Book of the Month Archive

2010

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2009

• December 2009 Ludolph of Saxony The Life of Christ (Vita Christi) (Paris: 1490s) Sp Coll MSS Hunter 36-39
• November 2009 Charles Darwin The Expression of the emotions in man and animals (London: 1872) Sp Coll Dougan 3
• October 2009 Cuthbert Bede Photographic Pleasures (London: 1855) Sp Coll Photo Ref. 1
• September 2009 Collection of original watercolour drawings (Glasgow: 19th century) Sp Coll MS Murray 590-594
• August 2009 The Curious Case of Mary Toft (London: 1726) Sp Coll Hunterian Aa.7.20 and other works
• July 2009 Thomas Martyn The Universal Conchologist (London: 1789) Sp Coll Hunterian Add. f63
• June 2009 Paul Kane Wanderings of an Artist (London: 1859) Sp Coll Whistler 71
• May 2009 Papers relating to the families of Muirhead and Watt (16th to 19th centuries) MS Gen 1354
• April 2009 The Rosarium Philosophorum (18th Century) MS Ferguson 210
• March 2009 Homer The Iliad (Venice: 1640) Sp Coll Hunterian Cn.2.38
• February 2009 Boccaccio De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (The Fall of Princes) (Paris: 1467) Sp Coll MSS Hunterian 371-372
• January 2009 Robert Burns Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Edinburgh: 1787) Sp Coll RB 2521

2008

• December 2008 The Bookman Christmas Special, 1918 (London: 1918) Sp Coll Farmer 348/5
• November 2008 Ed. by J. Wortley Axe The Horse: its treatment in health & disease (London: 1906) Sp Coll Morris Add. q5-11
• October 2008 Robert Simson, Mathematical material (Glasgow: eighteenth century) Sp Coll MS Gen 1118 and other works
• September 2008 Photographs of Glasgow University Library under construction (Glasgow: 1965-1971) Sp Coll Photo A49
• August 2008 Poliorcetici Graeci Treatises on Engines and Weapons (Italy: c 1510) Sp Coll MS Hunter 220
• July 2008 University of Glasgow Old and New (Glasgow: 1891) Sp Coll RX 152
• June 2008 Manuscript Compendium of Devotional & Philosophical Writings (England: c.1330) Sp Coll MS Hunter 231
• May 2008 Toy Books (Glasgow: c.1818) Sp Coll Bh13-c.28
• April 2008 Copernicus De Revolutionibus (Nuremberg: 1543) Sp Coll Hunterian Cz.1.13
• March 2008 Japanese Prints of the Russo-Japanese War (Japan: 1903-1904) Sp Coll e159
• February 2008 Heraldic manuscript (England?: c 1625) Sp Coll Hepburn q23
• January 2008 John Duns Scotus Quaestiones in quattuor libros sententiarum (Venice: 1477) Sp Coll Hunterian By.2.3

2007

• December 2007 Edited by W.T. Stead Real Ghost Stories (London: 1891) Sp Coll Ferguson Ao-y.27
• November 2007 William Blake Europe: A Prophecy (Lambeth: 1794) Sp Coll RX 132
• October 2007 William Hamilton Campi Phlegraei (Naples: 1776) Sp Coll Hunterian Bm.1.1-3
• September 2007 James de Carle Sowerby & Edward Lear Tortoises, terrapins and turtles (London: 1872) Sp Coll e80
• August 2007 Sigismund von Herberstein Rerum Moscoviticarum Comentarii (Basel: 1556) Sp Coll Bk4-d.10
• July 2007 Dr Henry Farmer's Scrapbook (Glasgow: 1911-1940) Sp Coll MS Farmer 616
• June 2007 William Harvey De Motu Cordis (Frankfurt: 1628) Sp Coll Hunterian Y.7.13
• May 2007 The Hunterian Psalter (England: c. 1170) Sp Coll MS Hunter U.3.2 (229)
• April 2007 Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language (London: 1755) Sp Coll Bi7-a.8,9
• March 2007 Ker Family Papers (Various locations: c. 1862-1970) Ms Gen 1300
• February 2007 William Henry Fox Talbot The Pencil of Nature (London: 1844) Sp Coll Photo A18
• January 2007 William Caxton The Golden Legend (Westminster: c.1483-1484) Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.1.1

