Sales records. Financial records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents that serve as the evidence or record of cash and credit sales, including sales orders, tickets, slips, invoices, journals and summaries, and customers' ledgers.
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Account book of George Combe, of ticket sales for his lectures., 1838.
Item
Identifier: MS.7498
Accounts and receipts of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1851-1871.
File
Identifier: MS.1981
Dates:
1851-1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Books and papers of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate, including copies of the earlier documents.
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Accounts and receipts of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate.
Accounts book, wages books and other financial records., 1923-1959, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.8058/231-239
Assorted other papers of and concerning Patrick Leigh Fermor., 1913-2011, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/540-549
Bestseller lists featuring the novels of Ian Rankin; sales lists for Ian Rankin’s novels; Public Lending Right lists featuring Ian Rankin’s novels., 1997-2017.
File
Identifier: MSS.50587-50591
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4944/1-54
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1550-1603, 1694-1943, undated.
Daybook, 1728-1753, of Robert and Archibald Dickson, nurserymen at Hassendeanburn.
Item
Identifier: MS.3554
Scope and Contents
According to notes on folios i-ii and pages 32, 169, Robert Dickson owned the book in 1739; he apparently died in 1744, and Archibald owned the book in 1745 and 1750. It contains a record of sales, chiefly of trees and shrubs but also of other plants, produce, and stock, and notes of agreements of Archibald Dickson, mostly with his servants. From page 210 on, there are, in addition, notes of sheep and cattle bought and sold, and of other farming activities and financial dealings,...
Dates:
1728-1759.
Documents relating to the sales of Ian Rankin’s novels; Public Lending Right lists featuring Ian Rankin’s novels., 1999-2008.
File
Identifier: MS.50591
Scope and Contents
Backlist Sales Charts, 2000-2006, of Ian Rankin’s novels, sent to Rankin from Orion Publishing Group. Folios 1-53.Sales charts indicate sales figures by month as well as year-to-date. Various figures, charts, and correspondence, 1999-2008, relating to the sales of Ian Rankin’s novels, largely sent to Rankin from Orion Publishing Group. Folios 54-65.Includes correspondence with Curtis Brown and Orion Publishing Group. Also includes list of top selling...
Dates:
1999-2008.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Materials relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Bestseller lists featuring the novels of Ian Rankin; sales lists for Ian Rankin’s novels; Public Lending Right lists featuring Ian Rankin’s novels.
Financial papers of Carfraemill Hotel Ltd., containing profit and loss accounts, and some related correspondence., 1946-1954, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9416/24-26
Dates:
1946-1954, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd.
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Correspondence and papers of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
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Correspondence and papers, mostly legal and financial documents, of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
Letter-books, sales-books and ledgers of and concerning Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8793-8800
Scope and Contents
Houston's acted as an ‘entrepôt’ importing sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco from the British West Indies and distributing them to merchants throughout Britain. The return trade consisted of provisions, largely herrings and plantation stores, drawn in from various parts of Britain and occasionally from Western Europe. The papers, especially the letter-books and sales-books, offer a detailed picture of the organisation and price structure of the trade.
Dates:
1729-1798.
‘Miscellaneous Papers’ of Sir Walter Scott, on history, folk-lore, etc., 1792-1850.
File
Identifier: MS.910
Scope and Contents
The papers include:Part of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’, chapter iii, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections in Scott’s autograph (folio 9);Statement of the sales of the ‘Letters of Malachi Malagrowther’, 1826-1827 (folio 23);Note by James Ballantyne of John Murray’s proposals regarding the publication of Scott’s works (folio 35);Letter, apparently to John Gibson Lockhart criticising his ‘History of Napoleon’, 1830...
Dates:
1792-1850.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Notes of sales of William Wilson and Son, chiefly on the northern journey., 1783-1784.
File
Identifier: MS.9674
Dates:
1783-1784.
Papers concerning Monboddo estate, chiefly the administration of the estate by Helen Williamson Burnett, Lord Monboddo's daughter., 1806-1839.
File
Identifier: MS.24626
Papers concerning Monboddo estate, chiefly the administration of the estate by James B Burnett, son of Helen Williamson Burnett., 1840-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.24627
Papers concerning Monboddo estate, chiefly the administration of the estate by James B Burnett, son of Helen Williamson Burnett., 1866-1890, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24628
Papers concerning the Monboddo estate., 1683-1890, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24625-24628
Scope and Contents
The material is chiefly accounts, tacks and papers concerning grass sales.
Dates:
1683-1890, undated.
Papers concerning the Monboddo estate., 1683-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.24625
Profit and loss accounts of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd., 1936, 1946-1953.
File
Identifier: Acc.9416/28
Dates:
1936, 1946-1953.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd.
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Correspondence and papers of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
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Correspondence and papers, mostly legal and financial documents, of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations.
Publications invoice book, sale or return, of the Saltire Society., 1978-1985.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10030/7
Publications sales book of the Saltire Society., 1978-1986.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10030/6
Record of sale by auction of Huntly Estate, Demerara, formerly belonging to Robert Gordon., 1815.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 120-124
Scope and Contents
Conditions of sale and a list of enslaved people sold on Huntly plantation, Demerara and Borlum plantation, Berbice.
Dates:
1815.
Sales-book entitled 'Journal Ex Libris Gulielmi MacDouall', the fourth son of William MacDowell, 12th of Garthland, and the owner of the plantation in St Kitts from which most of the listed shipments originated., 1729-1732.
Item
Identifier: MS.8800
Scope and Contents
An earlier and less detailed sales-book than MS.8799.
Dates:
1729-1732.
Sales-book of Alexander Houston and Company setting out in detail the origin and ultimate destination of each shipment from the West Indies, with precise information about prices and quantities., 1775-1779.
Item
Identifier: MS.8799
“Sales Book Sir W. Scott’s Life & Works"., 1842-1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.799