Search Results: the scottish gael or celtic manners by james logan

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London: Smith, Elder & Company. Good+. 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. The cloth covering the spines of both volumes has been glued down. The contents are very good or better, with all plates present. Boards are rubbed at the edges, with expected surface soil to the boards. ; 9"; 384+440 pages .

S. Andrus and Son. Collectible - Acceptable. Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1843. 1st American edition. 8vo. Frontis., illus., music. Fair book. Ex-library. Spine ends worn. Front board missing; back board detached: edgeworn, frayed corners. Front endpage and flyleaf torn; first half-dozen pages spotted. Owner's name on title page. Pages aged and foxed. Inquire if you need further information.

Edinburgh: John Donald, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two-volume hardcover set, in dust jackets. Jacket spines faded; some toning to edges,text. Otherwise, clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. Illustrated..

Inverness: Hugh Mackenzie, [1876]. In two volumes. xl, 393, [1]; [6], 440pp. With a lithographed colour frontispiece to each volume, five further lithographed plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Partially unopened in original publisher's green cloth, printed paper lettering-pieces to spines. A trifle rubbed, lettering-pieces browned and chipped, upper board of Vol. I stained. Tickets of Glasgow-based bookseller Hugh Hopkins to both FEPs, endpapers browned, offsetting to titles, very occasional light spotting. A reissue, with a memoir of the author, of James Logan's (1797-1872) most significant work. First published in London in 1831, the book, dedicated to William IV, encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, from archaeology to early nineteenth-century Gaelic literature, including chapters on arms, dress, hunting, food, and poetry and music. The majority of its archaeological and historical conclusions are, by contemporary standards spurious, too reliant on the Ossianica of… Read More