Pocket books.
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Pocket-book, undated, containing geological notes by Leonard Horner., ?Early 19th century-?mid 19th century.
Pocket books of Lord Lynedoch containing miscellaneous military notes concerning Spain., 1812-1813.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1814.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1827.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1829.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1832.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1834.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebook of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1835.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocket notebooks of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1814-1835.
The entries are very brief, and many of the pages in these volumes contain printed material or are blank.
Pocketbook 4, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing miscellaneous notes., Late 18th century.
The more substantial entries are on Dionysius on the nature of God (page 6), the art of language (page 12), the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (page 39), and man's need for models of conduct (page 58).
Pocketbook 5 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing notes, chiefly on Roman history., 1787.
Also included are 'Idiotisms of Polybius’ (folio 4, Monboddo number 133), and articles on the misery of Man in his natural state (folio 6 verso) and the philosophy of Plato (folio 29 verso).
Pocketbook 6, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing articles on philosophy and theology., Late 18th century.
The subjects include the two ways of learning virtue (folio 1), the difference in the philosophy of mind and body (folio 13 verso), William Paley's ‘Principles of morals and political philosophy’ (folio 21, Monboddo number 270) and 'Of the doctrine of the Trinity' (folio 65).
Pocketbook 8, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing an essay titled, ‘Of Ideas’., Late 18th century.
A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.
Pocketbook 9, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing a continuation of the essay 'Of Ideas' from MS.24553, and other essays., Late 18th century.
The continuation of the essay 'Of Ideas' from MS.24553 begins on page 1; 'Of the numbers of the people of Britain', 1788 (page 5); 'Of the increased price of all things within these last 40 years developing into a discussion of the destruction of civilised states (page 42).
Pocketbook 10, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., Late 18th century.
The pocketbook contains a list of contents of MS.24547 (folio1); and 'of theology', undated (folio 26).
Pocketbook 11 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., 1788.
The pocketbook contains notes on brandy, 1788, (page 1); an article on Lavater's work on physiognomy, which develops into a discussion of ideal beauty and intellect (page 9); and 'Of the invention and progress of arts and sciences' (page 80).
Pocketbook 12 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing chiefly an essay on the development of art, science and intellect in man., [1758, or after.]
The essay on the development of art, science and intellect in man begins on page 1, a paper concerning the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato begins on page 75; and notes from M Veyssière de la Croze, ‘Histoire du Christianisme des Indes’, on page 85, and from Simplicius' commentary on Artistotle, on page 91.
Pocketbook 13, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing miscellaneous notes., Late 18th century.
The pocketbook also contains two substantial papers on the concepts of mind, God and eternity (folio 16 verso), and on the work of the Jesuits in Paraguay based on a publication by Muratori (folio 60).
Pocketbook 14, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing a paper titled, 'Of the Fall of Man'., Late 18th century.
A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.
Pocketbook 15 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing a description of the societies and languages of India, China, the Arctic and elsewhere., 1789.
A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.
Pocketbook 16 of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., [1792, or before.]
The pocketbook contains, notes for the ‘Origin and progress of language’ vi (folio 8), and a paper on the history and language of India and Egypt (folio 12).
Pocketbook 17, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo., Late 18th century.
The pocketbook contains a description of Egypt, in continuation of MS.24560, page 2 (folio 5); additions to MS.24557 (folio 44 verso); 'Of the numbering of men' (folio 68) 'Of the excellency of the antient arts and sciences' (folio 105).
Pocketbook 18, undated, of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, containing an essay in two chapters, titled ‘Catiline’s conspiracy'., Late 18th century.
The first essay discusses the consequences of wealth to a nation and poverty in England; the second essay describes the civilization of ancient Egypt.
Pocketbook 21 of James Burnett, containing an essay on government., [Circa 1790.]
A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.