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"A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Relict of the Deceast [sic] Dr Alexander Skene, 1707".
Account-book containing agricultural accounts giving details of crops sown, corn sold and wages paid on the estate of Pittrichie, Aberdeenshire.
Also included is a library catalogue circa 1800, possibly of the library of the Robb family of Pittrichie.
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Anderson's catalogue of law manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Anderson's catalogue of manuscripts in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Auction records of Dowell's Limited.
Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.
'Bibliothecae ... D. Jacobi, Marchionis Annandiae &c., catalogi index, a Thoma Ruddimanno, Facultatis juridicae Edinburgenae Bibliothecario, annis 1722 & 1723 Craigiehalliae confectus'.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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 and list of books of Lord George Douglas which he presented to the Faculty of Advocates.
Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.
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.
Catalogue, compiled by James Stevenson, Advocate, (Keeper 1693-1702), of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
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, and memorandum concerning imperfect books and books in the course of publication at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Catalogue of Banchory House Library, compiled by James B. Thomson.
"Catalogue of Baron Hume’s library", i.e. that of David Hume, nephew of the philosopher and Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland.
The catalogue was compiled by Thomas G Stevenson, bookseller, Edinburgh, 1840 (see folio 312 verso).
'Catalogue of Books belonging to James Boswell, Esq.', in Boswell's autograph.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
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.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
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.