History from JimsOldBooks

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987. A fold to top corner of back cover and some scuffing to other corners and to spne ends, a school ink stamp on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A collection of contemporary accounts of aspects of women's lives during the… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A biography of Sir John sinclair of Ulbster, probably most-remembered for his "Statistical Account of Scotland", but also was an agricultural improver, MP for Caithness, and builder… Read more about this item

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1987. Paperback edition. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, a mark on first page where orginal owner's address label has been removed, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the two British whalers "Dee" and "Grenville Bay" which were… Read more about this item

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2007. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some slight bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at smuggling in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. 223pp, 23 b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1932. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, also rubbing to spine edges, binding has been strengthened inside front board with glued paper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at events and personalities in Norse history, mostly in Norway but also in… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2009. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book.. Looks at British boys comics from the late nineteenth century up to the late 1970s, specifically at those which were mainly or solely war comics, from Boys Own and Chums, through Wizard, Hotspur and Victor, to Warlord… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2003. Some creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, also a small tear to top end of spine of same, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Lists all the known wrecks in the north of Scotland from Stonehaven north to Orkney and Shetland and west to Cape Wrath. A heavy… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1993. Minor creasing to outer corners of cover, very slight bumping to spine ends, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Brought out to accompany the museum exhibition dealing with the life and work of the Orkney born Victorian explorer John Rae who travelled… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1935. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of buff cloth-covered boards, red titles and decoration are rubbed but still readable, the crest on front board is still clear. Binding split inside front and back covers, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the various… Read more about this item

Kumamoto, Japan: Kurodahan Press, 2014. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. An account of the events of March 2011 when meltdowns occured at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima after an earthquake and resulting tsunami. Originally published in Japanese, and… Read more about this item

Whitby, Yorkshire: Caedmon of Whitby, 1975. Slight bumping to spine ends of blue boards, otherwise good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover book. A biography of William Scoresby (1789-1857), remembered mainly for his Arctic explorations when commanding whaling ships 1811-22; he also wrote many scientific papers for the Royal Society and later studied Divinity… Read more about this item

London: Free Association Books, 1989. Some scuffing to outer corners of covers, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Looks at the mother-daughter relationship through history from Classical mythology and literature through to women's own writings from the mediaeval period onwards. 358pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2015. Hardback edition. A small tear to top edge of front panel of unclipped dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the twenty-four bridges in Dublin city and county that span the river Liffey. A heavy book, packaged weight is about 1200g, so extra postage will… Read more about this item

Littleborough, Lancs: George Kelsall, 1995. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper and some fading to spine of same, slight bumping to outer corners of black boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the Fieldens textile company which operated in Todmorden, Lancashire from the early ninetenth century until 1960. … Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 2016. No dustwrapper (as issued). A very goos clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being volume 11 in the sixth series of the Scottish History Society's publications. This contains the text of the minutes of the Synod of Lothian and Tweedale in south-east Scotland from 1648-59, in the original spelling. 438pp.. Hard… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 2012. No dustwrapper (as issued). A very good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being volume 2 in the sixth series of the Scottish History Society's publications. Contains the text of the Kirk Session books for the parish of St John the Baptist, Perth from 1577 to 1590, along with introduction by Margo… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 2008. No dustwrapper (as issued). Very slight bumping to outer corners of black boards, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being volume 18 of the Fifth Series of the Scottish History Society's publications. A diary kept by one James Wilson of the farm of Upper Knowes, Banffshire between 1879… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 2008. No dustwrapper (as issued). Very slight bumping to outer corners of black boards, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being volume 15 of the Fifth Series of the Scottish History Society's publications. Contains pieces by various Scottish Presbyterian writers from between the mid seventeenth and very early eighteenth… Read more about this item

Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall: Jamieson Library, 1992. A crease to top corner of front cover, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the visit to Orkney (mostly dealing with the small island of Flotta) by one Brenda Draper in… Read more about this item

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1987. Hardback edition. Some fading to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the two British whalers "Dee" and "Grenville Bay" which were trapped in the ice in the Davis Straits in the… Read more about this item