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The list below contains the latest items we have catalogued in our offline database. If you are reading this the same day it was posted then they may well not yet have appeared on any of the websites on which we sell (we generally update sites every few days, not daily). Please email us to order books.

[006417] Baker, William M. Making Many Glad: The Life and Labours of Daniel Baker. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2000. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0851517811. . 560 pages, life of an evangelist in the South of USA. GBP 3.75

[006418] Macleod, Norman (ed). The Home Preacher; or, Church in the House; a Book of Prayer, Praise & Homilies, for every Sunday in the Year; with Daily Meditations, & a Service for Children. London: William MacKenzie, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Half-Leather. Average Minus . 736 pages, including a Sermon and a Children's Service (address) for each week, plus morning and evening verses for every day. Contributors include C J Vaughan, Thomas Guthrie, J C Ryle, C H Spurgeon, Henry Cooke, R W Dale, D T K Drummond, and many others. There is a section of full page plates (engravings) at the back, including some of the contributors (such as Spurgeon, Ryle, Guthrie, Candlish, Cooke), and Biblical incidents. Cloth (especially) and leather (a little) peeling off boards, internally fairly good. GBP 19.50

[006419] Tulloch, Bobby; Hunter, Fred. A Guide to Shetland Birds. ill. Tulloch, Bobby; Coutts, Dennis. Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1972. Revised Edition. Booklet. Good . 52 pages plus b/w plates; includes a checklist for recording personal sightings. GBP 2.75

[006420] Miller, John. Trees of Glasgow. Alness: John Miller, 2005. Booklet. NEW . 60 pages plus 4 pages of colour plates. GBP 4.00

[006421] Mustoe, Anne. Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo. London: Virgin Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus / Good Plus. ISBN: 1852279842. . 248 pages, illustrated. The author was a Cambridge classics graduate and a girls' school headmistress for many years. This is the account of her bicycle journey from Cleopatra's Needle on London's Thames Embankment to its original site at Heliopolis in Egypt, visiting Istanbul, Ephesus, Damascus, and many other historic places en route. GBP 3.75

[006422] Murray, Jon. Bangladesh: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1991. Second Edition. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0864421087. . 163 pages, illustrated in colour. GBP 1.75

[006423] Risse, Heike; Rödel, Ingrid; Rödel, Volker; Baumgarten, Peter (ed); Court, Alec (trans). Baedeker's AA Frankfurt. London: Automobile Association, 1985. First Edition (English language). Paperback. Good Plus ISBN: 0861453220. . 176 pages, illustrated in colour. GBP 1.75

[006424] Sempangi, Kefa. Reign of Terror, Reign of Love: a Firsthand Account of Life and Death in Amin's Uganda (originally "A Distant Grief"). Tring: Lion, 1979. First Edition (British). Paperback. Average ISBN: 0856481920. . 160 pages, paper a bit browned with age. GBP 2.00

[006425] Miller, Hugh. My Schools and Schoolmasters; or the Story of My Education. Edinburgh: W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1893. Popular Edition. Cloth. Average . 272 pages, front endpaper missing. GBP 3.25

[006426] Abram, Dave et al. Scotland: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides, 1996. Second Edition. Paperback. Good ISBN: 1858281660. . 562 pages. GBP 1.50

[006427] Tritton, Arthur Stanley. Teach Yourself Arabic. Sevenoaks: Teach Yourself Books (Hodder and Stoughton), 1984. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0340264217. . 296 pages. GBP 1.50

[006428] Velarde, A Khouri; Coleman, L; Newton, R Nash. Arabic Phrase Book (Teach Yourself Series). Sevenoaks: Teach Yourself Books (Hodder and Stoughton), 1986. Paperback. Average Plus ISBN: 0340236914. . 165 pages. GBP 1.25

[006429] Whiteley, Wilfred. Swahili: The Rise of a National Language (Studies in African History Series, No 3). London: Methuen, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0416108709. . 150 pages. About the history of Swahili, and its recognition as Tanzania's national language. A little neat pen underlining and marking. GBP 5.00

[006430] Hengirmen, Mehmet; Koç, Sabri (trans). Turkish for Travellers. Ankara: Engin Yayinevi, 1988. Paperback. Good . 203 pages, in a style reminiscent (to say the least) of Berlitz's "For Travelers" series. GBP 2.00

[006431] Koenen, Matthijs Jacobus; Endepols, J. Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. Groningen: J B Wolters, 1920. Dertiende, Vermeerderde Druk. Cloth. Average Minus . 1196 pages. Dutch Dictionary, in Dutch. This edition is of course before the spelling revision of the 1940s. GBP 2.75

[006432] Milne, Bruce. Know the Truth: a Handbook of Christian Belief . Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Good Plus ISBN: 0851106498. . 288 pages. GBP 4.25

[006433] MacKinnon, Albert G. The Rome of the Medieval Church (Earlier Section). London: Lutterworth, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Average . 237 pages, large print (and easy reading), a number of plates. GBP 5.75

