boards. (3414) £20.00

Graham and Anna Ritchie. Scotland. Archaeology and early history. London: Thames and Hudson , 1981. 1st Edition. Clean copy. Light toning to pages. Binding with some fading to edges. Wrapper with edge tearing. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2466) £12.00

H A Monckton . A History of English Ale & Beer. London : The Bodley Head, 1967. 2nd impression . Light spotting to foredge. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (534) £10.00

H Eliot Howard. The British Warblers. A History with problems of their lives. London : R H Porter, 1907-14. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Henrik Gronwold. 2 volumes in pigskin library bindings without titles. Both with water damage and staining, Vol I being the worst affected. Originally issued in parts this set is not properly paginated, with some page numbers added in in pencil. On collation it has 32 colour plates and 58 black and white plates and 12 coloured maps, but it is not clear that it is complete. It is a scarce work which, in very good condition, sells for circa £800. This set is priced for condition. The contents of Vol I hace some damp staining - affecting text and 7 colour, and 21 black and white plates. Vol II is better - plates do not have tissue guards but are clean and in good condition. 2 plates are misnumbered, the plate which should be at p 112 is at 114, and the plate for 104 is at 90. Poor. Full leather. (1176) £185.00

Henry Fielding . The History of Tom Jones a foundling. London: Hutchinson & Co , 1934. Deluxe edition . 2 volume set in original bindings with gilt decoration to front boards, in remains of original gift slipcase. Illustrated by W R S Stott with colour plates and black and white text illustrations. Top page edges gilted. Bindings clean in their original glassine wraps - some darkening to spine ends. Contents with some spotting and browning to preliminaries and end leaves, occasional text spotting and some spotting to foredge. A few grubby marks at the bottom edge. Good + in poor dust-jacket. Quarter buckram with dyed cloth boards . (4360) £10.00

Hilda Kean and Paul Martin (editors). The Public History Reader. London: Routledge, 2013. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780415520416. Near fine. Softcover. (3454) £15.00

J B Craven. History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney 1688-1882. With some notes on the Church in Caithness and Shetland during that period; and an introductory sketch of the earlier Ecclesiastical History of Orkney. Kirkwall : William Peace and son , 1883. 1st Edition. Clean copy in the original binding which is a little worn and shaken. Gilt titles to spine. Wear to spine ends, spine joints, edges and corners. Slight rippling to cloth on both boards. Original green patterned endpapers. Contents complete - some stitching a little wobbly. Fair. Hardcover. (4585) £55.00

J G Frazer . Adonis Attis Osiris. Studies in the History of Oriental Religion Vols I & II; The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion Part IV. London: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1919. 3rd edition . 2nd reprint of Part IV in 2 volumes of the 3rd much enlarged edition of The Golden Bough (the previous edition published in 1900 consisting of 3 vols). A hugely influential work. These 2 volumes were a major part of the original Golden Bough and have been further researched and enlarged. Bindings clean with bright front boards. Some staining to the back board of Vol II. Both volumes sound with faded spines and some corner wear. Contents very clean with publisher's catalogue at the rear. Pencil signature to front endpaper. Good. Hardcover. (3133) £40.00

James A Mackay . Islands Postal History Series: No 8 Shetland. Dumfries : James Mackay , 1979. 1st Edition. Home produced effort, staple bound with tape as spine. Typescript contents. Bright yellow covers very clean. Contents clean . Good +. Softcover - stapled. . (4268) £15.00

James Hunter . Last of the Free. A History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company , 2003. Reprint . ISBN: 9781845965396. Very good. Softcover . (3460) £6.00

James M Irvine . The Breckness Estate: A History of its Lairds, Tenants and Farms, and Skaill House. Kirkwall : The Orcadian , 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0954457137. Bright clean copy. As new. Hardcover. (4362) £30.00

