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Leighton Library has 1762 first edition of "Émile, or On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Added at 07:58 on 28 June 2025
The Leighton Library has a 1762 first edition of the novel by highly influential political and educational philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born #OnThisDay 28 June 1712) "Émile, or On Education" (a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship, which was banned in Paris and Geneva & publicly burned when published, but during French Revolution served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education), 1764 edition of his novel Julie, or the New Heloise, 1764 edition of "Esprit" and 1764 editions of works of Rousseau.
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Leighton Library has 1762 first edition of "Émile, or On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1576 edition of "Ioannis Caluini Epistolae et responsa" by Théodore de Bèze
23
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1740 edition of “Metrum de praelio apud Bannockburn” by Robert Baston
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Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1755 edition of “A collection of sermons, mostly preached at sacramental occasions” by Ebenezer Erskine
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Jun
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Leighton Library has 1816 edition of “A visit to Flanders, in July, 1815, being chiefly an account of the Field of Waterloo. With a short sketch of Antwerp and Brussels, at that time occupied by the wounded of both armies” by James Simpson
17
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1769 edition of “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose, of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, esq” by Joseph Addison
16
Jun
25
Leighton Library has first Latin translation of 1548 of “D. Ioannis Thauleri praeclarissimi viri Tam de tempore quam de sanctis conciones plane pijssimae, caeteraque opera omĩa” by Johannes Tauler
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Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1711 edition of "Apparatus Biblicus" by Bernard Lamy
12
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1618 edition of "M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Cæsaris et Pompeji lib X" by Thomas Farnaby
7
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1689 first edition of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell
5
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone
4
Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1764 edition of "Philosophie rurale ou Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture" by FrVictor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau & François Quesnay
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Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1702 First Edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory
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Jun
25
Leighton Library has 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry
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May
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Leighton Library has 1776 edition of "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees together with a historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves" by John Evelyn
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1772-1773 editions of "Oeuvres de Monsieur de Voltaire" by Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
28
May
25
Leighton Library has 1658 edition of "Les vies des Saints Pères des déserts et de quelques Saintes" by Robert Arnauld d’Andilly
27
May
25
Leighton Library has 1614 edition of "Relatio ad reges & principes christianos" by Caspar Schoppe
25
May
25
Leighton Library has 1816 edition of “Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity” by William Paley
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1701 edition of "The pirat's doom : or, Captain Kidd's fatall farewell“
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1628 edition of "De miraculis occultis naturae” by Lemnius
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1663 First Edition of "Discours politiques des rois" by Georges de Scudéry
13
May
25
Leighton Library has 1680 edition of the controversial "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci
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May
25
Leighton Library has second edition of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden
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May
25
Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by Joseph Addison & Sir Richard Steele
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Apr
25
Leighton Library has 1731 first edition of English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" by Philipp van Limborch
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Apr
25
Leighton Library has 1769 edition of "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" by Thomas Reid
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Apr
25
Leighton Library has 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
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