Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar"

Added by Leighton Library at 04:54 on 14 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1754 first edition of "A short conference betwixt Mr Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel in the Associate Congregation at Edinburgh, and a country-man in the parish of Biggar" about a heated exchange with Adam Gib, who was born #OnThisDay 1714. He was a Scottish religious leader,...

Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie

Added by Leighton Library at 07:47 on 13 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Irish priest & leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution, Charles Leslie, who died #OnThisDay 13 April 1722. This was the first of his seven anti-Quaker propaganda works, claiming that Qua...

Leighton Library has a 1568 edition of "Sofokleous 'Ai 'epta tragojdiai" by Joachim Camerarius

Added by Leighton Library at 03:50 on 12 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1568 edition of "Sofokleous 'Ai 'epta tragojdiai. Sophoclis Tragoediae septem", a translation into Latin by German classical scholar Joachim Camerarius, the Elder (born #OnThisDay 12 April 1500), of the Seven Tragedies, plays by ancient Greek writer Sophocles

Leighton Library has 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius

Added by Leighton Library at 05:39 on 10 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" (one of the most important international legal doctrines regarding the seas and oceans, said to be the essence and backbone of the modern law of the sea) by Dutch philosopher, theologian, playwright, historiographer, poet, statesman and diplomat ...

Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of the utopian novel "New Atlantis" by Sir Francis Bacon

Added by Leighton Library at 06:51 on 09 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of the utopian novel "New Atlantis" by Sir Francis Bacon (1st Viscount St. Albans) who died #OnThisDay 9 April 1626. He was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist & author. "New Atlantis" depicts the creation of a utopian land where...