MY 20 YEAR COLLECTION OF GENEALOGICAL AND MEDIUM TO RARE SCOTTISH, IRISH, AND ENGLISH HISTORY BOOKS IS FOR SALE. MOST BOOKS ARE ONE OF A KIND. TO CONFIRM EMAIL ME AT: I WILL HOLD THE BOOK FOR TEN DAYS. ALL BOOKS ARE STANDARD SIZE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. ALL BOOKS ARE IN *VERY GOOD* CONDITION EXCEPT WHERE NOTED OTHERWISE. MANY BOOKS ARE NEW.
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soft
cover
ill illustrated
ex. lib. ex
library
NEW brand new condition
apx
appendices
dj has dust
jacket
GPC
Genealogical
Pub. Co.
ND
not dated
hc
hard cover
All prices in US Dollars.
GENEALOGY BOOKS
G8. Conference Minutes of the Free Methodist Church in the USA,
1947,
406 pgs, w/index, hc. These books list hundreds of names
including
preachers, deacons, deconesses, officers, evangelists,
delegates,
missionaries, elders, presidents, superintendants,
trustees,
secretaries mailing and addresses.
Indexed....................25.00
G9. Conference Minutes of the Free Methodist Church, 1952, USA,
410
pages, w/index, hc, (As above)
indexed.......................25.00
G25. Genealogical Research Directory National and International,
1990,
Keith A. Johnson and Malcolm R. Sainty, 929 pgs,
sc, NEW....10.00
G27 Wilmington, Vermont [History of], 1900 pub. by the Times
Press.
[1989] 70 pages, new everyname index, profusely
illustated with 100
pictures of early settlers, and with other pictures
of their homes,
businesses, farms, etc. Contains genealogicl
data of the early
settlers.....................................................25.00
G29. Genealogical Data Extracted from the Boston's Selectmen's
Minutes,
1736-1775, Brigette Burkett, 1993, Heritage
Books, 486 pgs, sc...
..................................NEW.........................................25.00
G31. (GPAI) Genealogical Periodical Index, Vol. 26, 1987,
Ackerman
& Towle,
266 pgs, hc. Indexes 272 genealogical newsletters
and periodicals of
1986.
.............................................NEW..............................20.00
G 31a (GPAI) VOL 35 1996 as above but indexes 350
newsletters
and periodicals.
published 1999 .....................brand
NEW...............................25.00
G36. German-American Names, George F. Jones, 1990, GPC, hc,
dj,
268 pgs
w/index, ..........
............NEW.................................20.00
G37. Upton's Heritage, the History of a Massachusetts Town,
Donald
Blake Johnson, 1984, hc, dj, 267 pgs
w/index...........35.00
G38. Personal Names, Elsdon C. Smith, 1952, hc, printed on
acid
free
paper, 226 pgs w/index, ex.
lib...............................15.00
G42. What's in a name, Leonard R. N. Ashley,
Everything
you wanted to
know, 1989, dj, 257 pgs,
.....NEW............................20.00
G54. Heads of Families, At the first Vermont Census, 1790,
Reprint
1983, 8 1/2 x 11, sc, 95
pgs....................................15.00
G56. Magazine. This is Maine's Knox County, Richard W. Baker,
Editor
and Writer, 64 pages, ca.
1978................................3.50
G59. Higginson's American Genealogies, Family History Catalog
A
good resource that lists what's
available........................3.50
G60. The Boyd Family, Arthur S. Boyd Jr., 1924. Republished
1992,
sc,
8 1/2 x 11 format, new
index....................................15.00
G61. Combined Atlases and Wall Maps of 1849, 1866, 1875, 1908 of
Delaware County, OHIO w/supplements.
Contains dozens of woodcuts
and illustrations of farms, stores,
residences,
pioneers, etc. This
is a very large book, 11 1/2 X 14 ( Map Size)
published by the
Delaware County Historical Society. (275 pages
w/index).... $50.00
G75. Alma (Michigan) College Bulletin, Vol 29 Number 1
1931/1932, 99 pages,
sc,
..........................................................$10.00
G-80. The William Fleming Family, 1941, Franklin Marion
Brand,
Morgantown, West
Virginia, hc, 652 pages/indexed,
illustrated
with 230+ of photographs of
members of this Fleming
Family...........HARD
TO FIND BOOK..............$85.00
G-81 History of Hampden County, MA, 1636-1936, Clifton
Johnson.
A Heritage
Classic just off the presses. 2 volumes, 553 and
543 pages respectively. Indexed
soft cover...................brand new .............2
books......................................$65.00
SCOTTISH GENEALOGY AND HISTORY BOOKS FOR SALE
S10a History of Kilmarnock, Scotland Archibald
M'Kay,
1864
8 1/2 x 11 format, 209 pages, new index, appendices, sc, Combs
binding, about 5 copies on hand. This is a hard to find
book.
