Thornber iain (5 resultados)

Pictorial Cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12p of text, photos portraits and a poster of the activities of these regiments since the raising of the 79th by Alan Cameron of Erracht. Published to commemerate the granting of the Freedom of Lochaber to the present day Regiment in 1993. Attractive coloured pictorial cover of uniforms of the Regiment thorough the ages and photo of Erracht House (Allan Cameron's) on rear cover. …

Stapled Binding. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 35p Detailed history of this quiet corner of the Morvern peninsula in Lochaber. With photos and a reproduction of General Roy's map of1744. Clean and unmarked apart from a gift inscription signed by the author. on the title page. See scans.…

Illustrated Card Covers. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A 48p privately printed album of 19th century photographs of Moidart and Arisaig taken by Christian Cameron of Inverailort (1859-1941) with a foreword by Donald Cameron of Lochiel, 27th Chief of Clan Cameron. Christian Cameron was the grand daughter of Maj-Gen Sir Alexander Cameron KCB, one of the Duke of Wellington's most distinguished soldiers. When he retired, seriously wounded in the neck by a bullet from Waterloo, he bought the wild and romantic Inverailort Estate (known as 'Clanranald's Deer Forest') on the world famous Road to the Isles in the Western Highlands of Scotland. Here Christian stalked deer, fished for salmon and sailed among the many lochs and estuaries. She entertained on a grand scale, bred and promoted West Highland Terriers and Norwegian Elk Hounds at Crufts and captured it all through the lens of her whole-plate, field camera making her one of the earliest woman photographers to work on the West Coast of Scotland. Her photographs, mostly taken in the 1880s-90s and published here for the first time, not only record a way of life long since gone but are technically brilliant, beautifully composed and considerable works of art. Forty-seven of them are included in this book. Clean and unmarked. See Scans.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. Photographic illustrations & double page map. Original pictorial stiff wraps, wire stapled. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Reprint. 22pp; notes; 1 illustration. Soft covers. No inscriptions. VG. [Rev. Norman MacLeod of Fuinary (1745-1824) stated in the 21st chapter of the Old Statistical Account of Scotland (1791) that no rats would live in Morvern, Argyll].