Leighton Library has 1735 edition of translation of "Oeuvres d'Horace" by André Dacier

Added by Leighton Library at 06:26 on 06 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1735 edition of one of the most important works of French classical scholar André Dacier who was born #OnThisDay 6 April 1651. This was his translation of the leading Roman lyric poet Horace "Oeuvres d'Horace"

Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician John Napier

Added by Leighton Library at 12:34 on 04 April 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (best known as discoverer of logarithms, and after whom Edinburgh Napier University is named) John Napier who died #OnThisDay 4 April 16...

Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert

Added by Leighton Library at 07:36 on 03 April 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1652 first edition of "Herbert's Remains, Or, Sundry Pieces Of that sweet Singer of the Temple consisting of his collected writings from A Priest to the Temple, Jacula Prudentum, Sentences, & c., as well as a letter, several prayers, and three Latin poems" by English poet,...