A. J. BEATTIE COLLECTION A selection of 491 volumes of 19th- and 20th-century editions of classical Greek texts and works relating ma...
Subject(s) : Greek language and literature
ABBOTSFORD COLLECTION A selection of books bought in 1934 from the library at Abbotsford, the collection consists of 106 volumes a...
Subject(s) : Italian language and literature
ADAM URQUHART COLLECTION Books from the library of Adam Urquhart (1794-1860), Advocate and Sheriff of Wigtown, presented to the Advoc...
Subject(s) : Miscellaneous
AGNES MILLER PARKER COLLECTION A collection of 110 wood engraved blocks and tools from the studio of the Scottish wood engraver Agnes Mille...
Subject(s) : Private presses
AITKEN COLLECTION This collection of the works of Hugh MacDiarmid was formed by William Russell Aitken (1913-1998), former Rea...
Subject(s) : Scottish poetry
ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION A collection of c. 120 items by and relating to the author and occultist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), acqui...
Subject(s) : Occult
ALEXANDER LAW COLLECTION A collection of 37 volumes relating to the research and the publications of Dr Alexander Law (1903-1995) OBE...
Subject(s) : Ramsay, Allan
ALEXANDER MACKIE COLLECTION This is a collection of 84 books and 23 black and white photographs relating to Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon...
Subject(s) : Sri Lanka
ALLHUSEN COLLECTION A collection of 425 volumes, purchased in 1944 from the library of Ernest Lionel Allhusen (1875-1943) of Edi...
Subject(s) : French history, language and literature
ALVA COLLECTION This collection comprises 379 volumes from the library of James Erskine of Alva, Lord Barjarg (1732-96), man...
Subject(s) : Law
ANNIE S. SWAN COLLECTION A group of 64 works in 60 volumes by Annie S. Swan (Mrs Burdett-Smith) (1859-1943), specially bound for the ...
Subject(s) : Swan, Annie S.
ASTORGA COLLECTION One of the most notable acquisitions made by the Advocates Library, this collection of 3,617 volumes was for...
Subject(s) : Spanish language and literature
AULD COLLECTION The Auld collection of books in and about Esperanto contains nearly 5000 monographs and a comparable number ...
Subject(s) : Miscellaneous
BALFOUR HANDEL COLLECTION The collection of first and other early editions of the works of Georg Händel (1685-1759), c. 500 printed mu...
Subject(s) : Music
BALLANTYNE COLLECTION A selection of 35 volumes of mainly literary works, a number of which are association copies and all in fine...
Subject(s) : Italian language and literature
BALMORAL COLLECTION This collection of 57 volumes of German literature and German translations of foreign literature was present...
Subject(s) : German language and literature
BAUME COLLECTION A selection of printed material, photographs, manuscripts and maps relating primarily to the island of South...
Subject(s) : Mountaineering
BERT DALE MEMORIAL COLLECTION This is a small collection of black and white photographs of views of Scotland, dated from 1914 to 1932, fro...
Subject(s) : Photographs
BIRKBECK COLLECTION A collection of c. 260 volumes, including 35 volumes of pamphlets, selected from the library of the Scottish...
Subject(s) : Printing, history and study of, fine printing
BLAIR COLLECTION A group of 502 volumes collected by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray (1868-1940), and presented in 1958 by the 10t...
Subject(s) : Gaelic language and literature
BLAIRS COLLEGE LIBRARY The collection has now been transferred to Aberdeen University Library. All enquiries about it should be se...
Subject(s) : Geography
BORROW COLLECTION A collection of materials formed by Sir Angus McKay Fraser and bequeathed in 2002 by his son Simon Fraser. I...
Subject(s) : Romanies
BUTE COLLECTION The nucleus of this collection of early English plays was formed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). ...
Subject(s) : Theatre
CAIN COLLECTION The photographic archive of Alexander Cain (1902-81), ARPS, of Aberdeen, the collection consists of prints, ...
Subject(s) : Photographs
CAMBUSKENNETH COLLECTION A collection of fifteen volumes of early French and Venetian printing with early Scottish provenance. Purcha...
