R J Lyall (23 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No jacket. Faint circular stain on front board, hinges broken. 1933 Hard Cover. 592 pp. Front endpapers illustrated with the standing running rigging of a cruising yawl. Rear endpapers illustrated with some cruising rigs, the names of sails, and the parts of sails. A collection of ship terminology with over 500 illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket visible. unknown (no edition statement visible). The book is in good condition with a solid hardcover binding. The cover shows minimal wear, consistent with age, and there is no dust jacket. The pages are clean, with slight yellowing typical of older publications. There are no inscriptions or library markings, indicating it has been privately held.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects: Scots language Texts; Scotland Politics and government 16th century; Scotland Foreign relations England; Early works to 1800; Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603; Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 Sources; Scotland Political events 1500-1549. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. R.T. "Lucinda Leads A Fuller Life" / James Halliday "Official Correspondence, Reduction Of" / Cameron Forrest "The Girl From Marib" / Eric Simons "At China's Door" / John Welman "The Baobab" / R J Eden "Georgians In Scotland" / J A Lyall "The Old Men".

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects: Scots language Texts; Scotland Politics and government 16th century; Scotland Foreign relations England; Early works to 1800; Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603; Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 Sources; Scotland Political events 1500-1549. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition; brown cloth in photographic color dustjacket ; LCCN: 65-20508 ; OCLC: 1249160 ; 448 p. illus., maps. 26 cm ; 9.9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches ; Contents: Introduction: The nature and evolution of mammals -- The classification of mammals -- The mammalian orders: Monotremes -- Marsupials -- Insectivores -- Flying lemurs -- Bats -- Primates -- Edentates -- Pangolins -- Lagomorphs -- Rodents -- Cetaceans -- Seals -- Aardvark -- Elephants -- Hyraxes -- Sirenians -- Odd-toed Ungulates -- Even-toed Ungulates -- Appendix of rare species -- Index of popular names -- Index of scientific names. ; numerous photographs in black and white ; nicks and small tears to dustjacket ; else G/VG. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 'Ane Resonying of Ane Scottis and Inglis Merchand Betuix Rowand & Lionis.' pp xxix, 196. Edited with an intro. & Glossary by Roderick J Lyall. An insight into the propaganda battle towards the end of the Anglo Scottish War of 1542-9.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. No inscriptions etc. Looks barely used.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects; Scots language ; Texts. Scotland Politics and government 16th century. Scotland Foreign relations England ; Early works to 1800. Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603. 1 Kg.…

1st. Ed. 8vo. vii + 252pp. Original boards with d/w. Written in prison after the Battle of Worcester by a Scottish Royalist. Part of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies series. ISBN 0 7073 0327 3 US$13.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects; Scots language ; Texts. Scotland Politics and government 16th century. Scotland Foreign relations England ; Early works to 1800. Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback: Good+ Condition. No Jacket. Pages Bright, Clean And Unmarked. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages And Covers May Show Minimal Wear From Use, Age And Shelf-Wear. Creased Spine. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.…

