Rare Books

Recent acquisitions

Here are selected highlights from some of the items added to the Rare Books Collections in recent months. Many of these acquisitions have been shown to the Trustees of the Library. The acquisitions and archive links will take you to quarterly lists of highlights from among our acquisitions. In most cases clicking on the image on those pages will bring up a larger pop-up version.

• Rare books – important acquisitions directory: Full descriptions of around 650 of the most important rare books acquired by the National Library of Scotland since 2000.
• Recent acquisitions: November 2009 acquisitions
• Acquisitions news archive:

August 2009 March 2009 November 2008 July 2008 June 2008 January 2008 October 2007 August 2007 June 2007 January 2007 September 2006

May 2006 March 2006 December 2005 October 2005 June 2005 March 2005 December 2004 October 2004 June 2004 March 2004

December 2003 October 2003 June 2003 March 2003 December 2002 October 2002 June 2002 March 2002 December 2001 October 2001

Quarterly and annual lists of principal additions to the Library's collections feature in our Catalogues section.

Rare Books News page