Aberdeen APPLICATION FOR RELIEF From the parish Funds of Old Machar, 1853. Printed form with manuscript inserts, size 15" x 13", filled in by applicant, Robert Allen, with reference from William Dunbar, Minister of St. Paul's Chapel certifying he has been a communicant for 4 years. Gives details of his 11 children. Folds, a few browning spots. 1853. £16.00

Aberdeen BILLHEAD of 'The Scottish Farmer', made out to J. & A. Blackie for advertising lots of land on the Banks of Dee. 3«" x 8", printed border clipped away at bottom, fine vignette of man ploughing. 1849. £5.00

Aberdeen Farrier BILL of Joseph Milne, Horse Shoer and Farrier, to James Forbes, Carter, Aberdeen 1834-1837. In manuscript, listing work with month and day on one and a quarter sides of small folio sheet, receipted as paid in full 31st Oct. 1837. Mainly for horse shoes, 'dressing a Foot' etc... together with... Summons or Complaint, to William Westland, Farmer, Nigg, by the Heirs of Joseph Milne, to recover money due to them. 3p., folio, printed, with ms. inserts, with list of work done 1839-41, with prices, 1«p. folio. 1834-7. £26.00

Aberdeen Newspaper ABERDEEN JOURNAL and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland. Feb. 6th and Feb. 20th, 1850. Broadsheet style, 23" x 17«", 4p, folded.stamps. 2 items. 1850. £15.00
¶ Many adverts. for the Aberdeen & London Steam Packets, Aberdeen Railway, Auction of Flax Mills at Aberdeen, report on meeting of Aberdeen Committee for the 1851 Exhibition, etc.

Aberdeenshire FOUR ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets II N.W (Rosehearty); XXXVIII S.E (Ellon); XLVI N.W (Oldmeldrum); LXXXVI N.W (Cults). Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheets. Contours in red. Provisional Editions. Revision of 1913, with additions to 1935. £16.00

Ayr, Dalmellington ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 14. Scale 1" to 1 mile, linen backed, folding into small 4to boards. Some light browning of linen in places between sections. 1872. £22.00

Bacon's PLAN OF EDINBURGH Coloured plan, size approx 12«" x 18", single fold at centre. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Small tear at central fold neatly repaired on verso. c1885. £20.00
¶ With street index in margins.

Braemar ORDNANCE SURVEY Sheet No. XCVIII. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size approx. 25" x 36". 2 indelible Survey Branch stamps in top margin. Second Edition 1903. O.S. blindstamp 1903. £20.00
¶ Covers the whole of Braemar, Corriemulzie, Loch Phadraig.

Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD March 31st, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds, Some minor browning along part folds on front page. 1860. £14.00
¶ Many adverts. for local firms, steamship sailings, Provost's resignation etc.

Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD April 14th, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds. 1860. £15.00
¶ Many adverts. for local firms, steamship and clipper sailings, Roup of the Bell and Petty Customs Dues, article on 'Scottish Patriotism', and 'Our Local Railways'.

Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD No. 1439. March 24th, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds. 1860. £14.00
¶ Many adverts. for local firms, steamship sailings, properties to let, displenish sales etc.

Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD April 7, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds, Some minor browning along part of one fold on front page. 1860. £10.00
¶ Many adverts for steamship and clipper sailings, with small vignettes of ships.

Buteshire ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet CCXVI.N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 12" x 18", plus margins, water features hand-coloured. Second Edition 1897. Shows northern part of Great Cumbrae Island... together with... Sheet CCXV N.E. part of Island of Bute showing Torr Wood, Kerrylamont... together with... Sheet XXXV. N.E. Kilchattan Bay. Editions of 1924. Half the area of these last two maps is sea. Three items. 1897 and 1924. £20.00

Caerlaverock REGISTERED MORTIFICATION Doctor John Hutton, In favour of The Poor of the paroch of Carlaverock and others. 3pp., small folio, printed on blue paper, giving the complete text of the mortification of 1719... together with... A different printing of the same mortification, on slightly larger paper, 2pp... together with... Memorandum of Information by the Trustees of Dr. John Hutton to the Commissioners appointed under the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act, 1882. 2pp., folio, setting out the objects of the Trust and describing the funds and the existing and previous Schools, with subjects taught. 3 items. 1883. £26.00
¶ John Hutton had made a considerable fortune as physician to 'their late Majesties William and Mary', and left £900 to the Elders of Carlaverock to pay a schoolmaster and educate and apprentice four local boys 'native born of honest parents'. He also (although this is not mentioned here) left a collection of books to the Presbytery of Dumfries, including the prayer book used by King Charles on the scaffold.

