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Printed Book Donations

  • ADOLF Hitler's contribution to the promotion of European peace. Hamburg, [1936?]
    • Part of a set of 17 German Nazi propaganda sheets.
  • BARNETT, Thomas Ratcliffe. Rambles in scienceland. [Scotland, 1895-1897].
    • A made-up volume of a series of newspaper articles, mainly concerning the natural world.
  • BATE, John. Pictures of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh: J Bate], 1985. (Warrender pamphlets.)
    • A collection of short poems relating to scenes in Edinburgh.
  • BIANKI, Vitalii. Prikliucheniia muravishki: risunki V. Alekseevoi. Leningrad, 1982.
  • BRADBURY Thompson Center. Washburn College Bible. [Topeka, Kansas, USA, 1996?]
  • CATÀLEG de la Biblioteca Valenciana. Llibres i cartells. [Valencia, 1995?]
    • A computer laser optical disc, accompanied by a user's guide.
  • CATÀLEG col.lectiu del patrimoni bibliogràfic Valencià . [Second edition.] [Valencia, 1995?]
    • A computer laser optical disc, accompanied by a user's guide.
  • CHARUSHIN, Eugenii Ivanovich. Tiupa, Tomka i soroka. Leningrad, 1979.
  • COCKBURN, Andrew. Cockburns who died in the Great War, 1914-1919. [Edinburgh]: Andrew Cockburn, 1996.
  • CROWDEN, James. Blood, earth and medicine: a year in the life of a casual agricultural labourer. Martick: Parrett Press, 1991.
    • In a special binding by Chris Hicks, winner of the 1996 Mrs E Clark Bookbinding Competition.
  • DONALD, David Herbert. Divided we fought: a pictorial history of the war 1861-1865. [General editor: David H Donald.] New York, 1952.
    • Illustrated account of the American Civil War.
  • EDINBURGH Festival Fringe Society. The Fringe 1971, Edinburgh 22 August to 11 September; preliminary details. [Edinburgh, 1971].
    • Photocopy of a handbill advertising Fringe events, accompanied by a letter from John Milligan, the first Fringe administrator, outlining the background of the creation of the Festival Fringe Society.
  • FISHER, Gareth and TAMBURELLI, Giovanni. Breath poems. Palestro, Vercelli [Italy], 1997.
    • Drawings and illustrations by Gareth Fisher, together with parallel verse text in English and Italian by Giovanni Tamburelli. No. 18 of a limited edition of 200.
  • FISCHER, Gert and RICHTER, Heinz. Gotthard de Beauclair: Buchgestalter, Lyriker, Verleger 1907-1992: Leben und Werk. [Herausgegeben von Gert Fischer und Heinz Richter.] Siegburg, 1996.
  • FORDHAM, George, Sir. The road-books & itineraries of Great Britain 1570 to 1850. Cambridge, 1924.
    • One of a collection of six books on historical maps and map making.
  • GREISER, Arthur Karl. Danzig attacks the League of Nations: extracts of the speech ... before the Council of the League of Nations. Hamburg, [1936].
    • Part of a set of 17 German Nazi propaganda sheets.
  • GUNDULIÓ, Ivan. Osman. Translated into English by E D Goy. Zagreb, 1991.
    • Modern translation of a 16th-century Croatian drama.
    • From a collection of 33 works on Russian and other Slavic linguistics and literature.
  • HILL, Henry David. Essays on the institutions, government, and manners, of the states of ancient Greece. London, 1819.
    • With a contemporary manuscript ownership inscription; 'Dunse Academy 1821', engraved in gold lettering on the upper board of binding.
  • HOCHULI, Jost and RAST, Michael. Coloured balls, silver stars. Christmas tree decorations from the collection of David Bürkler. St Gallen, 1996. (Typotron, vol. 14, Christmas 1996.)
  • HOFFMANN, Heinrich. Hitler in seinen Bergen. 86 Bilddokumente aus der Umgebung des Führers. Berlin, [1935].
    • Part of a collection of pamphlets relating to National Socialism from the 1930s.
  • HOLK, André Frederik Lambertus van. Archeologie van de binnenvaart: wonen en werken aan boord van binnenvaartschepen (1600-1900). Rijksuniverseit Groningen, [1997].
    • A doctoral thesis on life and work aboard inland waterway vessels.
  • The HOLY Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. London, [ca. 1870].
    • With an ownership inscription probably by George Douglas Brown, author of The House with the Green Shutters.
  • HOMER. The Iliads and Odysses of Homer. Translated out of Greek into English, by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. The third edition. London: printed for Will. Crook ... , 1686.
    • With book-plate of Lieut. Col. James John Forbes-Leith of Whitehaugh (d. 1841) and his wife, Williamina Helen.
  • KAPER, Olaf Ernst. Temples and gods in Roman Dakhleh: studies in the indigenous cults of an Egyptian oasis. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, [1997].
  • KELTY, Edward J. Founding Father John Witherspoon on the, person, family and the constitutional right to life and its modern denial by the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade. Rome, 1997.
    • A Ph.D thesis presented to St Thomas Aquinas Pontifical University, Vatican City.
  • KRUDOVA, Natalia. Sny Potara: Rasskaz-skazka: risunki E. Anosova. Leningrad, 1985.