[006434] Keil, Carl Friedrich; Delitzsch, Franz Julius. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Twelve Minor Prophets by C F Keil : Vol 2 (only, of 2): Nahum-Malachi. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1878. Cloth. Average ISBN: . . 475 pages, a little wear and tear to top and bottom of spine. GBP 3.50

[006435] Quiver. The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading: Volume 22: 1887. London: Cassell, 1887. Half-Leather. Average Minus . Leather spine starting to tear away from covers. 772 pages containing vast quantity of Victorian stories and black and white engravings (full page ones are sentimental). GBP 5.75

[006436] Bible, Authorised Version, King James Version. My Counsellor: Holy Scripture Arranged as Morning and Evening Meditations for Edification, Guidance and Comfort. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Leather. Good Plus . 768 pages, flexible black leather covers, red-gilt edges; front endpaper missing. Daily Light sytle publication with monthly themes around the names Jehovah, Jehovah Shalom, Jehovah Rophi, etc, etc. GBP 4.00

[006437] Pike, John Gregory. Persuasives to Early Piety. London: Religious Tract Society, Cloth. Average . 190 pages, 19th century printing (undated), title page missing. John Gregory Pike (1784-1854) was a Baptist minister in Derby and founder of the General Baptist Missionary Society. GBP 2.50

[006438] Cunningham, John. The Church History of Scotland: Vol 2 (only, of 2). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. Cloth. Average Minus . 630 pages, Vol 2 covers the period from the Hampton Court Conferemnce (1604) to the death of Andrew Thomson and the Veto Act (1831). Binding shaken, spine worn. John Cunningham (1819 -1893) was parish minister of Crieff, and should not be confused with Free Church of Scotland Professor William Cunningham. This is a different edition and in a different sized volume to the copy of Volume 1 which we have in stock at the time of cataloguing. In fact these two items overlap by two chapters. GBP 9.50

[006439] Bible, Authorised Version, King James Version. Holy Bible (Small, in Brown Leather with Brass Edges and Clasps). London: G E Eyre and W Spottiswoode, 1842. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Leather. Average . Small print Bible with Metrical Psalms (which are slightly loosened); front endpaper and title page missing. GBP 4.75

[006440] Ali, S M Wajid. The Practical Hindustani Grammar. Roorkee: S M Wajid Ali, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Average Minus . 243 pages, printed by the Pioneer Press, Lucknow; cloth spine almost detached. S M Wajid Ali was Regimental Munshi to King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners, Roorkee, and his book has a recommendatory foreword by H G Brayne, Captain, Royal Engineers. The book specialises in conversational ability in Hindustani/Urdu relevant to the military life of the time; it is printed entirely in Roman type apart from a short section near the end on Urdu script (a form of Persian/Arabic script rather than the Devanagari script used for Hindi). GBP 6.00

[006441] Barnett, T Ratcliffe. Fairshiels: Memories of a Lammermoor Parish. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1906. Hard Cover. Average . 127 pages, memories and photographs of Fala and Blackshiels, by Pathhead, Midlothian (near Edinburgh), their old Seceder kirk and its psalm tunes. Edges foxed. GBP 5.75

[006442] Classical Association of Scotland. Classical Association of Scotland Proceedings 1902-3. Edinburgh: H & J Pillans & Wilson, 1903. Cloth. Average . 132 pages; papers on Efficiency in Education; Some Archaeological Aids to Classical Study; Classical Study in the Face of Modern Demands; The Public Examination System in Secondary Schools; The Teaching of Greek. GBP 9.50

[006443] Classical Association of Scotland. Classical Association of Scotland Proceedings 1910-11. Edi nburgh: H & J Pillans & Wilson, 1911. Cloth. Average . 139 pages; papers on The Present Position of Greek in Scotland; The Teaching of Latin and Greek; Aim and Methods of Latin Teaching; Recent Discoveries in Crete and their Significance for Classical Studies; The Teaching of Greek in the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge; Man and Nature in the Augustan Poets. GBP 9.50

[006444] Reid, James Macarthur. A History of the Merchants House of Glasgow. Glasgow: George Outram & Co Ltd (printed by), Cloth. Very Good / Average. . 85 pages, illustrated. GBP 3.75

[006445] Rennie, George Gall. Son of the Soil. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Average Minus / Average Minus. . 165 pages, edges foxed, covers a little damp-stained. Autobiography of a farmer's son from Aberdeenshire, including his early military and later veterinary career. GBP 3.50

[006446] Boston, Thomas. Human Nature in Its Four-Fold State of Primitive Integrity, Subsisting in the Parenst of Mankind in Paradise, Entire Depravity, in the Unregenerate, Begun Recovery, in the Regenerate, and Consummate Happiness or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State. Bungay: C Brightly, 1812. New Edition. Leather. Poor . 478 pages. Binding very worn, edges browned/stained. GBP 2.75

[006447] Macleod, Frederick Thomas (ed). Eilean a' Cheò: The Isle of Mist: Comprising Articles on Skye by Skyemen. Edinburgh: Gordon Wilson, 1917. Cloth. Average . 133 pages, illustrated, edges foxed, covers somewhat stained. GBP 9.50