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The book had belonged to Lord Lovat, and was given by him to William Fraser on the 8 April 1747, the day before his execution, which the latter witnessed.

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This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.

Scope and Contents The volume contains a 19th-century description and transcription of manuscript Chart. A 590, held in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha. Chart. A 590 contains the German translation of the French romance 'Pontus and Sidonia', and according to a scribal colophon was written in 1465 by Nicolaus Huber, presbyter in Brixen. The German translation has been attributed to Eleanor of Austria (1433-1480), daughter of King James I of Scotland and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. The...

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The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.

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The remainder of the manuscript has been cut away.

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A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.

Scope and Contents A description by Ewen MacLachlan of fourteen manuscripts sent to him by the Highland Society of Scotland for examination. It was remitted to him by the Society in eight instalments between 26 May 1812 and 3 July 1813, and was intended for use in the compilation of the Society’s Dictionary. Pages 1-152 were therefore forwarded by the society to the Reverend Dr John MacLeod (MacLachlan’s co-adjutor on the Dictionary) on 3 June 1813. On this occasion the five instalments making up pages 1-120...

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The title of the main text is on folio 2. It is followed by a 'Short Delineation' (folio 17) and a map (folio 22) of the district. It is presumably a contemporary translation of part of the route of the return journey of Catherine II from her visit to the south and the then recently acquired territories in the Crimea.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Lists of plants, animals, and fossils from W Hudson's ‘Flora anglica’, Sibbald's ‘Scotland illustrated’, and Martin Martin's ‘Description of the Western Islands’, pages 61-82. This should perhaps come after folio 45. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) 'Some observations on natural history, founded on experience; together with descriptions of curious animals, plants, fossils, microscopic views, &c., &c. The whole illustrated with drawings ......

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The manuscript signed by Johan Friedrich Osthoff, describes intrigues conducted in the interest of Prince James Stuart in 1719, with especial reference to a bogus expedition to Madagascar. The persons chiefly active were one Morgan, Captain Galloway of the frigate ‘Revolution’, Colonel Sebach, Clincowstrom (Klinckowstrom), and Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London.

Scope and Contents Starting from London, the writer journeys by the eastern counties to Edinburgh, thence to Glasgow, and south by Hamilton, Crawfordjohn, and Moffat, a tract of country which he describes as the 'Western Highlands', to Lockerbie. The author notes customs and manners which he finds remarkable, and describes most of the important or interesting buildings.Tim Griffiths suggests that the unnamed author was a young man, possibly a university student, travelling with his tutor and a...

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Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.

Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).