Paperback book `The Mull Diaries` transcribed and edited by Joseph Buist Loudon.
The diary of James Robertson, Sheriff Substitute of Tobermory 1842-6.
2003.1.16
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2003.1.17
Hardback book `Artificial Sunshine` by Maurice Dillon.
A social history of domestic lighting.
2003.1.18
Paperback book `Herring Fishermen of Kintyre and Ayrshire` by Angus Martin.
More than 140 years of Scottish fishing history as told through the fishermen`s own memories and traditions and concentrating on the time when crews worked with oar and sail.
2003.1.19
Paperback book `Colonsay` by Murdoch McNeill.
The local names of plants and their uses; legends; place-names; Gaelic names of birds, animals and fish; notes on climate and geology.
1997.226.25
Book `A Grammar of the Portuguese Language` by Alfred Elwes.
Portuguese grammar inscribed `James Guy S.S. Jacu . . .Port Glasgow Feb, 3 1885`.
1997.226.35
Book `Whitaker`s Almanac`, 1901.
Almanac containing information about the government, finances, commerce and general statistics of the British Empire.
1997.226.42
Book `Histoire de Charles XII Roi de Suede` by M. de Voltaire. 1809
History of King Charles XII of Sweden in French inscribed on flyleaf with `John Campbell 1820`.
1997.226.45
Book `Bible Cyclopaedia` by Rev. A. R. Fausset,1899
Inscribed on the flyleaf with `To Mr Archie Macdonald with best wishes T. D. I. MacKay September 23, 1899 Tiree`.
1997.224.1
Hardback book `Textbook of Medicine` edited by J J Conybeare.
Textbook of medicine belonging to the Medical Officer on the HMS Sturdy
1997.225.1
Hardback book `Kelly`s Directory of Scotland, 1928`.
Information about Tiree on pp 128-9, giving brief description of the island, members of the Parish Council, places of worship, six private residents, a list of commercial establishments and farmers with over 150 acres.