Cellardyke, Fife ARTICLES OF ROUP of the East Subjects in Cellardyke lying in the Orfat wynd consisting of a House and yard... Manuscript on 2p., sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf, setting out conditions of sale, and with a signed agreement for the sale at the highest bid price of £34. 1803. £15.00
¶ The house was William Eadie's and the purchaser was Andrew Pratt.

Clyde Shipping Company Ltd. POSTER Showing donkeys, pigs, goats, sheep and cows on an 'ark' with the name 'Taskus', in bright colours on a blue ground, 'Clyde Shipping Company Ltd' in large white lettering at top, 'Incorporated in Scotland' below that, and at the bottom in black 'Regular Service. Waterford with Liverpool. Offices, Waterford, Custom House Quay, Liverpool, India Buildings, Water Street.' 'Paterson' bottom right. Size of poster, 40" x 29". No folds. Printed by McCorquadale, Glasgow. c1950. £100.00
¶ Lennox Paterson was a lecturer in graphic design and Deputy Director at the Glasgow School of Art. He also illustrated books.

Dornoch, Golspie, Helmsdale ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 103. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Light red stamp in margin 'Scotland 103 - Outline Series'. 1912. £18.00
¶ About a third of the map is sea area.

Dumfries ARTICLES AND CONDITIONS OF THE ROUP AND SALE of All and Whole these two Parks or Inclosures... within the Burrow Roods of Dumfries in that part called Carsewell... in the King's Arms Tavern... 7th day of November... 1787... Manuscript, 3«p, folio. Each page signed by the two commissioners named by Sophia Corrie, who had inherited the property from her brother Joseph, Merchant in Dominica. Together with a document appointing Hugh Corrie, Writer, and Thomas Goldie, Commissary, to act for her and her husband as they live at some distance... together with... Extracted copy of an arbitration, 1747, between Joseph Corrie and John Fraser of Laggan, relating to a dispute about a dyke and ditch between their properties at Milldamhead, plus a receipt for money paid to Fraser by Corrie for 'thorns crabs and gardener's workmanship', 1747, and the Cognition and Seisin relating to the property (which was seven acres), on vellum, 12" x 23", ink slightly faded in parts. 1747-1787. £24.00
¶ Joseph Corrie was Town Clerk of Dumfries.

Dumfries ARTICLES OF ROUP of The Anchor Inn, Dumfries. 4p. folio, manuscript. The first page is a detailed description of the property, with names of adjoining occupiers etc. 1866. £12.00
¶ The auctioneer was to be David Creighton.

Dumfries ARTICLES AND CONDITIONS OF ROUP of the Grass Parkes of Brownhall belonging to John Brown Merchant in Liverpool... in the the Parish of Dumfries... the Tenant of Brownhall House shall have the liberty of a footpath from said House to the Lunatic Asylum... Manuscript on 5p., small folio, sewn. 1841... together with... Inventory of the Title Deeds of lands of Cherrytrees formerly Spittle Field, belonging to Margaret Brown. 1840. 1«p, folio, detailing title from 1773... together with... Discharge of Thomas Brown of his right to the farm of Spittle Field, lands of Conheathrigg, seat in the parish church measuring twenty seven feet six inches declared to belong to the Proprietors of Brownhall, etc. 3p., folio. 1859. With some relevant correspondence. 1840-59. £16.00

Dumfries BILL of John Grierson, Builder and Joiner, Charlotte Street, Dumfries. 4to, on blue paper, printed heading. Made out for dog kennel, coffin, mort cloth etc. 1865. £6.00

Dumfries COGNITION for seven acres of land inclosed into two Parks lying in the Burrowroads of Drumfries in favour of Joseph Corrie Son and heir of umq. Joseph Corrie late Conjunct Town Clerk of Drumfries. Vellum, 24" x 17", ink faded... together with... SASINE for the same property, 1752. Similar document, with fine notary's mark of Archibold Malcolm. 1773. £25.00

Dunbar, Haddingtonshire REPORT ON THE BURGH OF DUNBAR. Folio, folding engraved plan coloured in outline, with a sheet of text printed on one side only. (1832) £22.00