Subject(s) : Incunables (in NLS collections)
CASSIDY COLLECTION A collection of approximately 5,000 volumes that originally formed part of the collections from St Benedict'...
Subject(s) : Incunables (in NLS collections)
CASTLE FRASER COLLECTION A selection of 1,372 volumes, this is a general collection of mainly 18th- and 19th-century works, comprisin...
Subject(s) : Children?s books
CASTLE MENZIES COLLECTION Printed material formerly forming part of the Castle Menzies estate legal and family documents. The greater ...
Subject(s) : Transport
CATHEDRAL OF THE ISLES, MILLPORT, COLLECTION A selection of 769 volumes, which were originally part of the now dispersed library of the Cathedral of the ...
Subject(s) : Hymn-books
CHINESE BOOK COLLECTIONS A total of 127 volumes of Chinese books printed between 1655 and 1912. Shelfmarks 6.539-6.543 (35 vols.) are...
Subject(s) : Accountancy
CLAN MACKAY SOCIETY On deposit: A collection of largely non-fictional secular works, both monographs and journals, published mai...
Subject(s) : Celtic studies
COLIN CAMPBELL COLLECTION A collection of 603 items, dating from 1763 to 1993, mainly on the subject of heraldry, formerly the propert...
Subject(s) : Heraldry
COMBE COLLECTION Part of the library of George Combe WS (1788-1858), founder of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society and autho...
Subject(s) : Education
COWAN COLLECTION A collection of liturgies, psalters and hymnals, and works on ceremonial bequeathed by William Cowan (1852-1...
Subject(s) : Liturgical works
COX COLLECTION This collection consists of c. 1170 items on theological subjects, many of which are composite volumes of pa...
Subject(s) : Theology
CRAWFORD (BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA) COLLECTIONS The Crawford collections are the special collections of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, the family library of th...
Subject(s) : English Civil War
Crawford: Borghese Collection This collection of documents printed in the Papal States, mostly between 1550 and 1700, was formed by the Bo...
Subject(s) : Catholic Church
Crawford: Church briefs Over 600 broadsides published between 1755 and 1827 with two examples dating from 1690. The collection cons...
Subject(s) : Theology
Crawford: English Ballads A collection of over 4,200 ballads (in English) dating from the 16th, to the early 20th century. The most s...
Subject(s) : Ballad literature
Crawford: English Newspapers A collection of 2,735 newsbook issues of the Civil War period, together with a later acquisition of another ...
Subject(s) : English Civil War
Crawford: English Tracts There are c. 11,700 pamphlets ranging in date from 1587 to 1912. The collection is particularly strong in t...
Subject(s) : English Civil War
Crawford: French Revolutionary (and Napoleonic) Tracts A collection of c. 20,000 pamphlets, journals and books, including polemical and theoretical tracts, officia...
Subject(s) : French history, language and literature
Crawford: Indulgences A collection of 69 documents of the 15th, the 16th and the 17th century, mostly Indulgences printed between ...
Subject(s) : Catholic Church
Crawford: Miscellaneous Broadsides There are c. 2,200 items dating from 1505 to 1897. The arrangement is mainly chronological in 22 boxes and e...
Subject(s) : Jacobites
Crawford: Reformation and Lutheran Tracts A collection of 1,500 pamphlet tracts, in Latin or German, written by Luther and the other German reformers,...
Subject(s) : Reformation, The
Crawford: Royal Proclamations A collection of English, Scottish and Irish proclamations, comprising c. 2,450 documents dated between 1603...
Subject(s) : Proclamations
CRESWICK COLLECTION A collection of 62 books and six microfilms of early editions of the letters of Madame de Sévigné (1626-96),...
Subject(s) : French history, language and literature
CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM COLLECTION A selection of six items on naval history and practice from the collection of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Gra...
Subject(s) : Shipping and shipbuilding
CUTHBERT COLLECTION This is a collection of over 300 books, pamphlets and periodicals by Scottish magicians or about magic as pr...
Subject(s) : Magic
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE, 1802-1822 In the spring of 1797, with a direct assault against Britain out of the question, Napoleon Bonaparte suggest...
