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Binder's books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Books received direct and donations to the Faculty of Advocates.
‘Calendar of the journals of the House of Lords’.
Copy of 'List of the members of the Reading Society in Leadhills and time of their admission', being a register of the 840 members from 1743 to 1902.
Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Letter books, correspondence and other records of the printing firm of T and A Constable, Edinburgh, together with records of the Edinburgh Press, which was amalgamated with the firm in 1936.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of collection of transcripts, 1st quarter of 19th century, by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).
Microfilm of excerpts from registers in Glasgow, chiefly of the Kirk, made about 1706.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Microfilm of letter books, registers and orders and memoranda, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 2. The correspondence and records of Smith, Elder and Company from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Modern transcript of the Register of the Consultations of the Ministers of Edinburgh and some other brethren of the ministry.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Photograph of one page, containing the years, 1922-1923, of the register of visitors to the Faculty of Advocates.
Publishers receipt book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Publishers receipt book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Receipt book for books borrowed in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Receipt of books borrowed. With printed forms of receipt. Receipts are crossed out. Receipts read: 'I_____ Advocate, grant me to have borrowed out of the Advocates Library ______ which I oblige me to restore betwixt and the ______ Day of _____ next to come, or the Sum of _____ in Case'.