Leighton Library has a 1701 edition of "The pirat's doom : or, Captain Kidd's fatall farewell"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:01 on 23 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1701 edition of "The pirat's doom : or, Captain Kidd's fatall farewell ; being executed at Execution Dock, for murder, piracy and robbery, on Friday the 23d of May, 1701" - a ballad about renowned Scottish pirate William Kidd who died by hanging in London #OnThisDay 23 May 170...

Leighton Library has a 1628 edition of "De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII" by Levinus Lemnius

Added by Leighton Library at 06:16 on 20 May 2024

Leighton Library has a 1628 edition of "De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII" (The secret miracles of nature) by Dutch physician and author Levinus Lemnius who was born #OnThisDay 20 May 1505. This was on the subjects of Medicine, Occultism, Philosophy and religion

Leighton Library has 1656 First Edition of Abraham Cowley's "Poems : viz.I. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique odes. And IV. Davideis, or, A sacred poem of the troubles of David"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:38 on 19 May 2024

#OnThisDay 19 May 1802, Mr Cornelius Stewart, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library borrowed the library's 1656 First Edition of Abraham Cowley's "Poems : viz.I. Miscellanies. II. The mistress, or, Love verses. III. Pindarique odes. And IV. Davideis, or, A sacred poem of the troubles of David"Th...