Subject(s) : Egyptology
DIETERICHS COLLECTION This collection comprises part of the huge library formed by Georg Septimus Dieterichs (1721-1805), Count Pa...
Subject(s) : Reformation, The
DOIG COLLECTION A purchased selection of 150 volumes from the collection of books and pamphlets relating to the county of An...
Subject(s) : Angus (county of, Scotland)
DOROTHY DUNNETT COLLECTION A collection of c. 1840 printed items taken from the Dorothy Dunnett papers held in the National Library of ...
Subject(s) : Dunnett, Dorothy
DOWDEN COLLECTION A group of c. 880 volumes largely of theological literature with a notable collection of liturgical works, s...
Subject(s) : Theology
DRYGRANGE COLLECTION Over 2,300 volumes from the Rare Book Room of the library of St Andrew?s College, Drygrange, were deposited ...
Subject(s) : Incunables (in NLS collections)
DURDANS COLLECTION A selection of 2,762 volumes of printed books and pamphlets, and 25 manuscript volumes, from what remained o...
Subject(s) : Topography
EDINBURGH SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS COLLECTION The music collection of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians was purchased by the Library in 1982. It consist...
Subject(s) : Scottish music
ELLICE COLLECTION A collection of 51 items, in a wide variety of formats, focussed mainly on the Glenquoich and Glengarry esta...
Subject(s) : Glenquoich (Scotland)
EUDO MASON COLLECTION A collection of children?s books formed by Eudo C. Mason, Professor of German in the University of Edinburgh...
Subject(s) : Children?s books
F.E. McDONALD COLLECTION OF TRANSPARENCIES A collection consisting of c. 4,500 colour slides dating from the mid-1960s to the present day, which was pr...
Subject(s) : Architecture
FERGUSON COLLECTION This collection of 241 volumes containing c. 400 items printed in Scotland during the 16th, the 17th and the...
Subject(s) : Agriculture
FINDLAY COLLECTION A collection of early scientific works from the library of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, Bt. (1866-1930), propri...
Subject(s) : Science
GAEL TURNBULL COLLECTION This collection comprises a major part of the working library of the poet, Gael Turnbull (1928-2004). The co...
Subject(s) : Scottish poetry
GEORGE CAMPBELL HAY COLLECTION This collection of 45 books - which are mainly poetical works in a number of languages, including Gaelic (Sc...
Subject(s) : Gaelic language and literature
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON SLIDES COLLECTION In 1976 the Library acquired a set of c. 400 glass lantern slides by George Washington Wilson (1823-93) and ...
Subject(s) : Photographs
GILSON COLLECTION A collection of the works of Sir Walter Scott, mostly early editions published abroad and in translations, f...
Subject(s) : Scott, Sir Walter
GLEN COLLECTION The collection of John Glen (1833-1904), member of a well-known Edinburgh firm of musical instrument makers,...
Subject(s) : Scottish music
GOURDIE COLLECTION This is a collection of books and pamphlets (approx. 600 items) on handwriting and calligraphy. It was assem...
Subject(s) : Calligraphy
GRAHAM BROWN COLLECTION A large library of Alpine and mountaineering literature formed by the Edinburgh physiologist Professor Thoma...
Subject(s) : Polar studies and exploration
GRAY COLLECTION This collection was initially formed when Rev. John Gray (1646-1717), the former minister of Aberlady, beque...
Subject(s) : Greek language and literature
GREGYNOG PRESS BOOKS A collection of over 100 items deposited in 1978, and subsequently donated in 1993, by Mrs Mary M. Noble of ...
Subject(s) : Private presses
GRINDLAY COLLECTION In 1801 an Edinburgh merchant, George Grindlay, left his library to the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where ...
Subject(s) : Mathematics
HAIG COLLECTION Purchased in 1978, the collection comprises 65 volumes of books, pamphlets and maps from the library of Doug...
Subject(s) : Military literature
HAIG FERGUSON COLLECTION A miscellaneous collection of 55 works in 131 volumes, collected by James M. Heron Watson, and bought from h...
Subject(s) : Miscellaneous
HAXTON COLLECTION Collected by John Haxton of Markinch, Fife, and presented by him to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. ...
