Booksellers' catalogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Catalogues containing the descriptions and prices of books, manuscripts, maps or other bibliographic material obtained and offered for sale by book dealers. The catalogues are usually issued regularly : monthly; bi-monthly; quarterly, etc. Source: National Library of Scotland.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
(1) `Monthly Review Almanack`, 1902-1903; and,(2) `Monthly Review`, number 65, February 1906. Included are two inserts to the magazine : (i) "Mr Murray`s Monthly List of books published during the month preceding and of books about to be published during the month succeeding the present date", 1 February 1906; and, (ii) handbill, [1906], "`Arethusa` training ship New Year gifts earnestly solicited"., 1902-1903, 1906.
File
Identifier: MS.42618
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1902-1903, 1906.
'Alasdair Gray exhibition etc', including papers and press cuttings relating to Alasdair Gray., 1981-2012.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14068 Box 2(1)-(9)
Annotated sales catalogues of William Brown, booksellers., 1878-1948.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7926/1-30
Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Mercat Press., 1978-2004.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/110-111
Dates:
1978-2004.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others., 1948, 1968-2004, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/101-116
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948, 1968-2004, undated.
Book catalogues of Mercat Press., 1978-2004.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/110
Scope and Contents
Contains 15 items.
Dates:
1978-2004.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Mercat Press.
Glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'., [Circa 1508.]
Item
Identifier: MS.7142
Scope and Contents
The text does not seem to belong to any of the better-known groups of manuscripts and contains numerous differences from modern editions. Ep. 53 is placed after 37, 58 after 82, and 59 after 56. Ep. 48 is divided in two at paragraph 6. (This serves to correct the numeration, which is faulty following Ep. 4.) Throughout the text is considerably shortened, and there are numerous variants of vocabulary and word-order. Each letter is preceded by a summary. Ep. 88 is followed by a summary of Ep....
Dates:
[Circa 1508.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Scott, M. to Scouller., 1812-1924.
File
Identifier: MS.41072
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged alphabetically by the surnames of the writers. Where more than one letter is held for a writer, the letters are arranged by date.Scott, Anne, 1830. Folios 1-2.Scott, Mary Monica Maxwell, 1880-1919. Folios 3-53. Partially dated. Folios 54-69.Scott, Percy, estimates for “Antarctic Expedition”, by Captain Percy Scott. Folios 70-71.Scott, Peter, 1854. Folios 72-73.Scott, R.A., 1812. Folios 74-75....
Dates:
1812-1924.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Cunningham, A. to Cunningham, M., 1774-1910.
File
Identifier: MS.40301
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Cunningham, Anne.Letters, 1822, of Anne Cunningham, to John Murray II. Folios 1-4.Cunningham, David Douglas.Letters and an envelope, 1903-1904 and 1910, of David Douglas Cunningham to John Murray IV. Folios 5-20.Folio 6. Corrected proof of Cunningham’s ‘Some Indian Friends and Acquaintances’, published by John Murray in 1903....
Dates:
1774-1910.
Microfilm of “Recherches sur l’origine des théatres, sur l’invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779”.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.144
Dates:
1779.
Miscellaneous papers concerning George Crabbe., 1905-1984.
File
Identifier: MS.42125
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-9. Copies of letters : ff. 1-2 : typescript transcription, ? 3rd quarter of 20th century, of a letter, ? 1817, of George Crabbe to an unknown correspondent; f. 3 : photocopy, ? 4th quarter of 20th century, of a typescript transcription of a letter, 1819, of George Crabbe to James Asperne; ff. 4-9 : photocopy, ? 4th quarter of 20th century, of a typescript transcription of a letter, 1834, of Thomas Moore to ...
Dates:
1905-1984.
Papers of James Thin, bookseller, containing second-hand and antiquarian catalogues, accounts and correspondence., 1854-1864, 1924-1999, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/120-131
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1854-1864, 1924-1999, undated.
`Recherches sur l`origine des théatres, sur l`invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.13
Scope and Contents
The manuscript appears to be the introduction to a bookseller`s catalogue (not, however, that of Charles Chardin, ‘Catalogue des livres rares et singuliers du cabinet de M. Filhal’, Paris, 1779).
A calligraphic copy, with the colophon: `Exaravit Calamo Franciscus Florentius Fyot. Anno Domini MDCCLXXIX.`
Dates:
1779.
Sale catalogues of books and transcripts of letters of Scottish interest in the Caligula section of the Cotton Library.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.12
Scope and Contents
On folio i is written `No. 14 of Mr. Matthew Crawfurd`s printed Catalogue of Manuscripts. in fol.`, which appears to be intended as a title for the volume, although it does not correspond to the contents. On the same folio the letter `B` and the signature `John Wright` appear twice. All of these are in eighteenth-century hands. Section (iii) is the earliest, and the volume must have been later adapted by the writers of sectitons (i) and (ii).Section (i): Sale-catalogue of books,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 18th century.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.
Transcripts and translations (some abridged), 1778, of charters and other documents, 1241-1559, belonging to the Blackfriars, Carmelites and Carthusians at Perth, made by the Reverend James Scott., 1241-1559.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.2
Scope and Contents
Pages 1-64 are more exact copies of charters to be found in Adv.MS.13.1.1. From page 110 the author has mostly stopped making exact transcripts and begun to translate and sometimes abridge instead.The contents are as follows:(i) sale receipt and sale catalogue for the Scott manuscripts, 1818 (folio i).(ii) transcripts and translations of charters relating to the Blackfriars of Perth, 1241-1557, some not from the cartulary (page 1)....
Dates:
1241-1559.