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Title |
Author |
Publication date |
Acquisition date |
Shelfmark |
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser
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1787-88 |
24/08/12 |
RB.l.281 |
A new drawing book of ornaments in the antique style.
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George Richardson |
1812 |
24/08/12 |
RB.m.746 |
Extracts from lectures on phrenology: delivered to the Hampshire Phrenological Society, Portsmouth, in 1834. + Testimonials in favour of James Scott.
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Scott, James |
1838 |
17/08/12 |
AB.1.213.30(1-3) |
Poems on various subjects.
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[Cameron, William] |
1780 |
03/08/12 |
Bdg.s.954 |
Esposizione della contestazione insorta fra il Signor Davide Hume e il Signor Gian Jacopo Russo.
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David Hume |
1767 |
29/06/12 |
RB.s.2842 |
Observations on illicit distillation and smuggling: with some remarks on the reports of Woodbine Parish Esq. chairman of the excise board, on that subject.
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Anon. |
1816 |
22/06/12 |
AB.2.213.22 |
Four views of the skull of Robert Burns : taken from a cast moulded at Dumfries, the 31st day of March 1834.
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George Combe |
1834 |
01/06/12 |
AP.3.213.08 |
Orcadensis to William Cobbett, M.P. on the political grievances of Orkney and Zetland.
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Orcadensis |
1833 |
25/05/12 |
AP.2.213.04 |
Epistola Gulielmi Brussii Scoti. Ad illustrem D. Johannen Gostomium.
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William Bruce |
1596 |
25/05/12 |
RB.s.2843 |
Ellenore, a ballad originally written in German by G.A. Buerger.
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Buerger, Gottfried August. |
1796 |
18/05/12 |
AB.10.212.45 |
Ivanhoe: romanja.
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Scott, Walter |
1829 |
18/05/12 |
AB.1.212.28-30 |
The Triumphs of Love
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Nathaniel Crouch |
1753 |
11/05/12 |
AB.1.212.44 |
A poem to the memory of Mr. Robert Sandeman.
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Colborn Barrel [et al.] |
1771? |
11/05/12 |
RB.s.2856 |
Hoyle's game of whist.
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Edmond Hoyle |
1806 |
04/05/12 |
RB.s.2850 |
[Works ed. Franciscus Puteolanus]
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Tacitus |
1487 |
30/04/12 |
Inc.218.2 |
Sixty-six years' residence in South Africa: an autobiographical sketch.
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Ainslie, William. |
1899 |
23/03/12 |
AB.1.212.26 |
Account of a most melancholy and dreadful accident! Loss of the Comet steam-boat. 70 persons drowned.
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[Anon] |
[1825] |
23/03/12 |
AP.el.212.01 |
[Volume containing 10 18th-century plays]
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Lund, John [et al.] |
1760-1787 |
23/03/12 |
RB.s.2839(1-10) |
A list of the sporting ladies who is [sic] arrived from all the principal towns in Great Britain and Ireland, to take their pleasure at Leith races, on Monday the 3d June 1776.
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1776 |
17/02/12 |
RB.m.754 |
English Bards and Scotch reviewers. A satire.
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Lord Byron |
1821 |
17/02/12 |
AB.2.212.07 |
Proclamation by his excellency Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Dalrymple = Proclamacao de sua excellencia o Tenente General Sir Huch [sic] Dalrymple.
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Dalrymple, Hew Whitefoord. |
[1808] |
03/02/12 |
AP.4.212.01 |
Ivanhoe : opera en trois actes, imite de l' anglais.
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Deschamps, Emile & Wailly, Gustave de. |
1826 |
27/01/12 |
AB.2.212.06 |
[Lord's prayer and Apostle's creed in Greek]
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[Anon] |
1706 |
27/01/12 |
AP.2.212.19 |
Elliots Leben: nebst practischen Bemerkungen aus dessen Leben gezogen zur Bildung junger Krieger und anderer Personen vom Stande.
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Johann N.C. Buchenroeder |
1783 |
23/12/11 |
AB.1.212.43 |
Edinburgh weekly miscellany.
