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Gough, Mary.
Travel into Yesterday: An Account of Archaeological Journeying
through the Plain and the Rough Places of the Roman Province of Cilicia, in
Southern Turkey.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. 1st edition. 305 pages. Photographs. Endpaper
maps.
Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. #14074. $12.50
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Hargrove, Ethel C.
The Charm of Copenhagen.
London: Methuen & Co., 1911. 1st edition. 314 pages. Index. 12 illustrations.
Round 'Presentation Copy' stamp over imprint on lower center of title page.
Chapter titles include: The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Works; Trifolium, the
Milk Factory; Professor Julius Exner, Folk-Lore and Stories from Danish
History; Roskilde, the City of Springs. Good hardcover, spine sunned and worn,
top and bottom of backstrip slightly frayed; foxing throughout. #25059. $65
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Hunter, James.
Scottish Highlanders: A People and Their Place.
Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1992. 1st printing. 4to (large
book). 192 pages. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs.
Exploring the history, ancestry and identity of Scottish Highlanders all over
the world. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1851584439.
#25183. $25
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Inglis, Henry D. (Henry David),
1795-1835.
A Personal Narrative of a Journey through Norway, Part of
Sweden, and the Islands and States of Denmark.
By Derwent Conway, pseudonym. Edinburgh: Printed for Constable and Co., and
Hurst, Chance and Co., London, 1829. 24mo (very small book). xiv, [1], 315
pages. Frontispiece (Specimen of Norwegian Music). Conway's Miscellany of
Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature,
Science & The Arts, Volume. XXXVIII: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Very good hardcover. Rebound. Exlibrary: spine label removed, bookplate inside
front cover, stamp on dedication page. Some pencil marginalia, slightly stained
on upper front edge. #24819. $70
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Jennings, Louis J.
Field Paths and Green Lanes, Being Country Walks, Chiefly in
Surrey and Sussex.
Sketches by J. W. Whymper. New York: D. Appleton, 1878. xiv, 293 pages.
Illustrations. Frontispiece.
Good hardcover with gilt title on front cover and spine and decorative tooling;
backstrip and edges slightly rubbed; some foxing. #24837. $20
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Justh, Josef.
Reisefuhrer des Deutschen Automobilisten. (Clubbuch des
Deutschen Reichs-Auto-Club).
Berlin: Verlag: Reisefuhrer des Deutschen Automobilisten, 1932. Ausgabe 1932.
Small 8vo. 615, [1] pages. Photographs. Maps. Advertisements. Text in German.
Good pictorial hardcover. Upper rear cover and some of the pages have been
damaged. #22191. $25
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Ker, J. Inglis.
The Land of Scott.
Introduction by Sir George Douglas. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Company, 1931?
Small 8vo. 209 pages. Maps. Frontispiece. Issued by the Royal Automobile Club.
Good hardcover. #20473. $20
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Lofthouse, Jessica.
Off to the Lakes: A Lakeland Walking Year. Illustrations by the
author.
London: Robert Hale, 1949. 1st printing. 280 pages. Index. Illustrations. Front
endpaper maps.
Very good hardcover. Front and rear dust jacket panel laid in. #24839. $15
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Lukach, Harry Charles.
The Fringe of the East: A Journey through Past and Present
Provinces of Turkey.
London: Macmillan, 1913. xiii, 273 pages. Map. Photographs.
Gilt pictorial navy cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, edges and corners
worn, some marginal notes and inside rear cover. Headband slightly chipped.
#15799. $85
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Macalister, R. A. S.
Monasterboice Co. Louth.
Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1946. 1st printing. 79 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Plates. Illustrations. Frontispiece. The monastery of Buite, Monasterium
Boecii, Monasterboice.
Very good hardcover. Unrelated gift inscription on blank front flyleaf. #25747.
$27.50
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MacKenna, John.
The Lost Village: Portrait of an Irish Village in 1925.
Dublin: New Island Books, 1995. First general trade edition. 71 pages.
Photographs. Signed by the author. Laid in: A single sheet poem, first line
'She came down the murky night,' also signed by the author. First published by
the author under his own imprint, Stephen Scroop Press, in 1985.
The story of the village of Castledermot in South Kildare in 1925. Very good
hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1874587170. #26122. $25
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McOwan, Rennie.
Magic Mountains.
Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1996. 1st printing. 160 pages.
Color and black-and-white photographs.
'A unique and comprehensive study of ago-old Scottish beliefs relating to
Scotland's hills.' - Front jacket flap. Very good hardcover in very good dust
jacket. ISBN 1851587071. #25180. $22.50
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Mais, S. P. B., and Gillian Mais.
Mediterranean Cruise Holiday.
New York: Taplinger, 1961. 1st U.S. ed. 251 pages. Index. Photographs. Endpaper
Maps.
The authors describe the holiday of a lifetime spent aboard the R.M.S. Andes,
sailing in the Mediterranean sunshine. Their cruise took them to the Grecian
Archipelago, having visited Naples, the Dardanelles, Istanbul and the
Bosphorus, on the return voyage they called at Messina, Barcelona and Lisbon. -
Front jacket panel. Very good in slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. #15308.
$20
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Merrick, Hugh.
The Great Motor Highways of the Alps.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1958. xvii, 272 pages. Index. Photographs. Maps.
Frontispiece.
Very good hardcover. Unrelated gift inscription on blank flyleaf. #23343.
$15
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Murray, Frances.
Summer in the Hebrides: Sketches in Colonsay and Oronsay.
Isle of Colonsay: Colonsay Books, 1994. Facsimile reprint. Copy 225 of
500. Small 8vo. 175 pages. Illustrations. Folding map. First published Glasgow:
James Maclehose & Sons, 1887.
The author's husband contributed a chapter on 'The Islands in History.' Very
good hardcover with gilt cross on front cover. #25167. $110
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Murray, W. H.
Highland Landscape: A Survey.
Scotland: National Trust, 1962. 1st Edition. Small 8vo (regular size). 80
pages. Index. Illustrations. Folding map in rear.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket, edges slightly rubbed, small tear
along upper front edge. #16838. $12.50
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Nameche, Leon.
La Ville & Le Comte de Gembloux: L'Histoire & Les Institutions.
Gembloux: Imprimerie J. Duculot, 1922. 1st printing. xii, 493 pages.
Illustrations. Frontispiece. Laid in a laminated card with a hand-written note
to an American Army captain in recognition of the first encampment of troops in
Gembloux, signed by two persons, and then 'Soldate de l'Armee Secrete Belge,
Gembloux, le 17.Sep.44'.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), partially unopened. The covers and the spin
have been laminated with clear plastic; the covers are detached from the text
block. #25760. $150
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