Subject(s) : Bibles
HENDERSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY COLLECTION A collection of over 800 books, pamphlets and periodical issues, which deal mainly with North America and re...
Subject(s) : American Civil War
HENDERSON SMITH COLLECTION A large collection of bookplates, Scottish, English and colonial, mounted in 40 volumes, with another 40 vol...
Subject(s) : Bookplates
HEW MORRISON COLLECTION A selection of 319 volumes and 30 pamphlets purchased from the library of the Gaelic scholar Hew Morrison LL...
Subject(s) : Gaelic language and literature
HILSON COLLECTION Presented to the Advocates? Library in 1889 by G. Hilson of Jedburgh, this collection consists of 79 volumes...
Subject(s) : Theology
HOPKINSON BERLIOZ COLLECTION This collection of Berlioz?s musical and literary works was formed by the music bibliographer Cecil Hopkinso...
Subject(s) : Berlioz, Hector
HOPKINSON VERDI COLLECTION A collection of vocal scores and libretti of Verdi?s operas, consisting of 336 items, was purchased in 1970 ...
Subject(s) : Music
HUGH SHARP COLLECTION This collection is a memorial to the bibliophile Hugh Sharp (1897-1937), a wealthy jute manufacturer in Dund...
Subject(s) : Scott, Sir Walter
HUMBLE COLLECTION A collection of material by, and relating to, Ben Humble MBE (1904-77), consisting mainly of his collection ...
Subject(s) : Mountaineering
HUME COLLECTION A collection of books and pamphlets on South America, presented by John Hume of Edinburgh in 1924, and compr...
Subject(s) : South America
IAIN GORDON BROWN COLLECTION A selection of c. 500 items, consisting of books, offprints and ephemera and auction and exhibition catalogu...
Subject(s) : Scottish history and literature
IAN C. DUNN COLLECTION A collection of 150 items from the personal collection of Ian Campbell Dunn (1943-1998), town planner and ga...
Subject(s) : Gay rights
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY COLLECTION A collection of c. 300 items, in which the Library's existing holdings of the printed works of Scottish arti...
Subject(s) : Finlay, Ian Hamilton
INGLIS COLLECTION Bequeathed in 1929 by Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854-1929), Secretary of the Board of Manufactures...
Subject(s) : Music
J. F. CAMPBELL COLLECTION Bequeathed by the Gaelic scholar John Francis Campbell of Islay (1822-85), and received by the Faculty of Ad...
Subject(s) : Celtic studies
J.G. SCOTT COLLECTION Donated by Miss Judith G. Scott, OBE FSA FSA (SCOT), in 1984, this is a collection of 35 18th- and 19th-cent...
Subject(s) : Children?s books
J.M. AIRLIE COLLECTION Deposited in 1966 on behalf of the late John McDiarmid Airlie (d. 1965), councillor and Justice of the Peace...
Subject(s) : Labour Party
J.R. SEATON COLLECTION This is a selection of 77 items from the collection of books on the Indian Mutiny and the Afghan Wars formed...
Subject(s) : India
J.T. McINTOSH COLLECTION This is a collection of books by the Scottish science fiction author 'J.T. McIntosh', James Murdoch MacGrego...
Subject(s) : Science Fiction
JACKSON COLLECTION A collection of c. 600 books and serials on the civilisation and culture of the Faroe Islands, donated to th...
Subject(s) : Faroe Islands
JAMES BROWN COLLECTION A collection of 512 volumes of books and periodicals bequeathed in 1984 by the Rev. Dr James Brown of Colmon...
Subject(s) : Printing, history and study of, fine printing
JAMES RAMSAY MacDONALD COLLECTION Presented in 1981 by the children of the Right Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) and Margaret Ethel Ma...
Subject(s) : MacDonald, J. Ramsay
JOHN AND LJUBICA ERICKSON COLLECTION The main focus of the collection is on the history, operation and organisation
of the Red Army and, to a le...
Subject(s) : Military literature
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW COLLECTION The Library?s holdings of atlases and maps were considerably enhanced in 1995 by the gift of 36 atlases and ...
