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 Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New + The Psalmes of David in meeter.		1636-1637	01/01/20	RB.s.2980(1-2)
[Engraved envelope with anti-slavery messages and illustrations, by James Valentine of Dundee]	James Valentine	1850?	01/01/20	AP.1.219.35
Abhandlungen von anatomischen Einspritzungen und Aufbewahrung anatomischer Präparate aus dem Englischen [Treatise on anatomical injections and storage of anatomical preparations]	Alexander Monro	1789	01/01/20	AP.1.220.9
Venice & Lombardy: a series of photogravures.	James Craig Annan	1896	01/10/19	RB.l.326
A full and particular account of the great meeting at Manchester.	Anon.	1819	01/10/19	AP.6.219.9
Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a dictionary of the Gaelic language.		1828	01/10/19	AB.8.219.11
Selecta Colloquiorum Maturini Corderii centuria	Cordier, Mathurin	1729	20/09/19	RB.s.2979
Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of machinery, implements, tools.	Charles D. Young & Co.	1854	01/09/19	AB.9.219.1
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature, on a plan entirely new. Moore's Dublin edition.		1791-1798	01/08/19	AB.8.219.14-33
Two new poems [Beautiful Balmoral & The beautiful village of Penicuik] + The beautiful sun	William McGonagall	1883	01/08/19	AP.4.219.5 + AP.4.219.7
Description of a new improved chart of the Islands of Shetland	Løvenørn, Poul	1787	14/06/19	AP.4.219.4
Discursos politicos	Hume, David	1789	03/05/19	RB.s.2974
Roman stories: or, The history of the seven wife mistresses of Rome. 30th ed.	Thomas Howard	1772	01/05/19	AB.1.219.61
Ode by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their supposed approaching nuptials	Boswell, James	1784	26/04/19	RB.m.786
Mémoires de Paul Jones, où il expose ses principaux services et rappelle ce qui lui est arrivé de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la révolution américaine, particulièrement en Europe, écrits par lui-même en anglais, et traduits sous ses yeux le citoyen André	Jones, John Paul	1798	26/04/19	RB.s.2975
Polizey der Industrie, oder, Abhandlung von den Mitteln, den Fleiss der Einwohner zu ermuntern	Guden, Philipp Peter	1768	26/04/19	RB.s.2972
The goblin groom; a tale of Dunse [Duns].	Robert Orde Fenwick	1809	01/04/19	AB.8.219.10
O vkuse, tvorenie g. Zherarda, s priobshcheniem razsuzhdenii o tom zh predmete [Essay on taste].	Alexander Gerard	1803	01/04/19	AB.2.219.19
The gladiator.		1884-	02/02/19	RB.l.325
The flag of Circassia/Speech of Mr. Urquhart, Glasgow, May 23, 1838	David Urquhart	1863	01/02/19	AP.6.219.6
Beside the bonnie brier bush/The days of auld lang syne.	Jules Turcas	1895?	01/02/19	AP.7.219.4
The East of Fife record and local advertiser.	Anon.	1859-1866	01/02/19	AB.11.219.1-3
Natural history and sport in Moray.	Charles St. John	1882	01/02/19	RB.s.2021
A book of Scotish [sic] pasquils, 1568-1715.	James Maidment [ed.]	1868	01/01/19	Bdg.s.975
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect: originally written under the signature of the Scots-Irishman, by a native of Scotland.	David Bruce	1801	01/01/19	AB.1.219.39
Trente vignettes pour Walter Scott,	Alfred and Tony Johannot	1830	01/01/19	FB.el.160
A cap of gray hairs for a green head, 5th edition.	Caleb Trenchfield	1692	01/01/19	RB.s.2969
The sorrows of Werter: a German story	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	1793	19/10/18	RB.s.2966
The life of James Aitken, commonly called John the Painter	Aitken, James	1777	19/10/18	AB.1.219.30
Arithmetique logaritmetique, ou, La construction et usage d'une table contenant les logarithmes de tous les nombres depuis l'unite jusques a 100000.	Adriaan Vlacq	1628	01/09/18	RB.l.324
Directions for managing the iron-plow, the new constructed drill-plow, and ventilator (or fanners,) made at Robert Bull's new smith and wright-work manufactory, foot of Leith-walk, near Edinburgh, N. Britain.	Robert Bull	1762	01/09/18	AP.1.219.15
Schottischer Robinson oder des Schottlaenders, Jakob Flinton's Abentheuer und Reisen.	Heinrich Oswald [pseudonym]	1827	01/09/18	AB.1.219.34-35
April no. now ready The artist : contents full illustrated account of the Royal Scottish Academy and Glasgow Institute Exhibition by Neil Munro the art news of the month, copiously illustrated.	R. James Williams	1897	01/09/18	RB.case.2(42)
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Heroides sive epistolae, editio emendatissima juxta exemplar Petri Burmanni	Ovid	1732	31/08/18	AB.1.218.064
A sketch of the properties of the machine organ, invented, constructed, and made by Mr. Cumming, for the Earl of Bute.	Alexander Cumming	1812	01/08/18	RB.s.2955
Strannaia istoriia Doktora Dzhikilia i Mistera Khaida [Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde].	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888	01/08/18	RB.s.2953
Ivanhoe von Walter Scott.	Franz Pocci	1825	01/08/18	AB.10.218.01
Ordonnantie gemaakt by bailliu, borgemeesters, schepenen en raden dezer stede Vere, op de regering en loon van het goedeluiden-gilde	Vere	1770 or 1771	13/07/18	AP.2.218.36
New Britain. A narrative of a journey by Mr. Ellis, to a country so called by its inhabitants, discovered in the vast plain of Missouri, in North America	Ellis, G. A.	1820	18/05/18	RB.s.2954
The illustrious and renown'd history of the seven famous champions of Christendom	Johnson, Richard	1761	04/05/18	RB.s.2951
A treatise of conversion, faith and justification, &c. Being an extract of sundry discourses on Rom. V. 5. Delivered at Oxford in the latter end of the year 1741, and beginning of 1742	Campbell, John	1743	04/05/18	RB.s.2985
The advice of a friend, to the army and people of Scotland.	Harper, William	1745	20/04/18	AB.1.218.034
A key for filling up the blanks in a pamphlet lately published, intitled, The fatal consequences of ministerial influence, &c.	Grange, James Erskine, Lord	1736	20/04/18	AP.1.218.30(2)
A concise view of the Scottish islands of the Hebrides, Orkney, and Zetland.	George Robertson	1821	01/04/18	AB.2.218.11
An account of some strange apparitions had by a godly man in Kintyre, who hath been blind six years.	Anon.	1730	01/04/18	RB.s.2948
Old Scarlett the man who buried Mary Queen of Scots.	[Anon]	1836	01/04/18	AP.6.218.01
Melanges de la litterature angloise, traduits par Madame B****.	[David Hume, Samuel Johnson et al.]	1759	14/12/17	RB.s.2946
Holy Bible + Psalms + Translations and paraphrases		1790	01/12/17	Bdg.s.967-968
Ane Fruitfull Meditatioun contening ane plane and facile expositioun of ye 7.8.9 and 10 versis of the 20 Chap. of the Revelatioun in forme of ane sermone	James VI	1588	24/11/17	RB.s.2945(2)
Newcastle, Friday, 6 o'clock P. M. June 23, 1815 ... accounts of the greatest victory ever obtained.	[John Marjoribanks]	1815	10/11/17	AP.1.218.07

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