Duns FOUR LETTERS signed by Robert Ainslie, Berrywell, Dunse, 1780-81, to a Solicitor at Alnwick. 3 letters written on one side of small folio paper, one on 2p, 4to. All with blank conjoint leaves with integral address panel, Dunse straight-line postmark. Wax seals at bottom of letter. The letters press the Alnwick solicitor to make payment of a bill from Ralph Compton of Comptonhalls for £88. In one letter he says he hopes the 'Boy Heniot that went from this Neighbourhood to you is attentive Dilent and Sober, he was at School with My Sons who wish to hear of him...' 4 items. 1780-1. £40.00
¶ Robert Ainslie was Land Agent for Berwicksire Estates. His son, also called Robert, was a good friend of Robert Burns, who stayed with the family at Berrywell, where he wrote a poem to his sister, Rachel Ainslie.

East and Mid Lothian FOURTEEN ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Scale 6" to 1 mile. Quarter sheets, size 12" x 18" plus wide margins, contours in red, as follows: Sheet II S.E (North Berwick, Kingston); Sheet VI S.W (East Linton); Sheet VI S.E (Dunbar, Belhaven˙; Sheet VII N.W (Dunbar - mostly sea area); Sheet VII S.W (Dunbar, Meikle Pinkerton); Sheet VIII S.E. (Musselburgh); Sheet X N.W (Haddington), Sheet 1b S.E & 1 S.W (Cramond Island, Cramond); Sheet II N.E (Cramond Bridge), Sheet IV S.W (New Craighall, Craigmillar); Sheet IV N.W (Portobello); Sheet IV S.E (Musselburgh); Sheet IV N.E. (Musselburgh Links, mostly sea); Sheet I S.E & Ia S.W (Leith). Provisional Editions, Revision of 1913 with additions in 1938. £55.00

Eccles, Dumfriesshire MEMORIAL FOR THE HERITORS of the Parish of Eccles. 20. April 1815. 7pp., 4to, with an Appendix of 6 large folding tables, the first setting out the different teinds for the various husband lands, with owners, and the minister's old stipend in Bear, Oats, Scots Money, with Augmentation for 1776, 1795, 1806; State of the valued Stock and Teind of Eccles, giving names of lands, Proprietors, Stock and Teind etc.; Cess Roll and Valuation Roll for the Parish; Valuation Roll, 1802; Scheme of the Poven Rental. At the end is a separately paginated 'Valuation of the Paroch of Eccles, for Teiths of the Lands of Litchome and Peel, 16th June 1634.' 6pp. Folded. First page dusty, with two small holes at folds. 1815. £28.00
¶ One of the major landowners was Lord Home.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal PETITION of Robert Robb, Tenant in Gorgie, against Lord Bannatyne's Interlocutor Passing A Bill of Suspension for Union Canal Company. 10pp., 4to, sewn at margin J. & C. Muirhead, Printers, Edinburgh. 1821. £25.00
¶ 'the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company... have of late been forming a Canal or inland navigation from Falkirk towards the vicinity of Edinburgh. In performing their operations they occupied a part of the lands of Meggetland, under lease to the petitioner...'

Edinburgh DEFENCES for William Scott, Assistant Clerk to the Bills, in the Action at the Instance of John Smith, Writer to the Signet. 15pp., 4to, sewn at margin, vertical fold. James Clarke & Co., Printers, Old Stamp Office, 1825. £18.00

Edinburgh EXTRACT SEDERUNT Being Right to Burying Ground In South Burying Ground of Sain John's Chapel in favour of Sir William Maxwell of Menreith Baronet. Manuscript on one side of folio sheet, extracted by Robert Rollo, Treasurer. Includes right to 'insert a tablet or headstone in the wall thereof corresponding in size to the said three feet... but not exceeding in height the Copestone of the wall'. 1840. £18.00

Edinburgh Funerals NINE BILLS of John Croall and Sons, Funeral Undertakers and Carriage Hirers, Greenside Place. 4to, printed heading in a variety of type faces. Made out to various parties for funerals, including coffins, cloths, shroud, 'best plumed hearse and pair' etc. 1878-1909. £14.00
¶ Funerals include that of Mrs McLean, Alba St., Hugh Morton, Belvidere House, Helen Donaldson of Auchairne.