Subject(s) : Geography
JOHN LESLIE SANDERSON COLLECTION A collection of over 200 volumes donated to the Library in 1996 by the late Mrs Marjorie Alderman, of Toront...
Subject(s) : Douglas, Norman
JOLLY COLLECTION In 1958 the Theological College of the Episcopal Church in Scotland deposited on long-term loan a large part...
Subject(s) : Episcopal Church (Scotland)
JOYCE PETTIGREW COLLECTION A collection of 70 books on the Punjab and Sikh history presented to the Library by the scholar and Sikh his...
Subject(s) : India
KEILLER COLLECTION A collection of over 400 volumes, covering witchcraft, demonology and erotica, formed by the Scottish archae...
Subject(s) : Witchcraft
KEIR HARDIE / EMRYS HUGHES COLLECTION A collection of broadsheets, pamphlets, hardbacks in various formats, illustrated material in large format a...
Subject(s) : Socialist literature
KELMSCOTT PRESS COLLECTION A collection of books printed by the Kelmscott Press, acquired by the Library through legal deposit, donatio...
Subject(s) : Kelmscott Press
LAURISTON CASTLE COLLECTION The collection is based on the library built up by William Robert Reid (1854-1919), an Edinburgh businessman...
Subject(s) : Topography
LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON COLLECTION A collection of 24 items, largely composed of 20th century journals, mainly Scottish, carrying contributions...
Subject(s) : Scottish history and literature
LLOYD COLLECTION The collection of books on mountaineering, mainly relating to the Alps, bequeathed by Robert Wylie Lloyd (18...
Subject(s) : Topography
LORD GEORGE DOUGLAS COLLECTION The collection of books formed by Lord George Douglas, youngest son of the 1st Duke of Queensberry, who died...
Subject(s) : Italian language and literature
LORD MURRAY COLLECTION In 1853 the Advocates? Library was given a collection of 172 volumes from the library of Archibald Murray, L...
Subject(s) : Economics
LORD ROWALLAN COLLECTION A selection of 18 items, chiefly relating to the Scout movement, which formerly belonged to Thomas Godfrey P...
Subject(s) : Scouts
LYLE COLLECTION A collection of 141 volumes purchased from £500 donated in 1925 by Sir Alexander Park-Lyle, 1st Baronet of G...
Subject(s) : Shipping and shipbuilding
MACADAM COLLECTION This collection was bequeathed by Joseph Hancock Macadam, President of the Scottish Association of Master Ba...
Subject(s) : Confectionery
MacCURDY COLLECTION A collection of 115 volumes relating to Leonardo da Vinci, including facsimile editions of the manuscripts, ...
Subject(s) : Leonardo da Vinci
MACDONALD PUBLISHERS COLLECTION A collection of 72 printed volumes dating from 1953 to 1987, mainly published by the Edinburgh-based firm, M...
Subject(s) : Scottish history and literature
MACNAUGHTON COLLECTION A collection of 80, 20th-century, socialist and anti-war pamphlets presented in 1994 by Mr Alexander Wood, f...
Subject(s) : Politics
MAITLAND THOMSON COLLECTION A collection of early English plays and some volumes of poetry and devotional works, presented in 1912 by Jo...
Subject(s) : Engineering
MARISCHAL COLLECTION A collection of 137 maps of Scotland, published between 1573 and 1873, named after George Keith, 10th and la...
Subject(s) : Jacobites
MARTIN COLLECTION A selection of 50 volumes purchased in 1981 from the remnant of a family archive relating to the life and wo...
Subject(s) : Theatre
MARY STEWART COLLECTION A collection of c. 400 English-language editions and foreign translations of works by the author Lady Mary S...
Subject(s) : Stewart, Lady Mary
MATHESON COLLECTION A collection of mainly philological works, in Celtic and some non-Celtic languages, purchased from the estat...
Subject(s) : Gaelic language and literature
MAXWELL A. BEGG COLLECTION Presented in 1989, in accordance with his wishes, this is a selection from the personal collection of the la...
Subject(s) : Caithness (county of, Scotland)
McGAHEY COLLECTION This collection of 500 volumes dating from 1872 to 1995 was the personal library of Mick McGahey (1925-1999)...
