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Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost and town-council of Edinburgh / by Dr Knox.
Date: 1837- Books
The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.
Laing, OliviaDate: 2016- Books
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By order of the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, the magistrates, and Council of the city of Edinburgh. While so many works are going on in the city of Edinburgh; - for the conveniency and safety of the inhabitants, it is necessary strictly to adhere to the following regulations, ...
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1786]- Books
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In the House of Lords. The Magistrates and Town Council of the City of Glasgow, - - - - - Appellants. John Glasford, and others, Partners of the Brewery Company near Anderstown, under the Firm of Murdoch, Warroch, and Company, - - - - - Respondents. The Respondents' case.
Glassford, John, 1715-1783.Date: 1783]- Books
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Observations on foul water irrigation : founded on a personal survey of different districts of the city, and an examination of their comparative salubrity, being a reply to certain statements made at a meeting of the Town-Council on the 2d April, 1839 / by William Tait.
Date: 1839- Books
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On the cleansing operations of Edinburgh, as compared with other towns / by Henry D. Littlejohn.
Date: 1865- Books
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Notice to owner of Report of Medical Officer of Health, as to premises which ought to be demolished, &c : Date of report, 21st February, 1899. " notice, 1st December, 1899 / Edward William Hope, Medical Officer of Health ; Edward Ralph Pickmere, Town Clerk.
Hope, E. W. (Edward William), 1855-1950Date: [1899?]- Books
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The Universities (Scotland) Bill : a letter to the Lord Provost, magistrates and town council of the city of Edinburgh / by James Colston.
Date: 1883- Books
Restorative cities : urban design for mental health and wellbeing / Jenny Roe and Layla McCay.
Roe, Jenny (Landscape architect)Date: 2021- Books
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Sanitary state of Cape Town / by W.T. Black.
Black, William Thomas, 1824-1909.Date: [1877]- Ephemera
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"Don't just sit there, Fred - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.
Date: [1978]- Archives and manuscripts
Andrew Balfour, "Fourth Report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum. Volume A - Medical"
Date: 1911Reference: WF/WTRL/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
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"Don't just sit there, George - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.
Date: [1978]- Pictures
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Southampton, location of the Royal Agricultural Society's Annual Meeting in 1844. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1844.
Date: 27 July 1844Reference: 40168i- Books
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A brief narrative of the commencement and progress of the fetid irrigations and foul water pits around the city of Edinburgh : with proofs of their operation in creating nuisance, and in producing disease.
Ellis Daniel.Date: 1840- Books
The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme : strategies for urban regeneration / edited by Philip Jodidio.
Date: 2017- Books
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Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, Navigable Canal from London to Norwich and Lynn. By subscription, ready for the press, and speedily will be published, Price Five Shillings, half Bound, dedicated, by permission, to Thomas Bernay Brampston and John Bullock, Esqrs. Representatives for Essex; Sir John Rous, Bart. and Joshua Grigby, Esq. Representatives for Suffolk; Sir Edward Astley and Sir John Wodehouse, Barts. Representatives for Norfolk; a treatise addressed to the Nobility, Gentry, Land owners, Merchants, Traders, Farmers, and Manufacturers, of the Cities and Towns in those Counties, and also the City of London. Containing a full and particular account of the numerous advantages which will accrue to them, if a Navigable Canal was immediately cut from London through the interior parts of the above Counties to Norwich and Lynn. Pointing out The advantages which will accrue from such an undertaking, to the Kingdom in general, and to the Cities of London and Norwich, and Town of Lynn, in particular. As also to above sixty market and manufacturing Towns, and near seven hundred Villages, through and near which it is proposed to pass; which communication will always prevent a scarcity or monopoly of Corn or Coals in the London Market. Also, Shewing the amazing saving of land carriage, and the immense numbers of acres of land, now engrossed for growing of horse corn, only for horses employed in land carriage in these three Counties, which may be converted to other uses, as well as be the means of doubling, and in many places trebling, the value of land and produce, by a speedy, easy, and cheap conveyance to a market for consumption or exportation; and a certain and constant supply of oak timber for the royal navy, as 28,000 oak trees are proposed to be planted at proper distances, on the banks of the Canal. Including likewise, An estimate of the whole expence, and mode of raising the money necessary to carry it into execution, on the most easy, certain, and