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“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Album compiled by Florence Bankes of watercolours and photographs of Italy, Scotland and Cornwall.
Album of drawings in pencil and watercolour, collected by Caroline, Marchioness of Queensberry, in 1833.
Many of the drawings are by E C Douglas, possibly Lady Queensberry's sister-in-law Elizabeth. The subjects include humorous sketches, animals and landscapes.
Album of pencil and water-colour sketches, titled, ‘Sketches on the East Coast of Scotland by Edward Duncan’.
The sketches are chiefly undated but where dated range in year from 1863 to 1876. Although most of the sketches are of St Abb's Head, the Bass Rock, Tantallon, Holy Island, etc., there are some views of Perthshire, Jedburgh, Roxburgh, and other places inland. The collection also contains an unfinished drawing of Fernilee, subscribed 'The house were (sic) the "Flowers of the Forest" was written'.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Autograph album of Frances M Stevenson.
Contains sketches, watercolours and verses.
Biography of John Elphinstone, RN, including his role in the Russian service, by his grandson, Alexander Francis Elphinstone, RN.
Comprising a 39-page memoir of Alexander Francis Elphinstone's grandfather, John Elphinstone, arranged by date, with geneaological notes. The volume also includes 9 pen and ink sketches and watercolours of buildings and scenery, probably depicting locations from Alexander Francis Elphinstone's early years in the Baltic.
Book of riddles and anagrams calligraphically written and decorated in watercolours by Isabella Gordon, Auchlunies.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
Copy of Felicia M F Skene "Use and Abuse", illustrated by eight tipped in watercolour views by the author`s father, James Skene, of Rubislaw.
Copy of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) by Walter Scott, with watercolour illustrations by Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Diaries of John McCurdy covering the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, with edited transcript entitled 'Our Beautiful Campaign'.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Drawings and watercolour sketches of bridges, lockgates, and other machinery mostly connected with the Caledonian Canal, by Joseph Mitchell.
Drawings and watercolours by William Beith.
Drawings and watercolours, chiefly of Scottish scenery and places.
The drawings and watercolours include a series of pencil and wash sketches, 1859, of scenes in Stirlingshire and Perthshire, probably from a sketchbook (folio 8), two pencil sketches of Mallara, New South Wales, 1859 (folio 29) and a watercolour, 1894, of two children by W E Lockhart, 1894 (folio 32).
Drawings by James Horsburgh of scenes on a visit to Tongue, Sutherland. With photographs of gamekeepers and other employees on the Sutherland Estates and views of places visited 'en route'.
'Drawings of a gun with a mantlet invented by James Arbuthnot Junr. of the volunteer Artillery at Peterhead.'
The six watercolour drawings, accompanied by two pages of explanatory matter, are dedicated to the Marquess of Huntly. The paper has the watermark 1802.
Engravings of flowers, hand-coloured in water-colours on vellum.
An additional paper folio containing a drawing of a leaf with measurements in French, has been inserted after folio 12.
Two inscriptions, `Paris April 26 1670` (folio 1) and `Pa Moray` (folio 43) have been deleted. They may be by Patrick Murray of Livingston, who kept an extensive botanic garden.
`Essay sur le gouvernement des Turcs, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, par le baron de Tott’; copy of an unpublished work by François, Baron de Tott, the diplomatist, who published his ‘Mémoires’ in 1784.
Small water-colour sketches of Turkish scenes and figures have been pasted in before each chapter-heading.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.
Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.