Subject(s) : Coal mining
MERCIER COLLECTION Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) was a major dramatist of the period of the French Revolution. This colle...
Subject(s) : Theatre
MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY COLLECTION A selection of 84 items, donated by Ruari McLean (see Ruari McLean Collection) between 1987-92, from the dis...
Subject(s) : Art and artists
MINEWORKERS' FEDERATION This deposited collection contains material published by and about the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Brit...
Subject(s) : Coal mining
MOIR RARE BOOK COLLECTION The Scottish Beekeepers' Association placed this collection of 250 volumes relating to all aspects of beekee...
Subject(s) : Bee culture
MONRO COLLECTION A collection of 161 volumes comprising mainly British and continental imprints, chiefly of the 18th and the ...
Subject(s) : Miscellaneous
MOODY COLLECTION A collection of 1,342 twentieth-century books, all with inscriptions by the authors, including Lawrence Durr...
Subject(s) : Miscellaneous
MURDOCH HENDERSON COLLECTION A collection of over 200 bound volumes, 556 sheet music publications and a number of manuscript volumes, beq...
Subject(s) : Scottish music
MURIEL SPARK COLLECTION A collection of c. 150 volumes by the late Scottish author Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006), which includes tra...
Subject(s) : Spark, Muriel
NAISMITH COLLECTION A collection of 47 items in 45 volumes donated to the Library by the late Scottish architect Robert James Na...
Subject(s) : Architecture
NEWBATTLE COLLECTION This collection consists of a major portion of the library formed over three centuries by members of the Lot...
Subject(s) : Architecture
NEWHAILES LIBRARY The library of the Dalrymple family was formed largely by Sir David Dalrymple (1726-92), Lord Hailes, who ad...
Subject(s) : Theology
NEWMAN COLLECTION The collection was acquired in 1973 from the library of Professor Sidney T.M. Newman (1906-71), Reid Profess...
Subject(s) : Exploration and travel
NICHOL SMITH COLLECTION A collection of over 900 books presented by Professor D. Nichol Smith (1875-1962), formerly Merton Professor...
Subject(s) : LITERARY CRITICISM
OBAN CATHEDRAL COLLECTION A selection of 129 volumes from the library of the Roman Catholic diocese of Argyll and the Isles, formerly ...
Subject(s) : Catholic Church
OLIPHANT COLLECTION A collection of books and pamphlets by the novelist Mrs Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), which consists of 163...
Subject(s) : Oliphant, Margaret
OLIVER & BOYD COLLECTION The file-copies of the collection of the publications of the Edinburgh publishing firm Oliver & Boyd was dep...
Subject(s) : Oliver & Boyd
ORROCK COLLECTION A selection of 41 volumes from the library of the Rev. Alexander Orrock (1652-1711), minister of Hawick (169...
Subject(s) : Theology
OSSIAN COLLECTION Collected by J. Norman Methven of Perth, and presented in 1941, this collection of 327 volumes is devoted to...
Subject(s) : Scottish history and literature
OUSELEY ELLIOT COLLECTION A collection of printed works, in a variety of formats, mainly by, about, or owned by Sir Charles Elliot (18...
Subject(s) : India
PATERSON COLLECTION A selection of 579 volumes from the library of Henry James Paterson, who, although he lived in the south of ...
Subject(s) : Private presses
PERTH ST NINIAN?S CATHEDRAL LIBRARY In 1977, before the dispersal of a large part of the library of St Ninian?s Cathedral, Perth, the Library pu...
Subject(s) : Liturgical works
PHOTOGRAPHS Although the majority of the photographs and photographically illustrated books are scattered throughout the...
Subject(s) : Photographs
PILKINGTON JACKSON COLLECTION A collection of 45 books on art and the history of art from the working library of Edinburgh-based sculptor ...
Subject(s) : Art and artists
POLISH COLLECTIONS (E) Presented by the Polish Community in Edinburgh in 1962 to commemorate the millennium of Christianity in Pola...
Subject(s) : Polish literature
POLISH COLLECTIONS (S) In the 1820s the Signet Library in Edinburgh was given a collection of 143 books on Polish history and liter...