James Pagan. Sketch of the History of Glasgow. Glasgow : Robert Stuart & Co, 1847. 1st Edition. In the original cloth binding complete with folding map, vignette title and 22 plates. The binding has scuffing and wear to edges, spine ends, corners and joints. Internally a newer non- matching front part endpaper has been added with some damage at the joint. Paper is lightly toned, particularly to the top edge, but contents clean. Fair. Decorative cloth . (4032) £40.00

Jeremy Rowett Johns. Polperro Family History Society Journal Issue 12. Worcestershire: April 2008. 1st Edition. ISBN: 14788012. Old label to back cover. Good +. Softcover . (4397) £3.00

Jim Eyre and John Frankland. Race Against Time. A History of the Cave Rescue Organisation. Sedbergh: Lyon Books, 1988. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0950687448. Very good +. Softcover . (2158) £10.00 Jocelyn Rendall . A History of St Boniface Kirk Papay. Kirkwall : Papay Publications , ca 1998. ISBN: 1874755019. With illustrations by Paul Symonds. In very good clean condition. Ownership signature dated 1998 to title page. Very good +. Softcover. (4134) £9.00

John Arnold et al (editor) . HIstory and Heritage. Consuming the Past in Contemporary Culture. London: Routledge, 2014. Reprint . ISBN: 1873394284. Near fine. Hardcover. (3464) £8.00

John F West . The History of the Faroe Islands 1709-1816. Vol I 1709-1723. Copenhagen : C A Reitzels Boghandel , 1985. 1st Edition. ISBN: 87 7421 475 6 . Extremely scarce history. Vol I was all that was published. Faded spine but contents in near fine clean condition. Very good +. Hardcover. (826) £125.00

John Hilton . Orkney. An Outline History. Kirkwall : The Peedie Press , 1997. 1st Edition. Concise history of the Orkney Islands. Near fine. Softcover . (1841)£4.00

John Hilton . Orkney. An Outline History. Kirkwall : The Peedie Press , 1997. 1st Edition. Concise history of the Orkney Islands. Very good. Softcover . (3735) £3.00

John Keay. India. A History Vols I & II. London : The Folio Society. 'As new' 2 volume set in slipcase in the original shrink wrap. Unopened so no information on printing. Set was first published in 2003 As new in as new slipcase dust-jacket. Hardcover. (4606) £50.00

John Knox, C J Guthrie . The History of the Reformation of Religion within the realm of Scotland. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1994. Reprint . ISBN: 0851513581. 'Edited for popular use by C J Guthrie. Clean tight copy. Very good. Softcover . (4627) £5.00

John Lorne Campbell . A Very Civil People. Hebridean Folk, History and Tradition. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1841580155. Small stain to front cover . Good +. Softcover. (2719) £5.00

John Smith . Annals of the Church of Scotland in Orkney from 1560. History of the U P Church in Orkney until 1906. And also the Episcopal Church from 1694. Kirkwall : W R Mackintosh , 1907. 1st Edition. Nice clean copy in original cloth binding. Binding clean and sound with light wear to spine ends and corners. Contents clean with light toning to paper. Very good. Hardcover. (4104) £52.00

Jonathan Couch. The History of Polperro, a fishing town on the south coast of Cornwall. Truro : W Lake , 1871. 1st Edition. In the original decorative cloth binding with folding map. Binding looks to have been rebacked with a morocco leather spine - which is quite scuffed. Original cloth boards with wear to edges and corners. Newer endpapers. Contents clean with some light spotting and the occasional mark. Good. Hardcover. (4402) £45.00

Justin McCarthy . A History of Our Own Times - Volumes I - V. London: Chatto and Windus, 1880-1899. various. An interesting set with the decorative bookplate of Ludwig Neumann of Grosvenor Square to the front endpapers. Justin McCarthy MP started with one volume and then expanded his history as the years passed into a 4 volume set. He later added volumes to keep up - so Vol V is an additional volume from 1897 (5th thousand printed). The 4 volume set is largely the New Edition from 1899. All the contents are in very good clean condition. The bindings are full tree calf with marbled page edges and endpapers. The spines are in crumbly condition and have been attached to the bindings. The style and condition of the bindings suggests volumes older than the publisher's date of 1880's onwards. Ludwig Neumann was a book collector with considerable income, so it could be that he had these history volumes bound in bindings from an earlier book - maybe to match others in his library. Good +. Full calf. (1702) £40.00