Edinburgh THREE BILLS OF COACH & HARNESS MAKERS all with decorative printed headings. Comprises bill of James Macnee & Co., Coach and Harness Makers to Her Majesty, 2p., for repairs to dog carts etc., 2 bills of Peter Croall, Princes St., for new Dog Cart, with packing and delivery to Lochbrey. 2 4to, and 1 8vo. 1852-66. £22.00

Edinburgh TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS SheetS VII N.W. and Sheet III S.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Contours in red. Revision of 1931-2 with additions in 1938. £18.00
¶ Covers Redford Barracks, Torphin Hill, Juniper Green, and Arthur's Seat, Morningside, Craigmillar.

Forth Bridge TWO PHOTOGRAPHS of the bridge under construction. One taken from a point close to the bridge, looking up, people standing on the shore, titled in white in plate 'Forth Bridge. 7082. G.W.W', the other from further away, titled 'Forth Bridge From The South 6975 G.W.W', both giving dimensions (span etc.) Size approx. 5" x 8", mounted on two album leaves. Some slight haziness in the distance in both photographs. 1880's. £60.00
¶ The photographer was George Washington Wilson.

Gall & Inglis, Publisher TOURIST'S MAP OF THE CLYDE 'Half Inch' Map. Map printed in green and black, size 15" x 24", printed on both sides. Hachures showing high ground. Folding into 12mo blue card wraps. c1910. £10.00
¶ Includes the whole of the Isle of Arran.

Glasgow FEU CONTRACT between John and Thomas Pettegrew of Green and John Robertson, sometime Barber of Glasgow, of 'All and Haill that part of their Lands in Shettlestown at the head of the Langehay where John Robertson has built houses within the Barrony of Glasgow'. 2«p., folio, small piece torn from top corner with loss of a few words, slight wear at fold in second leaf, strengthened with archival tape. Signed by the 3 parties. 1747. £18.00

Glasgow OBLIGATION BOND of Major John Spens of Stonelaw and Robert Park Merchant in Glasgow to Margaret Austin daughter of Capt. Joseph Austin of Kilspindy. Large folio sheet, written on one side only, folds. Signed and witnessed. Docket title and later note of 1791 on verso. 1785. £22.00

Glasgow ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet X (Late Renfrew 13 N.E). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Contours in red. Revision of 1940. £14.00
¶ Covers Rutherglen, King's Park, Cathkin Quarry.

Gray (John), Publisher NORTH BRITISH ADVERTISER No. 1461. October 28, 1854. Broadsheet newspaper, 4 very large pages. Folds. Some slight discoloration at folds along 8". 1854. £14.00
¶ As well as numerous adverts. for local firms includes notices of Public Meetings, Situations Wanted, Situations Vacant, Auction Sales.

Greig family, Bandon CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE Betwixt David Greig and Katherin Baveridge. 3 closely written pages, sm. folio, signed and witnessed. Some foxing and ink blots. 1726. £20.00
¶ Involved a bond of three thousand marks Scots.

Haddington BILL of Roughead & Park, Seedsmen, Edinburgh Corn Exchange. Oblong 8vo, fine engraved heading with street scene on left. Made out to J. Black, Cornhill. 1871. £9.00

Haddington REPORT ON THE BURGH OF HADDINGTON. Folio, engraved plan coloured in outline, with a sheet of text printed on one side only, couple of short tears to inner margin text leaf. c183-. £18.00

Hawick DECREET The High Court of Admiralty of the Kingdom of Scotland and Isles holden at Edinburgh twenty eighth day of July Miri and Eighty years... Set out judgment in a case of debt brought by John Allan, Sadler in Hawick, against the heirs of Richard Bell, of Hawick, now living in Cumberland. 5p, small folio, manuscript in a clear hand. Copy 1780. £18.00

Hawick TWO AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES For Sale of Store Sheep, 23rd October, 1940, and for sale of 1350 Suckled Calves, Blue-Grey, Aberdeen Angus Cross, Galloway and Shorthorn, 22nd October, 1940. Each 4pp., tall 8vo, on thick paper, vertical fold. 1940. £8.00

