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There are few things more satisfying than the scent of an aged book. Unless, of course, you count the hunt – going through rows upon rows of old books, looking for something you can’t entirely put your finger on. Rubbing the back of your hand against the hardcover spines of old books as you pass by, maybe not knowing anything about the titles themselves. Maybe there are a few titles you know. Maybe there’s something in particular, a special, obscure book that you’re looking for.

You might feel the sensation, for an instant, of being alone in the world with your thoughts, the only comfort being an antique book that seems to speak to you from way out in the past. There’s no other feeling like it, and at East Neuk Books we’re proud to stock Scottish antique and rare books for the serious reader.

Anyone can pick up one of the classics and take a walk through the past. But how many of them can say they do the same with a truly antique book? Imagine reading a masterpiece with a copy that’s changed dozens of hands, that maybe was held once by the author him or herself? Think of the histories this book has seen!

With East Neuk Books it’s never been easier to buy antique and rare books online. Check out our listings below and see how many precious volumes we’ve collected over the years. And, when they arrive in the mail, take pleasure in holding them in your hands for yourself History has never been so close, whether we’re talking about plays by famous authors, descriptions of the Scottish countryside (written by observant clergymen) or histories themselves that now belong to history.

No matter your fancy or taste in antique and rare books, you’re bound to find something here to add to your list!

1707 The Union of Scotland & England
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1707: The Union of Scotland and England

Saltire Society

1707: The Union of Scotland & England by P H Scott researches the important historical documents of the 1707 Union of Scotland and England, bet...

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A Buchan Companion
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A Buchan Companion

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A Buchan Companion By Paul Webb.  A Guide to the Novels and Short Stories is a book of Literary criticism of stories by Scottish author John Buchan...

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A Century of the Scottish People - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Century of the Scottish People

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A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 by T. C. Smout The second volume of T. C. Smout's magnificent - and indispensable - account of the Scot...

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A Jacobite Anthology: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Rising of 1745 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
A Jacobite Anthology: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Rising of 1745 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Jacobite Anthology: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Rising of 1745

Scottish Cultural Press

By Anne Scholey    Anthology of articles and recollections of various facets of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, ranging from individuals and towns ...

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A Lie About My Father - East  Neuk Books Ltd
A Lie About My Father - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Lie About My Father

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A Lie About My Father by John Burnside John Burnside has published seven works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry, including his Selected ...

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Alec Douglas-Home - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Alec Douglas-Home

Vintage Publishing

Alec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorne Alec Douglas-Home, who died in October 1995, was a member of every Conservative administration from 1935 to 1974. ...

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Anna, Countess of the Covenant - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Anna, Countess of the Covenant

Birlinn Ltd

Anna, Countess of the Covenant by Mary McGrigor Lady Anna Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth, was born in 1621. Famed for her beauty, she married...

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Art and Identity in Scotland : A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Art and Identity in Scotland : A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott

Cambridge University Press

This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...

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Art and Identity in Scotland : A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Art and Identity in Scotland : A Cultural History from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott

Cambridge University Press

This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...

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Baron John Maltravers 1290-1364 'A Wise Knight in War and Peace' : and his Forebears and Descendants 1066-1435 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Baron John Maltravers 1290-1364 'A Wise Knight in War and Peace' : and his Forebears and Descendants 1066-1435

Troubador Publishing

Baron John Maltravers 1290-1364 'A Wise Knight in War and Peace' : and his Forebears and Descendants 1066-1435 by Caroleen McClure The first Baron ...

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Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
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Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and c...

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Battleground Perthshire by Paul S Phillippou & Rob Hands - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Battleground Perthshire by Paul S Phillippou & Rob Hands

Tippermuir

Battleground Perthshire  is a concise account of the battles and minor military events that have taken place within the county of Perthshire.  Comp...

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Battles of the '45 by Tomasson & Buist - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Battles of the '45 by Tomasson & Buist - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Battles of the '45 by Tomasson & Buist

Batsford

Looks at the battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden. The battles pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commande...

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Best of Traditional Scottish Cooking by Christopher Trotter - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Best of Traditional Scottish Cooking by Christopher Trotter

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  After a brief introduction on the history of Scotland and Scottish cooking, this book takes a look at the various ingredients that are produced a...

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Born Yesterday - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Born Yesterday

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Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood by Douglas Sutherland. This autobiography is a memoir of a childhood spent in Scotland almost 70 y...

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Bound for America : The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Bound for America : The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775

Oxford University Press

Bound for America : The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by A.Roger Ekirch (Author)   During the eighteenth century, t...

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British Painting : The Golden Age by William Vaughan - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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British Painting : The Golden Age by William Vaughan

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  The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting, bringing it into th...

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Clans and Tartans : Traditional Scottish Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Clans and Tartans : Traditional Scottish Tartans

Collins Little Books

The perfect introduction to Scottish tartans. Produced in association with the Scottish Tartans Authority, this Little Book focuses on the history ...

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Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans

HarperCollins Publishers

Tartans are synonymous with Scotland and for many Scots, both at home and abroad, they are recognized and acknowledged as symbols of clan kinship. ...

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Dice: A Dark Art by Mac Logan - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Dice: A Dark Art by Mac Logan

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A man walks into an upmarket restaurant in the City. Within seconds, a senior banker lies dead. Shortly afterwards a senior Civil Servant is also...

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Early Scottish Gardeners and Their Plants, 1650-1750 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Early Scottish Gardeners and Their Plants, 1650-1750

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This is a garden history which focuses not on garden design and horticulture, but on the plants themselves and the men who grew them. Forbes Robert...

