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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:

"Hawaiian Geography” (New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1894)., 1894.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/1083
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1894.

‘Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence ... against Mary Queen of Scots’ by William Tytler (Edinburgh, 1760), containing many critical marginalia throughout in the hand of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.

 File
Identifier: MS.21251
Scope and Contents A brief title made up from printed scraps (possibly of leaves of a sale-catalogue) is pasted to the second flyleaf, and a letter written by J T Gibson Craig on paper watermarked 1843 restoring the book to Thomas Thomson is tipped in at the second endpaper.The book was rebound apparently during the nineteenth century when some of the marginalia were damaged by the cropping of the outer margins of the printed pages. A small circular label inscribed '1963 Ac 6' in a...
Dates: 1760, 1843.

‘Historical catalogue of the Scottish bishops down to the year 1688: by the Right Rev. Robert Keith. Also, an account of all the religious houses that were in Scotland at the time of the reformation: by John Spottiswood Esq.’; edited by M Russell (Edinburgh 1824); with extensive manuscript annotations by Patrick Chalmers (died 1854)., 1824, [1824, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.15517
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1824, [1824, or after.]