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  1. Alexander (Thomas), Merchant ACCOUNT BOOKS written Thomas Alexander. 1829 - 1832. Beautifully written throughout, in a large clear hand, presumably as an exercise for a young man training for business. The format of the ledgers seems to be based on James Morrison's book 'The Elements of Book Keeping by Single and Double Entry' published 1813, and the type of goods - varieties of cloth such as shaloon, sarsnet, linen, velvet, gingham etc., pot and pearl ash, grocery items - are the same, while Thomas seems to have adapted some elements to a Scottish style, for example drafts on the 'Stirling Bank', and buying a house in Queen Street, Stirling. Three ledgers, size 16" x 11", each with rough buff paper wraps, manuscript title on front wrap. Comprises:- (i) Journal A, B, C, D in one book. Headed 'Stirling 1st January 1829'. Lists cash in hand, debts, and goods bought and sold with name of to whom drawn or buyer, for example 'Broad Cloth drawn to James Grant for 20 pieces of superfine Blue at £47... £945', 'Henry Lammond For 12 yds green silk, sold him at 21s... £12.12'. Also mentions ships, for example 'Dr, James Denning & Co. For Goods Shipped by their order on board the Fanny, Jennings Master, for Halifax'. Ends February 1832. 50p. in all, each page full. (ii) Waste Book 1829. 'Containing Inventory of my Subject, also of what I owe and the daily occurrences of my Trade from 1st Jany. 1829 to 1st Jany 1830.' 43p. (iii) Ledger B Thomas Alexander. Inside front wrap is calligraphic drawing of a bird. This ledger is arranged by name of customer, then type of goods, with debit and credit on facing pages, 'Profit and Loss' and 'Trial Balances'. There is an index of persons etc. 95p. Loosely inserted is a quantity of printed Edinburgh Share Lists etc. from the 1840's. 1829. £180.00
    Among the company names mentioned are Pringle and Son, John Howie and Co., Norris and Bell. One ledger has 'Thomas Alexander Blair Logie' written at the back, and inside the cover of another 'Thos. Alexander Cars 1829'.


  2. Alyth LETTER on headed paper of John Gibson, Coal and Forage Merchant, Alyth. To J. Murray at Oaty Hill Farm, Laurencekirk, saying he will send a horse to his address in a Horse Van, together with 3 letters between Murray and Gibson about his complaint that the horse is vicious and refusal to pay the full price. 1917. £5.00

  3. Bacon (G.W), publisher BACON'S ORDNANCE MAP OF THE VICINITY OF ABERDEEN. Partly coloured folding map, dissected and mounted on linen, 34" x 27", plus margins, scale 1" to 1 mile, folding into the sm. 8vo original cloth covers. Shows Dinnet in the west to Aberdeen in the east and from Insch in the north to Stonehaven in the south. Aberdeen, and county boundaries are coloured. With attractive bookplate inside front board, of 'T.M.', Rubislaw House. G.W. Bacon, London: c1890. £30.00
    Rubislaw House, built 1675, was on what is now Queen's Road.


  4. Black's NEW LARGE MAP OF SCOTLAND Compiled from the Ordnance, Admiralty & other Surveys. Twelve sheets, printed in full colour, each sheet size approx. 19" x 20", dissected and mounted on linen and folding into cream endpapers, inserted in slipcase size 7" x 4«", corners rubbed, label with key map on front. Scale 4 miles to an inch. 5 of the sheets have tears in linen, ranging from a 3" split between two sections to a tear along the bottom of three sections. c1880. £40.00

  5. Blaeu (John) ILA INSULA ex Aebudarum majoribus una. The Ile of Ila being one of the biggest of the Western Iles. Auct. Tim. Pont. Hand-coloured map, title cartouch, simple scale of miles. Size 16" x 21". Central fold. Repaired tear at bottom of central fold, triangular piece torn away at top edge, reaching about 1" into map. Overall 'toning'. German text on verso. 1664? £26.00
    Also shows Colonsay.


