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10 December 2021: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library awarded £30,000 by The Pilgrim Trust towards restoration appeal
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24 December 2021: Dec 2021 -The Restoration Appeal has now reached 32% of target
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24 December 2021: Dec 2021 - Donation from the Dalrymple Donaldson Fund
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16 January 2022: Great article on the Library by a Spanish journalist
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12 April 2022: Exhibition in Dunblane Museum during May of Leighton Library's 1776 American Atlas
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18 April 2022: Article in Scotland on Sunday newspaper
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29 April 2022: Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library opening times for 2022
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18 October 2022: Preparations for restoration of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library get underway
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18 October 2022: Coffee Morning in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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18 October 2022: Restoration Work on Dunblane's historic Leighton Library begins 7 November 2022
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22 October 2022: The Leighton Library – a hidden gem in Scotland’s story - a new article by Martin Roche published on the Bylines Scotland site
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09 November 2022: Article in Stirling Observer at start of restoration work as cartouche is removed for conservation
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23 November 2022: The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, KT GCMG HonFRSE PC, to become Patron of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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06 December 2022: Article in Scottish Field about removal of books in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library in preparation for major restoration work of the building
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06 December 2022: The latest issue of the Friends of Leighton Library newsletter is now being sent to all Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 January 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in Stirling Observer about plan for repair of carved tablet
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23 January 2023: 🗓️ January 2023 issue of the Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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10 March 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in the Stirling Observer about the planning application for the Undercroft of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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10 March 2023: 🗣️ March 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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09 April 2023: 🗣️ April 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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18 April 2023: 📆 Restoration Story So Far - Free Event on Thursday 1 June 2023 6-9pm in Dunblane Cathedral Hall
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28 April 2023: 📰🗞️ Article in the Stirling Observer about event about Story of Restoration of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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08 May 2023: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 7 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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19 May 2023: 🗣️ May 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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29 May 2023: 📝 Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library launches consultative Survey
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06 July 2023: 🗣️ July 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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06 July 2023: 🔨 Last chance to make a bid in fabulous auction supporting 3 causes including Leighton Library
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07 August 2023: 🗣️ August 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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05 September 2023: 🗣️ September 2023 issue of the Leighton Library Restoration News now available about progress of restoration of Leighton Library
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05 September 2023: Free Talk & Exhibition about Leighton Library Restoration as part of Doors Open Day on Sat 23 Sep at Dunblane Public Library
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27 September 2023: 👩🏫 Gathering of Volunteer Guides for Leighton Library
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03 October 2023: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 8 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 October 2023: 📰🗞️ October 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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14 November 2023: 📰🗞️ November 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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16 November 2023: 🗣️🆕🛍️ Dunblane's historic Leighton Library now has a brand new online shop
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20 November 2023: 💷 Dunblane’s Leighton Library, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built library, is set to benefit from funding from Historic Environment Scotland (HES)
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11 December 2023: 📰🗞️ December 2023 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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12 January 2024: 📰🗞️ January 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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07 February 2024: 📰🗞️ February 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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07 February 2024: ☕🍵 Coffee Morning on Saturday 2 March in support of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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04 March 2024: On 4 March 1798 Dr James Robertson borrowed Leighton Library's 1782 "Adventures of a Rupee"
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04 March 2024: 📰🗞️ March 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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05 March 2024: Mercator projection and first use of the word Atlas
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06 March 2024: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae"
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07 March 2024: Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of one of the best known works of Italian Saint Thomas Aquinas
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09 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of the highly influential "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
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09 March 2024: Work continues to prepare the interior of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library for the return of the historic collection of books from storage elsewhere
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11 March 2024: Through the arched window of the Leighton Library you can see the Olympic Gold Postbox of tennis ace Andy Murray
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14 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 first edition of a book described as a compilation of all the contemporary zoological knowledge
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15 March 2024: #OnThisDay, 15 March, 1792, Reverend Mr Michael Gilfillan, a borrower at Dunblane's Leighton Library borrowed "Encyclopaedia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature"
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19 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of 1766 of "Travels through France and Italy" by Scottish surgeon, poet & author Tobias Smollett
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20 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1810 first edition of celebrated Scottish storyteller Sir Walter Scott's epic narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake"
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21 March 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of "Rob Stene's Dream: a poem" written in Scots, published in 1836 from a manuscript from 1591-1592 in Dunblane's Leighton Library
