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 1100 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
The marriage of Peleus and Thetis	Lord Dalmeny	1862	05/01/24	RB.s.3115
Lady Brassey's visit to Craignahullie	Annie Brassey	1880	22/12/23	RB.m.827
The Princess and Curdie	George MacDonald	1882	22/12/23	RB.s.3114
Abhandlung von den Grundsätzen der Münzwissenschaft mit einer Anwendung derselben auf das deutsche Münzwesen	James Steuart	1761	15/12/23	RB.s.3113
A collection of 31 calotype and lightly waxed paper negatives, and seven salted paper prints	James Calder MacPhail	1848	15/12/23	Phot.la.128
The works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out	William Shakespeare	1769	01/12/23	RB.s.3104-3111
La vie de David Hume ecrite par lui-même	David Hume	1777	17/11/23	RB.s.3103
A guide to Hayti	James Redpath	1860	10/11/23	RB.s.3101
De Antichristo commentatio, Iacobi VI. regis Scotorum	James VI	1603	03/11/23	RB.s.3100
The Talisman; or, Monkland and Bothwell literary melange.	John Craig	1829	13/10/23	AB.1.223.57(1)
Description of a view of the city of St. Sebastian, and the bay of Rio Janeiro, now exhibiting in the New Rotunda, Mound.	Robert Burford	1830	13/10/23	AP.2.223.28
Unanswerable arguments against the abolition of the slave trade: with a defence of the proprietors of the British sugar colonies, against certain malignant charges.	James Adair	1790	25/08/23	RB.s.3099
Some account of Alexander Robertson, who was executed in front of the prison, at Glasgow, on Wednesday the 7th April, 1819 : pursuant to his sentence, for the crime of shopbreaking and theft.	Anonymous	1819	25/08/23	AP.3.223.19
A panegyrical essay, or A few serious arguments, irrefragably proving that the present times are, of all times that ever were, the most heroic, wise, and virtuous: with some occasional encomiums on a late apology for the life and writings of David Hume, Esq.	Anonymous	1777	18/08/23	RB.m.822
Scottish football annual ... published by authority of the Scottish Football Assocation.	Scottish Football Assocation	1875	28/07/23	RB.s.3098
[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)

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