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De Wit, Frederick

Africa

Greenwood, C. & J.

Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826

Kitchin, Thomas

A General Atlas

Langlands, George, & Son

Map of the District of Kantyre in Argyllshire

Manuscript estate plans, Perthshire, Forfarshire, and Fife

Baikie, Brydieston, Cardean, Meigle

Martin, R. Montgomery

Tallis's Illustrated Atlas

African travel

19 volumes

Australia

3 works

Australia and Solomon Islands

3 volumes

Australia manuscript - New South Wales - Tasmania

Wentworth, William Charles

Australia Manuscript - Tasmania

Jeffryes, Lt. Charles

Bankes, Thomas, Edward W. Blake and Alexander Cook

A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography

Beeverell, James

Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne

Bell, John

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia

Blakiston, Thomas W.

Five Months on the Yang-Tsze

Borneo

3 volumes

Semedo, Alvaro

The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China

Fitzroy, [Captain] Robert

Great Circle Sailing

Graziani, Antonio Maria

Histoire de la guerre de Chypre

Grose, Francis

The Antiquities of England and Wales [...] Scotland [...] Ireland

Guattani, Giuseppe Antoni

Roma descritta ed illustrata

Hariri, Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-

Maqamat al-Hariri [Arabic title]

Heath, Leopold (1817-1907)

Hong Kong &c.

Herbert, Sir Thomas

Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique

Inwood, Henry William

The Erechtheion at Athens

Keyssler, Johann Georg

Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorraine

Ladoire, Fr. Marcel, [Vicaire de la Terre Sainte]

Voyage fait a la Terre Sainte en l'année MDCCXIX

Lamb, A. C.

Dundee, its Quaint and Historic Buildings

Lawrence, T.E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph

Malaysia - Malaya

Skeat, Walter William

Marmol y Carvajal, Luis del

L'Afrique

Mason, George Henry

The Costume of China

Montagu, Edward

Memoirs of the late Edw. W-ly M-tague, Esq.

Netherlands - [Gribius, Johann]

The Netherland-Historian

Petre, Hon. Henry William

An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company

Polar exploration

Collection of travel narratives

[Rickman, John]

Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery

Robson, George Fennell

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

Rycaut, Sir Paul

The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

St John, Sir Spenser Buckingham

Life in the Forests of the Far East

Stein, Sir Marc Aurel

Ancient Khotan

Waring, Edward Scott

A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad

Wilson, Samuel Sheridan

A Narrative of the Greek Mission, or Sixteen Years

Wise, Henry

An Analysis of One Hundred Voyages to and from China

Young, William

The History of Athens

2 volumes including Conway, Sir Martin

With Ski and Sledge over Arctic Glaciers

Annan, Thomas

University of Glasgow, Old and New

Carte-de-visites

Collection of portraits

[China]

Mennie, Donald

Hong Kong and Canton

Acetate paper negatives

Hong Kong, China, Japan, Algiers, Suez Canal, Singapore, India

Album of 25 albumen print photographs, c. 1870

[Hong Kong]

Sixty Diamond Jubilee Pictures of Hongkong

Maclean, Harry Aubrey de Vere

Early 20th Century photograph album, military manoeuvres, Morocco

Middle East

Collection of RAF aerial reconnaissance photographs of Iraq and Iran, 1920s-30s

Panorama of Constantinople

View from Beyazit Tower, c. 1900

Carte-de-visites and cabinet photographs

Mainly Scottish

Seaforth Highlanders; India (North-West Frontier) and Egypt

Photograph album, c.1879-1908

Stereoviews

Large collection of stereoview photographs, c.1890-1900

Baikie, Robert

Observations on the Neilgherries

Burrard, S. G., and H. H. Hayden

A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet

Edwardes, Herbert B.

A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49

Elliot, Robert

Views in the East

Francklin, William

Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia in the Years 1786-7

Godwin-Austin, Henry Haversham

Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, etc.

Hughes, Albert William

The Country of Balochistan

Tagore, Sourindro Mohun

Mani-Mala, or a Treatise on Gems

India

Collection of works on Indian archaeology, architecture and similar

India

Collection of works on various subjects

India

Collection of travel narratives including Indian imprints

India

Collection of works

India

Collection of works on cricket

India

Journal of Indian Art

Urdu lithographic printing

Darbari 'Ilm al-Nisa [The Science of Women]

Urdu lithographic printing

Ru-numa'i futagrafi ma'ruf bi Usul-i musawwiri

Urdu lithographic printing

Tarikh-i Rajastan [History of Rajasthan]

Urdu lithographic printing

Anwar al-nujum [The Lights of the Stars]

Urdu lithographic printing

Group of literary works

Urdu lithographic printing

Tughray nastaliq [Monograms in nasta'liq script]

Urdu lithographic printing

Two veterinary treatises

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 1-7 and 9-10 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 11-25 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 26-40 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 41-55 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 56-70

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 71 to 89 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Numbers 90-115 in the Bannatyne Club series

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk, Esq. of Elgin, MDCCLXXIII-MDCCLXXIX

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

The Ancient Sculptured Monuments of the County of Angus

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

A Series of Etchings chiefly of Views in Scotland. By John Clerk of Eldin, Esq.

[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club

Collection of Bannatyne Club Garlands and related publications

[Scottish antiquarianism] New Club

Set of large-paper copies

Burn-Murdoch, William Gordon (1862-1939)

A Procession of Scottish History

Burns, Robert

The Poetry of Robert Burns

[Burns, Robert] Thomson, George, editor and publisher

A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs

Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]

Volume of manuscript notes from Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh, 1811

Hume, David [Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757–1838)]

Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes

MacLellan, Bill, publisher (1919-1996)

Hugh MacDiarmid and others

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Storming of Dargai Heights

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz

The Ancient Town of Leith. A New Poem