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Date: 1951-1965Reference: PP/ASP/A.10Part of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Books
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An informatory vindication of a poor, wasted, misrepresented remnant of the suffering, anti-popish, anti-prelatick, anti-erastian, anti-sectarian, true Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland. United together in a general correspondence. By way of reply to various accusations, in Letters, Informations and Conferences given forth against them. Written at the Leadhills in the year 1687, conjunctly by Mr. James Renwick and Mr. Alexander Shiells Author of the Hind let loose.
Renwick, James, 1662-1688.Date: 1744- Books
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A second letter to a friend. In which some farther objections to the Rev. Mr Kennedy's System of chronology are pointed out; The text in the 5th chapter of Joshua is carefully considered; and a new scheme of chronology, suited to that and other texts, and not essentially differing from Mr Kennedy's system, is humbly offered to the examination of that gentleman, and of the public.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The great advantages that arise to a Christian, By preserving in his Mind a constant Sense of the Divine Presence; Set forth in the life of Nicolas Herman, A Native of Lorrain: done out of the French. To which are subjoined, Meditations on the Lord's prayer, translated from the Spanish of Lewis of Granada.
Lawrence, of the Resurrection, brother, 1611-1691.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots. And an examination of the histories of Dr Robertson and Mr Hume, with respect to that evidence.
Tytler, William, 1711-1792.Date: 1767- Books
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A hind let loose: or, an historical representation of the testimonies of the Church of Scotland, for the interest of Christ; with the true State thereof in all its Periods: Together with A Vindication of the present Testimony against the Popish, Prelatical, and malignant Enemies of that Church, as it is now stated, for the Prerogatives of Christ, Privileges of the Church, and Liberties of Mankind, and sealed by the Sufferings of a reproached Remnant of Presbyterians there, witnessing against the Corruptions of the Time; Wherein Several Controversies of greatest Consequence are enquired into, and in some measure cleared; concerning hearing of the Curates, owning of the present Tyranny, taking of ensnaring Oaths and Bonds, frequenting of Field-Meetings, defensive Resistence of tyrannical Violence, with several other subordinate Questions useful for these Times. By Mr. Alexander Shiels, Minister of the Gospel in St. Andrews.
Shields, Alexander, 1660?-1700.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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An essay on universal history, The manners and spirit of nations, from the reign of Charlemaign, to the age of Lewis XIV. With a supplement, carrying down the history to the peace of versailles. Written in French, by M. De Voltaire; and translated into English, with additional notes and chronological tables, by Mr. Nugent.
Voltaire, 1694-1778.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots. And an examination of the histories of Dr Robertson and Mr Hume, with respect to that evidence.
Tytler, William, 1711-1792.Date: 1772- Books
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A letter to a friend. Endeavouring to give a general notion of the Rev. Mr Kennedy's late System of chronology. With a collection of arguments for and against his proposition, That our Saviour did not eat the Paschal Lamb the night before he suffered. To which is added, A passage from Scripture, respecting Chronology; concerning which the learned, author's opinion is desired.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Individual vice, the source of national calamity. A sermon, preached in the chapel of the Right Reverend Mr. William Abernethy-Drummond, in Edinburgh, on the 26th Feb. 1795; ... By James Walker, ...
Walker, James, approximately 1770-1841.Date: 1795- Books
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The Highlander delineated: Or the character, customs, and manners of the highlanders: chiefly collected from the celebrated Scotch historians, George Buchanan, and Mr. Drummond of Hawthornden. With a specimen of their heroic exploits in former times.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Divine contemplations and spiritual breathings of Mr. Henry Dorney: Comprised in, I. Practical discourses, 1. Of the nature, means, and method of salvation, on Isa. xlv. 17. 2. How to find God a sanctuary in time of trouble: with the manner of the author's entring into covenant with God, on Rev. i. 5. 3. Of union with Christ, on Joh. xvii. 23. 4. Of glorifying God, on I Cor. vi. 19, 20. With an appendix how to pursue a lawful thing lawfully. II. His letters. III. His last and dying speeches and prayers. Also an account of his life, at the close of the preface.