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R.C.H. |
1831-1832 |
23/12/11 |
AB.10.212.44 |
De imitatione Christi libri quatuor. Editio novissima.
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Thomas a Kempis |
1885. |
23/12/11 |
Bdg.s.950 |
Izsledovanie celoveceskago razumenia (An Inquiry concerning human understanding).
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Hume, David. |
1902 |
23/12/11 |
RB.m.705 |
Poems on various subjects, (English and Scotch).
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Hewit, Alexander. |
1823 |
23/12/11 |
AB.1.212.08 |
A medley, history, directory, and discovery of Galashiels
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George Reavely |
1875 |
16/12/11 |
AB.1.212.01 |
The life of William Annesly.
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Mackenzie, Henry. |
1796 |
16/12/11 |
RB.s.2835 |
Sentences in the Fernandian tongue.
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Clarke, John |
1846 |
09/12/11 |
RB.s.2831 |
My campaign in Ireland
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Cardinal John Henry Newman |
1896 |
09/12/11 |
AB.2.212.03 |
Metaphysicae seu Primae philosophicae institutiones [bound with] Institutiones physicae.
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Jack, Gilbert. |
1638 |
02/12/11 |
RB.s.2830(1-2) |
Proposals for printing by subscription ... Travels in the interior parts of Africa
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Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa |
1798 |
18/11/11 |
AP.5.212.01 |
His Majesty's most gracious declaration. James R.
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James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. |
1744? |
18/11/11 |
AP.5.212.02 |
The puzzling cap: a choice collection of riddles
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[Anon] |
1784 |
18/11/11 |
RB.s.2829 |
Ode sur la rebellion de MDCCXLV en Ecosse
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Maty, Matthew |
1746 |
21/10/11 |
AP.3.212.01 |
The jolly beggars : a cantata.
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Burns, Robert |
[1831] |
07/10/11 |
AP.1.212.06 |
Matil'da Rokbi, poema v shesti knigakh. [Rokeby]
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Scott, Walter. |
1823 |
07/10/11 |
RB.s.2826-2827 |
Poema posledniago barda. [Lay of the last minstrel]
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Scott, Walter. |
1823 |
07/10/11 |
RB.s.2828 |
Liber tertius de fidei familia
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Clark, George |
1640 |
30/09/11 |
RB.s.2832 |
The King Emperor's Indian Durbar tour 1911-1912
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[1912] |
23/09/11 |
Phot.la.79 |
Poems chiefly by Robert Burns, and Peter Pindar, &c. &c. To which is added the Life of Robert Burns. + The Oeconomy of love [by John Armstrong]
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Burns, Robert [et al.] + Armstrong, John. |
1798 |
05/08/11 |
AB.1.212.02(1-2) |
David Hume's vollkommne [sic] Republik [Idea of a perfect commonwealth].
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Hume, David. |
1799 |
05/08/11 |
RB.s.2823 |
Morgante maggiore.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron. |
1825 |
29/07/11 |
AP.1.212.14 |
Kenel'uort. Roman Val'tera Skota obrabotan dlia iunoshestva [Kenilworth. A novel by Walter Scott adapted for youth].
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Scott, Walter |
1873 |
08/07/11 |
AB.1.211.056 |
Record Commission. Scotland. Correspondence of C.P. Cooper, Esq. Secretary to the Board, with Thomas Thomson, Esq. deputy clerk register [etc] + 2 other items
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Great Britain. Record Commission |
1835 |
03/06/11 |
AB.3.212.03(1) |
The weeping christian; or The six vices of man.
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[Fergusson, Thomas.] |
1729 |
03/06/11 |
AP.1.212.15 |
Inamorulla oder Ossians Grosmuth. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Nach Ossian.
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Wachsmuth, Karl Heinrich. |
1783 |
03/06/11 |
AP.1.211.48 |
The book of common prayer + A companion to the altar + A new version of the Psalms of David
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[Binding - Scott, James of Edinburgh] |
1756-57 |
03/06/11 |
Bdg.m.171(1-3) |
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