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 |
Slander retorted or L-r's thanks
|
Niel Douglas |
1803 |
28/08/15 |
AB.2.215.23 |
Letters and Sermons
|
John Newton |
1798 |
31/07/15 |
AB.1.215.100-108 |
Address by the principal native gentlemen and other inhabitants of Bombay to Sir Charles Forbes, Baronet, on the occasion of erecting a statue of him at Bombay.
|
Anon |
1840? |
26/06/15 |
AB.9.215.05(1-2) |
Musalmani din ka Raddi: or Refutation of Muhammadism, in Hindustani. 2nd edition.
|
John Wilson |
1840 |
19/06/15 |
AP.1.215.21 |
The voice of our exiles or Stray leaves from a convict ship.
|
Daniel Ritchie ed. |
1864 |
15/05/15 |
RB.s.2917 |
Notice. The Magistrates, in consequence of a complaint by the possessors of shops between the North Bridge and the Stamp Office Close … hereby give notice ... Given at Edinburgh, this 4th day of March 1814 years.
|
Edinburgh (Scotland) Town Council |
[1814] |
15/05/15 |
AP.7.215.04 |
Itinerary of the Lord Chancellor Broggam and Broomstick.
|
[Anon] |
[1834?] |
15/05/15 |
AP.1.215.20 |
Linda Tressell
|
Anthony Trollope |
[1880?] |
15/05/15 |
AB.1.215.79 |
Die eiserne Maske. Eine schottische Geschichte von Ottokar Sturm.
|
Friedrich Eberhard Rambach & Ludwig Tieck |
1792 |
06/03/15 |
AB.1.215.67 |
The history and love adventures of Roswal and Lillian
|
Anon |
1788 |
06/03/15 |
AP.1.215.14 |
Lettres patentes du roy : portant privilege au Sieur Law & sa Compagnie d'establir une Banque generale.
|
[John Law] |
1716 |
06/03/15 |
RB.m.759 |
The letters of Zariora and Randale
|
[John Hood] |
1814 |
27/02/15 |
AB.1.215.58 |
The works of Robert Burns
|
Robert Burns |
1801 |
20/02/15 |
AB.1.215.40-43 |
[Volume of 16 early 19th-century Scottish chapbooks, mostly printed in Kilmarnock]
|
[Anon] |
[1815-1820] |
20/02/15 |
AB.1.215.52(1-16) |
Phisionomia Magistri Michaelius Scoti.
|
Scotus, Michael. |
[c. 1527] |
13/02/15 |
RB.s.2912 |
Saggi filosofici sull' umano intelleto
|
David Hume |
1820 |
10/02/15 |
RB.s.2913-2914 |
St. Clair, der Eilaender oder die Geachteten von Barra
|
Elizabeth Helme |
1811 |
06/02/15 |
AB.1.215.69-70 |
A postehaste conveyance for S-[cottish] members
|
[Anon] |
1784 |
30/01/15 |
AP.6.215.05 |
Marie Stuard, Reine d'Ecosse, Tragedie.
|
Boursalt, Edme, (1638-1701) |
1691 |
16/01/15 |
RB.s.2908 |
The distillery of Scotland a national benefit; and the importation and use of foreign spirits, a national detriment.
|
Anon. |
1755 |
09/01/15 |
AB.2.215.06 |
Noticia e Circunstancias da Felicissima hora, em que a Senhora Rainha da Grao Bretanha deu a luz o suspirado Principe de Gales, herdeiro dos Reynos de Inglaterra, Escocia, & Irlada.
|
Anon |
1688 |
19/12/14 |
RB.s.2910 |
List of skips for the Royal Caledonian Curling Club grand match to be played on Castlesemple Loch, Lochwinnoch + Railway arrangements for the Royal Caledonian Curling Club grand match.
|
Royal Caledonian Curling Club |
1876 |
12/12/14 |
AP.5.215.02 |
The great Protestant demonstrations of 1892
|
Primmer, Jacob, (1842-1914) |
[1892?] |
21/11/14 |
AP.5.215.01 |
An ode made on the welcome news of the safe arrival and kind reception of the Scottish collony [sic] at Darien in America.