Since
Kilmarnock is the home of the Boyd family there is a lot of data on
the Boyds. The book also has data on other families such as :
ADAM,
ANDERSON, BELL, BROWN, STEWART, MUIR, PATERSON,
MONTGOMERY, SMITH, WILSON, THOMSON, LINDSAY,
FINDLAY, CUNNINGHAM, CAMPBELL, CRAWFORD, HOWIE,
DICKIE, HALL, DUNLOP, DOUGLAS, JAMIESON, JOHNSTON,
JOHNSON, HILL and many, many others. The index
lists over 600 people.
This edition (1995) contains a new everyname index,
...............30.00
S13 The Anglophile, Egan O'Neill, FICTION 1957, hc, 256 pgs, ...6.50
S14. Annals of the Boyd Family, The Boyds of Penkill and
Trochague,
Florence Robertson Cameron, 1963, about 100
copies of this book
were privately published. Excellant history of the
Boyd Family.
Contains pages of the best Boyd family tree charts
I've seen. 24
illustrations and pictures, some in colour sc, 109
pgs,
reprint.....................................................$30.00
S15. The Prophecies of Brahan Seer, Alexander Mackensie,
[1877]
1981,
hc, dj, 152 pgs, a classic piece of Scottish
literature.......25.00
S16. Scotland Under Charles I, David Mathew, 1st edition,
London,
1955,
320 pgs, w/index,
hc,.........................................20.00
S19. The Highland Clans, Sir Ian Moncreiffe of That
Ilk,
1982, maps,
Tartans (color), hc, dj, 248 pgs w/index, 8 1/2
x 11,
one of the very popular clan
books.......NEW..................55.00
S20. The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, R.R. McIan,
1985,
206 pages,
color photos of many of the clans dress (tartan),
history of the
clan, very large book, hc,
.............NEW...............65.00
S22. Scottish Island Hopping, A handbook for the independant
traveller,
Jemima Tindall, 1982, Ill, maps, sc, 267
pgs..................10.00
S28. The Problem of The Picts, F.T. Wainwright (editor),
1955,
Reprint
1980, dj, hc, 176 pgs w/index,
..........NEW..............30.00
S29. Our Life in the Highlands, by Queen Victoria, first
printed
in
1968, 1972 edition, 238 pages, hc,
.........NEW..........20.00
S30 Highland Dancing, The Official Textbook of the
Scottish
Board of
Highland Dancing, 3rd ed., Edinburgh, 71 pgs,
ill.............10.00
S34. Scottish Family History, Margaret Stuart, [1962] 1983
reprint,
hc,
386 pgs,
..........................NEW....................25.00
S44. Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory, A Rendition in
Modern
Idiom
by Keith Baines. The Classic story of King Arthur and the Round
Table
originally published by Caxton in 1485, 1962 edition, hc, dj,
512
pages, w/appendix,
.....................NEW.................35.00
S45. Royal Charles, Charles the second and the Restoration,
Antonia
Fraser, 1980, dj, hc, 524 pages w/index,
.......NEW.........25.00
S46. The Arthurian Legends, An Illustrated Anthology,
Richard
Barber,
1979, dj, hc, 224 pages,
.............NEW...................30.00
S48. A Travellers Guide to the Kingdoms of Arthur, Neil
Fairburne
with
photographs by Michael Cyprien, 1983, hc, 157 pages, NEW
.......40.00
S49. Montrose, The Captain General, Fiction, Nigel Tranter,
1973,
414
pages, hc, dj,
.............NEW.............................15.00
S51. The Irish-Scots and the Scotch-Irish, John C. Linehan,
[1902]
An
Historical and Ethnological Monograph with some reference to
Scotia
Major and Scotia Minor, Scotcopy, 8 1/2 x 11, 138
pages........15.00
S52 The Boyd Family, descendants of John Boyd who married
Margaret
Long
in Boston, 1731 and his sons, especially Abraham
Boyd who married
Hannah Hill in 1766 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts
and relocated to
Windham County, Wilmington, Vermont, RG Boyd
1993, 200 pages, spiral
bound, fully
indexed.......................................20.00
S71 The Boyd family by Edgar E. Boyd, 1913, Wheeling,
West
Virginia.
