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 |
Abyssinian traveller
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Topham, E. |
1775 |
20/03/03 |
RB.m.505 |
Wild Roses
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[1806-9] |
18/03/03 |
RB.s.2284 |
Queensland Scottish Advocate
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1908-1911 |
12/03/03 |
DJ.m.2373 |
Holy Bible.
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1653 |
11/03/03 |
Bdg.s.890(1) |
New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; A new pocket dictionary of the English and German languages; The Rubaiyat in English verse; Elegy in a country churchyard; Golden thoughts from great authors.
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Various |
1895-c. 1910. |
10/03/03 |
ABS.4.203.05 (1-5) (see notes) |
Euripidis poetae tragici Alcestis ... Tum ... Jepthes, Tragoedia
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Buchanan, George |
1567 |
06/03/03 |
RB.2305(1) |
Articles Steam and Steam-Engines
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Watt, James and John Robison |
[1817-1818?] |
03/03/03 |
RB.m.492 |
Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs
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Brehm, Alfred Edmund |
1890-1893 |
03/03/03 |
AB.4.203.04 |
Queen's Arctic Theatre. H.M.S. Assistance ... Commander. G.H. Richards, of the Royal Arctic Navy ... has the honour to acquaint, the nobility, and gentry, of North Cornwall that he has ... engaged a highly select, and talented, corps dramatique, and has entirely rebuilt, and re-embellished, the Queens, Arctic Theatre, and that ... will be performed ... the inimitable comedy, of The Irish tutor …
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1852 |
17/02/03 |
GB/C.219 |
Prince Charles Edward in Edinburgh 1745
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Blaikie, Walter Biggar |
[1901?] |
03/02/03 |
H3.203.0666 |
Catalogue of books in quires, which will be offered to a select company of booksellers, at Hunter's Tavern, Edinburgh on Tuesday, October 21. 1794.
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[1794] |
20/01/03 |
RB.l.133 |
Relation de deux voyages dans les Mers Australes & des Indes, faits en 1771, 1772, 1773 & 1774.
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Kerguelen-Tremarec, Yves Joseph de, ‚d 1734-1797. |
1782 |
13/01/03 |
GB/A.3757 |
Catalogue of books belonging to the library of St. Andrew's Chapel, Aberdeen.
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1839 |
07/01/03 |
APS.3.203.06 |
New Arabian nights
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
1885 |
05/01/03 |
ABS.2.201.009 |
Bothwell or the days of Mary Queen of Scots
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Grant, James |
1870? |
05/01/03 |
ABS.1.201.016 |
Prince Otto
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
1888 |
05/01/03 |
ABS.2.201.011 |
Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
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Grant, James |
1881 |
05/01/03 |
ABS.2.201.010 |
Ode to hope
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1789 |
13/12/02 |
RB.m.506 |
CL. Psalmes of David in Meeter. With an exact Kalendar, also morning & evening prayers.
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1640 |
09/12/02 |
Bdg.s.888 |
Royal Diorama of Scotland
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Lamb, Alexander |
[1885-1890?] |
09/12/02 |
APS.4.203.05 |
Selim and Zaida. With other poems.
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Greenshields, John |
1800 |
06/12/02 |
ABS.1.204.010(2) |
Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a Highland officer
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Defoe, Daniel |
1741 |
28/11/02 |
RB.s.2300 |
Lexicon Graeco Latinum Novum
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Scapula, Joanne |
1615 |
28/11/02 |
RB.l.132 |
Holy Bible [with Holy Bible. London, 1772 and Psalms. Edinburgh: b. Colin Macfarquhar, 1771]
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1755 |
26/11/02 |
Bdg.s.896(1) |
Physiologia Guillelmi Duncani philosophiae professoris veterani
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Duncan, William |
1651 |
22/11/02 |
RB.s.2293 |
Capucin Escossois.
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Rinuccini, Giovanni Battista |
1667 [1647] |
22/11/02 |
RB.s.2292 |
1759 : Burns' Centenary : 1859
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[n.d.] |
20/11/02 |
ABS.8.203.01 |
Chemists & Druggists' Directory and Year Book for Scotland.
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Gilmour, J. P. (ed.) |
1914 |
19/11/02 |
NG.728 |
Life and character of Robert Watt, who was executed for high treason at Edinburgh, the 15th October, 1794
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1795 |
07/11/02 |
ABS.2.204.004 |
History and Travels
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Maclean, Hector |
1769 |
04/11/02 |
RB.s.2286 |
Sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet.
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Burrard, S.G., Heron, A.M. |
1933 |
29/10/02 |
GB/B.1491 |
Marie der Koenigin auss Schotlandt eigentliche Bildtnuss.
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[1587] |
28/10/02 |
RB.l.129 |
Grammar of the Malabar Language.
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Drummond, Robert |
1799 |
28/10/02 |
ABS.8.203.03 |
Essay on the various modes of bringing waste lands into a state fit for cultivation and improving their natural productions.
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Headrick, Rev. James |
1801 |
18/10/02 |
ABS.3.202.064(1-2) |
To all householders [4 Edinburgh broadsides]
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[1808-1816] |
07/10/02 |
APS.4.202.40 |
Recreations with the Muses
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Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling |
1637 |
07/10/02 |
RB.m.502 |
Jolly Jump-Ups: Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
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Clyne, Geraldine |
1946 |
07/10/02 |
RB.m.462 |
To the revolution club
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[Erskine, Andrew and Ross, Walter.] |
c. 1788 |
01/10/02 |
RB.m.509 |
Maçonnerie pratique: cours d'enseignement supérieur de la franc-maçonnerie rite écossais ancien et accepté... Publiée par un profane
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1885 |
30/09/02 |
AB.2.202.16 |
Thorn tree clique, a new analysis of Mathieson's poem The Goff
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Hamilton, David |
2001 |
25/09/02 |
Bdg.s.883 |
Historia regalis divi Iacobi VI. regis semper augusti
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1626 |
25/09/02 |
RB.m.493 |
[Specimen book of lithographs, engravings, copper plate and letterpress]
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Lizars, W[illiam]. H[ome]. |
[1851?] |
23/09/02 |
ABS.8.202.36 |
Copy of a minute by the Marquis of Dalhousie, dated February 28, 1856 reviewing his administration in India, from January 1848, to March 1856
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Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Marquis of |
1856 |
23/09/02 |
ABS.9.202.12 |
Edinburgh Calotype Club Album, Volume 1
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c. 1848 |
06/09/02 |
Phot.med.33 |
Holy Bible [with Psalms, 1726]
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1726 |
28/08/02 |
Bdg.m.151(1-2) |
Lyric Poems
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Mercer, James |
1797 |
19/08/02 |
ABS.8.202.35 |
China magazine. Christmas volume
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Davies, C. Langdon (ed.) |
1868 |
05/07/02 |
RB.m.455 |
Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New [and other titles]
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[1627] |
03/07/02 |
RB.s.2166(1-4) |
Collection of photographs of the south side of Edinburgh
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Rushbrook, Alfred Henry |
1929 |
02/07/02 |
Phot.med.35 |
The City Chambers, Glasgow
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Maclure, Macdonald & Co. |
c. 1890 |
24/06/02 |
Phot.la.23 |
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