Falling down the archive.org rabbit hole 5/2?: Highland bagpipe historical books

In addition to finding Highland bagpipe and Uilleann pipe music, and highland bagpipe scores and tutorials, I found a couple interesting highland bagpipe history books. There are of course more at archive.org, but I've only linked to those that are in the public domain and accessible to all:

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