Scope and Contents The material represents Ian R. Grant's seller's stock. The widely varied content of the collection includes legal documents on vellum, oaths of burgesses, inventories, correspondence and letter books, printed material such as adverts, magazines and religious pamphlets, songs and poems, family history documents, etc. It also includes a collection of c. 30 Burmese palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 19th century.Because there was no discernible original order, the material was...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one Victorian wooden box, used for collecting and teaching, that belonged to Catherine Mary of Stirling, from Kippenross House, near Dunblane. It is still complete and fitted with 5 removable trays containing specimens of: Animal & Vegetable Substances (such as nut galls, Portuguese cork, a piece of tortoise shell, timber specimens, pearls, etc.) ...

Scope and Contents A substantial collection of autograph documents by mainly German, French, and British orientalists, assembled by Alfred Stumpff (1928-2008), a German administrative judge and member of the German-Indian Society of Mainz. There are 133 individual "units", each mostly containing letters but also other documents (such as manuscripts, postcards, and occasional photographs), comprising a total of over 300 pages. The documents date from the 18th through to the 21st century but are predominantly...