59 Rare Old Books on Orkney & Shetland Scotland history genealogy folklore myths legends norse viking parish records - Instant PDF Download

ORKNEY & THE SHETLAND ISLANDS

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 59 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of the most Northern Highland islands of Scotland and the UK – Orkney and the Shetland Islands.

Discover the history of these fascinating islands and the language, stories, traditions, legends, superstitions and customs of the people who inhabit them. Learn about the antiquities of these ancient islands as well as the fauna that can be found there. Read descriptions of places and scenery that make these islands so intriguing. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the Scottish Highlands – in particular Orkney and Shetlands. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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*** Full List of Books Included ***

A brief description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland Firth, and Caithness by J. Brand (1808)

A collection of armorials of the County of Orkney by H. L. Smith (1902)

A description of the Shetland Islands - comprising an account of their scenery, antiquities and superstitions by S. Hibbert-Ware (1891)

A description of the Western Islands of Scotland by M. Martin (1703)

A glossary of the Shetland dialect by J. S. Angus (1914)

A naturalist's ramble to the Orcades by A. W. Crichton (1866)

A Shetland minister of the eighteenth century, being passages in the life of the Reverend John Mill. 1712-1805 by J. Willcock (1897)

A short history of the Scottish people by D. Macmillan (1911)

A tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland by P. Neill (1806)

A true and exact description of the island of Shetland (1897)

A vertebrate fauna of the Orkney Islands by T. E. Buckley (1891)

A voyage to Spitzbergen; containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fishery by J. Laing (1825)

An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect; with some derivations of names of places in Shetland by T. Edmonston (1866)

An outline of the mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, and of the island of Arran by R. Jameson (1798)

Around the Orkney peat-fires - being sketches of notable Orcadians, smuggling anecdotes, stories of the press-gang, and witch and other stories by W.R. Macintosh (1914)

Book of Bruce; ancestors and descendants of King Robert of Scotland...With special reference to the Bruces of Clackmannan, Cultmalindie, Caithness, and the Shetland Islands by L. H. Weeks (1907)

Edmonston's flora of Shetland - comprehending a list of the prevalent wild-flowers, horse-tails, club-mosses and ferns of the Shetland Isles by T. Edmonston (1903)

Excursion to the Orkney Islands by J. Abbott (1860)

Fauna Orcadensis; or, The natural history of the quadrupeds, birds, reptiles and fishes of Orkney and Shetland by G. Low (1813)

Guide to the Highlands and islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland, descriptive of their scenery, statistics, antiquities, and natural history by G. Anderson (1850)

History of the Orkney Islands by G. Barry (1808)

Island folk songs by H. Campbell (1920)

Manson's Shetland almanac and directory for 1892 (1892)

Manson's Shetland almanac and directory for 1893 (1893)

Notice of runic inscriptions discovered during recent excavations in the Orkneys by J. Farrer (1862)

On the osteology of the ancient inhabitants of the Orkney islands by J. G. Garson (1883)

Oppressions of the sixteenth century in the islands of Orkney and Zetland from original documents by D. Balfour (1859)

Orkney and Shetland by J. Heddle (1920)

Orkney and Shetland folk, 872-1350 by A. W. Johnston (1914)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1873)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1874)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1875)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1878)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1886)

Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory by W. Pearce (Volume 1888)

Photographic View Album of Orkney by J. Rae (1892)

Poetical descriptions of Orkney by J. Emerson (1835)

Rambles in the far north by R. M. Ferguson (1884)

Records of the earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614 by J. S. Clouston (1914)

Shetland and the Shetlanders; or, The northern circuit by C. Sinclair (1840)

Shetland fireside tales or, The hermit of Trosswickness by G. Stewart (1892)

Shetland's roll of honour and roll of service by T. Manson (1920)

The ancient local government of the Shetland Islands by G. Goudie (1886)

The Celtic and Scandinavian antiquities of Shetland by G. Goudie (1904)

The County Families of the Shetland Islands (1893)

The dialect and place names of Shetland; two popular lectures by J. Jakobsen (1897)

The diary of the Reverend John Mill, minister of the parishes of Dunrossness, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh in Shetland, 1740-1803 by J. Mill (1889)

The English dialect grammar, comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands... by J. Wright (1905)

The Erskine-Halcro genealogy - the ancestors and descendants of Henry Erskine ... his wife, Margaret Halcro of Orkney, and their sons by E. E. Scott (1895)

The Florence stories, Excursion to the Orkney Islands by J. Abbott (1861, 1860)

The Frotoft branch of the Orkney Traills - their relations and connections ; with copious notes, genealogical and otherwise by T. W. Traill (1902)

The Holms of Woodwick - a legend of Shetland by A. D. H. Allan (1918)

The Orkney book - readings for young Orcadians by J. Gunn (1909)

The Orkneys and Shetland; their past and present state by J. R. Tudor (1883)

The ornithologist's guide to the islands of Orkney and Shetland by R. Dunn (1837)

The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the surname of Sinclair by R. W. Saint-Clair (1898)

The Scottish nation; or, The historical and genealogical account of all Scottish families and surnames Vol. 2 by J. Macveigh (1889)

The Young Shetlander Or Shadow Over the Sunshine, Being Life and Letters of Thomas Edmondston by L. Edmondston (1868)

Whaling in Shetland (1904)

Zetland directory and guide. With road map by W. R. Duncan (1861)



An absolute must for anyone with an interest in Orkney and The Shetlands – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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