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 |
Matylda Rokeby romans poetyczny
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Walter Scott |
1826 |
26/08/16 |
AB.1.216.51 |
Scotland.
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M.G. |
1892? |
26/08/16 |
AP.1.216.49 |
Photograph of Scotland v England rugby match at Raeburn Park Edinburgh. March 5th 1892.
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[John Patrick] |
1892 |
12/08/16 |
Phot.la.89(1) |
Thaddaus Constantin Graf von Sobieski. : Novelle.
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Jane Porter |
1825-1831 |
29/07/16 |
AB.1.216.46 |
Little Bo-Peep; or, Harlequin and The Little Girl that Lost her Sheep. A Pastoral Pantomime + St. George & ye Dragon; or, Harlequin and Ye Seven Champions of Christendom. A Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, 1857-58
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[William Hugh Logan & Robert Henry Wyndham] |
1857-58 |
22/07/16 |
AB.3.216.04(1-2) |
The balance of public favor [sic].
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Anon. |
1827 |
22/07/16 |
AP.5.216.11 |
List of all the streets, wynds, squares and closes, of the city of Edinburgh and Canongate.
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[Peter Williamson] |
1779 |
22/07/16 |
AP.7.216.09 |
Notes sur la lettre de Monsieur de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume + Reflexions posthumes sur le grand procees de Jean-Jacques, avec David.
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Anon |
1766 |
01/07/16 |
RB.s.29281-(2) |
A scene at Glasgow, or - Sir Donald Dictate in the dumps.
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[Anon] |
1783 |
24/06/16 |
AP.6.216.09 |
L'Angleterre, la France, la Russie et la Turquie.
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David Urquhart |
1835 |
24/06/16 |
AB.3.216.07 |
The Christian's inheritance; or, a collection of the
promises and gracious declarations of scripture.
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Samuel Clark |
1789 |
10/06/16 |
AB.2.216.15(2) |
The story of the blue bird.
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[Anon] |
1840? |
10/06/16 |
AP.1.216.43 |
House games for rainy days
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[Anon] |
1860? |
10/06/16 |
AP.1.216.42 |
Lettere di Edmund Gibson + Vita di David Hume scritta da lui stesso + Saggio in risposta a Mr. Hume circa i miracoli di Gulielmo Adams.
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Edmund Gibson & David Hume |
1804-1806 |
10/06/16 |
RB.m.764(1-3) |
A bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien Company.
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John Scott |
1903 & 1906 |
03/06/16 |
RB.m.761 |
Waverley, o Ahora Sesenta Anos, Novela Historica por Sir Gualterio Scott.
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Walter Scott |
1833 |
27/05/16 |
RB.s.2923 |
The acts and deeds of the most famous and valiant champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie.
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Blind Hary |
1648 [1758] |
27/05/16 |
AB.2.216.11 |
The well at the world's end.
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William Morris |
1896 |
20/05/16 |
KP.70 |
Cosmopolitan System of Dresscutting.
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Kendall, E. G. |
1893 |
16/05/16 |
AB.11.216.03 |
Domestic, literary and village sketches.
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T.J. |
[1823] |
13/05/16 |
AB.3.216.03 |
Autobiography.
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Andrew Aird |
1899 |
13/05/16 |
AP.1.216.31 |
The moving market or cries of London.
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Anon. |
1815 |
13/05/16 |
AP.1.216.28 |
How I lost my wattie, or, Life in Ceylon: and the coffee-planting experience of an auld Scotchman.
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Arthur Sinclair |
1878 |
13/05/16 |
AP.1.216.29 |
Case of lodgment, for four months of the breeching of a fowling-piece in the face.
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William Keith |
1858 |
22/04/16 |
AP.1.216.34 |
Histoire de Marie Stuart, reine de France et d'Ecosse. Nouvelle edition.
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Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne |
1795 |
22/04/16 |
AB.1.216.24 |
Erin's hope. The end and the means.
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James Connolly |
[1900?] |
22/04/16 |
AP.2.216.20 |
Preliminary report, or Outline of the principal duties of the agricultural chemist to the colony of British Guiana.
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John Shier |
1847 |
18/03/16 |
AP.2.216.04 |
The tale of Edward & Anna, a fragment.
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'Florio' |
1816 |
18/03/16 |
AB.1.216.15 |
Crossing of proverbs, or A book divided into two parts.
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[Nicholas Breton] |
1710 |
18/03/16 |
RB.s.2921 |
Carle, now the King's come: a song: on His Majesty's visit to Scotland.
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Walter Scott |
1822 |
18/03/16 |
RB.m.760 |
The colonel's mistake
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Agnes Bowie Shanks |
1883 |
19/02/16 |
AB.1.216.12 |
Probable consequences of a successful invasion; and the most effectual means of defeating it.
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Niel Douglas |
1803 |
05/02/16 |
AP.2.216.08 |
La Caledonie, ou, La guerre nationale.
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Fabre, Jean Raymond Auguste |
1823 |
29/01/16 |
Bdg.s.964 |
Biographical sketch of Mr. Morison, the hygeist.
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Anon |
[1837?] |
29/01/16 |
AP.1.216.21 |
Diary of a trip to Egypt and Jerusalem, 1886.
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Agnes Bowie Shanks |
1887 |
22/01/16 |
AP.2.216.07 |
Verses on the centenary of the birth of Robert Burns.
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John Forbes-Robertson |
1859 |
08/01/16 |
AP.3.216.03 |
An account of the ravages committed in Ceylon by small-pox.
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Thomas Christie |
1811 |
18/12/15 |
RB.s.2918 |
Theorie des sentimens moraux ou Essai analytique sur les principes des jugemens
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Adam Smith |
1799 |
11/12/15 |
RB.s.2919-2920 |
A trip to the land of my ancestors: I visit my Scotch cousins.
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Jean Scott |
[1894?] |
11/12/15 |
AP.2.216.01 |
Notes, respecting the situation and improvements of the lands of Boquhan, parish of Gurgunnock
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[John Fletcher-Campbell] |
1793 |
04/12/15 |
AB.2.216.02 |
The wandering piper.
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Anon |
1833 |
20/11/15 |
RB.l.287 |
The book of signs
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[William Agnew] |
1880? |
20/11/15 |
AP.1.216.08 |
[Victorian 'Newspaper Cuttings' album containing numerous theatre programmes, playbills, clippings and other items]
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[Muriel Digby] |
[1881-1883] |
20/11/15 |
AB.9.216.01 |
Birthday chimes from Scott: selections from the poems and tales of Sir Walter Scott.
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[Walter Scott] |
1891 |
06/11/15 |
Bdg.s.963 |
Free kicks at football.
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Benedict & Saunders Wylie |
1882 |
23/10/15 |
AP.1.215.34 |
Stanzas to the memory of Sir Walter Scott.
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[Edward Simms] |
[1839] |
16/10/15 |
AP.2.215.16 |
To His Majesty's ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples.
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[William Sotheby] |
1831 |
16/10/15 |
AP.1.215.03 |
Glenfinnan
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[David Whyte] |
1890? |
25/09/15 |
Phot.sm.156 |
The business man's note-book for the year 1856.
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Anon |
1855 |
25/09/15 |
AB.1.215.127 |
Lexicon iuris ciuilis, ex uarijs probatorum autorum commentarijs congestum.
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Jakob Spiegel |
1541 |
04/09/15 |
RB.l.286 |
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