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 instructive picture book, 3rd ed.	Adam White	1859	06/08/21	AB.9.221.1
John Bull makeing [sic] a naval enqury [sic].	Charles Williams	1805	06/08/21	AP.6.221.6
Companach do luchd-broin.	John Flavell [Trans. Seumas Friseal]	1828	09/07/21	AB.1.221.64
A grammar of the Thai, or Siamese language.	James Low	1828	09/07/21	RB.m.799
Eleen of St. Kilda.	J.T. Henderson [pseudonym?]	1900?	02/07/21	AB.1.221.61
Candidus.	Voltaire	1773	02/07/21	AB.1.221.45
The Crisis no. LII		1776	25/06/21	AP.4.221.3
Linlithgowshire Chronicle, nos 2-10 (1883-1884)	[Anon.]	1883	28/05/21	RB.s.3004
A journey over land to India.	Donald Campbell	1796	21/05/21	AB.8.221.3
Holy bible and Psalms, vol. 2.		1813	21/05/21	RB.s.3005
Psalms of David in meeter.		1667	05/05/21	Bdg.s.990
Arrest du Conseil d’Estat Du Roy, portant qu’il ne sera plus reçeû aucuns Billets de Banque dans les Bureaux de Recettes, soit generals, soit particulieres, tant des Pays d’Estats, que du Clergé.	France. Conseil d’Estat.	1720	30/04/21	RB.m.797
Shakespear [sic] illustrated: or the novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded.	Charlotte Lennox	1753-54	30/04/21	RB.s.3001-3003
Bisset's Grand national directory or literary commercial iconography [bound with] Bisset's Magnificent guide, or grand copper plate directory, for the town of Birmingham.	James Bisset	1800 & 1808	02/04/21	RB.m.796(1-2)
The life and eminent services of the gallant Lord Cochrane [bound with] The case of Thomas Lord Cochrane (|Edinburgh: J. Dick, 1814).	[Anon.]	1815	02/04/21	AB.1.221.19(1-2)
Bipartitum in morali philosophiia opusculum [bound with] Jacques Almain, Moralia … & libellus de auctoritate ecclesie	William Manderston	1526	26/03/21	RB.s.3000(1-2)
Typographus lectori, Adagiorum Chiliades.	Desiderius Erasmus	1539	26/03/21	RB.m.798
Public Health Act. Small pox. Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the prevalance [sic] of small pox in the adjoining counties all persons in Berwickshire …		1871	19/03/21	AP.7.221.1
[A collection of five photograph albums compiled by Arthur Sankey Reid in the 1890s and early 1900s]	Arthur Sankey Reid	1890	05/03/21	Phot.sm.169-173
A contemporary collection of four Glasgow piracies of English dramatists bound in one volume: The provok’d husband by Colley Cibber, after Sir John Vanbrugh (1757), The suspicious husband by Dr. Benjamin Hoadly (1759), The careless husband, 7th ed. (1759) and Elfrida, 3rd ed. by William Mason (1759).	Colley Cibber [et al.]	1757-1759	01/02/21	AB.1.221.10(1-4)
The spirit of the French Constitution, or the almanach of goodman Gerard, for the year 1792.	Jean-Marie Collot-d'Herbois (trans. John Oswald)	1791	01/02/21	RB.s.2999
The history of the conquest of Mexico, by the celebrated Hernan Cortes.	Antonio de Solis (trans. W. H. Dilworth)	1785	01/02/21	RB.s.2998
Commentariorum in sublimis philosophi & incomparabilis viri Petri Severini Dani. + Idea medicinae philosophicae	William Davisson	1660	01/12/20	RB.s.2997(1-2)
An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness.	Thomas Trotter	1813	01/12/20	AB.1.220.94
Souvenirs de H. F. Marote lieutenant du corsaire l'Aventurier 1811-1814.	Léon Wocquier (ed.)	1845	01/12/20	AB.3.220.20
Joannis Maioris doctoris theologi parrhysiensis in Mattheu[m] ad literam expositio + In quartum sententiarum quaestiones utilissimae suprema ipsius lucubratione enucleate.	John Mair [Major]	1518 + 1521	01/12/20	RB.m.795(1-2)
The case of Lieutenant Donald Campbell, and the other children of the deceased Capt. Lauchlin Campbell, of the Province of New York.		1767	01/12/20	AP.5.220.8
Three examples of leather bookbindings by Phoebe Anna Traquair, including a copy of Alphonse Labitte, Les manuscrits et l'art de les orner, Paris: Charles Mendel, 1893, and a copy of a photographic facsimile of her illuminated manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, Edinburgh, [c. 1897]	Phoebe Anna Traquair	1893	01/11/20	Bdg.m.183, Bdg.s.987, Bdg.s.988
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, newly translated out of the original tongues. [Bound with] The Psalms of David in metre,		1700	01/11/20	Shelfmark: Bdg.s.989(1-2)
Circle of Sir Francis Powell and Joseph Lockett, [An album of 117 photographs, mainly landscapes of Argyll and Bute]		1865	01/11/20	Phot.la.94
The Indians, a Tragedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Richmond.	William Richardson	1790	01/10/20	AP.2.220.30
An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: or, philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom 1700. … The third edition.	John Keill	1733	01/10/20	AB.2.220.44
Sermons, &c. I. On the divisions among Christians …	Henry Patillo	1788	01/10/20	AB.1.220.62
The greatest wonder in the world! A Lusus naturae.	Anon.	1840	01/10/20	AP.1.220.21
Sutherlandshire Magazine.		1826	01/10/20	AB.3.220.17
Tablettes de l'homme du monde, ou Analise des sept qualitez essentielles a former le beau caractere d'homme du monde accompli.	[Anon].	1715	01/10/20	RB.s.2993
An historical enquiry regarding the imposition of taxes.	Thomas Thomson	1816	01/10/20	AB.8.220.7
Camera Work: a photographic quarterly, no. 8 October 1904.		1904	01/10/20	FB.m.946
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons. A new edition.	James Caulfield	1813	01/10/20	AB.8.220.8-10
The Psalms of David, in metre. Newly translated, and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations.		1769	01/09/20	AB.1.220.69
Nach dem Englisch[en] Original. Simon Lord Lovat ein Schottlaend, aus der Graffschafft Argyle.	Anon.	1747	01/08/20	AP.6.220.2
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments …		1772	01/08/20	Bdg.s.985
The Female Physician.	John Maubray	1730	01/08/20	AB.2.220.30
Cursus optimarum questionum cum textualibus expositionibus Porphyrii atq[ue] veteris logicae Arestotelis.	Duns Scotus	1492	01/07/20	Inc.46.1
Nauka ekonomii politycyzney podlug uk?adu Adam Smith [The science of political economy based on the System of Adam Smith].	Jan Znosko	1811	01/02/20	RB.s.2987
Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces.	Charles Macfarlane	1829	01/02/20	AB.8.220.3
Tour in Norway.	Valentine & Sons	1888?	01/02/20	Phot.sm.167
[A volume of 12 radical tracts published in Glasgow in 1834-1835]		1834-1835	01/02/20	AB.2.220.29(1-12)
Romeo and Juliet.	William Shakespeare	1773	01/01/20	AP.1.220.20
Bisset's magnificent guide, or, Grand copperplate directory, for the town of Birmingham.	James Bisset	1808	01/01/20	RB.m.787

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