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22 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1566 edition of "Historiae Theodorici de Niem, scribae quondam pontificij" by medieval historian Dietrich of Nieheim
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23 March 2024: Former keeper of Leighton Library was renowned meteorologist credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting
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23 March 2024: Lieutenant-General William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan, Baron Drummond of Cromlix, and Commander of the Forces in Scotland, friend of Robert Leighton, was the architect of the Leighton Library
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24 March 2024: On this day 24 March 1809 Reverend Mr Patrick Murray borrowed 1764 edition of "Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia" by Robert Adam
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25 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1607 first edition of "Euclidis Elementorum libri XV" by Christopher Clavius
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27 March 2024: Punishment of Robert Leighton's father, Alexander Leighton, described as one of most disgraceful incidents of reign of King Charles I
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28 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1659 2nd edition of "Eruditionis scholasticae atrium, rerum & linguarum ornamenta exhibens" by Comenius
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29 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1658 first edition of "Horae hebraicae et talmudicae" by John Lightfoot
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31 March 2024: Leighton Library has a 1654 edition of "Letters to severall persons of honour" by eminent English poet John Donne
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03 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1652 edition of collected works of English poet, orator, and priest George Herbert
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04 April 2024: 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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06 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1735 edition of translation of "Oeuvres d'Horace" by André Dacier
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07 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1597 edition of the biography of co-founder of Jesuits
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08 April 2024: 📰🗞️ April 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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09 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of the utopian novel "New Atlantis" by Sir Francis Bacon
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10 April 2024: Leighton Library has 1633 edition of "Mare Liberum" by Hugo Grotius
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12 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1568 edition of "Sofokleous 'Ai 'epta tragojdiai" by Joachim Camerarius
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13 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1697 second edition with additions of "The snake in the grass" by Jacobite propagandist Charles Leslie
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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"
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15 April 2024: 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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16 April 2024: When it first opened, Bishop Douglas drew up rules for the Keeper of the Leighton Library
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16 April 2024: 📰🗞️ Issue Number 9 of The Leighton Letter now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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17 April 2024: Leighton Library has several books by theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet
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18 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1604 edition of "De inventoribus rerum"
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19 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae" by Philipp Melanchthon
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22 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard
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23 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of "Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV. De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum" by Julius Caesar Scaliger
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25 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1581 edition of "Discussionum Peripateticarum" by Francesco Patrizi
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26 April 2024: 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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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 John Arbuthnot
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30 April 2024: Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis"
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01 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes"
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02 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of "Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria : in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis" by William Camden
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03 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1550 edition of "Tutte le opere" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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06 May 2024: 📰🗞️ May 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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06 May 2024: 🚪 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library is re-opening on Saturday 25 May
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10 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1588 edition of "Obras del padre maestro Iuan de Avila" by Juan de Ávila
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11 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1615 first edition of "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas" by Matteo Ricci
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13 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1680 edition of "Histoire critique du Vieux Testament" by Richard Simon
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13 May 2024: James Fraser, CEO of the Loch Katrine Steamship Trust, met today with members of the Leighton Library group
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14 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Discours politiques des rois" by Georges de Scudéry
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15 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1769 3-volume edition of "Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : written, during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa"
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16 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1799 edition of James Boswell’s "The Life of Samuel Johnson"
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17 May 2024: Leighton Library has 1577 edition of "Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia" by Martín Antonio del Río
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18 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"
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19 May 2024: 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"
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20 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1628 edition of "De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII" by Levinus Lemnius
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23 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1701 edition of "The pirat's doom : or, Captain Kidd's fatall farewell"
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26 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1554 edition of the atlas "Cosmographiae uniuersalis" by Sebastian Münster
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1661 copy of "The charge of high treason, murders, oppressions, and other crimes, exhibited to the parliament of Scotland against the Marquess of Argyle and his complices, January 23, 1661."
