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Catalogues.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Enumerations of items, usually arranged systematically, with descriptive details; may be in book or pamphlet form, on cards, or online. (AAT) This term in the NLS published catalogues was used only for lists of books. Lists of other objects were indexed under the name of the object (e.g. pictures). General household inventories were indexed under 'Plenishing' (NLS).

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Small cash-book of Alexander Carlyle containing a catalogue of his books, with the prices for which he bought them or for which they were expected to fetch., 1792.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23925
Scope and Contents

At folios 19-20 are books acquired subsequently including (folio 20) some bought at the late Hew Blair's sale 1801. Some additions in pencil have been made in a later hand (folios 21, 44-45). A leaf has been torn out after folio 37.

Dates: 1792.

'Tracts relative to the history and antiquities of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1800), by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.33
Scope and Contents

Contains catalogues of Lords of Session, with manuscript additions and of Faculty, 1532-1688.

Dates: 1800.

Trade lists and catalogues., 1878-1986, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/284-357
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1878-1986, undated.

Typescript copy of the catalogue of the Hugh Sharp collection of printed books., [1938, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.19409 [H.S.1247]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This is a copy of MSS.5053-5054 with the leaves arranged differently, in two separate alphabetical sequences, and was the working copy used by the donor, Campbell White, in looking after the collection before Hugh Sharp's death.

Dates: [1938, or before.]