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"A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Relict of the Deceast [sic] Dr Alexander Skene, 1707".
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Auction records of Dowell's Limited.
Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.
Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.
The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.
Catalogue, 1718, of the school library at Kettins, Angus.
With returns, 1712-1874, concerning the endowment of the school by Alexander Geekie, surgeon in London.
Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.
With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.
‘Catalogue of all the provosts, fellowes and schollers of the Kings Colledge of the Blessed Virgin Marie and St Nicholas in the University of Cambridge’, from 1443 to 1627.
The following notes appear at the front of the volume. ‘Thomas Hatchir the Author hereof viz. to y[e] year 1563’. “See some account of this Catalogue in Advertizements to Registrum Regale of Eton scholars Quarto and Walp[ole’s] Paint[er]”. “This catalogue is often cited in Fuller’s Worthies”.
Catalogue of Banchory House Library, compiled by James B. Thomson.
Catalogue of books belonging to William Murray, of Touchadam.
Catalogue of books in the library of the Reverend Robert Rankin.
Catalogue of books of Richard Topham`s library, in the hand of William Stukeley (1687-1765).
‘Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts and pamphlets Belonging to Robert Mylne wryter in Edr. 1709’.
The catalogue is in two parts: books and manuscripts arranged by format (folio 2), and pamphlets (folio 115). The entries give the imprints and pressmarks. According to two declarations, 1709 and 1711, on folio 113 verso, the catalogue was largely written by Mylne`s son James, but there are numerous additions in Mylne`s hand, and also notes of loans of books, 1709-1743 (folios 232-238). Also on folio 113 verso is a note by Mylne, 1718, stating that he bequeathed his library to his sons.
Catalogue of the library, books and manuscripts, of John Maule of Inverkeillor, Baron of the Exchequer.
John Maule died in 1781 and his library was sold in the following year by an Edinburgh bookseller; several items were purchased by the Advocates` Library.
Catalogue of the library of Christian Gottlieb Haubold, Professor of Law at Leipzig.
The catalogue was compiled in 1824 on Haubold’s death. It is divided into two parts: the first comprising 2838 volumes mostly of philology (in the German sense) and literature; the second 4856 volumes of law. The library was bought by Tsar Alexander I and presented to the University of Abo (Finland; today, Turku), where it was destroyed by fire in 1827.
Catalogue of the library of William Brodie of Brodie.
Catalogue of the pamphlets in the library at Mellerstain, Berwickshire.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Catalogues of Dean Park Parish Church, Glasgow, Guild Library.
Catalogues of four Scottish libraries.
The contents are as follows:
Catalogue of the library at Rannagulzion (two volumes), circa 1869;
Catalogue of the library at Carstairs House, circa 1828;
Catalogue of the library at Thirlestane Castle, circa 1843; and,
Catalogue of the library of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 1724.