Auction catalogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Catalogues of objects, manuscripts, books, or other items offered for sale at auction.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
'A catalogue of the singular and curious library, originally formed between 1610 and 1650 by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun...' [1816], a printed auction catalogue of books at Gordonstoun., [1816].
File
Identifier: Acc.4642/5
Dates:
[1816].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Gordon of Halmyre and Gordonstoun, including correspondence, catalogues of books, commissions, financial papers and legal papers.
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Cataogues of books at Gordonstoun, with other miscellaneous works.
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Printed and manuscript catalogues of books at Gordonstoun.
Auction records of Dowell's Limited.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7603/1-174
Scope and Contents
Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.
Dates:
1892-1950.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
File
Identifier: MS.3804
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1743-1825.
"Catalogue of Valuable Books ... which belong'd to Sir Alexander Seaton of Pitmedden, Baronet [Seton, Lord Pitmedden] ... to be sold by way of auction ... in Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1719), being the interleaved copy belonging to John Willson, clerk to the auction, who has entered the names of purchasers and the amounts paid.
Item
Identifier: MS.3802
Dates:
1719-1720.
Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library., 1887-ca. 1935.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/12-16
Content Description
From the Collection:
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1887-ca. 1935.
Papers of Major P I C Payne relating to material concerning the Skene family and Sir Walter Scott., 1960s-1990s.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12092/102-108
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates:
1960s-1990s.
Sotheby`s Catalogue for Scott Huxley Papers, with later receipt., 1899-1914.
File
Identifier: Acc.11407/1
Scope and Contents
Auction catalogue, 27 February 1899, with prices added for each sale. Receipt, 30 December 1914, for Scott letters purchased from William Brown booksellers.
Dates:
1899-1914.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in English on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1852-1866, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2177
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1852-1866, undated.
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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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
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'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart.
Volume containing the catalogue of an auction sale of Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 13-15 January 1913, and papers concerning the lots won by Morrison., 1913.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/16
Scope and Contents
Morrison bought a continuous run of 101 historical books at this sale, marked as "the property of a gentleman". The volume bears Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.
Dates:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
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Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library.