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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Book almost as new, boards very clean, no apparent wear. Text very clean, not incribed. Jacket bright Heavy book, will incur extra postage (at cost) outside the UK. Posta\ge within the UK (£10) included in price at the standard rate.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-373) and index. Contents; I. The First Century -- II. The Second Century -- III. The Years from 1688-1790 -- IV. The College Libraries, 1790-1860 -- V. The Library since 1860 -- Essays -- 1. Papyri and Ostraca -- 2. MS 106: the Oldest Western Manuscript -- 3. The Aberdeen Bestiary / Jane Geddes -- 4. Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon: Manuscript 21 -- 5. Georgius de Sclavonia: De virginitate tuenda -- 6. The ?Burnet Psalter' -- 7. A commonplace manuscript with Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: Manuscript 123 -- 8. The St Paul's Manuscripts -- 9. Books of Devotion -- 10. Print and Piety -- 11. Illuminations -- 12. Renaissance Calligraphy -- 13. Janus Parrhasius: Annotations in Incunable 165 -- 14. Renaissance Texts of Euclid and Archimedes -- 15. The Hortus sanitatis and an English Manuscript Leechbook -- 16. The Aberdeen Codex of the Hebrew Bible / Evelyn Cohen -- 17. Paris Printing for the Scots market -- 18. Foundation Documents of the University Colleges of Aberdeen / Jennifer Carter -- 19. John Vaus and Early-Modern Scottish Book Culture / Kylie Murray -- 20. The Breviary of Aberdeen -- 21. Bishop Dunbar's Epistolare -- 22. Albrecht Durer's Unterweysung der Messung and Clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de symmetrica partium humanorum corporum / Tom Nichols -- 23. Humanism -- 24. A Copy of Arcadelt's Madrigals with Manuscript Additions / Roger Williams -- 25. Civitates orbis terrarum -- 26. Early Cartographic Holdings / Jeffrey Stone -- 27. The Yongle Dadian / David Helliwell -- 28. The New World -- 29. Herbals and Cognate Texts -- 30. Secretum secretorum: MS 944 and other works on Renaissance Magic / Bill Naphy -- 31. Early Modern Medicine -- 32. Bibles printed before 1700 / Henry R. Sefton -- 33. Duncan Liddel, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe -- 34. Early-Modern Aberdeen / Mary Pryor -- 35. Books of the Law -- 36. Early Bindings of Printed Books / Jane Pirie -- 37. Renaissance Architecture -- 38. James Fraser's Triennial Travels / Carol Morley -- 39. Andrew Marvell as Latinist: the Melvin Collection -- 40. Circumpolar Collections I -- 41. Paper Museums: Ole Worm and Athanasius Kircher -- 42. Description of Charleston, Carolina, 1692 -- 43. Jacobitism and Stuart Loyalism / Mary Pryor -- 44. Regenfuss's Book of Shells / Martyn Gorman -- 45. The Grand Tour / John Gash -- 46. The Papers of Thomas Reid / Paul Wood -- 47. The Gregory Family and their Collections -- 48. Early Scientific Journals / Nick Fisher -- 49. Science in the Enlightenment -- 50. Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedists / Nick Fisher -- 51. The travels of a French Aristocrat in Britain, MS 2464 -- 52. Dr Jonathan Troup: Slavery and Emancipation in the West Indies / Roderick Macdonald -- 53. Estate archives: Buthlaw and Cairness -- 54. The Description of Egypt -- 55. Northern Scotland after the Risings / Mary Pryor -- 56. Chapbooks -- 57. Books on India: Subcontinental Printing -- 58. The Wonders of Creation / Yuka Kadoi -- 59. Literature of the Romantic Period / Keith O'Sullivan -- 60. The Bernard C. Lloyd Walter Scott Collection / Alison Lumsden -- 61. The Scots in India -- 62. Illustrated books -- 63. Audubon and The Birds of America / Alan Knox -- 64. William MacGillivray and Audubon / Alan Knox -- 65. John Gould / Jane Pirie -- 66. Persian Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 67. Scottish Music / Roger Williams -- 68. Aberdeen and the Gaelic World / Colm O. Baoill -- 69. Diaries and Journals / Colin Maclaren -- 70. William Blake and Samuel Palmer -- 71. Robert Wilson / Neil Curtis -- 72. Travels in Canada / Jackson W. Armstrong -- 73. Views of Australia / Andrew Dilley -- 74. Circumpolar Collections II -- 75. Charles Dickens / Paul Schlicke -- 76. Two Japanese Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 77. The Bies. …