|
Anon. |
1699 |
31/10/14 |
RB.l.285 |
Field memoranda for Tasmanian botanists
|
Robert Mackenzie Johnston |
1874 |
29/08/14 |
AB.1.214.67 |
Caledonian Mercury [15 issues for September - October 1737]
|
|
1737 |
29/08/14 |
RB.m.758 |
Dialogues of the dead. 5th edition.
|
George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton |
1768 |
20/07/14 |
AB.2.214.41 |
Le rapporteur de bonne-foi, ou Examen sans partialitie & sans pretention du differend survenu entre M. Hume & M. Rousseau de Geneve
|
Anonymous |
1766 |
13/07/14 |
AB.1.214.44 |
Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of the Passions. III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the Standard of Taste
|
Hume, David, (1711-1776) |
1757 |
13/07/14 |
RB.s.2893 |
Neuer brittischer Plutarch oder Leben und Charaktere beruehmter Britten.
|
Friedrich Wilhelm Gillet |
1804 |
13/07/14 |
AB.2.214.37 |
A letter to the Marquis de Ruvigny
|
Frederick Rolfe |
1959 |
04/07/14 |
Trag.C.1 |
Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii, Ioanne Stoflerino iustengensi authore.
|
Stoeffler, Johannes |
1570 |
04/07/14 |
RB.s.2906 |
The Highland rogue: or, the memorable actions of the celebrated Robert Mac-gregor, commonly called Rob-Roy.
|
Anon. |
1723 |
04/07/14 |
RB.s.2905(2) |
The history of Netterville, a chance pedestrian.
|
Anon. |
1802 |
27/06/14 |
RB.s.2903-2904 |
The noble pedlar! Or the late chance-sellor & present broom seller!!
|
Anon. |
1816 |
27/06/14 |
AP.7.214.17 |
Japan from India: letters & notes of the journey of two travellers, chiefly by one of them.
|
Anderson, Grace Scott & John |
[1884] |
06/06/14 |
AB.2.214.28 |
The trial of William Brodie wright and cabinet maker in Edinburgh
|
William Brodie, Aeneas Morison |
1788 |
30/05/14 |
AB.3.214.146 |
W. Blacker's art of angling, and complete system of fly making and dying [sic] of colours
|
William Blacker |
1842 |
23/05/14 |
RB.s.2898 |
La Bible qui est toute la saincte escriture du Vieil & du Nouveau Testament
|
Bible |
1616 |
16/05/14 |
RB.s.2899 |
Picturesque California and the region west of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico.
|
John Muir (ed.) |
1888 |
16/05/14 |
AB.10.214.07-09 |
[A collection of 5 items printed by Lloyd Osbourne in Davos-Platz Switzerland]
|
Robert Louis Stevenson |
1882 |
16/05/14 |
RB.s.2894 ; RB.s.2895 ; RB.s.2896 ; RB.s.2897(1) ; RB.s.2897(2) |
For the benefit of Madame Frederick, on Friday evening, December 26, 1800, will be performed the favorite comedy of The wonder! ... to which will be added a grand historical romance ... taken from Ossian's poems) called Oscar & Malvina or The Hall of Fingal.
|
Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
1800 |
16/05/14 |
AP.el.214.03 |
De rebus Peruanis, R di P. Dieghi de Torres, Societatis Iesu Presbyteri commentaries a Ioanne Hayo.
|
Diego de Torres Bollo |
1604 |
16/05/14 |
RB.s.2900 |
Epistle to the deil by Holy Willie of Prussia. Second edition.
|
Anon |
[1871] |
16/05/14 |
AP.1.214.35 |
Pen pictures: transmitted clairaudiently and telepathically by Robert Burns
|
Seymour, Mina S. |
1900 |
16/05/14 |
AB.2.214.31 |
Account of the discoveries at Pompeii, communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London by the Hon. Sir William Hamilton.
|
Sir William Hamilton |
1777 |
16/05/14 |
AB.3.214.145 |
[Photographs taken by James Law Blair in and around Bandawe when employed by the African Lakes Company circa 1900.]
|
Blair, James Law |
1900? |
09/05/14 |
Phot.med.125 |
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal
|
|
1814-1860 |
04/04/14 |
AB.3.214.09-141 |
The song of Solomon
|
Anon |
1897 |
28/03/14 |
Bdg.m.176 |
A famous Fife trial: the Kirkcaldy duel case.
|
Anon. |
1893 |
28/03/14 |
AB.1.214.31 |