Hopekirk, Roxburgh DISPOSITION of the lands of Kirklands called Vicars Lands, of the Church of Hopekirk, with the teynds, etc., a wood called Clerks Bank, with 'biggings, yeards, tofts, crofts...', the lands of Hartshaugh and Milne, reserving the Manse and Glebe to the Minister, Alexander Elphingstone, with consent of his mother Margaret Langlands, to William Kerr of Abbotrule. On paper, size 43" x 12" (composed of three sheets pasted together), signed by Alexander and his mother, and three witnesses. A couple of short splits at folds. 1713. £35.00

Iron Foundry BILLHEAD of Shotts Iron Coy., Edinburgh. Oblong 8vo. Fine engraved vignette showing street scene with foundry building, figures, smoking chimney behind. Made out for box, pipes. Receipted. 1847. £12.00

Kincardineshire FOUR RECEIPTS for payment of Highway Bridge money and other rates by the Proprietor of Cotbank of Hilton. Four slips dated 1820, 1821 and 1832, signed by Collector, together with a printed receipt with manuscript inserts for Salmon Fishings, Hilton, for the season 1867... together with 11 printed receipts with manuscript inserts for payment of poor assessments, fishings, Cess etc., for parishes including Bervie, Ury, Fetteresso, Kinneff, in the 1860's. 1820-66. £16.00

Kingussie ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 64. Size 19" x 24". Linen backed and folding to sm. 4to. Margins and linen on verso slightly grubby. 1876. £16.00

Kircudbright ASSIGNATION by James Herries and others in favour of Jean Thomson. 3p., folio, written in a neat hand, signed by various parties. Refers to land in Nether Dalbeaty in the parish of Urr, with 'a Thatched-House and a garden behind'. Folded with docket title, two small splits in folds. 1826. £12.00

Kircudbright HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Printed letter dated 21st August 1854, from the Secretary, 1p, 4to, and on verso double page form to be filled in by farmer, with columns for acreage of crops, nos. of stock etc. 1854. £10.00

Linlithgow TREASURER'S QUARTERLY DISBURSEMENTS From Michaelmas 1825 - Candlemas 1826. Manuscript, 3p, folio, folded with docket title. Lists expenses by month, such as 'Paid expence of Cleaning weights and Measures', 'Paid a Poor woman pr. order Baillie Neilson', 'Paid for refreshments for the Town Officers and others at cleaning the Water Sewers at Cross Well and New Well'. Signed as approved by the Provost. 1826. £32.00

Lizars (W), Pub. NEW ROAD MAP OF SCOTLAND With All The Lines of Railway, Canals &c. Lithographed map, size 34" x 21", linen-backed and folding into small 4to boards, gilt title, cloth split down hinge of spine, cloth on front board darkened and stained. Fully hand coloured in counties, covering the whole of Scotland. Inset of Shetland Isles. Scale 1" = 10 miles. n.d. c1840. £70.00

Lockerbriggs DECREET William Gavin Mason at Lockerbriggs against Thomas Learmont, Gardner in Dumfries as executor of John Crombie deceased, for money owed by Crombie. Manuscript., 10p., small folio, folded with docket title. Note on verso to say contents paid. 1801. £20.00
¶ William Gavin had made various headstones, and there is a list of 14, e.g. 'one headstone with a Corvette Moulding', 'one through stone with three broad feet to Penpont £1.9s', 'one headstone with a panelling to Hollywood... 8s'. Also includes 'one grindstone, 2 feet and a half in diameter hewn 2s 6d.'

Martin (Henry), Sculpt. PLAN OF TAIN Scale 6" to 1 mile. Engraved plan, size 12" x 11", hand-coloured in outline. c1835. £22.00
¶ Names owners of property. Covers area from Morrangie to the River Tain.

Melrose PROSPECTUS of the Proposed Corn Exhange and Public Hall at Melrose. 1p., 4to, giving a list of the Provisional Committee and setting out the proposals, conjoint leaf with for for application for Shares. On verso of the first page is a manuscript note of six subscriptions, including The Rt. Hon. Lord Polvarth with 40 Shares (£200). Folds. 29th January 1862. £25.00

SCOTTISH Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

Moffat THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet XVI N.E. (Hairmyres Hospital, Thorntonhall); VIII N.E. (Glengowan, part of Moffat), XI S.W (High Blantyre, Nerston). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Contours in red. Size 12" x 18". Provisional Edition. 1948. £18.00

Muirhead (C) Printer THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER February 18, 1834. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded. 1834. £14.00
¶ Contains 3 columns on Highland Society livestock competition.

