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12 drawings of David Roberts made for his projected part-work "The Antiquities of Scotland".
Nine of the drawings were etched for this set in extremely limited numbers.
13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).
Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.
16 pencil drawings by Alexander Nasmyth for "Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley" (Edinburgh, 1821).
16 plans and drawings for the construction of the Royal Border Bridge.
“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Account book, early 19th century, of Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael.
With drawings for "A new Edition of Pennecuick`s Works, 1816", and a monologue, 19th century, "Lady Gifford".
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Album of drawings and prints probably collected by James Drummond
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
Album of topographical views and figure studies of a tour in Scotland and England, of Revd. George Ernest Howman. Places visited in Scotland include Bridge of Fyers, Blair Atholl, Killicrankie, Dunkeld, Killin, Callendar, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dunblane, Scone Palace, Perth, Castle Huntly, Dundee, Leuchars, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Linlithgow, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Chapel and Melrose.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Anonymous illustrated notebook entitled `Anatomical Charts`.
This notebook is probably the work of a student of human anatomy or surgeon. There are 29 pages of drawings of human anatomy and related comments. Many of the drawings are coloured; some are tipped in. With some drawings of landscapes and botanical specimens.
The volume is bound in an original vellum binding with marbled endpapers.
Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.
Contains several hundred prints and drawings.
Artwork by Alasdair Gray for his novel 'Old men in love'.
This collection includes all of the original artwork for the novel 'Old men in love' (Bloomsbury, 2007).
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Collection of original drawings by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc.
Colour transparencies, 2006, of artworks by Alasdair Gray, 1950s-2005.
Tansparencies of paintings and drawings by Alasdair Gray, many of which were collected and annotated in this collection to be scanned for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.
Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.