2006

• December 2006 Manuscript Book of Hours (Flanders: c.1460) Sp Coll MS Euing 3
• November 2006 Johann Saubert Emblemat Dukhovnyi (Russia?: 1743) Sp Coll S. M. Add. 331
• October 2006 Lushington Papers (England:Nineteenth Century) MS Gen 557
• September 2006 John Ross Narrative of a second voyage (London: 1835) Sp Coll Hunterian Bq.2.6
• August 2006 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Los Caprichos (Madrid:1799) Sp Coll S.M. 1946
• July 2006 A New Orchard and Garden with The Country-Housewifes Garden for Herbs (London: 1648)
  Sp Coll Ferguson Ah-a.2
• June 2006 Embroidered Geneva Bible (Amsterdam: 1633) Sp Coll Euing Dp-b.4
• May 2006 John of Arderne Medical Treatises (England: c.1475-1500) Sp Coll MS Hunter 251
• April 2006 Greek Gospels (Southern Italy/Sicily:Twelfth Century) Sp Coll MS Hunter 475
• March 2006 Thomas Annan The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow (Glasgow: c.1872) Sp Coll Dougan 64
• February 2006 Facts and Observations on the Sanitary State of Glasgow (Glasgow: 1844 ) Sp Coll Mu26-a.29
• January 2006 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (London: 1726) Sp Coll Bk3-f.18-19

2005

• December 2005 Henry Farmer Papers Sp Coll MS Farmer
• November 2005 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (London: 1854) Sp Coll Hepburn 157
• October 2005 Livy Third Decade of the Roman History (Milan: c.1450) Sp Coll MS Hunter 370
• September 2005 Sixth Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Loos: 1915) Sp Coll MS Gen 1376 & 532
• August 2005 William Caxton The Mirror of the World (Westminster: 1490) Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.30
• July 2005 John Gould The Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1869) Sp Coll n1-a.1-8
• June 2005 The Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass (Glasgow: 1825-1826) Sp Coll Bh14-x.8
• May 2005 The Darien Scheme (various) Sp Coll Spencer Collection and MS Gen 1685
• April 2005 Blockbook Apocalypse  (Netherlands: 1430s-1440s)  Sp Coll Hunterian Ds.2.3
• March 2005 William Daniell and Richard Ayton A voyage round Great Britain (London: 1814-1825) Sp Coll f53-56
• February 2005 Maximilian I/Melchior Pfintzing Teuerdank (Nuremberg: 1517) Sp Coll Hunterian At.1.10
• January 2005 Bartolo da Sassoferrato Lectura Super Infortiato (Italy: c.1400) Sp Coll Hunterian Add f91

2004

• December 2004 Henry Vizetelly Christmas with the Poets (London: 1852) Sp Coll Euing BD20-b.24
• November 2004 Charles Dickens Bleak House (London: 1852-53) Sp Coll Hepburn 186-203
• October 2004 Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1787-) Sp Coll Periodicals
• September 2004 Gustav Holst Letters to W.G. Whittaker MS Gen 1350
• August 2004 James Paterson Museum Archive Sp Coll MS Paterson
• July 2004 Bejamin Wilkes The English Moths and Butterflies (London: 1749) Sp Coll Hunterian L.2.8-9
• June 2004 T. & R. Annan & Sons Glasgow in Panorama (Glasgow: 1907) Sp Coll Mu Add. e15
• May 2004 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales (London: 1492) Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.12
• April 2004 William Speirs Bruce Photographs from the Scotia Antarctic Exhibition (1902-1904) Sp Coll WSB Photo C1
• March 2004 Belägerung der Statt Ostende (Cologne?: 1604-05) Sp Coll RF 875
• February 2004 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice: 1499) Sp Coll Hunterian Bh.2.14
• January 2004 Free Kicks at Football (Glasgow: 1882) Sp Coll Mu2-i.38

2003

• December 2003: Manuscript Book of Hours (France: c. 1460) Sp Coll MS Euing 4
• November 2003: John Bate The Mysteries of Nature and Art (London: 1635) Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-b.53
• October 2003: Robert Carswell Pathological Anatomy (London: 1838) Sp Coll RF 110
• September 2003: James VI and I Speeches (London: 1604-1621) Sp Coll Bf72-e.5
• August 2003: Scottish Playbills (Scotland: 1883-1925) Sp Coll STA Xc
• July 2003: James McNeill Whistler Books & Documents from the 1840s Sp Coll Whistler 160-165 (and others)
• June 2003: Abū Alī Yahyā Ibn 'Isā Ibn Jazla Taqwīm al-abdān fī tadbīr al-insān
  (The arrangement of bodies for treatment) (Mesopotamia: 15th century?) Sp Coll MS Hunter 40 (T.1.8)
• May 2003: Gaius Valerius Flaccus Argonautica (Paris: 1519) Sp Coll Hunterian Bq.2.11
• April 2003: Scarfe-La Trobe Collection of Spanish plays Sp Coll Scarfe
• March 2003: Photographs of a Baltic Cruise (1902) Sp Coll Dougan Add. 9
• February 2003: Legenda Aurea (Bruges: c.1400-1410) Sp Coll MS Gen 1111 
• January 2003: Diego Muñoz Camargo Historia de Tlaxcala (Mexico: 1585) Sp Coll MS Hunter 242 U.3.15