Subject(s) : Polish literature
POLISH COLLECTIONS (T) Presented in 1964 by Count Jan Tarnowski, the collection contains 70 books and 66 pamphlets, which are moder...
Subject(s) : Polish literature
PRESHOME CHAPEL LIBRARY The library of the Chapel House at Preshome, Banffshire, deposited in 1975 by the Trustees, which consists o...
Subject(s) : Theology
PRESSLER KAHAN TAUCHNITZ COLLECTION This collection, donated in 2011, consists of an almost complete set of the Collection of British (and Ameri...
Subject(s) : English literature
PROTESTANT INSTITUTE COLLECTION A selection of 571 volumes, including 50 volumes of pamphlets, from the library of the Protestant Institute ...
Subject(s) : Theology
RAYMOND MURRAY AND DENIS FAUL COLLECTION A collection of 138 pamphlets and ephemeral materials produced by the Catholic priests Monsignor Denis O'Bei...
Subject(s) : Northern Ireland
RENWICK COLLECTION A collection of 27 volumes, mostly of Italian and French literature of the 16th century, but including one i...
Subject(s) : Italian language and literature
ROBERT GRANT COLLECTION A collection of 36 items formerly the property of Robert Grant & Son. A large part of the collection consist...
Subject(s) : Bookselling
ROBERT McKINLAY BOSWELLIAN COLLECTION A collection of 17 items, mainly by, or relating to, James Boswell (1740-1795), which were purchased by the ...
Subject(s) : Boswell, James
ROBERT PARK COLLECTION The advocate Robert Park's books were acquired by the Advocates Library in 1695 following Park's murder in G...
Subject(s) : Law
ROMANIAN COLLECTION A miscellaneous collection of contemporary Romanian literature, was presented by the University of Bucharest...
Subject(s) : Romanian literature
RONALD SELBY WRIGHT COLLECTION A collection of hardbacks in Selby Wright's own commissioned bindings, paperback monographs, magazines, news...
Subject(s) : Bookbindings
RONALD W. CLARK COLLECTION A collection of foreign editions of the works of Ronald W. Clark (1916-87), biographer and mountaineer, dona...
Subject(s) : Science
ROSEBERY COLLECTION Presented in 1927 to the newly established National Library by the 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), this gr...
Subject(s) : Topography
ROXBURGHE COLLECTION A collection of the publications of the Roxburghe Club from 1814....
Subject(s) : Roxburghe Club
ROYAL BLIND SCHOOL COLLECTION This is a selection of works printed for the use of the blind - mainly from the presses of James Gall of Edi...
Subject(s) : Printing, history and study of, fine printing
ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, LIBRARY A collection of 226 volumes, which until 1968 were part of the Library of the Royal High School, Edinburgh. ...
Subject(s) : Incunables (in NLS collections)
ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM COLLECTION A miscellaneous collection of 45 items from the Royal Scottish Museum gifted to the Library in 1964. The co...
Subject(s) : Bookbindings
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH COLLECTION A selection of c. 180 books, mostly 19th- and 20th-century books, formerly held in the library of the Royal ...
Subject(s) : Science
RUARI McLEAN COLLECTION Part of the private library and working collection of Ruari McLean (1917-2006), CBE DSC, a former Trustee of...
Subject(s) : Tschichold, Jan
SALTOUN MANSE COLLECTION In 1977 c. 2,000 books were transferred to the Library from Saltoun Manse and became a long-term deposit in ...
Subject(s) : Fletcher, Andrew (of Saltoun)
SAVAGE COLLECTION Presented in 1988 by Dr Richard Savage, who had pursued a medical career in Nigeria, this collection consist...
Subject(s) : Africa
SCHOOL PRIZE BOOKS The collection originated in a small group of school prize books presented by Ian Grant of John Grant, Books...
Subject(s) : Education
SCOTTISH CATHOLIC ARCHIVES COLLECTION A selection of 158 volumes and six medieval manuscripts was deposited on long-term loan between 1984 and 199...
Subject(s) : Topography
SHARRATT COLLECTION A collection of 153 volumes gifted to the library in 2015 from the estate of Dr Peter Sharratt, former lectu...
