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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, 17s. 
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 of industry and application to those philo-’ 
