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Following a lark : poems / George Mackay Brown.
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- London : Murray, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 96-20103 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The sea kings of Orkney, and other historical tales.
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- Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, 1870.
- 1870
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CP (Maxwell, C. A. Sea kings of Orkney) 1870 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Oppressions of the sixteenth century in the islands of Orkney and Zetland: from original documents.
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- Edinburgh, 1859.
- 1859
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CP (Maitland Club. [Publication] v. 14 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CP (Maitland Club. [Publication] 75 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Orkney.
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- London, Hale [1951]
- 1951
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text COB (Orkney) (Marwick, H. Orkney) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Birsay church history including Harray, with sketches of the ministers and people from the earliest times, a list of Orkney tokens, appendix, and index, by the Rev. Alexander Goodfellow ...
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- Kirkwall, Printed by W.R. Mackintosh, 1903.
- 1903
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Birsay and Harray) (Goodfellow, A. Birsay church history) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Summers and winters in the Orkneys.
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- London, Simpkin, Marshall [1869]
- 1869
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Gorrie, D. Summers and winters in the Orkneys) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The islands of Scotland : Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands, by Hugh Macdiarmid [pseud.]
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- London, B. T. Batsford, ltd. [1939]
- 1939
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Grieve, C. M. Islands of Scotland) Offsite A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. To which is added a brief description of the isles of Orkney and Schetland.
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- London, A. Bell, 1703.
- 1703
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Martin, M. Description of the western islands of Scotland) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Scottish islands.
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- Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd [1961]
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Scott-Moncrieff, G. Scottish islands) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Two months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye.
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- London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
- 1860
- 2 Items
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433069332058Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Weld, C. R. Two months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CPW (Weld, C. R. Two months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
British calendar customs: Orkney & Shetland.
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- London, Pub. for the Folk-Lore Society, W. Glaisher, 1946.
- 1946
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Banks, M. M. British calendar customs) Temporary Storage Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Temporary Storage to submit a request in person.
History of the Orkney Islands. Including a view of the manners and customs of their ancient and modern inhabitants; their monuments of antiquity; their natural history, or mineral, botanical, and animal productions; the present state of their agriculture; manufactures; fisheries; and commerce; and the means of their improvement; with a map of the islands, and views of remarkable scenery ... The second edition, with corrections and additions by the Rev. James Headrick.
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- London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
- 1808
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924069765034Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Barry, G. History of the Orkney Islands) Offsite Skara Brae, a Pictish village in Orkney, by V. Gordon Childe, with chapters by Prof. T. H. Bryce, F.R.S. and Prof. D. M. S. Watson, F.R.S.
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- London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1931.
- 1931
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Childe, V. G. Skara Brae) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A history of Orkney / by J. Storer Clouston.
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- Kirkwall [Scotland] : W.R. Mackintosh, 1932.
- 1932
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney Islands) (Clouston, J. S. History of Orkney) Temporary Storage Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Temporary Storage to submit a request in person.
Monvmenta Orcadica : Normændene paa Orknøerne og deres efterladte mindesmærker : med en oversigt over de keltiske (førnorske) og skotske (efternorske) monumenter paa øerne / af L. Dietrichson ; originaltegninger og en afhandling om Magnuskathedralen i Kirkwall af Johan Meyer.
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- Kristiania : A. Cammermeyer, 1906.
- 1906
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Dietrichson, L. H. S. Monvmenta orcadica) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Orkney and Shetland, by J.G.F. Moodie Heddle and T. Mainland ...
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- Cambridge, University Press, 1920.
- 1920
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Heddle, J. G. F. M. Orkney and Shetland) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Church in Orkney. Miscellaneous records of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Alfred W. Johnston. Privately reprinted from "The Orcadian" Kirkwall Oct. 12th, 1889 - Feb. 20th, 1892.
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- Kendal [privately printed] 1940.
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Johnston, A. W. Church in Orkney) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The ultimate Viking.
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- London, Macmillan, 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Linklater, E. Ultimate Viking) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The general grievances and oppression of the isles of Orkney and Shetland / by James Mackenzie.