Follows the line of John Boyd born at Irvine,
Ayrshire, Scotland
21 Jan 1739 who settled in Richmond, Berkshire
Co, MA and later
to Kinderhook, NY. 35 pages with a new
everyname
index.... $15.00
IRISH GENEALOGY AND HISTORY BOOKS
E3. Irish Statesman and Rebel; The Two Lives of Eamon De Valera,
Bill
Severn, 1970, hc, 184 pgs, indexed
...........................25.00
E4. To Ulster's Credit, Sam Allen, ND, sc, 132 pages............. 10.00
E5. It's The Irish, Bob Considine, 1961, hc, 274 pages............10.00
E6. Irish Stories and Legends, Samuel Lover, London, ND,
1940s,
396
pgs, hc.
......................................................20.00
E9. Irish Literature, David H. Greene, 1954, dj, hc, 602 pgs
w/index
An excellant book of Irish Literature
.........................20.00
E10. Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland, Jeremiah Curtin, 1975,
hc,
dj, 345
pages........................................................
20.00
E25. Heritage of Ireland, Brian de Breffny, 1980, very large
format
book, photography by George Mott, 100 black and white
photographs,
16
pages of full color, hc, dj, 160 pgs
w/index....................50.00
E28. Ireland, Terence J. Sheehy, hundreds of colour
photographs,
large
size book, dj, hc, not paged (300)
pgs.......................50.00
E29. Discovering Britain & Ireland, 1985, hc, dj, large
format
book,
hundreds of colour photos, 448 pgs
w/index....................35.00
E30. Historic Houses of Britain, Mark Girouard, 1979, 188
colour
plates, hc, dj, 185
pages....................................35.00
E31. Britain's Heritage, John J. Norwich, 1983, hundreds of
colour
photos, hc, dj, 207 pages
w/index............................35.00
B2. The Leading Facts of English History, D.H. Montgomery,
1887,
Boston, 2nd ed., 415 pgs, w/index, hc,
maps...................$20.00
B5. England in Modern Times, 1714-1902, Robert M. Rayner,
1929,
maps,
hc, 420 pgs
w/index............................................25.00
B7. The Monstrous Regiment, Christopher Hollis, 1929,
London,
235 pgs,
hc. An anti-Protestant history of the reign of Elizabeth
I.....20.00
B10. The British Empire, An American View. Gerald W.
Johnson,
ill, hc,
1969, 158
pgs...............................................10.00
B11. Images of a Queen, Mary Stuart in sixteenth century
Literature,
James Emerson Phillips, 1964, indexed, 336
pages.............20.00
B12. Mary, Queen of Scots, N. Brysson Morrison, Family tree
charts,
hc, dj, indexed, 254
pages..................................12.00
B13. A History of England to 1714, Vol 1 Clayton
Roberts/David
Roberts,
sc, index, 436
pages........................................20.00
B14. Windsor Revisited, by HRH The Duke of Windsor, 1960,
dj,
hc, Rare
Photos, 216 pages (a story of the Abdication by the
abdicator)..20.00
B15. Northumbria in the Days of Bede, Peter Hunter Blair,
hc,
dj, ill,
photos, indexed, 254
pgs........................................15.00
B17. Illustrated History of Britain, Sir George Clark,
Replete with
photos, indexed, 319
pages......................................35.00
B18. A History of England and the Empire-Commomwealth, Hall,
Albion,
Pope, college book, hc, index, 804
pages........................20.00
B22. Britain's Story, The Age of Elizabeth I to Modern times, 1938,
hc,
ill, 374 pages
w/index..........................................20.00
B23. Book of Roman Britain, David Jones, 1973, hc, 55 pgs,
indexed
6.00
FICTION
F1. The Boyds of Black River, Walter P. Edmonds, Fiction,
1933,
34, 53,
248 pgs, hc, author of "Drums along the Mohawk"
etc..........
SOLD
F5. The Highland Hawk, Leslie T. White, Fiction 1952, 246 pgs, hc. 9.50
F6. White Rose of Stuart, Lillian de la Torres, Story about
Flora
MacDonald, friend of Bonnie Prince Charlie,
copyright
page torn
out (1940s) 214
pages.........................................25.00
(I have more English History books-if interested ask)
MISC/TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
M1 Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted
Masons of the State of Michigan. Guy C.
Powell,
Grand Master and F.
Homer Newton, Grand Secretary, 1951, hc, photos, all the
data you
ever want to know about Michigan Masons, 560
pgs...............25.00
M6 History of the Scottish Dutch Brigade in Holland, The Scots
Brigade
in the Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782,
3 volumes, 604,
588, 616 pages, hc, indexed, color ills, published by the
Scottish
History Society, 1898, 1899, and 1901, excellant condition,
uncut
pages, no other copies in
America........RARE.................$250.00
M9 Census of Massachusetts, 1875, 1st Edition, Vol II,
Manufacturers
and Occupations and Vol III, Agricultural Products and Property,
Carroll D. Wright, Preparer, 790 pgs and 935 pgs....two
Vols....45.00
M11 Newark Ohio, Cedar Hill Cemetery published by Johnstown
Genealogy
Society 1972, Book 1-A Dec 16, 1850 to Aug
27th 1909, Newark twp,
Licking County, Ohio, 250 pages, 8 1/2 X
11..................$30.00
M12 The Tyson Family Heritage Book, Beatrice Bayley,
numbered
#85, 1981
basically a list of Tyson addresses with quite a
bit of useful data
of a generic interest, not paged, 300pgs,
hc...............FREE
M13 Valparaiso's First Century, John Strietelmeier, 1959,
hc,
apx, 191
pgs..(Valparaiso
University).................................$10.00
M15 John Long who came to Taunton, MA from Ireland in 1726.
