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Total number of records: 43

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Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)7
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Beattie, James, 1735-18032
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Æsop's Fables, in English & Latin, interlineary. For the benefit of those who not having a master, would learn either of these tongues

Aesop; Locke, John (1632-1704)

1723

The Table is bound in the preliminaries; it is signed Y, but the catchword on p.[14] leads to the text.

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An account of some experiments and observations on tar-water : wherein is shown the quantity of tar that is therein. Which was read before the Royal Society

Hales, Stephen (1677-1761); Reid, Andrew

1747

Signatures: [A]¹ B-D⁴ E³ F-K⁴ L². "A letter to the Reverend Dr. Hales,... By A. Reid Esq;" p.[31]-74, has separate title-page with same imprint, but the pagination is continuous.

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Volume of transcribed scientific lectures delivered by Patrick Copland at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1793

1793

Comprises a notebook containing the lectures apparently transcribed by David Watson. The lectures appear to have been delivered by Patrick Copland at Aberdeen. Although the lecturer has used some sour...

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BC MS Lt 82, f. 137v: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose

c.1690

Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...

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Trionfi e Canzoniere

Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374); Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374); Centone, Girolamo; Filelfo, Francesco (1398-1481); Squarciafico, Girolamo; Lapini, Bernardo; Piasi, Piero de; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

M.CCCCLXXXX. Adi.xxii.de Aprilo. [22 April 1490]

Signatures: part 1: a⁸ 2a-q⁸; part 2: A-M⁸ N⁶. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on the verso of numbered leaf 102 (N5v) reads: Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Francescho Petrarca coreti & casti...

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Elements of the theory and practice of chymistry (v.1)

Macquer, Pierre Joseph (1718-1784); Reid, Andrew

1758

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