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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Collection of songs, glees etc. Nos 9-10.
An improvement in the mode of administering the vapour bath.
Examples of the engraved portraiture of the sixteenth century.
Journal historique de la campagne du capitaine Thurot, sur les cotes d'Ecosse & d'Irlande, en 1757 & 1758.
Issledovaniia o prirode i prichinakh bogatstva narodov s primechaniiami Bentama, Blanki, Bukhanana, Garn'e, Mak-Kulokha, Mal-tusa, Millia, Rikardo, Seia, Sismondi I Tirgu [ Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, translated by P. A. Bibikov] 3 vols
The weavers index, or, The weavers sure guide, being a ready help to them.
Two chapters of a celebrated French work, intitled, De l'esprit des loix: translated into English.
A vindication of the true art of self-defence. With a proposal to the Honourable Members of Parliament, for erecting a court of honour in Great Britain.
The China Magazine, a Weekly Miscellany, Illustrated with Photographs, Conducted by C. Langdon Davies. Midsummer Volume [vol. 1]
Aristotle’s secret of secrets contracted;being the sum of his advice to Alexander the Great, about the preservation of health and government.
Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic Gold Medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. Cadmus: or A treatise on the elements of written language … With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak
Historia de Inglaterra, desde la invasion de Julio Cesar hasta el fin del reinado de Jacobo II (ano de J. C. 1689) [History of England]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments.
Switzerland: illustrated in a series of views.
Awful murder and Melancholy accident. [Two Glasgow-printed broadsides]
[Two lots acquired at auction containing 16 extremely rare or otherwise unrecorded items relating to Edinburgh and the Town Council dating from 1699 to 1777]
The secret history of Elizabeth, Queen of England, and the Earl of Essex. To which is added, an account of the sufferings, trial and beheading of Mary, Queen of Scotland, by Queen Elizabeth.
The works of Aristotle, the famous philosopher. In four parts.
Privillegija, dannaja Ober Bergmejsteru 7go klassa Karlu Berdu na upotreblenie parovych sudov. [Text in Russian]
The triumphs of love: containing the surprising adventures, accidents, and misfortunes, that many persons have encountered in the eager pursuit of their amorous inclinations.
[Volume of six early 17th-century pamphlets printed in Scotland]
The Kilmaurs case. The Presbytery of Irvine against the Rev. Alexander Inglis, Minister of Kilmaurs.
Act of the Parliament of Scotland for erecting an East India Company in that kingdom.
The history and adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. In four volumes.
An appeal to common sense in behalf of religion. 2nd edition.
Oeuvres philosophiques.
Le songe d'Ossian, cantate allegorique offerte a sa Majeste Napoleon premier, empereur des Francais et roi d'Italie.
Copy of the Nomination of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.
Hints addressed to the patrons and directors of schools.
Canones, et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici et generalis Concilij Tridentini sub Paulo III, Iulio III, Pio IIII. Pontificibus max.
Shakespeare & Stratford upon Avon: with portraits and illustrations.
Marmion: a dramatic romance.
The true python’s oracle, or fortune's perpetual almanac.
Photographic views taken by Augustus Kelham Esq.
Lord Byron and his favourite.
Operatives register no. 1
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or, A copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction, equipment, furniture, machinery, movements, and military operations of a ship, 2nd ed., corrected.
Evangelical discourses, on several practical subjects.
Radiger or the hall of Odin: a tragedy. In five acts.
Antiquities of Fife: being photographs of remarkable buildings in the county.
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa.
[Photographs of the Track Cycling World Championships held at Celtic Park in 1897]
Le voluptueux hors de combat, ou le défi amoureux de Lygdame & de Chloris.
Proposals for publishing by subscription, a new translation of the New Testament into Scots Gallic.
Memoirs of the insurrection in Scotland in 1715.
Memoire du Sieur Jean Balfour; habitant de l'isle de Tabago [Tobago]; a messieurs les deputes a l'Assemblee Nationale de France.
Orders appointed by his Maiestie to be straightly observed, for the preventing and remedying of the dearth of graine and other victuall.
An exhortation to the inhabitants of the south parish of Glasgow.
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