Dorney, Henry, 1613-1683?.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Memorial for Mr George Trail of Hobiester, minister of the gospel at Dunet, in the presbytery of Caithness, and of Mr Hew Mowat minister at Evie, Mr Hew Sutherland at Kirkwall, Mr Alexander Oliphant at Bowier, Mr Alexander Niccolson at Thurso, Mr James Taylor at Watting, Mr Martin MʻPherson at Golspie, Mr George MʻCulloch at Lath, ministers; Mr Græme of Græmeshall ruling-elder, Mr James Blaw merchant in Kirkwall, Mr Andrew Ross late factor to Lord Morton, Mr Drummond Ross collector of the customs in Kirkwall, commissioners appointed by the commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, on the 19th day of August and the 20th day of November 1766; with the concurrence, and at the instance of Mr David Dalrymple procurator for the Church of Scotland.
Trail, George, 1723-1785.Date: 1767]- Books
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Answers for Mr. John Callander of Craigforth advocate, and Robert Buchanan, tacksman of the cruive and salmon-fishing of Craigforth. To the petition of James Earl of Murray [sic], George Drummond of Blair, and John Campbell, procurator-fiscal of the sheriff-court of the count of Stirling.
Callander, John, -1789.Date: 1762]- Books
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Forty eight select sermons Preached by That Eminent and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Welch, sometime Minister of the Gospel in Air. The Two last of them were delivered, as his Farewel Sermons, immediately before he was apprehended and made a Prisoner for the Cause and Gospel of Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, the history of his life and sufferings, with some prophetical letters.
Welch, John, 1568?-1622.Date: 1744- Books
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The anatomy of the human bones and nerves: with an account of the reciprocal motions of the heart, and a description of the human lacteal sac and duct. By Alexander Monro, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, and F. R. S.
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767.Date: 1741- Books
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Human nature in its fourfold state of primitive integrity, entire depravation, begun recovery, and consummate happiness or misery, subsisting in the parents of mankind in paradise, the unregenerate, the regenerate, all mankind in the future state. In several practical discourses: by Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.Date: 1744- Books
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Supplement to the ministers widows scheme, in a letter to the clergy, directing the improvement of their glebes. Wherein It is shewn, That the Plan here laid down, may be executed to the far greatest Profit. And how every farmer, by applying the Rules offered, may improve any Number of Acres to a proportional Advantage. By Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a Member of, and Secretary to the Honourable, the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. When the Dust groweth into Hardness, and the Clods cleave fast together, Wilt thou hunt the Prey for the Lion, or fill the Appetite of the young Lions? &c. Job. Entered in Stationers-Hall.
Maxwell, Robert, 1695-1765.Date: 1747- Books
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The True genuine lives, and trials, &c. of the two unfortunate brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, who were capitally convicted on Thursday the 2d, and Friday the 3d of June, 1775, Containing a full account of the forgery on Messrs. Drummond for 7500l. together with their different connections with some of the principal families in London. Also an authentic narrative of Mrs. Rudd, with a recital of the various transactions she had with the Perrcaus, together with a sympathizing letter from Mr. Stewart, her uncle, in Ireland, to the two brothers, reflecting on their late melancholy conduct. Illustrated with two new and beautiful engravings; 1st, Mr. Daniel Perreau threatening to murder Mrs. Rudd with a knife, unless she would sign the fatal bond.-2d, the two Perreaus lamenting their nnhappy [sic] fate.
Date: [1775?]- Books
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The Life, trials and dying words of the two unfortunate twin brothers, Robert and Daniel Perreau, Who was executed on Wednesday, January 17th, 1776, at Tyburn; the former for uttering as true a forged bond for 3500l. With intent to defraud Messrs. Drummond, and the letter for uttering a bond for 3500l. with intent to defraud Dr. Brooks; with several other forgeries to a great amount. To which is added, the genuine life, and trial of Mrs. Marg. Caroline Rudd, whose trial lasted near 12 hours, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, when she was honour ably acquitted.
