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Macaulay, Kenneth A Voyage to, and History of, St. Kilda. Dublin: James Hoey, 1765. 12mo, contemporary calf, some marginal soiling [ESTC T76273]; Martin, Martin A Voyage to St. Kilda. London: R. Griffith, 1749. Third edition, 8vo, later half calf gilt, lacking map; [bound with] Amyntor and Theodora: or, The Hermit. London: Paul Valliant, 1748; and an 1818 copy; Macaulay, Kenneth Histoire de Saint-Kilda. Paris: Knappen, 1782. 8vo, three works in one volume, including von Staehlen, M.J. Relation du Nouvel Archipel Septenrional..., original wrappers, clamshell box; [Inchbald] Conirdan: or, the St. Kildians. London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, one leaf torn with loss to text; Buchan, Alex A Description of Saint Kilda. Glasgow: John Wylie & Co., 1818. 12mo, half calf; and another copy, lacking the title; Seton, George St Kilda Past and Present. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1878. 8vo, modern red crushed quarter morocco gilt; Kearton, R. The Strange Life of Lone St. Kilda, in The Wide World Magazine, pp.69-77, October 1898. 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt, original wrappers bound-in; Mackenzie, J.B. Episode in the Life of the Rev. Neil Mackenzie at St. Kilda. Privately printed, 1911. 8vo, modern quarter calf gilt; Gibson, George The Tragedy of St. Kilda, in The Caledonian Medical Journal, pp.50-62, April 1926. 8vo, modern half calf gilt; MacDiarmid, John St Kilda and its Inhabitants. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1877. 8vo, bookplate of George Beveridge, modern quarter calf, loosely inserted photograph of a young girl on St Kilda; Miller, Walter J. St. Kilda, the Arcadia of the Hebrides... London: Elliot Stock, 1898. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Smith, R. Angus A Visit to St. Kilda in "The Nyanza". Glasgow: University Press, 1879. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt; MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin A Last Voyage to St. Kilda. London: Cassell and Company, [1931]. 8vo, signed and inscribed by the author, dust-jacket; Wiglesworth, J. St. Kilda and its Birds. Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., 1903. 8vo, original boards; Connell, Robert St. Kilda and the St. Kildians. London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1887. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Fisher, James & George Waterson The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the Fulmar... offprint from the Journal of Animal Ecology, November 1941. 8vo, blue cloth gilt; [Archive] A collection of writings regarding St Kilda, including a copy of a list of "The quantity of fulmer [sic] oil received from the Crofters here", comprising an inventory of how much fulmar oil in pints has been given by each crofter to Neil Ferguson, the General Officer of St Kilda; several 19th century letters from St Kilda; a postcard depicting an elderly St Kildian woman, postmarked St Kilda 27 August 1930 and inscribed 'last post from St Kilda', send just before the evacuation of the island; a copy of a project entitled "Evacuation of St Kilda" undertaken by schoolgirl, Sheana Campbell; a typed journal of Hebridean cruises dating from the 1980s; and various typed notes regarding the island, probably collated by Mr John Mackenzie of the St. Kilda Club (19)