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Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot
Added at 06:24 on 29 April 2024
Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, John Arbuthnot who was born #OnThisDay 1667. He inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and invented the fictional figure of John Bull
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James Fraser, CEO of the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust, met today with members of the Leighton Library group
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Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon
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Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci
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Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" by Juan de Ávila
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Leighton Library has a 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden
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Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes"
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Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis"
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Leighton Library has a 1727 first edition of “Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations” by John Arbuthnot
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Leighton Library has a 1769 edition of "An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" by Thomas Reid
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Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
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Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger
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Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard
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Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" by Philipp Melanchthon
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Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of "De inventoribus rerum"
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Leighton Library has several books by theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet
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When it first opened, Bishop Douglas drew up rules for the Keeper of the Leighton Library
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Leighton Library has a 2nd edition of 1755/6 of Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary "A Dictionary of the English Language"
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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"
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Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie
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Leighton Library has a 1568 edition of "Sofokleous 'Ai 'epta tragojdiai" by Joachim Camerarius
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Leighton Library has 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius
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Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of the utopian novel "New Atlantis" by Sir Francis Bacon
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Leighton Library has a 1597 edition of the biography of co-founder of Jesuits
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Leighton Library has 1735 edition of translation of "Oeuvres d'Horace" by André Dacier
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Leighton Library has a 1611 edition of "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" by celebrated Scottish mathematician John Napier
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Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert
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Leighton Library has a 1654 edition of "Letters to severall persons of honour" by eminent English poet John Donne
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