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- Edinburgh : Laing and Forbes, 1836.
- 1836
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Mackenzie, J. General grievances and oppression if the isles of Orkney and Shetland) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Around the Orkney peat-fires: being sketches of notable Orcadians, smuggling anecdotes, stories of the press-gang, and witch and other tales.
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- Kirkwall, W.R. Mackintosh [pref. 1905]
- 1905
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433071388346Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Mackintosh, W. R. Around the Orkney peat-fires) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Mesehowe: illustrations of the runic literature of Scandinavia. Translations in Danish and English of the inscriptions in Mesehowe, visits of the northern sovereigns to Orkney, notes, vocabulary, etc.
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- Edinburgh, R. Grant and son; London, J. R. Smith, 1863.
- 1863
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433071388353Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Mitchell, J. M. Mesehowe) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Orkneyinga saga; a new translation, with introduction and notes, by Alexander Burt Taylor.
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- Edinburgh, London, Oliver and Boyd, 1938.
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Orkneyinga saga. 1938) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Orkneyinga saga, translated from the Icelandic by Jon A. Hjaltalin and Gilbert Goudie; edited, with notes and introduction, by Joseph Anderson.
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- Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1873.
- 1873
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Orkneyinga saga. 1873) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Peace's descriptive and historic hand-book to the Orkney Islands.
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- Kirkwall [Scot.] : W. Peace, 1862.
- 1862
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Peace, W. Peace's descriptive and historic handbook) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The new Orkney book; compiled and edited by John Shearer, W. Groundwater, [and] J. D. Mackay.
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- London, Nelson, 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Shearer, J. New Orkney book) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Orkney parishes; containing the statistical account of Orkney, 1795-1798, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes, by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Together with a general introduction and notice of each parish, by J. Storer Clouston.
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- Kirkwall, W.R. Mackintosh, The Orcadian Office, 1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney Islands) (Sinclair, J. Orkney parishes) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Orkneys and Shetland; their past and present state, by John R. Tudor ... With chapters on geology, by Benjamin N. Peach ... and John Horne ... Notes on the flora of the Orkneys, by William Irvine Fortescue ... And notes on the flora of Shetland, by Peter White ...
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- London, E. Stanford; [etc., etc.] 1883.
- 1883
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t7jq14g83Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Tudor, J. R. Orkney and Shetland) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A description of the Isles of Orkney, by the Rev. James Wallace. Reprinted from the original edition of 1693, with illustrative notes from an interleaved copy in the library of the University of Edinburgh, formerly the property of Malcolm Laing, the Scottish historian, together with the additions made by the author's son, in the edition of 1700. Ed. by John Small.
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- Edinburgh, W. Brown, 1883.
- 1883
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433071388338Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney Islands) (Wallace, J. Description of the Isles of Orkney) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Orkneyinga saga : sive, Historia Orcadensium / a prima Orcadum per Norvegos occupatione ad exitum seculi duodecimi Saga hins helga Magnusar eyia jarls ; sive, Vita Sancti Magni insularum comitis. Ex Mss. Legati Arnamagnaeani cum versione Latina, varietate lectionum et indicibus chronologico, reali et philologico edidit Jonas Jonaeus.
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- Hafniae : Sumtibus illustriss P. F. Suhm, 1780.
- 1780
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433071389302Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CR (Orkney) (Orkneyinga saga. 1780) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A brief description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness, wherein, after a short journal of the author's voyage thither, these northern places are first more generally described; then a particular view is given of the several isles thereto belonging; together with an account of what is most rare and remarkable therein: with the author's observes thereupon. Reprinted verbatim from the original edition of 1701.
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- Edinburgh, W. Brown, 1883.
- 1883-1701
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433071388767Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney) (Brand, J. Brief description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Firth & Caithness) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An Orkney tapestry / George Mackay Brown; drawings by Sylvia Wishart.
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- London : Gollancz, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney) (Brown, G. M. Orkney tapestry) Temporary Storage Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Temporary Storage to submit a request in person.
