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Account-book containing agricultural accounts giving details of crops sown, corn sold and wages paid on the estate of Pittrichie, Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17953
Scope and Contents

Also included is a library catalogue circa 1800, possibly of the library of the Robb family of Pittrichie.

Dates: 1668-1689, [circa 1800.]

Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5053-5054
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.

Dates: [1938, or before.]

"Catalogue of Baron Hume’s library", i.e. that of David Hume, nephew of the philosopher and Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.348
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was compiled by Thomas G Stevenson, bookseller, Edinburgh, 1840 (see folio 312 verso).

Dates: 1840.

'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'

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Identifier: MS.3804
Scope and Contents

With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.

The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.

Dates: 1743-1825.

Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.

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Identifier: MS.1537
Scope and Contents

There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.

Dates: 1740, 1755, 1823.

Catalogue of English law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

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Identifier: F.R.227
Scope and Contents

A list of abbreviations used in law tipped in at rear of volume.

Dates: 1817.

Catalogue of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Series
Identifier: F.R.225-F.R.226
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is chiefly manuscript with printed entries from the 1839 supplement to the catalogue of law books in the Advocates Library pasted in. Manuscript entries up to 1860 approximately.

Dates: 1839-[circa 1860.]

Catalogue of legal books in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.249a
Scope and Contents

Alphabetical list of books with division and shelf noted.

Dates: 19th century.

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