A List of Books by Scots

On this momentous day, I thought it appropriate to list some of our Scots authors, who, whether published north or south of the border, have contributed so much to the intellectual life of Great Britain.

Sir Archibald Alison: History of Europe During the French Revolution (10 Volume Set)

John Bell: Travels from St Petersburg in Russian, to Diverse Parts of Asia (2 Volume Set)

Thomas Blaikie: Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Birrell

Sir David Brewster:

• Letter on Natural Magic, Addressed to Sir Walter Scott
• Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (2 Volume Set)
• More Worlds Than One
• The History of Free Masonry, Drawn from Authentic Sources of Information

James Bryce: Geology of Arran and Clydesdale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Buchan: Domestic Medicine

Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Carlyle & Froude  (3 Volume Set)

Thomas Carlyle:

•  The Works of Thomas Carlyle, ed. Traill (30 Volume Set)
•  Reminiscences, ed. Froude (2 Volume Set)

Robert Chambers: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

John Dundas Cochrane: Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Cochrane: Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru, and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination (2 Volume Set)

James Croll: Stellar Evolution and its Relations to Geological Time

David Douglas: Journal Kept by David Douglas during his Travels in North America 1823–1827

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Through the Magic Door
• Memories and Adventures
• The History of Spiritualism (2 Volume Set)

John Fleming: The Philosophy of Zoology (2 Volume Set)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Fortune:

• Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
• A Journey to the Tea Countries of China
• A Residence among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea
• Yedo and Peking

John Lauder, 2nd Lord Fountainhall: Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs, from 1680 till 1701, ed. Scott

James Baillie Fraser: Travels and Adventures in the Persian Provinces on the Southern Banks of the Caspian Sea

Sir Archibald Geikie

• Charles Darwin as Geologist
• Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (2 Volume Set)
• Memoir of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay
• A Long Life’s Work
• The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man

Christian Johnson: The Cook and Housewife’s Manual

Robert Knox: Great Artists and Great Anatomists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Lind: A Treatise of the Scurvy

John Lockhart: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (7 Volume Set)

James Maidment: Roxburghe Revels, and Other Relative Papers

William Fordyce Mavor:

• The English Spelling Book
• (ed.) Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

James McCosh:

•  The Scottish Philosophy
•  The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural
•  The Method of the Divine Government
•  The Religious Aspect of Evolution

Sir George Steuart Mackenzie: Travels in Iceland during the Summer of the Year 1810

Sir James Mackintosh: An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution from its Commencement to the Year 1792

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Clerk Maxwell:

•    Matter and Motion
•    The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (2 Volume Set)
•    Theory of Heat
•   A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2 Volumes)
•   An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
•   Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish

James Mill: The History of British India (3 Volume Set)

John Stuart Mill:

•  Utilitarianism
•  Considerations on Representative Government
•  A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (2 Volume Set)
•  On Liberty

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison:

•   Siluria
•   On the Geological Structure of the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians

Margaret Oliphant:

• Annals of a Publishing House (3 Volume Set)
• Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign
• The Makers of Florence
• The Makers of Venice
• The Makers of Modern Rome
• Sheridan
• The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, ed. Walker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Playfair:

• Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
• Biographical Account of James Hutton, M.D. F.R.S. Ed.
• The Works of John Playfair (4 Volume Set)

Robert Robertson: Observations on Fevers and Other Diseases

John Robison, A System of Mechanical Philosophy, ed. Brewster (4 Volume Set)

Sir James Clark Ross: A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839–43 (2 Volume Set)

Sir John Ross:

•  Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin
•  A Treatise on Navigation by Steam
•  Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage (2 Volume Set)
• A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Campbell Shairp: Robert Burns

Sir Walter Scott

• Memoirs of John Dryden
• The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French (9 Volume Set)
• The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, ed. Douglas (2 Volume Set)

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Treasure Island
• Across the Plains
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books
• Records of a Family of Engineers

John McDouall Stuart: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, ed. Hardman

Daniel Wilson:

• Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time (2 Volume Set)
• Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (2 Volume Set)
• Prehistoric Man (2 Volume Set)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I could go on, at great length, but many of you have voting to do…

Caroline

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