Rare Book Collections works to build up the national collections through purchases (through dealers or at auction) and donations. This directory gives details of around 1080 of the most important items we have acquired since 2000. We update it regularly as new material comes in. The description gives information about why it was chosen and what makes it particularly interesting. You can order the list by date of acquisition, date of publication, author or title.

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Title	Author	Publication date	Acquisition date	Shelfmark
[Keizai setsuyaku] = The compendium of political economy		1869	23/06/23	RB.s.3090
Bairai yukon = Ivanhoe	Walter Scott	1886	23/06/23	AB.1.223.33-34
Exercitia mathematica	Hugh Semple	1642	23/06/23	RB.s.3089
The young soldier's amusement: consisting of some remarks on the theory and discipline of war, and the duties of a military life	An Officer of the Army	1744	02/06/23	RB.s.3088
Caution to parents. Is the Bible indiscriminately, a fit and proper school book for youth?		1843	19/05/23	RB.s.3086(1)
Een duydelijcke verclaringhe vande gantse Openbaringe Ioannis des apostels	Napier, John	1607	17/05/23	RB.s.3018
Arcanum supputationis arithmeticae	Napier, John	1658	17/05/23	RB.s.3020
Raddologia, ouero arimmetica virgolare in due libri diuisa	Napier, John	1623	17/05/23	RB.s.3019
A Choice of Emblemes and other Devises	Whitney, Geoffrey	1586	17/05/23	RB.s.3036
Accademia di lettere, e d'arti cavalleresche, celebrata in Roma, per lo nascimento del serenissimo Principe di Wallia...		1688	05/05/23	RB.l.332
Abhandlung über die Colonien überhaupt und die Amerikanischen besonders	Adam Smith	1779	05/05/23	RB.s.3084
The tragic death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie & The storming of the Dargai Heights	William McGonagall	1887 and 1897	05/05/23	AP.5.223.10 and AP.3.223.14
A volume of 14 works of poetry, drama and criticism, largely printed at Edinburgh in the early 18th century	Various	1704-	05/05/23	RB.s.3080(1-14)
Paradise regain'd [with] Milton	John Milton	1759 [and] 1816	05/05/23	RB.m.821(1-2)
Researches concerning the laws, theology, learning, commerce etc. of ancient and modern India	Quintin Craufurd	1817	05/05/23	RB.s.3078-79
The vampire; or, Bride of the Isles: a tale, founded on the popular superstition of Caledonia		1821?	05/05/23	RB.s.3083
Thaddeus of Warsaw	Jane Porter	1803	31/03/23	RB.s.3075
Titi Livii Patavini historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt	Titus Livy	1751	17/02/23	AB.1.223.13
Disputatio juridica, ad tit. XIX. lib. XLVIII. Digest. De poenis	George Joseph Bell	1791	10/02/23	Bdg.m.186
For the use of the enemies of England	William Playfair	1796	27/01/23	RB.s.3072
Facts relative to the conduct of the war in the West Indies	Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville	1796	20/01/23	RB.m.819
The accidents of childhood, narrated in short stories, calculated to deter youth from similar actions	D. Richmond	circa 1820	20/01/23	AB.1.223.10
[Advertising poster for George MacDonald’s novel Lilith]	Dodd, Mead & Co.	[1895]	09/12/22	AP.7.222.42
The Psalms of David in metre.		1722	25/11/22	Bdg.s.1003
Ode sur la rebellion de 1745.	Matthew Maty	[1746]	18/11/22	RB.s.3070
Esquisses de l'histoire, de la religion, des sciences et des moeurs des Indiens.	Quintin Craufurd	1791	18/11/22	RB.s.3030-3031
A defence of usury … to which is added, a letter to Adam Smith, Esq. L.L.D. on the discouragement of inventive industry.	Jeremy Bentham	1796	18/11/22	RB.s.3029
The privateer; a tale in two volumes.	Anon.	1821	18/11/22	AB.1.222.75-76
Aberdeen portraits, no. 1 + List of stereoscopic, album, cabinet and imperial views.	George Washington Wilson	1857 and 1873	18/11/22	Phot.la. 98 + AP.1.222.38
Reis in de binnenlanden van Afrika.	Hugh Clapperton and Richard Lander	1830-1831	21/10/22	AB.2.222.38
An essay on the ancient and modern use of armories; shewing their origin, definition, and division of them into their several species.	Alexander Nisbet	1718	14/10/22	RB.m.815
Thoughts on general gravitation, and views thence arising on the state of the Universe.	Alexander Wilson	1777	30/09/22	RB.m.814
Perth’s true almanack; or, a new prognostication for the year of our Lord 1719.	Anon.	1719	30/09/22	RB.s.3027
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner.	Daniel Defoe	1719	16/08/22	RB.s.3044
Volume of eleven late 18th and early 19th century poems and chapbooks printed in Scotland.	Anon.	1790	12/08/22	AB.1.222.62(1-11)
Collection of songs, glees etc. Nos 9-10.	Anon.	1825	12/08/22	AP.3.222.20-21
An improvement in the mode of administering the vapour bath.	Basil Cochrane	1809	05/08/22	AB.8.222.9
Examples of the engraved portraiture of the sixteenth century.	William Stirling Maxwell	1872	22/07/22	RB.el.47
Journal historique de la campagne du capitaine Thurot, sur les cotes d'Ecosse & d'Irlande, en 1757 & 1758.	Anon.	1760	22/07/22	AB.1.222.54
Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal-tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tirgu [ Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, translated by P. A. Bibikov] 3 vols	Adam Smith	1866	22/07/22	RB.s.3023-3025
The weavers index, or, The weavers sure guide, being a ready help to them.	David and John Diston	1777	08/07/22	RB.s.3022
Two chapters of a celebrated French work, intitled, De l'esprit des loix: translated into English.	Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu	1750	08/07/22	RB.s.3016
A vindication of the true art of self-defence. With a proposal to the Honourable Members of Parliament, for erecting a court of honour in Great Britain.	William Hope	1729	24/06/22	RB.s.3021
The China Magazine, a Weekly Miscellany, Illustrated with Photographs, Conducted by C. Langdon Davies. Midsummer Volume [vol. 1]	C. Langdon Davies, John Thomson	1868	10/06/22	Phot.med.142
Aristotle’s secret of secrets contracted;being the sum of his advice to Alexander the Great, about the preservation of health and government.	Anon.	1719	20/05/22	RB.s.3017
Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language … With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak	William Thornton	1793	06/05/22	RB.s.3026
Historia de Inglaterra, desde la invasion de Julio Cesar hasta el fin del reinado de Jacobo II (ano de J. C. 1689) [History of England]	David Hume	1842-1845	06/05/22	RB.m.809-813
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments.		1695	18/03/22	Bdg.s.994-995
Switzerland: illustrated in a series of views.	William Beattie	1836	11/03/22	RB.m.808
Awful murder and Melancholy accident. [Two Glasgow-printed broadsides]	Anon.	1827	18/02/22	AP.4.222.3 & AP.4.222.4

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