This
is a
transcribed copy of a letter written in 1851 by
Dr. David Long who
was 90 when he wrote this 23 page letter listing
descendants of
John Long. Other material added by succeeding
generations.
Plus
notes of Seymour Long who edited "Long's Root
Cellar"
and died in
1993......soft cover, about 90
pages.........................$15.00
M16 Tracing you roots, Consumers guide, 1977, 98 pages, dj,
hc,
Coats of Arms, family charts,
...............................$6.50
M17 History of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia,
William
A.
Bayley, 1965, dj, HC, signed by the author, the
mayor, Clive
Tregear, and town clerk, H.J. Dailey....191
pages............$30.00
M10 Municipal Index and Atlas, Streets, Roads, Highways,
Water
Supply,and Purification, Sewage and Garbage
collection/Disposal,
public safety, etc,. etc 1934/35 published
in New York City,
includes maps of every state, profusely
illustrated,
good
condition...................................................25.00
LANGUAGE BOOKS
L-2 Languages of Scotland, 1979, sc, Edited by A.J. Aitken
and
Tom
MacArthur, 160
pages..........................................$25.00
L-3 A welcome to Gaelic, G.N. Burns, 1983, sc, 48 pages..........$15.00
L-4 Everyday Gaelic, Morag MacNeil, 1984, sc, 110 pages..........$18.50
L-6 Modern Irish Grammar, C.H.H. Wright, 1855, 70 pages, HC,
a rare
early Irish language dictionary...(A collectors
item)........$25.00
I have other language books, Russian, Yiddish,
Modern
Turkish,
etc., etc. If interested make your wants known
to me.
I have 2 pages of English History books. Ask for it?
I have collections of "Scottish World"
etc.
etc. Write and ask?
GENEALOGICAL NEWSLETTERS
N1. Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS),
"Ohio
Crossroads of our Nation,
Pioneer Families",
1974-1997,
60 pages each issue, loaded with
data on the pioneering
families
in Ohio, Asking $4.00 each issue
or make an offer on entire
collection...52 copies.....
N2. OGS "The Report", 40 copies 1988-1997,
55 pages each, $4.00 each
or make offer for entire
collection......................
N3. OGS Regular newsletter. Average 14
pages,
25-30 queries each
issue 1988-1997, 130 copies
Asking $2.00 each or make offer...
N4. NEXUS newsletter of the New England
Historical
Society (NEHGS),
1991-1997, 40 pages
each.
48 copies at $4.00 each of make offer
N5. NEHGS "The Register", 105 pages each
issue,
1991-1997
32 copies. $5.00 each or
make offer for entire collection...
N7. Delaware County, Ohio newsletters,,
1988-1998
--20-26 pages each
issue, average 15 queries
each issue, $3.00 each or make offer
entire set..
N8. Miami County, Ohio newsletters, 8
pages
each issue, queries, etc
19 issues at $2.00 each
or make offer entire set...
N.9. "The Family Tree", published by H.V.
Fausey,
1989-1990, mostly
queries
8 pages each issue, 18 issues, $2.00 or offer.
N10. Rota-Gene, Heraldry and genealogy newsletter, 1985-1997,
24
pages each each issue,
queries,
etc. 50 copies $4.00 each or
make offer for
set.......................
N11. The Augustan Society "Omnibus" Heraldry and
Genealogy,
6 issues
#8 thru #13, 160 pages each
issue, loaded with genealogical
queries and heraldry
articles/items.
$10.00 each issue or
offer...........
N12. Townsend family newsletter, 34 pages each
issue,
queries and
Townsend family data.
50 issues $4.00 each issue or make offer
for collection.
N13. "Genealogy Times and Seasons" "Accelerated
Indexing Systems
International" pub.
by Ronald Vern Jackson, 1989, 100 pages,
Genealogical data
etc. 9 issues $3.00 each or make offer...
N14. Littlefield Family newsletters, 1995-1997,
queries, Littlefield
data. 22 pages
each issue, 13 issues $3.00 each or make offer for
entire set...
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