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Fife : Pictorial and Historical; Its People, Burghs, Castles, and Mansions. Volume II - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Fife : Pictorial and Historical; Its People, Burghs, Castles, and Mansions. Volume II

British Library, Historical Print Editions

Fife : Pictorial and Historical; Its People, Burghs, Castles, and Mansions. Volume II. by Alexander Hastie Millar (Author) Part of the HISTORY OF B...

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Fife by John Gifford - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Fife by John Gifford

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Fife by John Gifford is part of The Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland series published in association with the National Trust for...

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Fife Fishermen: Portraits & Recipes by Caroline Trotter - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Fife Fishermen: Portraits & Recipes by Caroline Trotter

Caroline Trotter

This is a record of some of the people who make, or have made, their living from fishing the shores around the East Neuk of Fife. From Lower Largo ...

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Fife's Fishing Industry by Linda McGowan - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Fife's Fishing Industry by Linda McGowan

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Fife's Fishing Industry by Linda McGowan (Author) Fishing has always been a mainstay of Fife. The fishing industry began to develop in earnest in t...

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From the Stone Age to the Forty-five - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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From the Stone Age to the Forty-five

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From the Stone Age to the Forty-five by by Anne C. O'Connor (Editor), D.V. Clarke (Editor)    

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Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name?

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Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? by John Moss (Author) For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our ...

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Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? (Paperback) - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? (Paperback)

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Great British Family Names and Their History : What's in a Name? by John Moss (Author) For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our ...

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Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall

Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd

Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall by William Shand (Author) , Andrew Wallington-Smith (Author) Apothecaries' Hall, home of the Worsh...

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Tartan - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Tartan

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Here the brave history of this romantic cloth is examined in detail, covering the span of Scotland's history and the manner in which tartan was enm...

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Industry, Business and Society in Scotland Since 1700 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Industry, Business and Society in Scotland Since 1700

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Industry, Business and Society in Scotland Since 1700 Edited by: A.J.G. Cummings, T.M. Devine This is a collection of 12 essays penned by former st...

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Jacobite Estates of the '45 by Annette M. Smith - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Jacobite Estates of the '45 by Annette M. Smith

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The defeat of the Jacobites in 1746 enabled government statesmen and administrators, north and south of the border, to begin a policy of punishment...

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Joseph Knight by James Robertson - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Joseph Knight by James Robertson

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‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story...

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Largo's Untold Stories by Leonard Low - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Largo's Untold Stories by Leonard Low

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LARGOS UNTOLD STORIES a book covering Witches, cannibalism, serious perverts, sea battles ,Plague, maniac sea captains and the bigamist drunken ant...

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March Past by Lord Lovat - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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March Past by Lord Lovat

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March Past by Lord Lovat Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL (9 July 1911 in Beaufo...

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Memories and Reflections: An East Neuk Anthology - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Memories and Reflections: An East Neuk Anthology

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Memories and Reflections: An East Neuk Anthology Nellie Watson was born in 1895 in Cellardyke, Anstruther, the daughter of a fisherman. She was edu...

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Modern Heraldry Vol. 2 by Jon Dowling - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Modern Heraldry Vol. 2 by Jon Dowling

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Modern Heraldry Vol. 2 by Jon Dowling (Foreword By) The second volume of Modern Heraldry contains a vast resource of trademarks, based on heraldic ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles (Author) - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles (Author)

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'My political life is over, and I proclaim my son Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon II'. It was not to be. Napoleon's hopes, expres...

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Nelsonian Reminiscences - A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account Of The War At Sea 1795-1810 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Nelsonian Reminiscences - A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account Of The War At Sea 1795-1810

Chatham

Nelsonian Reminiscences - A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account Of The War At Sea 1795-1810 by G S Parsons RN  These remarkable memoirs of a naval lieuten...

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Old Ways New Roads : Travels in Scotland 1720-1832 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Old Ways New Roads : Travels in Scotland 1720-1832

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In 1725 an extensive military road and bridge-building programme was implemented by the British crown that would transform 18th-century Scotland. A...

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Phantom Listeners
Phantom Listeners
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Phantom Listeners

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Phantom Listeners edited by Maria Sjoestrand and beautifully illustrated by Karolina Wellart. This fabulous collection of supernatural poems by wri...

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Portrait of the East Neuk by Lorn Mackintyre & Peter Adamson - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Portrait of the East Neuk by Lorn Mackintyre & Peter Adamson

Alvie Publications

Wonderful coffee table style book of colour photographs by Fife photographer Peter Adamson and St Andrews author Lorn Mackintyre

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Sacred Fife and Forth Valley by Scotland's Churches Scheme - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Sacred Fife and Forth Valley by Scotland's Churches Scheme

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The ancient Kingdom of Fife and the surrounding area play a central role in the history of the nation, from the battlefield of Bannockburn to the p...

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Salt-sprayed burgh: a view of Ansthruther - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Salt-sprayed burgh: a view of Ansthruther

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This is an excellent condition paperback book by Forbes Macgregor from 1998 covering topics such as Picts, Culdees, Calvinists and Witchcraft in th...

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Scotch Baronial : Architecture and National Identity in Scotland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Scotch Baronial : Architecture and National Identity in Scotland

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This book takes a timely look at how Scotland's national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scot...

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Scotland Since 1707 by R.H. Campbell - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Scotland Since 1707 by R.H. Campbell

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Scotland Since 1707 by R.H. Campbell (Author) 1971 Hardback Reprint. Dust Jacket may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remai...

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Scotland's Clans and Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Scotland's Clans and Tartans

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Scotland's Clans and Tartans

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Scots Kith and Kin : Bestselling Guide to the Clans and Surnames of Scotland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Scots Kith and Kin : Bestselling Guide to the Clans and Surnames of Scotland

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Guide to over 4,000 Scottish family names and their clan affiliations with pull out map of Scotland. Whether you are a Highlander curious in your l...

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