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'Catalogue of British family histories’ (London, 1935) by Theodore Radford Thomson, interleaved, with corrections and additions by the author.
Interleaved copies of ‘Treatise on the laws concerning the election of the different representatives sent from Scotland to the Parliament of Great Britain’, 2 volumes,(Edinburgh, 1773) by Alexander Wight, with manuscript notes apparently by the author.
Interleaved copy of Sir Arthur Mitchell, "List of Travels, Tours, etc, Relating to Scotland" (from "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", XXXV, 1902), with manuscript and typed notes of James McKinlay.
'List of books printed in Scotland before 1700’ (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1904) by Harry G Aldis, interleaved, with additions and corrections by George Pyper Johnston.
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Manuscript, first page proofs, and an interleaved proof copy of J A Harvie-Brown, "The Wonderful Trout".
With relevant notes and correspondence.
Notes taken by Alexander Cunningham, afterwards Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet, of Prestonfield, when attending Herman Boerhaave’s lectures in Leyden from 1724 to 1726, interleaved with Herman Boerhaave’s ‘Institutiones medicae’, 3rd edition (1720), wanting all after page 320.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
‘Peninsular scenery illustrated in a series of views, taken from nature A.D. 1819. By an amateur’ (London, 1824), with manuscript descriptions by the author, George Lewis Augustus Douglas, of the engraved scenes.
‘Pharmacopœia Pauperum, in usum Nosocomii Regii Edinburgensis’ (Edinburgh, 1752), interleaved with further recipes and notes, apparently the work of a student, Charles Wilson, whose signature appears on the end-paper.
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Printed items with notes and other bibliographical material inserted by Robert Dickson, the surgeon and bibliographer.
Printed 'Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI', by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, interleaved, with autograph notes by Andrew Crosbie, Advocate.
This is one of the copies issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks.
Proof copy of a reprint of "Jones’s directory or, useful pocket companion, for the year 1786", interleaved and heavily annotated by John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis'.
There are some proof corrections on the title-page by James MacLehose, the publisher, and on the fly-leaf his signature and a note by his son, the donor.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.