Date: [1776]- Books
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A catalogue of several thousand volumes, being the libraries of The Rev. Mr. Millechamp, late of Coleshill, in the County of Warwick; And of several other Gentlemen, lately deceased, Among many others, of equal Value, are the following, viz. Folios. Henry on the Old and New Testam. 5 Vols. Burkitt on the New Testament Flavel's Works, 2 Vols. Churchill's Voyages, 6 Vols. Swammerdam's History of Insects Bp. Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation, 3 V. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire Archbp. Tillotson's Works, best Edit. 3 Vs. Sermons preach'd at Boyle's Lectures, 3 Vs. Chambers's Dictionary, best Edit. 2 Vols. Poole's Annotations, 2 Vols. Drummond's Travels Guthrie's History of England, 5 Vols. Quartos. Holy Bible, 2 Vols. fine Paper Doddridge's Family Expositor, 6 Vols. Addison's Works, 4 Vols. Kester's Travels, 4 Vols. Blainville's Ditto, 3 Vols. Octavos, &c. Smollet's History of England, 11 Vols. Plutarch's Lives, 8 Vols. Shaftesbury's Characteristics, 3 Vols. Burn's Justice, 4 Vols. Rider's History of England, 50 Vols. Spectators, 8 Vols. Nature Display'd, 7 Vols. Which will begin to be sold cheap (the lowest Price being printed in the Catalogue) on Monday the 10th of November, 1766, and continue selling to the 1st of January, 1767, At T. Luckman's Sale-Room, near the Cross, Coventry.
Luckman, Thomas.Date: 1766]- Books
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C. Parker's new catalogue, of a fine collection of books, particularly of the history and antiquities, of this and foreign countries; Among others, are Folio. Crozat's Prints, 2 vol. Rossi's Statues Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vol. Luxembourg Gallery De Lisle's Atlas Prynne's Constitution of Eng. 3 vol. Monasticon, per Dugdale, 3 vol. - Ditto English & Origines Jurid. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Hist. of Eng. 5 vol. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. best edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum Maitland's London, 2 vol. Stow's London, 2 vol. Philpot's Kent Morant's Essex, 2 vol. lar. and sm. pap. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, lar. and sm. pap. Morton's Northamptonshire Dugdale's Warwickshire Coker's Dorsetshire Leicester's Cheshire Drake's York Prince's Worthies of Devon Peck's Hist. of Stamford Thorpe's Hist. of Rochester Parkyns's Kings Lynn Dart's Canterbury and York Higden's Polychronicon Fructus Temporum Carew of Elections-Wood's Athaenae Bacon's Abridgment of the Law, 5 vol. Thurloe's, Burleigh's, Sydney's, Strafford's, Roe's, Ormond's, &c. State Papers Fox's Martyrs, best edit. 3 vol. Blair's Chronology Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 2 vol. Churchill's, Harris's, Pococke's, Harleian, Hackluyt's, Frier's, Tavernier's, Wheler's, Drummond's, Chishull's, &c. Voyages and Travels Royal Commentaries of Peru Mariana's Hist. of Spain Ducarel's Ang. Norman Antiquities System of Geography, 2 vol. Hist. Romanae Scriptores, 3 vol. Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, &c. Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vol. Johnson's, Postlethwayte's, &c. Dictionary Scapulae Lexicon, edit. opt. Anderson of Commerce, 2 vol. Holland's Pliny-Uiry's Chaucer Hanbury's Gardening, 2 v. - Gerard's Herbal Guillim's Heraldry, best edit. Gibbs's Designs, lar. pap. Porcell's Orpheus Britain. Locke, Hobbes, &c. Quarto. Magna Britannia, II vol. Dr. Campbell's Survey of Britain, 2 vol. Grose's Antiquities, 2 vol. Hume and Macaulay's Hist. Lyttelton's Hen II. and Works, 5 vol. Robertson's Cha. V. and Scotland, 5 vol. Blackstone's Comment. and Tracts, 5 vol. Walpole's Painters, 4 vol. