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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
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A Compend of Rhetoric,

A volume containing 'A Compend of Rhetoric in two parts, 1756'. The spine is lettered 'Watsons Rhetoric' [most probably Robert Watson (1730?-1781), historian and rhetorician].

Latin grammar, rhetoric, etc.

A late seventeenth century imperfect manuscript containing 'Observationes in Latinum gramaticam'; 'De Rhetorica'; abridgments of Ovid's Metamorphoses and '[H]istory of ye first [monarchies] ... Books of Justin' by John Gu[?nter], 1671/2; proverbs ('Adagionum conven ...') 'Observatiunculae in Lucii Flori Historiam collectae'; etc.

Lectures on rhetoric, etc.

A transcript of 'A Course of Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. By Hugh Blair D.D. Vol I. Edinburgh Winter 1768/91', with corrections and additions, by Paul Panton (the younger). These lectures were first published in 1783.