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'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
‘Holiday house’ (Edinburgh, 1839) by Catherine Sinclair, stories for children, with watercolour illustrations by the author inserted.
The drawings appear to have been cut from the original manuscript: the names of the characters differ from those in the published version. There is an inscription by the author, dated 1838 [sic], on the title-page.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
Index by John Walker to theological works.
Volume titled ‘Chronological M.S. vol I’, with inscription on the fly leaf, ‘Inchoatus est hic inven anno Dom. millesimo septingentesimo et nono, die Januar. Vicesimo sento. Jo Walker’.
Inscribed copy of George S Robertson, "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian" (1977).
Includes a letter of Robertson.
Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".
with additional poems in typescript.
Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).
Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.
Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.
Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.
Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).
With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.
Inscribed presentation copy of Graham Seton Hutchison, "Kitchener the Man" (1943), to Edmund Blunden, with accompanying letter.
Inscribed presentation copy of ‘Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy: or Passages in the life of a hydropathist, by a Veteran’ by Thomas Dundas, (London, 1847) with a letter from Dundas to W T Bree, 1847, tipped in.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
Journal of a tour in the western counties of Scotland by Miss Archibald Montgomerie Williamson, later Lady Fairfax.
Letters and papers pasted or inserted loose in printed books, inscriptions written in books, etc., in the Hugh Sharp Collection.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.
Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".
Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.
Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.
With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.
List of monumental inscriptions in the burial grounds in Dundee, Inveresk and Elie, compiled by Sidney Cramer.
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.
Manuscript, "Catalogue of Ancient Charters in Bibliotheca Advocatienis Edinburghiensis", 19th century.
With "Inscriptions", 1789-1800, by John Ramsay.