K E Styan . A Short History of Sepulchral Cross-Slabs with reference to Other Emblems found thereon; With notes and illustrations of examples found in the British Isles. London: Bemrose & Sons Ltd , 1902. 1st Edition. Clean copy in original decorative cloth binding. Profusely illustrated. Endpapers darkened. Good +. Hardcover. (3536) £12.00

Kate Towsey and Helga Tulloch . Orkney and the Land. An Oral History. Kirkwall : Orkney Heritage , 2009. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9781902957340. Near fine. Softcover. (3837) £10.00

Keith Dockray . Richard III. A Reader in History. Cloucester : Alan Sutton, 1988. 1st Edition. Clean copy. Ownership details to front. Very good. Softcover . (3496) £5.00

Ludmilla Jordanova . History in Practice. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Reprint . ISBN: 9780340814345. Fine. Softcover . (3462) £3.00

M J Driscoll (editor and translator) . Agrip Af Noregskonungasqgum. A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway. London: Viking Society for Northern Research , 1995. 1st Edition. ISBN: 090352127x. Fine. Softcover. (3975) £10.00

Mairi A MacDonald. By the Banks of The Ness. Tales from the History of Inverness and District. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing , 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0862280435. Near fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2693) £6.00

Martin Arnold and Alison Finlay (editors) . Making History. Essays on the Fornaldarsogur. London: Viking Society for Northern Research , 2010. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780903521840. Fine. Softcover . (3976) £8.00

Matthew W Waters . A Survey of Neo-Elamite History. State Archives of Assyria Studies Vol XII. Helsinki : The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project , 2000. 1st Edition. Very scarce. Covers with minimal wear.Contents clean and sound. Good +. Softcover . (3825) £15.00

Maureen Carroll . Earthly Paradises. Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology. London: British Museum Press, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 071412768x. Beautifully illustrated. Wrap and book clean. Some light spotting to endpapers, preliminary and final leaves. Very good in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3759) £5.00 Max Wade-Matthews. Music. An Illustrated History. An encylopaedia of musical instruments and the art of music-making. London: Hermes House , 2010. reprint . ISBN: 9781843092100. Fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (2193) £8.00

Meryl Marshall . Strathconon. The History and Archaeology of a NE Highland Glen. Inverness: North of Scotland Archaeological Society , 2011. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780956878601. Extremely scarce publication . Very good +. Softcover. (2727) £10.00

Michael Faraday . Ludlow 1085-1660. A Social,, Economic and Political History. Chichester : Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0850338042. Very good + in very good + dust- jacket. Hardcover. (2073) £8.00

Mike Dixon-Kennedy . The Robin Hood Handbook. The Outlaw in History, Myth and Legend. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition. ISBN: 075093977x. Very good +. Softcover . (2831) £5.00

N J G Pounds. An Economic History of Medieval Europe. London: Longman Group Limited, 1974. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0582483666. Very good. Hardcover. (2861) £7.00

Nicholas Leach . Longhope Lifeboats. An illustrated history. Lichfield : Foxglove media , 2009. 1st Edition. Near fine. Softcover . (3357) £5.00

Noel Hill and Caroline Budge . Orkney - A Photographic History 1870-1930. Kirkwall: We Frame It , 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952940000. Now scarce. Nice clean copy with light wear to corners. Near fine. Softcover. (4559) £30.00

Olaf D Cuthbert (editor), George Low. Low's History of Orkney; Introduced by A Description of the Islands and their Inhabitants. Kirkwall : Orkney Heritage Society , 2001. 1st reprint. ISBN: 1 902957 12 1. Very good +. Softcover. (326) £25.00

Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean (editors). Public History and Heritage Today. People and their Pasts. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 1st softcover . ISBN: 9781137285904. Near fine. Softcover . (3455) £12.00

Procopius, G A Williamson (translator). Procopius: The Secret History. London: The Folio Society , 1990. 1st thus. Written circa 550 AD, and providing a fascinating insight into life in Byzantium at the time. Fine in Near fine slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth binding. (2015) £10.00

Raymond Campbell Paterson . The Lords of the Isles. A History of Clan Donald. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2001. 1st Edition. ISBN: 184158097x. Very good +. Softcover. (2722) £8.00

Rev Angus Mackay, Rev D Beaton (editor), Lord Reay (Forward). The History of the Province of Cat (Caithness and Sutherland) from the earliest times to the year 1615. Wick : Peter Reid & Coy Ltd, 1914. 1st Edition. Scarce publication in original cloth binding with frontispiece portrait and all contents complete and clean. Binding with general scuffing to the edges, spine ends, spine joints and corners. Light warp to both boards and corners turned. Binding clean and sound. Top page edges gilted. Contents in very good condition - occasional light toning to top page edges. Bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson to the front pastedown endpaper and old signature to front free endpaper. Good +. Hardcover. (4130) £180.00

Rev J B Craven. History of the Church in Orkney 1558-1662. Bishops Bothwell, Law, and Grahame. Kirkwall : William Peace & Son, 1897. 1st Edition. A good copy in the original binding. Boards quite bright with some faded patches towards the edges; some pulling to spine ends; wear and bumping to edges and corners. Rear top spine end looks to have had a bit of bump and there is a small cloth tear at the top. Browning to half title page and final index leaf. Remaining contents very clean - lightly toned paper. Good. Hardcover. (4609) £80.00

Rev J B Craven. History of the Church in Orkney from the Introduction of Christianity to 1558. Kirkwall : William Peace & Son, 1901. 1st Edition. A good copy in the original binding which is very faded. Pulling to spine ends with wear and bumping to edges and corners. Contents very clean with lightly toned paper. Some darker marking at the endpapers. Scarce . Good. Hardcover. (4610) £80.00

Rev J B Craven. History of the Church in Orkney. The Restoration to the Revolution 1662- 1688. Bishops Sydserff, Honyman, and Mackenzie. Kirkwall : William Peace & Son, 1893. 1st Edition. A good copy in the original cloth binding. Binding with pulling to the spine ends, particularly at the top. Wear and fraying to corners. Boards with some faded areas towards and edges and a small cloth scuff hole at the base of the front board. Pulling to spine ends with wear and bumping to edges and corners. Contents very clean with lightly toned paper - some occasional light marking to top margins and the odd offsetting from one text page to the opposing page. Scarce . Good. Hardcover. (4611) £80.00

Richard Gough, David Hey (editor) . The History of Myddle. London: The Folio Society , 1983. Photographic illustrations by Tim Stephens. A local history written in 1700 in Shropshire and considered unique. Nice clean copy. Slipcase with some wear and staining. Very good + in Fair slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth. (2243) £5.00

Robert Brydon . Rosslyn - A History of the Guilds; The Masons; and the Rosy Cross. Roslin : Rosslyn Chapel Trust , 1994. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0952149338. Nice clean copy with loose printed information on Rosslyn. Very good +. Softcover . (3535) £5.00

Robert Hughes. The Fatal Shore. A History of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London: The Folio Society , 1999. 2nd printing . Profusely illustrated and detailed account. Maps drawn by Denys Baker. In decorative cloth binding. Fine in near fine slipcase dust- jacket. Decorative cloth . (4062) £16.00

Ron Freethy. Man & Beast. The Natural and Unnatural History of British Mammals. Poole : Blandford Press, 1983. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0713713232. Book in very good clean condition. Very slight warp to the top of the back board. Wrap complete and clean with sunning to spine. Very good + in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3175) £3.00