Muirhead (C) Printer THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER February 11, 1834. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded. 1834. £14.00
¶ Contains Adverts for Infirmary Ball, sale of houses in Candlemaker Row and Libberton's Wynd, report of calico-printers' strike etc.

Musselburgh REPORT UPON THE BOROUGH OF MUSSELBURGH 2pp, with a Plan of the Town, by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline, size 13" x 18", scale 6" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. c1832. £24.00

Nairn ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet I S.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Revision of 1931-2 with additions in 1938. Red dotted line drawn east of the town to the shoreline, printed in red 'Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Act 1914'. Margins dusty. Stamps of Ministry of Agriculture in margin. 1914. £14.00
¶ Covers the whole of the town, Moss-side, Househill.

Oban and Fort William BARTHOLOMEW'S QUARTER INCH AUTOMOBILE MAP Sheet 4. Coloured map, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into yellow card wraps with map of Britain. 1933. £6.00

Ordnance Survey THE ANTONINE WALL 2« inch map. Folding map, illustration of Roman coin on wrap. 1969. £24.00

Perth, Coupar Angus, Dundee ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 48. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Light red stamp in margin 'Scotland 48 - Outline Series'. Railways inserted to 1910. £32.00

Peterhead, Strichen, Ellen ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 87. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Light red stamp in margin 'Scotland 87 - Outline Series'. Revised 1910. £30.00

Portobello ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet IV N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Contours in red. Slightly less than half the map is sea area. Revision of 1931. £12.00
¶ Covers Seafield Hospital, Joppa, Buddington Mills, Eastfield.

Portobello REPORT UPON THE BOROUGH OF PORTOBELLO 1p, with a Plan of the Town, by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline, scale 6" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. Some minor off-setting on plan. c1832. £24.00

Railway Clearing House OFFICIAL RAILWAY MAP OF SCOTLAND Prepared and Published by the British Transport Commission, Railway Clearing House, London. 1960. Folding map, size 43 x 29", linen-backed and folding into sm. 4to boards, with gilt title. Mountains shown by hachures. Lines shown in blue. 1960. £40.00

Ramsay and Son, Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT Feb. 9th, 1835. Newspaper, 4pp. 1835. £12.00
¶ Contains adverts for auction sales, report of dinner at Perth for Hon. Fox Maule, murder in Leith etc.

Russell (Alex), Pub. THE ELGIN COURANT and Morayshire Advertiser. October 11, 1850. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., red tax stamp. Dustmarking along 10" of two folds. 1850. £14.00
¶ Contains article on the 'Gigantic Workhouse' at Barnshill, Glasgow, celebrations for the Earl of Fife's birthday, etc.

Saddlers and Harness Makers TWELVE BILLS all with printed headings, for Scottish firms. Comprises Dalkeith (2), Glasgow (1), Edinburgh (2), Aberdeen (1), Dumfries(1), Oban (1), Huntly (1), Wishaw (1), Kirkcudbright (1), Stranraer (1). Varying sizes from folio to 8vo, all compoeted with lists of work done. 1880-1920. £25.00

Scotland, North ORDNANCE SURVEY Quarter-Inch Map. Sheet 7. Fourth Edition. With National Grid. Folding to blue and buff wraps size 12" x 5". 1946. £8.00

Stranraer ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 90. Popular Edition. Buff and red wraps with shield and crown. 1924. £9.00

Sutherland ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 6" to 1 mile, size 54" x 54", linen backed, folding into stiff wraps. c1900. £20.00
¶ Covers Loch Craggie, Dalreavoch, Loch Beannach, River Brora, River Fleet. There are very few habitations shown. Labelled 'Tressady' on front wrap.

Veitch (William), Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT December 13, 1865. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp, folds. 1865. £10.00
¶ Includes 4 columns on the opening of the Glasgow Industrial Exhibition.

West Calder ACCOUNTS of James Fairley for carpentry and odd jobs done for Mrs Maitland at West Calder. In 8vo 'Commercial Memorandum Book 1857', marbled wraps, 16 pages of accounts, plus blank pages, detailing work such as making cold frames, cleaning windows 'painting old bridge green', 'packing box for Jelly', 'apprentice 3 days painting drying poles hotbed frame 2 coats and apple house door'. 1857-61. £25.00
¶ Possibly refers to the Maitland family of the Hermand estate.