a bound volume of this uncommon but important magazine which only survived several years. The 12 monthly parts contain articles on: The Tent or desert Wanderings ( extracts from "A Journey to Sinai and Palestine by Robert Walter Stewart; On the relation of the Mosaic Account of Creation to the doctrines of Geology; Scottish Poets - Ramsay and Ferguson; the Bengal Rebellion; Traditional Account of the Battle of Inverlochy; Old Scottish Burghs - Rutherglen,Glasgow, Paisley; Shooting (twisted barrels, length of barrels, the Pointer and the Setter, Accidents from Firearms); Caste in India; Art mannerisms; slavery in America; The American Panic of 1857; John Banim, the Irish Novelist; Transatlantic sketches; Tom Brown's Schooldays;; poetry and traditions of the Highland Clans; Rechid Pacha; the Lyrics of Ireland; Countes de Soissons; Life of Jacques Coeur;; Marseilles and Back - and etc. 874 pages soundly bound in half leather with gilt raised bands and red title label; edges marbled. ; few minor blemishes on endpapers and very sporadic foxing in text. Some light edge wear ; leather bright, shiny and sound. Note "Vol.III also listed but some duplication with this volume.See scans.

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Title

The West of Scotland Magazine and Review - New Series Volume II - bound October 1857 - September 1858

Publisher

Gentles & Smith, Glasgow

Publication Date

1858

Binding

Half-Leather

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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"Creaking Shelves Books" has been selling (and buying) books on line since 1999. Based now in Spean Bridge, ten miles from in Fort William beneath Ben Nevis. I have a varied stock with a particular emphasis in Scottish History and topography, mountaineering, geology, natural history and ephemera. Unusual items and small rarities are a speciality!

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