62 MEMOIR OF 



being the Library of the LATE Learned and 

 Ingenious ' Sir Robert Sibbald of Kipps, Doctor 

 of Medicine. To be sold by way of auction, on 

 Tuesday, the 5th of February, 1723, at his house 

 in the Bishop's Land in Edinburgh, where placards 

 will be affixed. 



" The time of sale is to be from two of the 

 clock to six in the afternoon. 



" The Books may be seen eight days before 

 the auction." 



The catalogue of the printed books occupies 

 one hundred and thirty-five pages in quarto, and 

 of the MSS. five more. The latter were sold in 

 the gross for 260, and were purchased by the 

 Faculty of Advocates, who also bought many of 

 the printed books, expending altogether 342, 1 7s. 

 sterling at the sale. 



We shall conclude this Memoir with the 

 following anonymous summary of his character 

 and services to science and literature, published 

 in a Sketch of the State of Scotland during the 

 seventeenth century, in the Scots Magazine. 



" Sir Robert Sibbald was a man of as pure 

 intentions, and of as indefatigable industry and 

 ardour in the pursuit of science, as any age has 

 ever produced. Though not possessed of the 

 genius of Pitcairn, and of several other eminent 

 contemporaries, he had equal, if not superior, 

 habits cf industry and application to those philo- 