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vol. Hawkesworth's, Parkynson's, Bougainville's, Anson's, Phipps's, Ives's, &c. Voyages Hist. of Jamaica, 3 vol. Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. Albin's Birds and Infects, 4 vol. Ames on Printing-Dale's Harwich Milton, Pope, Locke, Bacon, Swift. Addison, Boyle, Bolingbroke, Middleton, Spenser, &c. Parl. Hist. and Debates, 65 vol. Svo. Universal History, 65 vol. 8vo. Which will be selling the 25th instant, and continue daily, At the Prices printed in the Catalogue; by C. Parker, Bookseller, The Upper Part of New Bond-Street. Where the atmost Value is given for any Library or Parcel of Books; Also Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Owen, within Temple-Bar; Mr. E. Johnson, in Ave-Maria Lane; Mess. Woodfall and Co. at Charing-Cross; Mr. Davenhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; Mr. Fletcher, at Oxford; and Mess. Merrill's, at Cambridge. 1775.
Parker, Charles, bookseller.Date: 1775]- Digital Images
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Chinese manuscript Ying-chi-li kuo hsin-ch'u chung-tou
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes: in which are included the library of the Rev. Mr. Chalmers, of Eglin, in Scotland, With several other large Parcels of Law, Mathematicks, Divinity, and English History of Several Eminent Gentlemen, Deceased, &c. The Whole making a large Assortment of valuable Books in most Languages. Arts, and Sciences, and in general are in very good Condition. Among which are the following. Folio. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 vol. best edit. Thoresby's Leeds, L. P. in Russ. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, L. P. in Russ. Morant's Essex, 2 vol. large and small paper Rapin and Tindal's Contin. 5 vol. in Russ. ... Voyages and Travels by Churchill, 8 vol. in Rus. Harris, 2 vol. in Rus. gilt leaves, Pococke, 2 vol. eleg. Shaw, L. P. Thevenot, Drummond, Drake, &c. Montfaucon's Antiquities, L. P. compleat in 5 vol. in Rus. Duncan's Caesar, eleg. in Rus. Universal History, 7 vol. Winston's Josephus, 2 vol. eleg. in Rus. Rycaut's Peru, good copy Parkinson's Herbal Gerarde's Herbal Salmon's Herbal, 2 vol. fine paper Utry's Chaucer, large paper ... Dion Cassius Reimari, 2 tom. eleg. Scapulae Lexicon, in Rus. edit. opt. J. Caesari in Metal. dal Pedrusi, 10 tom. Ciceronis Opera Stephani, 2 tom. Les Restes de L'ancienne Rome, par D'overbeke, eleg. in Rus. Bayle's Dict. and Biography. 12 vol. eleg. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vol. eleg. in Rus. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. eleg. Miller's Dictionary Delpino's, Chambaud's, eleg. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance. 2 vol. eleg. ... Pollexsen, L. P. Fortescue, Freeman, T. Raymond, Comberbach, Fitz-Gibbons. Wilson, &c. Bacon's Abridgement, 5 vol. best Horseman's Conveyancing, 2 vol. best Domat's Civil Law, 2 vol. best Bracton de Legibus, 4to. Wesley's Christian Library, 50 vol. Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 2 vol. Which will be sold very cheap (for Ready Money only) the lowest Prices in the Catalogue, on Wednesday, March [blank] 1770, and continue daily on Sale, by William Otridge Bookseller; Opposite the North-Side of the New Church in the Strand; where most Money is given for any Library or Parcel of Books, or Books exchanged.
Otridge, William, -1812.Date: 1770]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: DO-DR
Date: 1779-1882Reference: MS.9186