expeditious terms, and the extraordinary interest it will produce. As also a scheme for the repayment of the principal in a few years, and for rendering the shares of original Subscribers, a valuable and immense Freehold Income for ever. Illustrated with a Geographical whole sheet map of the passage which the proposed Canal is intended to take through the three Counties: As also with two views; the one of the Duke of Bridgewater's amazing Aquaduct over the River Irwell, in Lancashire, with his Grace's barges sailing thereon, forty feet above the river, and barges also passing under it, and on the river, at the same time: the other the view of the subterraneous passage of the great Staffordshire Canal above a mile under ground, at the great hill called Harecastle. The whole shewing the utility and importance of Inland Navigation. By an Essex Freeholder. At this present time, when the Princes of France, Poland, and Russia, are setting examples of this kind, for the promotion of commerce and agriculture, the Author flatters himself, the above work is not beneath the notice (if not of the Prince) at least of the present Prime Minister, the son of the immortal Chatham. Those Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who wish to promote and encourage this useful, instructing, and entertaining Treatise, are requested to transmit their Names as soon as possible, to the Printers of the Norwich, Ipswich, and Chelmsford News-Papers; Mr. Debrett, Bookseller, Piccadilly, or to Mr. Anrdews, Printer and Bookseller, No. 10, Little-Eastcheap, London; as it is intended only to print such a number as to answer the expected demand. N. B. No Subscription Money is desired till the Book is ready to be delivered, which will be on the first of December next at farthest, at which time the Book will be Delivered and the Subscription called for. - The Subscribers Names will be printed, if permitted.
Phillips, John (Surveyor)Date: 1784?]- Books
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A catalogue for the year 1764, of the libraries of the Rev. Mr. Wood, of the Isle of Wight; the Rev. and learned Dr. Umfrevile; Peter Davall, Esq; late Accomptant-General; William Bussiere, Esq; Surgeon to King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George the First and Second, and many others, lately deceased; Containing above One Hundred Thousand Volumes, Of the most Scarce and Valuable Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Books of Prints, &c. In all Languages, Arts and Sciences, viz. The Histories, Antiquities, Laws and Customs of the various Nations of the known World, with the most eminent Voyages and Travels; A Capital Collection of Prints and Books of Prints, by the greatest Masters of the Italian, French and Flemish Schools; A Noble Collection of Antient Manuscripts on Vellum; The Pompous Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, Lexicons and Critics. A Large Collection of Authors on Antiquity, Medals, Mathematicks, Physic, Surgery and Natural History; The Antient and Modern Authors of the Histories and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland; Great Numbers of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers; Several Magnificent Bibles in Various Languages; With near a Complete Collection of Common Law. Several of the Books are on large Paper, in Morocco, and other rich Bindings. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, without any Abatement, for ready Money only) at T. Osborne's, in Gray's Inn, this day, and, for the Conveniency of the Nobility and Gentry who live at a Distance, will continu daily selling to the 1st of January, 1765. Catalogues may be had at all the chief Cities and noted Towns in Europe, and at the Place of Sale; where may be had Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, Prints, Books of Prints and Manuscripts. As the Proprietor has been at great Expence in purchasing these several Libraries, which excels most Collections in the Value and Number of Volumes it contains, he hopes that it deserves a particular Regard from the Learned. - There are likewise to be disposed of, the Manuscript Sermons of the Rev. Mr. Harris of Hornchurch and Rumford, and some other eminent Divines.
Osborne, Thomas, -1767.Date: 1764]- Books
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An address from the Auxiliary Sanitary Association of New Orleans, to the other cities and towns in the Mississippi Valley.
New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary Association.Date: 1879- Books
Biocultural perspectives on birth defects in medieval urban and rural English populations / Judith Fiona Sture.
Sture, Judith Fiona.Date: 2001- Books
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A treatise on waterworks for the supply of cities and towns : with a description of the principal geological formations of England as influencing supplies of water ... / by Samuel Hughes.
Date: 1859- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1796]- Pictures
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Hospital, Messina, Sicily, Italy: the central square with a numbered key. Tinted etching by J. Deny, 1783.
Deny, Jeanne, 1749-Date: 1783Reference: 18378i- Books
Urban planning and public health in Africa : historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of a continent's water and sanitation problematic / Ambe J. Njoh.
Njoh, Ambe J.Date: [2012]- Books
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Social and sanitary reform, &c. : with some facts relative to the miserable state of these matters, in cities and towns in Scotland, and local districts, &c / by a Writer to the Signet.
Date: [1857?]