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
Smuaintin cudthromach, mu bhas agus fhulangas ar Slanui'-fhir.	Donall Caimbeul [Daniel Campbell]	1786	10/11/17	AP.1.218.05
A letter to the Right Hon. Spencer Percival [sic].	Isabella Cunningham, Countess of Glencairn	1812	10/11/17	AP.3.218.01
Description of Heathcoat's steam plough.	Ambrose Blacklock	1837	10/11/17	AP.1.218.01
Plan of a dispensary for the benefit of the industrious poor within the district of Jedburgh.	[Anon]	1807	13/10/17	AP.3.217.14
De rerum natura, libri VI	Lucretius	1570	06/10/17	Bdg.m.179
A legendarie conteining an ample discourse of the life and behaviour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine, and of his brethren, of the house of Guise	La Planche, Louis Régnier de	1577	06/10/17	RB.s.2942
Esquisses historiques de chronologie, suivies d'un cours d' astronomie.	C.P. Buquet	1839	29/09/17	AB.1.217.147
The steam-boat traveller's remembrancer; containing poems descriptive of the principal watering places, &c. visited by the steam-boats from Glasgow, including intermediate places.	William Harriston	1828	25/09/17	AP.1.217.64
The new picture book: being pictorial lessons on form, comparison, and number, for children under seven years of age.	Nicholas Bohny	1858	01/09/17	RB.m.774
What led to the discovery of the source of the Nile.	John Hanning Speke	1864	01/09/17	RB.s.2941
Apostolicum symbolum, decalogus [+ 9 other items].	[Anon]	1713	25/08/17	RB.s.2944(10)
De trenne foersta boeckerne om coniske sectionerne.	Robert Simson.	1764	18/08/17	AB.2.217.37
Koenigliche Schauspiele. Freitag, den 8. October 1824. Im Schauspielhause: Kenilworth.	[Anon]	[1824]	18/08/17	AP.6.217.07
The execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.	William McGonagall	[1894-1902]	18/08/17	AP.4.217.04
The golden bough	James Frazer	1890	18/08/17	RB.s.2939(2)-2940
The Sunyassee, an eastern tale; and other poems.	James Hutchinson	1838	18/08/17	AB.2.217.39
Poyaisian land grant. 500 acres : Class G. No. ... grant of 100 acres.	[Gregor MacGregor]	1834	28/07/17	AP.7.217.04
Directions for using Clark's pocket microscope.	John Clark	[1773]	14/07/17	AP.3.217.09
The golden lyre. Specimens of the poets of England, France, Germany and Italy.	John Macray (ed.)	1829-30	14/07/17	AB.1.217.138-139
The state of Kelso Dispensary; from October 1, 1816, to October 1, 1823; the last being the 46th year of the institution.	[Anon]	1823	14/07/17	AP.3.217.12
The life and work of David Livingstone missionary and explorer.	[Anon]	1913?	07/07/17	RB.s.2938
Thoughts on emigration, and on the Canadas.	Charles Shirreff.		16/06/17	9130241
A defence of the Scots settlement at Darien.	Philo-Caledon	1699	02/06/17	AB.1.217.135
On Monday first will appear "The Merry Elector".	s.n.	[1857?]	19/05/17	AP.el.217.01
Journal of a recent visit to the principal vineyards of Spain and France	James Busby	1834	05/05/17	RB.s.2935
[Collection of printed and manuscript material relating to a dinner held in honour Provost William Bailey]	[William Bailey]	1848	29/04/17	Bdg.m.178
C. P de G R. de la G = B. &c., A tous les rois, princes, republiques, &c. ... C. P of W R of Gr. Br. &c. To all kings, princes, republiques, &c..	[Charles Edward Stuart]	1748	29/04/17	AP.6.217.02
Ausfuehrliches Leben und besondere Schiksale eines wilden Knaben	"Dr Milsintown"	1759	29/04/17	AP.1.217.28
The sword's-man: containing a series of observations on the use of the sword	John Ferdinand	1788	22/04/17	RB.s.2933
Observations of the management of flax from the field to the heckle.	[Anon]	1784	22/04/17	RB.s.2937
A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.	John Gregory	Printed for J. Dodsley	22/04/17	AB.1.217.121
Thomas Dryburgh's dream: a story of the sick children's hospital.	Annie S. Swan	1886	22/04/17	AB.2.217.27
God's judgements against sin: or, a relation of three dreadful fires happening in the city of Edinburgh	James Porterfield	1702	22/04/17	RB.s.2936
The red-breast, a tale	[Anon]	1787?	07/04/17	AP.1.217.27
Quicksands	Julie de Gerschau	1888	17/02/17	AB.1.217.105
Here's to the Heather. Poems and Songs.	Hector MacPherson	1896	10/02/17	AB.2.217.26
The Maniac [&] The Chevalier’s Lament, After the battle of Culloden.	Rushton, Edward & Burns, Robert.	1800?	09/01/17	AP.6.217.01
[Ballantyne's Miscellany set]	Ballantyne, R.M.	1886	06/01/17	AB.1.217.98
[Specimen of miniature lithographic printing by the lithographic printer James Miller of Glasgow]	James Miller	1828	06/01/17	AP.1.217.20
Fighting the flames: a tale of the London fire brigade	R.M. Ballantyne	1867	16/12/16	AB.1.217.91
Infancy, or The management of children: a didactic poem in four books. 4th edition.	Downman, Hugh.	1788	16/12/16	AB.1.217.85
Nouveaux melanges de poesies grecques, auxquels on a joint deux morceaux de litterature angloise.	[Miscellaneous]	1779	16/12/16	AB.2.217.19(1)
The illustrious and renowned history of the seven famous champions of Christendom.	Richard Johnson	1772	12/12/16	RB.s.2931
Honour on crutches	William Brown	1822	11/11/16	AP.2.217.01
The journal of Sir Walter Scott from the original manuscript at Abbotsford, + Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott.	Scott, Walter & Douglas, David, ed.	1891 & 1894	04/11/16	AB.3.217.10-11 & AB.3.217.14-15
Rosa Hispani-Anglica seu Malum Punicum Angl' Hispanicum.	Du Val, Michael.	1622	28/10/16	RB.s.2929
Advertisement, anent the surveying of all the Shires of Scotland, and making new mapps of it.	[John Adair]	1681	30/09/16	RB.m.766
Favorites [sic], beauties, and amours, of Henry of Windsor. An historical and biographical apicula.	David Erskine	1817	16/09/16	AB.2.216.19
The poor man's physician, or the receipts of the famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch, 2nd edition.	John Moncrief	1716	09/09/16	AB.1.216.62
Happy homes and the hearts that make them.	[Samuel Smiles]	1882	26/08/16	AB.3.216.09

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