Ross Wilson . Scotch. Its History and Romance. Newton Abbot : David & Charles , 1973. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0715360914. Signature to front endpaper. Wrap price-clipped. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3253) £5.00 Seton Lloyd. Ancient Turkey. A Traveller's History of Anatolia. London: Guild Publishing , 1989. Book Club Edition. Nice clean copy. Some bumping to corners. Very good + in very good + dust- jacket. Hardcover. (2869) £5.00

Sheila de Burlet . Portrait of Polperro. Souvenir history of a beautiful village. Polperro : Sheila de Burlet , 1977. 1st Edition. Signed by the author. Covers a little battered. Fair. Softcover . (4398) £2.00

Simon Schama . The American Future. A History. London: The Bodley Head, 2008. 1st edition, 2nd printing . Some damage to front cover of jacket. Book in near fine clean condition with light toning to paper. Near fine in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3016) £3.00

Simon W Hall. The History of Orkney Literature. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2010. 1st Edition. ISBN: 978 1 906566 21 0. Fine. Paperback. (31) £15.00

Sir John Barrow. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty - its Causes and Consequences. London: The Folio Society, 1977. 2nd impression . Edited and with introduction by Capt. Stephen W Roskill. Clean tight copy with slight marking to binding and small faded area to top page edge. Very good + in Good+ slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2260) £2.00

Sir Thomas Malory . Le Morte Darthur. The History of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. London : Philip Lee Warner , 1920. 1st small crown Qto edition . In 2 volumes complete with colour illustrations after water colour drawings by W Russell Flint. In original blind- stamped decorative cloth bindings with gilt titles and volume numbers to spines. Both bindings are clean with wear to corners and spines. Spines are darkened. Vol I has had some repair to the top of the spine and has some pale blotching on the back board. Vol II has a small mark to the bottom of the front board and indentation to the top board edge. Contents are clean with inscription dated Xmas 1922 to the front endpapers. The contents are complete and clean. There is sporadic foxing, particularly at top margins and after the colour plates. Vol II has some splitting at the front endpaper joint and some small edge tears at the top of pp 233-241. Some Orkney interest with tales including Gareth of Orkney. Good. Decorative cloth . (4118) £75.00

Sir William Jardine . The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Part IV Natatores; The Naturalist's Library Ornithology Vol XXVII. Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1843. 1st Edition. First edition copy in a variant of the publisher's usual cloth binding. Contents: frontispiece; vignette title; 2 letterpress titles; advert; contents; memoir; chronological table of Naturalist's Library memoirs; text 313pp; directions to the binding (which refers to new title pages sometimes bound in with this volume as it was the last to be issued in the series); 31 hand coloured plates at the rear. The binding is sunned and lightly scuffed with some paler patches to boards. Contents in very good clean condition: some pages unopened but pp 31, 61 and 76 poorly opened; some splitting at the rear endpaper joint. Good +. Cloth. (617) £75.00

Stephen Usherwood. The Great Enterprise. The History of the Spanish Armada. London: The Folio Society , 1978. 1st Edition. From contemporary documents selected by Stephen Usherwood and first published by the Folio Society . Very good +. Decorative cloth . (2209) £3.00 Stuart Piggott . Scotland before History. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd , 1958. 1st Edition. With illustrations by Keith Henderson. Red cloth binding with some cup ring stains to front board. Otherwise clean with light wear at corners, spine ends and edges. Pencil signature to front endpaper. Contents clean. An interesting set of essays on prehistoric life in Scotland. Good. Hardcover. (4649) £5.00

Sydney Wood and John Patrick . History in the Grampian Landscape. Finzean : Robin Callander, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0907184057. Limited publication - only 1500 copies printed. Very good +. Softcover . (1929) £3.00

Theodoricus Monachus . The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings. London: Viking Society for Northern Research , 1998. 1st thus. ISBN: 0903521407. Near fine. Softcover . (3983) £9.00

Thomas Babington Macaulay . The History of England. From 1485 to 1685. London: The Folio Society , 1989. 3rd printing thus. Compiled and edited by Peter Rowland . Fine in Neaar fine slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2058) £10.00