Paperback. Card cvrs, creased & marked.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Edición Ilustrada. London, The Lonsdale Library, Volume XV, 1945, 592 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yachts Construction. Yachts Cruising Yachts With Auxiliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road. Accidents and Mishaps. Working Repairs. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Index and Glossary of Sea Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With hundreds of Illustrations. Ilustrado con 415 figuras y 63 planchas. Muy buena encuadernación tela de editor, lomo con decoraciones y letras doradas. Muy buen estado. 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. (vii) 252pp. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine in price clipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Clean tight and bright. A lovely copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Lonsdale Library. Vol. XV. Cruising. Ocean Racing. Slight foxing to edge. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yacht Construction. Cruising Yauchts With Auxilliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Etc., Etc. Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring, Etc. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road/ Accidents anmd Mishaps. Working Repairs, Etc. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing Club. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Indedx and Glossary of Seas Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With Over Five Hundred Illustrations. 592 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2005 John Donald paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Fifteenth Century'; Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards, 'Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B. 24: The Genesis and Evolution of a Scottish Poetical Anthology'; Alessandra Petrina, 'Donne Gentili and Courtly Ladies: A Comparison Between Dante's Beatrice and the Lady of the Kingis Quair'; Jonathan A. Glenn, 'The Manuscript History of Sir Gilbert Hay's Buke of the Law of Armys: A Study'; Rosemary Greentree, 'Literate in Love: Makyne's Lesson for Robene'; Klaus Bitterling, 'Insular and Continental Traditions Behind Robert Henryson's Fables'; R.J. Lyall, 'Henryson, the Hens and the Pelagian Fox: a Poet and the Intellectual Currents of his Age'; John McNamara, 'Folkloric Patterns in Henryson's Fables: A Sociolinguistic Approach'; John MacQueen, 'Lent and Henryson's 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; R.W. Smith, 'The Meaning of the 'Nekhering' in Henryson's Fable of 'The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger''; Edward W. Bradburn, ''Prolog' and 'Moralitie': Authorial Apostrophe in Robert Henryson's Fables'; Anne M. McKim, 'Henryson's Use of the Conjunctive Phrase 'with that' in the Moral Fables'; J. Derrick McClure, 'Blind Hary's Metrics'; Marace Dareau, Lorna Pike, and Harry D. Watson, 'DOST and Older Scots Scholarship'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth Century'; Priscilla Bawcutt, 'Manuscript Miscellanies in Scotland from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century'; Ma. Nieves Rodriguez Ledesma, 'Linguistic Anglicisation in The Complaynt of Scotland: A Study of Further Diagnostic Variables'; A.A. MacDonald, 'On First Looking into the Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1565)'; Joanne Norman, 'William Dunbar and the Bakhtinian Construction of the Self'; Robert Drexler, 'Dunbar, Douglas, and the Art of Memory'; C. Marie Harker, 'Skirting the Issue: Misogyny and Gender in Lyndsay's Ane Supplication Directit - to the Kingis Grace, in Contemptioun of Syde Taillis'; Evelyn S. Newlyn, 'The Female Voice in Sixteenth-Century Scots Poetry'; Keely Fisher, 'Eldritch Comic Verse in Older Scots'; Theo van Heijnsbergen, 'Modes of Self-Representation in Older Scots Texts'; Janet Hadley Williams, ''We had the ky and thai gat bot the glaikis': Catching the Echoes in Duncan Laideus' Testament'; William Gillies, 'Gun ann ach an ceo 'Nothing Left but their Mist': Farewell and Elegy in Gaelic Poetry'; Michael Chesnutt, 'Otterburn Revisited: A Late Medieval Border Ballad and its Transmission'; Sally Mapstone, 'Introduction: Older Scots and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'; Anneli Meurman-Solin, 'Women's Scots: Gender-Based Variation in Renaissance Letters'; Sarah M. Dunnigan, 'Feminising the Early Modern Erotic: Female-voiced Love Lyrics and Mary Queen of Scots'; Jamie Reid-Baxter, ''Judge and revenge my cause': the Earl of Morton, Andro Blackhall, Robert Sempill and the Fall of the House of Hamilton in 1579'; David J. Parkinson, 'Alexander Montgomerie: Scottish Author'; Regina Scheibe, 'The Function of the Animal Massacre in John Burel's Passage of the Pilgremer'; Daniel Fischlin, 'Like a Mercenary Poet': the Politics and Poetics of James VI's Lepanto'; Morna R. Fleming, ''The End of an Auld Sang'? Scottish Poetry of the English Reign of James VI and I'; Louise Yeoman, 'James Melville and the Covenant of Grace'; David W. Atkinson, 'More than One Voice: the Poetic Accomplishment of William Alexander'; David Reid, 'Hume of Godscroft on Kings and Subjects'; Margery Palmer McCulloch, 'Liz Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Suppression of the Female Principle'.…

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Lonsdale Library. Vol. XV. Cruising. Ocean Racing. Slight foxing to edge. Brown cloth and boards and gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yacht Construction. Cruising Yauchts With Auxilliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Etc., Etc. Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring, Etc. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road/ Accidents anmd Mishaps. Working Repairs, Etc. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing Club. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Indedx and Glossary of Seas Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With Over Five Hundred Illustrations. 592 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

1st edition? Narrow 4to. 590pp. 63 bw photos LACKING ONE PLATE.Publisher's plain light brown cloth covers, small gilt cartouche onfront, brown buckram spine, gilt lettering + cartouche on spine. Original green pictorial eps. Covers : faint fade to spine, slight rubstop/bottom of spine + bottom corners, slight 0.2cm shelf knocks top corners, patchy faint light water stains. Contents : front inner hinge tender after frontis else very clean & tight & unfoxed. VG-.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. The Association for Scottish Literary Studies No. 13. vii, 252 p. 22 cm. Black cloth in green pictorial dustjacket.

[Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little rubbed to extremities, bumped to corners, some marks. Very good. This book is a guide for beginners and a reference for the more experienced yachtsman. It considers the design and construction of yachts, as well as navigation, preparation, mooring and etiquette.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1838 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 396 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 396 Language: English.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1838. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 396, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 396 396.…