A tour through the islands of Orkney and Shetland, containing hints relative to their ancient, modern, and natural history, collected in 1774, by Gerge Low, with illustrations from drawings by the author, and with an introduction by Joseph Anderson.
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- Kirkwall [Orkney] W. Peace 1879.
- 1879
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney) (Low, G. Tour through the islands of Orkney and Schetland) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Against the wind : an Orkney idyll.
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- London, Heinemann, 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney) (Sutherland, D. Against the wind) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Orkney journeys ... by John Wilson.
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- [Kirkwall] W.R. Mackintosh, the Kirkwall Press, 1961.
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney) (Wilson, J. Orkney journeys) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Rambles in the far north / by R. Menzies Fergusson.
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- Paisley [Scotland] : A. Gardner, [1884?]
- 1884
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney Isl.) (Fergusson, R. M. Rambles in the far north) Offsite Orkney; the magnetic north, by J. Gunn ... with contributed chapters.
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- London, New York, T. Nelson [1932]
- 1932
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CRB (Orkney Islands) (Gunn, J. Orkney, the magnetic north) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Turistruter paa Færøerne ...
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- [København] Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1917-
- 1917-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GHX (Bruun, D. Turistruter paa Frerne) 1917 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Symbolæ ad historiam antiquiorem rerum norvegicarum. I. Breve chronicon Norvegiæ. II. Genealogia comitum Orcadensium. III. Catalogus regum Norvegiæ. E codice quoad magnam partem hactenus inedito, et in Orcadibus, ut videtur, medio sæculo xvto. conscripto. Festo ab auspicatissimas celsissimi principis, regnorum Norvegiæ Sveciæque hæredis, nuptias ab universitate regia Fridericiana agendo proludens. Edidit, suasque annotationes adjecit P. A. Munch.
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- Christianiæ, typis excuderunt C. C.Werner & socii, 1850.
- 1850
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GGM (Munch, P. A. Symbol ad Historiam antiquiorem Rerum Norvegicarum) Offsite Orkney / Anna Ritchie.
- Text
- Edinburgh : Stationery Office, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 97-1197 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Orkney through the centuries : light and shadows of the church's life in the northern isles / by D.P. Thomson.
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- Crieff, Perthshire : The Author, 1956
- 1956
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-10 8811 no. 1-13 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The diary of Patrick Fea of Stove, Orkney, 1766-1796 / Patrick Fea ; transcribed from the original, and edited by W.S. Hewison.
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- East Linton East Lothian, Scotland : Tuckwell Press in association with the European Ethnological Research Centre and the National Museums of Scotland, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433049519139Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 97-3382 Offsite More old Orkney trades / edited by Sheila Spence ; diagrams by Anne Brundle.
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- Kirkwall, Orkney : Orkney Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-3498 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The history of the Orkney and Shetland volunteers and territorials, 1793-1958 / by D. Rollo.
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- [Scotland?] : Shetland Times, 1958.
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-11 7782 no. 1-8 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Highlands and islands / Naomi Mitchison.
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- [Glasgow : Unity Pub. Co., 1953 or 1954]
- 1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-13 1115 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A calendar of love, and other stories.
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- London, Hogarth P., 1967.
- 1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-17 5056 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The sunset coasts: Bird's eye view.
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- Kineton, Roundwood P., 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-20 1650 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A time to keep, and other stories.
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- New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1970, c1969]
- 1970-
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-20 1945 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Orkney relics [by Dugald McKimmin and Elizabeth McKimmin.
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- Aberdeen, Northern Publishers, 1961]
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E-12 7099 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Anderson's guide to the Orkney Islands. With a description, by Sir Henry Dryden ... of the ruined churches in Orkney, the bells of St. Magnus, etc., etc.
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- Kirkwall, J. Anderson [pref. 1884]
- 1884
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003277161Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KFT (Anderson, J. Anderson's guide) Offsite For the islands I sing : an autobiography / George Mackay Brown.
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- London : J. Murray, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-11309 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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