Thomas Babington Macaulay . The History of England. From the Accession of James II Vols I,II,III,IV, V. The Folio Society. Introduced by Peter Rowland. Vol I, II: 3rd printing 1989; III, IV, V: 2nd impression 1990. Fine in Near fine slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2056) £50.00

Thomas Babington Macaulay . The History of England. In the Eighteenth Century. London: The Folio Society , 1991. 5th printing thus. Edited and supplemented by Peter Rowland. Clean slipcase but with nasty bump to bottom corner. Fine in Good plus slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2057) £10.00

Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution. A History. London: The Folio Society , 1989. 2nd impression thus. Complete 3 volume set in fine unread condition in fine slipcase. First published in 1837. Vol I: The Bastille; Vol II: The Constitution; Vol III: The Guillotine. Beautifully bound and illustrated. Fine in slipcase fine dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2008) £45.00

Urgunge Onon (translation and introduction) and Sue Bradbury (revisions) . The Golden Chinggis. History of Khan of the Monguls. London: The Folio Society , 1993. 1st thus . Clean copy. Some slight marking to binding. Very good + in very good slipcase dust-jacket. Decorative cloth . (2596) £8.00

Valerie Raleigh Yow . Recording Oral History. A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Bowman and Littlefield, 2015. 3rd edition. ISBN: 9780759122673. Near fine. Softcover . (3463) £5.00

W B Crow. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism. London: The Aquarian Press , 1969. 2nd impression . ISBN: 850300053. Good. Hardcover. (3034) £6.00

W C Sellar and R J Yeatman. 1066 and All That. A memorable history of England. London: The Folio Society , 1990. 1st thus . Introduction by Ned Sherrin, and illustrations by John Reynolds. Fine in near fine slipcase dust-jacket. Kraft Paper with printed design. (2583) £8.00 William H Prescott . History of the Conquest of Mexico. With a preliminary view of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation and the life of The Conqueror Cortez. London: The Folio Society , 1994. 1st thus. With introduction by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Near fine clean copy. Profusely illustrated . Near fine in near fine slipcase dust-jacket. Full buckram . (3207) £10.00

William Makepeace Thackeray. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1902. 1st thus. With illustrations and designs by Hugh Thomson. Small piece cut out of initial blank leaf. Good. Decorative cloth . (1249) £5.00

William P L Thomson . History of Orkney. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1987. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0 90182482 8 . Very good + in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. (1522) £12.00

William P L Thomson . The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 2001. 2nd edition . ISBN: 184183 0224. Spine faded and corners lightly turned otherwise in near fine clean condition. Very good +. Softcover. (1881) £8.00

William Rhind. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants with their uses to man and the lower animals ... Glasgow, Edinburgh : Blackie and Son , 1860. Reissue . A reissue of the enlarged 1855 edition which had additional plates. In contemporary half leather binding which is worn with damage to the spine. Contents are complete, with 22 hand coloured plates. Engraved plates are a little spotty as usual. Contents overall in good to very good condition. Fair. Half leather . (1177) £60.00

William Scoresby. An Account of the Arctic Regions. With a History and Description of the Northern Whale Fishery. Newton Abbot: David & Charles , 1969. Reprint . ISBN: 715343629. Reprint of the 1820 1st edition. Wraps with some edge nibbling and occasional loss and grubbiness. Small piece of tape to front of wrap to Vol I. Bindings with very blotchy cloth and slight warp to boards. Contents complete but shaken. Fair in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. (3666) £45.00

William Smith . A Smaller History of Rome, from the earliest times to the establishment of the Empire. London: James Walton, John Murray , 1869. 11th edition. Designed for schools. In original cloth binding with a newer cloth spine and endpapers. Page edges red. With black and white frontispiece and further black and white engravings. Contents with a lot of brown toning and light worm damage (one hole) to bottom corner margins. Initial leaves difficult to open. Fair. Hardcover. (3829) £3.00