  6. Borthwick family, of Crookston DISCHARGE by James Grieg and Agnes Borthwick alias Greig in favour of John Borthwick. On paper, 3p folio. Signed. Relates to marriage settlement and death of John Borthwick Agnes' father. 1830... with... Solicitor's Account, Chas. Scott W.S. to John Borthwick. 2p., folio, 1831... with... A begging letter to John Borthwick of Crookston from John Roxburgh, no date, but circa 1840. Says he has no money for even a morsel of food, so intends to go to 'Antonshill once possessed by my father the late James Dickson now the property of General Sir Martin Hunter' and ask for work. He begs Borthwick to give him some 'old apparel that you can conveniently spare' so that he does not appear a 'complete tatterdemalion'... with... a small bundle of papers relating to the death of John Borthwick, and a letter from W. Pitt, Dundas with good armorial seal, 1839, inviting him to his baby's funeral. 1830-1840. £22.00

  7. Brown (A), publisher BROWN'S MAP OF ABERDEEN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Including Elgin, Banff, Peterhead. Coloured folding map, dissected and mounted on linen, 29" x 21«", plus margins, folding into the 12mo original cloth covers, decorative gilt title. Advert on outside of back board with attractive picture of bicycle. A. Brown, Aberdeen: c.1911. £25.00

  8. Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD March 31st, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds, Some minor browning along part folds on front page. 1860. £14.00
    Many adverts. for local firms, steamship sailings, Provost's resignation etc.


  9. Brown (James) Printers THE ABERDEEN HERALD No. 1439. March 24th, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp., folds. 1860. £14.00
    Many adverts. for local firms, steamship sailings, properties to let, displenish sales etc.


  10. Dundas (Robert) LETTER to an unknown correspondent, dated Edinburgh 12 Feb. (17)99, signed 'R. Dundas'. 16 lines in a large hand on two sides, 4to, blank conjoint leaf. Says the Faculty is short of funds and Mr Robertson's Memorial may meet with an unfavourable reception. However he would lay it before the General Meeting. Asks for the appeal list, and what cases are due before 12 March. Says there has been a dreadful storm. 1799. £20.00
    Dundas was Lord Advocate from 1789 to 1801, and also M.P for Edinburghshire.


  11. Edinburgh SEVEN BILLS of Robert Maitland, Rose Street, Edinburgh. All with printed headings. Maitland presumably ran a livery stable as they are all for hire of horses, horse and gig, etc. Five are oblong 8vo, two 4to. Folds.. together with... Two bills of George Hall, Hope St., Coach Hirer, Post Master, 1896, and one bill of Scott Croall & Sons, Job & Postmasters, 1898, all three 8vo, printed headings. Ten bills in all. 1847-50. £18.00

  12. Election of Peers MINUTES OF THE EVIDENCE Given Before The Committee of Privileges, to Whom the Petition of Dunbar Earl of Selkirk and James Earl of Hopetoun.... relative to the Return of the Peers chosen for Scotland stand referred. 41pp. Ordered to be printed 23d February, 1791. £20.00
    Gives lists of the people each Peer voted for. At the end are some 'Protests' by Peers who objected to certain other Peers being given the vote, with answers to their objections.


  13. Elgin DISPOSITION by the Hon. George Skene Duff of Milton Duff in favour of Archibald Inglis of The lands of the South College of Elgin, and others. 21p., small folio, sewn with pink tape at edge. Draft copy, with some amendments, and later lawyer's notes in the margins. The lands comprised the Manse of the sub-Dean of Moray, the Archdean's Manse, crofts called the Sub-Chanters, land in the east of Elgin late the Earl of Fife's 'all now enclosed between the walls of the College'. There is an abstract of deeds from 1690. Cover leaf with docket title torn. 1865. £12.00

  14. Glasgow HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Sewing Machine, 60 vols. Valuable Books &c, At No. 4 Newhall Terrace, Greenhead, To be Sold by Warrant of the Sheriff, Monday 11th December... James Hamilton Auctioneer. Poster, size 11" x 9", heading in large letters. Lists over 20 items including American Clock, 3-light Gasalier etc. 1st December 1882. £16.00

  15. Gray (John), Publisher NORTH BRITISH ADVERTISER No. 1602. July 11, 1857. Broadsheet newspaper, containing advertising only. 4 very large pages. Folds. Some slight dustmarking in margin of first page. 1857. £9.00
    As well as numerous adverts. for local firms includes notices of Public Meetings, Situations Wanted, Situations Vacant, Property Sales, sailings to Australia etc.


  16. Haddingtonshire INDEX TO THE ORDNANCE SURVEY OF HADDINGTONSHIRE Map size 35« x 46", dissected and mounted on linen, electrotyped. Folding into plain cloth boards, 8vo. Table with Areas of Parishes, and Scale of Prices top left, Table bottom right with Characters 'used in the Six Inch Engravings of the Ordnance Survey'. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton: c.1875. £40.00
    Shows Isle of May, Inchkeith.