  • McGILVRAY, Roy. McGilvray McGillivray McIlvra: a basic finding aid to pre-1875 clan members in Scotland, England, Canada, the USA, & Australia. Cumberland, Ontario: Roy McGilvray, 1996.
  • McLEAN, Ruari. [Catalogue of Ruari McLean's collection of colour printing held in Toronto.] 4 vol. [n.p, 19--].
    • Typescript lists of mainly 19th-century books which contain examples of colour printing, together with notes about the printers, publishers and artists mentioned in the catalogue.
  • MARKOV, Vladimir and WORTH, Dean S. From Los Angeles to Kiev: papers on the occasion of the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September, 1983 edited by Vladimir Markov and Dean S Worth. Columbus, Ohio, 1983. (UCLA Slavic Studies, vol. 7)
    • From a collection of 33 works on Russian and other Slavic linguistics and literature.
  • MARSHAK, Samuil. Mister Tvister; rinsunki M. Skobeleva i A.Eliseeva. Moskva, 1973.
  • NAPIER, John Hawkins, Colonel and NAPIER, Charles. A source list concerning mostly the Napier family of Kilmahew, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, leading to Dr Patrick Napier of Virginia, the ancestor of the majority of the Napiers in North America. Ramer, Alabama, 1996.
  • NORTHROP, H M. H.M.S. "Curlew". To the captain, officers and ship's company this souvenir is respectfully submitted. [England, 1922.]
    • A brochure celebrating the crossing of the Equator by H.M.S. Curlew.
  • ODOEVSKIUI, Vladimir Fedorovich. Gorodok v tabakerke: skazka: risunki A. Koshkina. Moskva, 1981.
  • PICKERING, Michael. The textual function of typeface in a narrative poem. [Turku: University of Turku], 1995.
    • Offprint from Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. 1995.
  • PICKERING, Outi. Early Finnish translations of Robert Burns' poetry. [Turku], 1990.
    • Photocopied offprint from Alarums & Excursions: Working Papers in English.
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  • PICKERING, Outi. Laughter in the face of death: the case of Robert Burns. [Turku, 1995].
    • Offprint from Laughter down the Centuries. Vol. II. Edited by Siegfried Jäkel & Asko Timonen.
  • PICKERING, Outi. Personification in the poetry of Robert Burns. [Turku], 1994.
    • A thesis presented to the University of Turku.
  • PICKERING, Outi. Robert Burns and eighteenth-century poetic diction. [Turku, 1993].
    • Offprint from English Far and Wide: a Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi. 1993.
  • ROBERTSON, Ian Macbeth. [52] poems. [Edinburgh]: privately printed [by] Anne S Robertson, 1994.
    • In a limited edition of two copies.
  • ROBERTSON, Ian Macbeth. Thirty poems. [Edinburgh]: A S Robertson, 1994.
    • In a limited edition of 45 copies.
  • The ROYAL charter of the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh. [Edinburgh, 1854.]
  • RULES of Pennicuick [sic] Watching Association. [Scotland, ca. 1817.]
    • A rule-book for a grave-watching society in Penicuik.
  • SOUVENIR of New South Wales welcome to the British Naval Squadron at Sydney, 9th April, 1924. [Sydney, 1924.]
  • STELLETSKII, Vladimir Ivanovich. Slovo o polku Igoreve. [Edited by Vkadimir i Stelletskii.] [Moskva, 1965.]
    • A modern edition of Lay of Iger's host, a Russian mediaeval epic.
      From a collection of 33 works on Russian and other Slavic linguistics and literature.
  • SYDNEY, New South Wales Australia. Royal Naval Squadron visit. [Sydney, 1924.]
  • TINTIN. Le journal des jeunes de 7 a 77 ans. Bruxelles, 1963-1971.
  • TIUKHTIAEVA, Irina. Zoki i vada: skazka; khudozhniki Iuliia Gukova i Vladimir Burkin. Moskva, 1993.
  • TO the Poilu of Verdun. An open letter from a German front line fighter. Hamburg, [1936].
    • Part of a set of 17 German Nazi propaganda sheets.
  • TYPOGRAPHICA : l'edició catalana, del llibre incunable al 1939. Introdució a càrrec de Joana Escobedo. Barcelona, 1996.
  • VASCONELLOS, Frazao de. Pêro Escobar. Lisboa, 1957.
    • One of a collection of six books on historical maps and map making.
  • VISIT of Special Service Squadron Royal Navy: souvenir programme January 1st-4th 1924. [Durban, 1924.]
  • VOLTAIRE. [Histoire de Charles XII. English] The history of Charles XII, King of Sweden. Edinburgh, 1807.
  • WAL, Coen van der. In praise of common sense: planning the ordinary. A physical planning history of the new towns in the IJsselmeerpolders. Rotterdam, 1997.
  • WILSON, Elena. The story of the blue back chart. London: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, [1937].
    • One of a collection of six books on historical maps and map making.
  • WORSFOLD, James E. The origins of the Apostolic Church in Great Britain. Wellington, N.Z., 1991.
  • ZAPRETNYAEI uzel: HestonskaNiia narodnaNiia skazka v obrabotke Z. M. Zadunaeiskoaei. Moskva, 1989.
  • ZAREV, Panteleui. Panorama na bulgarskata literatura. 4 vol. Sofia, 1977-1979.
    • A history of Bulgarian literature with summaries in English, French, German and Russian.
      From a collection of 33 works on Russian and other Slavic linguistics and literature.

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