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1614 edition of "Relatio ad reges & principes christianos" by Caspar Schoppe
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27 May 2024: Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob." by John Calvin
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28 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1658 edition of "Les vies des Saints Pères des déserts et de quelques Saintes" by Robert Arnauld d’Andilly
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30 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1663 first edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" by Samuel Bochart
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31 May 2024: Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of his "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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31 May 2024: Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library re-opened on Saturday 25 May
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02 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1685 edition of "Conversations nouvelles sur divers sujets" by Madeleine de Scudéry
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03 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1702 edition of "Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa" by David Gregory
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05 June 2024: The Leighton Library has 1785 edition of "Chrysal : or, The adventures of a guinea" by Charles Johnstone
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07 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell
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08 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1615 edition of “Lexicon Philosophicum” by Rudolph Goclenius
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08 June 2024: The Leighton Library has 1791 edition of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and 1792 edition of his "Rights of Man"
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09 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1634 edition of “Titi Livii Historiarum libri ex recensione heinsiana.” by Daniel Heinsius
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11 June 2024: 🍵 Cromlix Afternoon Tea and hear about Cromlix and Leighton Library Water Drinkers
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12 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1618 edition of "M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Cæsaris et Pompeji lib X" by Thomas Farnaby
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13 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1785 edition of "The spectator. In eight volumes" by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
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14 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1667 edition of "Index Librorum Prohibitorum"
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15 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1711 edition of "Apparatus Biblicus" by Bernard Lamy
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16 June 2024: The persecution of Robert Leighton's father was described as "one of the most disgraceful incidents of the reign of King Charles I"
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18 June 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"
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19 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1675 edition of "Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion, et sur quelques autres sujets" by Blaise Pascal
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20 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1768 edition of “An essay on the history of civil society” by Adam Ferguson
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21 June 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1637 edition of "Missale Romanum"
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22 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1755 edition of “A collection of sermons, mostly preached at sacramental occasions” by Ebenezer Erskine
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26 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1642 first edition of "The union of Christ and the church; in a shadow" by Ralph Cudworth
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28 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1762 first edition of the novel "Émile, or On Education" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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29 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1632 edition of the novel "Blanquerna", the first major work of literature written in Catalan
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30 June 2024: Leighton Library has a 1603 edition of “De arcanis catholicae veritatis”
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01 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1640 first edition of "An humble remonstrance to the high court of parliament" by Joseph Hall
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03 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1764 first edition of "Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia" by Robert Adam
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04 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "The American atlas" by Major Samuel Holland
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05 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1733 edition of "Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John" by Sir Isaac Newton
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06 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1629 edition of "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More
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08 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1744 edition of "Sermons preached upon several occasions" by Robert South
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10 July 2024: Leighton Library has badly wormed 1569 edition of "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob" by John Calvin
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11 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1644 edition of "Observations upon religio medici" by Sir Kenelm Digby
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12 July 2024: The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus
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13 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1558 edition of "Breuis et perspicua ratio iudicandi genituras" to which John Dee contributed
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15 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1666 edition of "Memoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome" by Pierre de Bourdeille
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16 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1710 edition of "An exposition of the Creed" by John Pearson
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16 July 2024: 📰🗞️ July 2024 Issue Leighton Library Restoration News now being sent to Friends of Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
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18 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1593 edition of "Explicationum catecheticarum" by Zacharias Ursinus
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19 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1608 edition of "Locorum communium" by Conrad Vorstius
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20 July 2024: Leighton Library has 1589 edition of "Astronomica veterum scripta"
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22 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1801 edition of "Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans" by Sir Alexander Mackenzie
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24 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton
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25 July 2024: Leighton Library has a 1564 edition of "De imitando Christo" by Thomas à Kempis
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26 July 2024: Leighton Library has a first edition of 1680 of "Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester" by Gilbert Burnet
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27 July 2024: Leighton Library has 1768 edition of "Oeuvres de Maupertuis" by Pierre Louis Maupertuis
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