Auction catalogues.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
'A catalogue of the singular and curious library, originally formed between 1610 and 1650 by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun...' [1816], a printed auction catalogue of books at Gordonstoun., [1816].
Auction records of Dowell's Limited.
Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
"Catalogue of Valuable Books ... which belong'd to Sir Alexander Seaton of Pitmedden, Baronet [Seton, Lord Pitmedden] ... to be sold by way of auction ... in Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1719), being the interleaved copy belonging to John Willson, clerk to the auction, who has entered the names of purchasers and the amounts paid.
Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library., 1887-ca. 1935.
Papers of Major P I C Payne relating to material concerning the Skene family and Sir Walter Scott., 1960s-1990s.
Sotheby`s Catalogue for Scott Huxley Papers, with later receipt., 1899-1914.
Auction catalogue, 27 February 1899, with prices added for each sale. Receipt, 30 December 1914, for Scott letters purchased from William Brown booksellers.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in English on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1852-1866, undated.
Volume containing the catalogue of an auction sale of Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 13-15 January 1913, and papers concerning the lots won by Morrison., 1913.
Morrison bought a continuous run of 101 historical books at this sale, marked as "the property of a gentleman". The volume bears Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.