  17. Hope (Charles) LETTER dated 20th Decr. 1802, to an unknown correspondent. 8 lines in a large untidy hand on right hand side of 4to sheet. Docket title on verso 'Lord Advocate. Haddington 20 Decem. 1802, answered 24 do.' Says he has received his letter forwarded to him at Stevenston, and that the Edin. writ can be sent to Warranter or the Sheriff. He hopes he arranged with the Duke. Signed 'C. Hope.' Some two very small repaired edge tears. 1802. £15.00
    Hope was Member of Parliament for Edinburgh, 1803-1805, and became Lord Advocate in 1801.


  18. Kilmarnock THREE BILLS of Robt. Grieve & Son, Portland St., Kilmarnock. With printed headings, oblong 8vo... together with two smaller bills, written on the same headed paper cut in half horizontally. All made out for 4 lbs of snuff. On verso is address of Saml. Wilson, Mercht., Clarebrawn. 1846-8. £8.00

  19. Kirkudbright EXECUTION of Intimation and Hypothecation. Warrant of James Adam, Steward Officer of Kirkudbright, for sequestration of goods for non-payment of rent by Robert McQueen of Upper Clarebrand. 2p., small folio, with list of stock and value. Signed by Adams and witnesses. With declaration by McQueen that he consents to sale by public roup of his crop. Handwriting rather untidy... together with... James Lidderdale, Writer's bill for legal duties re. auction. 11 lines, sm. folio. 2 items. 1815. £18.00

  20. Maclaren (Charles), Printer THE SCOTSMAN or Edinburgh Political and Literary Journal. Dec. 30th, 1829. 8pp. Partly split down spine, a few small rust marks. Top edge uncut. 1829. £5.00

  21. Maxwelltown DECRET John Kerr, Provost, James Spalding, John MacCraken and James Creighton Baillies of the Burgh of Dumfries... versus John Irving, Commissary and Steward Officer in Dumfries... Order that Irving 'flitt and remove himself, his wife... cottars, dependents goods and gear...' from the house 'at the head of the white sands of Dumfries belonging to Mary Cuthbertson now residing in New York in America'. 1«p. 1821. £14.00

    SCOTTISH Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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  22. Muirhead (C) Printer THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER March 27, 1838. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded. Red tax stamp. 1834. £14.00
    Includes explosion at Stobs Powder Mill, near Edinburgh, fire in a distillery at Glasgow, whole column listing names on petition to Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn asking him to stand for Parliament for Haddington, etc.


  23. Muirhead (C) Printer THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER February 18, 1834. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded. 1834. £14.00
    Contains 3 columns on Highland Society livestock competition.


  24. North Berwick BILL for port wine, beer, meals at the Dalrymple Arms Inn. Billhead with decorative engraving showing arms of Dalrymple. Receipted over stamp. Some whitish discoloration of the blue paper. 1853. £5.00

  25. Oban and Fort William BARTHOLOMEW'S QUARTER INCH AUTOMOBILE MAP Sheet 4. Coloured map, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into yellow card wraps with map of Britain. 1933. £6.00
    Shows Good Motoring Roads, Recommended Throughways etc.


  26. Perth, Coupar Angus, Dundee ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 48. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 25" x 36". Light red stamp in margin 'Scotland 48 - Outline Series'... together with... Sheet 87. Peterhead, Ellen, Strichen. Same format. 2 items, each flat sheets folded in four. Third Editions. Railways inserted to 1910. £18.00

  27. Portobello ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet IV N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 18", plus margins. Contours in red. Slightly less than half the map is sea area. Revision of 1931. £12.00
    Covers Seafield Hospital, Joppa, Buddington Mills, Eastfield.


  28. Ramsay and Son, Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT May 23, 1816. Newspaper, 4pp. Folds. Red tax stamp. Some slight foxing. 1816. £8.00
    Includes sailings from Leith, Estates for sale etc.


  29. Ramsay (G), Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT July 2, 1846. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp. Red tax stamp. 1846. £9.00
    Includes report on Scott Monument Committee, properties for sale in Edinburgh, etc.


  30. Russell (Alex), Publisher THE ELGIN COURANT and Morayshire Advertiser. October 11, 1850. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., red tax stamp. Dustmarking along 10" of two folds. 1850. £12.00
    Contains article on the 'Gigantic Workhouse' at Barnshill, Glasgow, celebrations for the Earl of Fife's birthday, etc.