Subject(s) : Theology
SIR CHARLES ELLIOT COLLECTION This collection of 21 items largely reflects the Imperial duties performed by Sir Charles Elliot (1801-1875)...
Subject(s) : China
SIR GEORGE TAYLOR COLLECTION A selection of c. 200 books donated from the library of the Scottish botanist Sir George Taylor (1904-1993),...
Subject(s) : Botany
SOCIAL CREDIT COLLECTION A deposited collection of approximately 800 volumes, received by the Library in 1993. It comprises the libr...
Subject(s) : Economics
STEVENSON COLLECTION A collection of 619 items in 80 volumes from the archive of the civil engineering firm of Robert Stevenson, ...
Subject(s) : Maps, atlases and mapmaking
STIRTON COLLECTION A selection of 57 items from the collection of the Rev. Dr John Stirton (1871-1944), CVO DD FSA (SCOT), mini...
Subject(s) : Greek language and literature
SUNDERLAND HALL COLLECTION A selection of 50 items, dating from the 15th to the 18th century, from the library of Sunderland Hall, whic...
Subject(s) : Incunables (in NLS collections)
SUTHERLAND COLLECTION The books of James Sutherland (1638?-1719), first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, came to the Adv...
Subject(s) : Botany
SUTTIE COLLECTION The remnant of the library acquired by the family of Suttie of Balgone and Grant Suttie of Balgone and Prest...
Subject(s) : Philosophy
THOMAS MURRAY COLLECTION THOMAS MURRAY COLLECTION
This collection of over 600 printed items reflects Thomas Murray's (1900-1983) i...
Subject(s) : Politics
THORKELIN COLLECTION The foundation of the Library?s Scandinavian collections, this collection was purchased by the Faculty of Ad...
Subject(s) : Scandinavian literature
TOWNLEY COLLECTION Presented to the Library by Mr A. Townley in 1961, this is a collection of c. 7,500 picture postcards sent f...
Subject(s) : Railways
TRAGARA PRESS This is an almost complete collection of all the letterpress items printed by Alan Anderson's Tragara Press ...
Subject(s) : Private presses
TWEEDSMUIR COLLECTION A small collection of 25 books from the library of John Buchan (1875-1940), first baron Tweedsmuir, which wa...
Subject(s) : Buchan, John
TYNINGHAME HOUSE LIBRARY A selection of books from the library at Tyninghame House purchased in 1987, before it was dispersed at auct...
Subject(s) : Hamilton, Thomas 1st Earl of Haddington
W.A. DWIGGINS COLLECTION This selection of 20 items connected with the American designer, calligrapher, illustrator and typographer, ...
Subject(s) : Printing, history and study of, fine printing
WALTER BLAIKIE COLLECTION Formed by Dr Walter Biggar Blaikie (1847-1928) of the Edinburgh printing firm of T. & A. Constable, and pres...
Subject(s) : Jacobites
WARDEN SHORTHAND COLLECTION The collection formed by John Mabon Warden, of Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Esperantista Akademio, was p...
Subject(s) : Shipping and shipbuilding
WEIR COLLECTION A collection of 19th-century playbills, posters, programmes, photographs and newspaper cuttings, 525 items i...
Subject(s) : Theatre
WESTLAKE COLLECTION Donated by Mrs I.F. Westlake in 1974, this collection of 21 items bound in 12 volumes (16 ESTC and 5 Wing - ...
Subject(s) : Bibles
WILLIAM BEATTIE COLLECTION A small selection (98 items) of books, pamphlets and off-prints from the library of William Beattie (1903-86...
Subject(s) : Scottish history and literature
WOODBURN COLLECTION A miscellaneous collection of 205 books and pamphlets belonging to Rt Hon Dr Arthur Woodburn (1890-1978), La...
Subject(s) : Politics
WORDIE COLLECTION This collection of works on Arctic and Antarctic exploration was formed by Sir James Mann Wordie (1889-1962)...
Subject(s) : Exploration and travel
YULE COLLECTION A collection of 184 volumes, many of them composite volumes of pamphlets, chiefly relating to English and Sc...
Subject(s) : Law
