Scottish historical writer, art historian, and politician (1818–1878)

A short title catalogue of the emblem books and related works in the Stirling Maxwell collection of Glasgow University Library (1499-1917) / originally compiled by Hester M. Black ; edited and revised by David Weston.

Tabulae anatomicae sex = six anatomical tables / [Vesalius].

Saint Thomas of Villanova. Etching by A. Jameson after W. Stirling Maxwell after B.E. Murillo.

1 print : process print, printed in red and black ; image 30 x 34.8 cm

The device of the Emperor Charles V surrounding initials of the artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Process print, 1873.

6 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 67 cm

v, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf, 244 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm

An essay towards a collection of books relating to proverbs, emblems, apophthegms, epitaphs and ana : being a catalogue of those at Keir / [Sir William Stirling-Maxwell].

lxxii, 252 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 19 cm

Essays on social subjects / by Matthew James Higgins; with a memoir by Sir William Stirling Maxwell.

li, 528 pages : illustrations, plates (part colour), portrait, plan ; 26 cm.

The cloister life of the emperor Charles V / by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, baronet.

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