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-373) and index. Contents; I. The First Century -- II. The Second Century -- III. The Years from 1688-1790 -- IV. The College Libraries, 1790-1860 -- V. The Library since 1860 -- Essays -- 1. Papyri and Ostraca -- 2. MS 106: the Oldest Western Manuscript -- 3. The Aberdeen Bestiary / Jane Geddes -- 4. Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon: Manuscript 21 -- 5. Georgius de Sclavonia: De virginitate tuenda -- 6. The ?Burnet Psalter' -- 7. A commonplace manuscript with Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: Manuscript 123 -- 8. The St Paul's Manuscripts -- 9. Books of Devotion -- 10. Print and Piety -- 11. Illuminations -- 12. Renaissance Calligraphy -- 13. Janus Parrhasius: Annotations in Incunable 165 -- 14. Renaissance Texts of Euclid and Archimedes -- 15. The Hortus sanitatis and an English Manuscript Leechbook -- 16. The Aberdeen Codex of the Hebrew Bible / Evelyn Cohen -- 17. Paris Printing for the Scots market -- 18. Foundation Documents of the University Colleges of Aberdeen / Jennifer Carter -- 19. John Vaus and Early-Modern Scottish Book Culture / Kylie Murray -- 20. The Breviary of Aberdeen -- 21. Bishop Dunbar's Epistolare -- 22. Albrecht Durer's Unterweysung der Messung and Clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de symmetrica partium humanorum corporum / Tom Nichols -- 23. Humanism -- 24. A Copy of Arcadelt's Madrigals with Manuscript Additions / Roger Williams -- 25. Civitates orbis terrarum -- 26. Early Cartographic Holdings / Jeffrey Stone -- 27. The Yongle Dadian / David Helliwell -- 28. The New World -- 29. Herbals and Cognate Texts -- 30. Secretum secretorum: MS 944 and other works on Renaissance Magic / Bill Naphy -- 31. Early Modern Medicine -- 32. Bibles printed before 1700 / Henry R. Sefton -- 33. Duncan Liddel, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe -- 34. Early-Modern Aberdeen / Mary Pryor -- 35. Books of the Law -- 36. Early Bindings of Printed Books / Jane Pirie -- 37. Renaissance Architecture -- 38. James Fraser's Triennial Travels / Carol Morley -- 39. Andrew Marvell as Latinist: the Melvin Collection -- 40. Circumpolar Collections I -- 41. Paper Museums: Ole Worm and Athanasius Kircher -- 42. Description of Charleston, Carolina, 1692 -- 43. Jacobitism and Stuart Loyalism / Mary Pryor -- 44. Regenfuss's Book of Shells / Martyn Gorman -- 45. The Grand Tour / John Gash -- 46. The Papers of Thomas Reid / Paul Wood -- 47. The Gregory Family and their Collections -- 48. Early Scientific Journals / Nick Fisher -- 49. Science in the Enlightenment -- 50. Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedists / Nick Fisher -- 51. The travels of a French Aristocrat in Britain, MS 2464 -- 52. Dr Jonathan Troup: Slavery and Emancipation in the West Indies / Roderick Macdonald -- 53. Estate archives: Buthlaw and Cairness -- 54. The Description of Egypt -- 55. Northern Scotland after the Risings / Mary Pryor -- 56. Chapbooks -- 57. Books on India: Subcontinental Printing -- 58. The Wonders of Creation / Yuka Kadoi -- 59. Literature of the Romantic Period / Keith O'Sullivan -- 60. The Bernard C. Lloyd Walter Scott Collection / Alison Lumsden -- 61. The Scots in India -- 62. Illustrated books -- 63. Audubon and The Birds of America / Alan Knox -- 64. William MacGillivray and Audubon / Alan Knox -- 65. John Gould / Jane Pirie -- 66. Persian Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 67. Scottish Music / Roger Williams -- 68. Aberdeen and the Gaelic World / Colm O. Baoill -- 69. Diaries and Journals / Colin Maclaren -- 70. William Blake and Samuel Palmer -- 71. Robert Wilson / Neil Curtis -- 72. Travels in Canada / Jackson W. Armstrong -- 73. Views of Australia / Andrew Dilley -- 74. Circumpolar Collections II -- 75. Charles Dickens / Paul Schlicke -- 76. Two Japanese Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 77. The Bies. …

16pp., 12mo. Disbound without covers. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. A few marginal marks in blue pencil. Stamp of Aberdeen bookseller A. Martin at foot of title-page. Covering the last page is an 'Appendix | Scheme of Municipalisation as approved by the Special Committee of the Aberdeen Town Council.' Scarce: no copy of the first edition traced, and the only two copies of the second at Aberdeen University and the LSE.…