2002

• December 2002: Thomas Crofton Croker Recollections of Old Christmas (Grimston: 1850) Sp Coll Euing BD1-b.28
• November 2002: Athanasius Kircher Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650) Sp Coll Ferguson Af-x.9 & Af-x.10
• October 2002: Leonhart Fuchs De Historia Stirpium (Basel: 1542) Sp Coll Hunterian L.1.13
• September 2002: Andreas Vesalius De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome (Basel: 1543) Sp Coll Hunterian Ce.1.18
• August 2002: The Aldgate Cartulary (London: 1425-1427) Sp Coll MS Hunter 215 (U.2.6)
• July 2002: Thomas Browne Religio Medici (London: 1642) Sp Coll Monro 1
• June 2002: Christopher Saxton Atlas of the Counties of England & Wales (London: c.1579) Sp Coll Hunterian Di.1.12
• May 2002: Alasdair Gray Papers and Drafts of Lanark: a life in four books (1952-1981): MS Gen 1595
• April 2002: Jenson's Breviary (Venice: 1478) Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.18
• March 2002: Ship of Fools (London: 1509)  Sp Coll Bn6-d.9
• February 2002: Valentines & Dabbities  (Glasgow: 1850s?)  Sp Coll Bh11-b.19-20 
• January 2002: Louis Renard Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes  (Amsterdam: 1754)  Sp Coll Hunterian X.1.14 

2001

• December 2001: Glasgow University Chemistry Laboratory Christmas Annuals (1863-1869) Sp Coll MS Gen 81
• November 2001: Archbishop James Sharp Letterbook (1660) Sp Coll MS Gen 210
• October 2001: Ghost Stories (London: 1823) Sp Coll Ferguson Al-d.47
• September 2001: The Chronicles of England (St. Albans: c.1483) Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.17
• August 2001: The Journal of Design & Manufactures Vol.1 (London: 1849) Sp Coll BD19-g.1
• July 2001: Shakespeare First Folio  (London: 1623) Sp Coll BD8-b.1
• June 2001: Euclid Geometry  (France: c.1480) Sp Coll MS Gen. 1115
• May 2001: The Gardener's Labyrinth (London: 1594) Sp Coll Ferguson Ah-e.34
• April 2001: Armenian Prayer Scroll (Armenia: 1661) Sp Coll MS Gen. 1498
• March 2001: George Pocock The Aeropleustic Art ... (London: 1827) Sp Coll BG46-a.6
• February 2001: Otto van Veen Amorum Emblemata  (Antwerp: 1608) Sp Coll S.M. Add. 392 
• January 2001: Bede Writings on the Calendar (Durham: twelfth century) Sp Coll MS Hunter 85 

2000

• December 2000: A Booke of Christmas Carols (London: c. 1845) Sp Coll BD20-f.17
• November 2000: The Fifth annual report of the Magdalene Institution, Glasgow (Glasgow: 1865) Sp Coll BG54-c.11
• October 2000: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (London: 1765-1769) Sp Coll Hepburn 7-15 
• September 2000: Miroir de l'humaine salvation (Manuscript, Bruges: 1455): Sp Coll MS Hunter 60 (T.2.18)
• August 2000:  Newes from Scotland (London: 1591): Sp Coll Ferguson Al-a.36
• July 2000: Caxton's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (Westminster: c.1490): Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.24
• June 2000: James Scott Skinner The Miller O'Hirn (Edinburgh: 1881): Sp Coll Ca11-y.17
• May 2000: Bartoli Drawings after ancient Roman paintings (Rome:1674) MS Gen 1496
• April 2000: Thornton's Temple of Flora (London:1799-1807) Sp Coll e23
• March 2000: Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass (London: 1872) Sp Coll Hepburn 99
• February 2000: Roman de la Rose (Paris: c.1505) Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.6
• January 2000: Rider's British Merlin (London: 1701) Sp Coll BD1-l.10

1999

• December 1999: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (London: 1843) Sp Coll 918
• November 1999: Visions de Pétrarque (manuscript, c. 1534) Sp Coll S.M.M. 2
• October 1999: Glasgow International Exhibition 1901 Official Guide & Daily Programmes Sp Coll Mu25-a.29
• September 1999: Metamorphoses illustrated by Virgil Solis (Frankfurt 1569) Sp Coll S.M. 875
• August 1999: Johannes Regiomontanus Calendar (Venice, 1482) Sp Coll BD7-f.13