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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

George Forbes, “On Distant Electric Power Transmission” Excerpt from “Journal of Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers” Vol. XXIX (1900)., 1900.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1057
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1900.

George Forbes, “Puppets” (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911)., 1911.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1064
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1911.

George Forbes, “Report on the Utilization of the Nile Cataracts” (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1898)., 1898.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1055
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1898.

George Forbes, “Report on the Utilization of the Nile Cataracts” (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1898)., 1898.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1056
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1898.

George Forbes, “Star Talks to Boy Scouts” (Pitlochry: Adam Doggart & Co., c.1908)., Circa 1909.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1059
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: Circa 1909.

George Forbes, “The Stars” (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927)., 1927.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1067
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1927.

George Forbes, “The Stars” (New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929)., 1929.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1068
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1929.

George Forbes, “The Transit of Venus” (London: Macmillan & Co., 1874)., 1874.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1048
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1874.

Grangerised and heavily corrected copy of ‘A handful of heather’ (Aberdeen, 1893) by Charles Murray., 1893.

 File
Identifier: MS.27258
Scope and Contents

Only twelve copies were printed, some of which Charles Murray later destroyed. Some of the poems are annotated with references to magazines in which they were published. The insertions are cuttings of published poems and (page 73) extra copies of pages 37-44 of ‘A handful of heather’.

Dates: 1893.

Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).

 File
Identifier: MS.8888
Scope and Contents

The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.

Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1753, 1755, 1925.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part I (pages [i]-186)., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.1654
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part II (pages 187-453)., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.1655
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell & Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1654-1655
Scope and Contents

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

‘Guide to Dunnottar Castle’ by Reverend John Longmuir, 9th edition (Aberdeen, 1876), with manuscript corrections by the author., 1876.

 File
Identifier: MS.21198
Scope and Contents

Included are copies of engravings of Dunnottar and Fetteresso castles, and of Cowie church.

Dates: 1876.