  31. Scottish Farmers' Club REPORT on the Accounts of the Acting Committee of the Chamber of Agriculture and Scottish Farmers Club, 14th November 1864 to 31st December 1865. 2«p., folio, folds. 1865. £8.00
    The Club was instituted in November 1864.


  32. Selkirkshire MS. ACCOUNTS OF SELKIRKSHIRE bound manuscript so titled on spine, with the bookplate of Lord Napier. Manuscript in several hands, bound in half calf, 13" x 8", marbled paper sides, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering piece, marbled paper slightly rubbed at edges. Fine armorial bookplate of Lord Napier pasted inside front board. Manuscript throughout is written on right hand half of paper. Comprises: Tweedaile Lauderdaile and the Sheriffdome of ye Forest. Lists Limits, Castles, Rivers, Towns. 2p.; Macfarlane's Collections Vol III. Description of the Shiredom of Selkirk by William Eliot. 21st Dec. 1640. 16p; Sibbald's Atlas Scoticus (Latin text) 4p.; Sibbald's Description of the Serifdome of Selkirk or Ettrick Forest. Large Folio. Details on name, Bounds, Soil, Kirks, Loughs, Waters falling into the Ettrick, Gold Found and Lead... etc. 21p.; Macfarlane's Collection Vol 1. An Account of the Remarkable Places... by Mr. John Hodge. 20p. There are many blank pages bound at the end. Paper watermarked 1849. £80.00

  33. Stanford's MAP OF SCOTLAND Scale 1" = 7.69 inches. Lithographed map, size 46" x 40", dissected and mounted on linen, folding into 8vo printed endpapers, inserted in bright blue slipcase, with gilt title on front. 1890. £80.00
    Boundaries of counties and of boroughs outlined in dotted and solid red lines, Parliamentary Divisions outlined in blue, Boroughs shaded blue.


  34. Stirlingshire COPY CERTIFIED RENTAL of the Estate of William Murray Esq. of Touchadam & Pitlochie in the Parish of St. Ninians and the Shire of Stirling on 21st October 1772. Copy, made 1818. 6 double-page spreads, with columns for 'Possessions and Possessors', 'Money Rent', 'Meal', 'Total Rent' etc. Lists properties in the Barony of Touchanam, Cowie, Balquhidrock, and 'Old fues before 1691 disjoined...' etc. Manuscript, neatly written throughout, sewn at left edge. 1818. £25.00
    Attestation at the end refers to 'the process of Disjunction'.


  35. Stranraer ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 90. Popular Edition. Buff and red wraps with shield and crown. 1924. £6.00

  36. Thomson (John) NORTHERN PART OF ABERDEEN AND BANFF-SHIRE together with Southern Part of Aberdeen and Banff-Shire. Map on four sheets, scale 10 miles = 6 in. Sheets 22 Parts 1,2,3,4. Each sheet 21" x 26", plus margins, central vertical fold. Hundreds coloured in outline. Some waterstaining at right and left edges extending less than half an inch from edge of paper, obtruding beyond border in sea area just below compass rose in one sheet, small light red line about 5" long in blank area on one sheet where line of red colour has off-set. 1826. £70.00
    From Thomson's Atlas of 1826. Covers Portson, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Cullen, Braemar, Aberdeen.


  37. Uphall, Linlithgow EXTENSIVE SALE OF GROWING CROP Draught Horses, Farm Stocking, and Household Furniture, at Powflatts.... To be Sold by Public Roup.... The Crop consists of about 6 acres of Wheat, 10 do. Barley.... 3 Draught Horses, 2 Mares, 10 Milch Cows.... Poster, size 11" x 9". Traces of folds, small piece torn from margin, some repaired edge tears, some slight wear near central fold. 1841. £12.00

  38. Veitch (Printer and Publisher) THE DAILY COURANT March 17, 1860. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded.... together with another edition March 24, 1860, 4pp. 2 items. 1860. £14.00
    Includes detailed report of a farewell dinner given to Joseph Lister on his moving to Glasgow to become Professor of Surgery.


  39. Veitch (W), Printer and Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT November 29, 1860. Very large broadsheet newspaper, 4pp., folded. Red tax stamp, folds. Some slight dustmarking on first page at folds. 1860. £8.00
    Details of application for various railway bills, dangerous tenement at Fishmarket close, etc.


  40. Veitch (W), Publisher THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT November 19th, 1866. Broadsheet newspaper, 8pp, folds. 1866. £12.00
    Contains advert for Aitchison's Celebrated Fifty-Shilling Watch, very detailed four-column report on the Parliamentary Reform demonstration at Edinburgh.

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