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The Hindūstān̄ı manual : intended to facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with fluency, and composing with accuracy, in the most useful of all languages spoken in our eastern empire / by the late Duncan Forbes, LL.D.
Forbes, Duncan, 1798-1868.Date: 1903- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1897Reference: GALTON/2/5/9/1/6Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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The complete French master for ladies and gentlemen: containing, I. A new methodical French grammar. II. A well-digested and copious Vocabulary. III. Familiar Phrases and Dialogues on all manner of Subjects. IV. Dialogues of Wit and Humour. V. A Taste of the French Poetry. VI. A Collection of French Songs. Vii. A Collection of Choice Proverbs, both French and English. Viii. A catalogue of the most approved French books, recommended for a Lady's or Gentleman's Library. For the use of the late Duke of Glocester. By Mr A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English.
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation. In two parts. Viz. The heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals, (beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects) more particularly in the Body of the Earth, its Figure, Motion, and Consistency; and in the admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man and other Animals; as also in their Generation, &c. With answers to some objections. By John Ray, Late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Report of the Committee of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Glasgow, on the bill brought into the House of Commons last session of Parliament, for regulating the importation and exportation of corn, &c. As amended by the Committee of that Honourable House.
Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Glasgow.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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British moths, sphinxes, etc / by James Duncan.
Duncan, James, 1804-1861.Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
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Winter evening amusements. Being a collection of curious and entertaining histories, &c. Amongst which are the following; Montelion or the Knight of the Oracle, and son of Persicles, King of Assyria. The history of the life and death of Guy, Earl of Warwick, containing his amours, noble exploits, and victories. The history of Parismus, the valiant Prince of Bohemia. The history of the life and wicked death of Dr. John Faustus. The history of Valentine and Orson, sons to the famous and renown'd emperor of Constantinoble. And many other pleasant histories, &c.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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A chronological index of the most remarkable events and persons, recorded in ancient and modern history, with their dates, arranged in an alphabetical order. Likewise the dates of the creation of all the peerage of Britain, &c. Under the title peers. By John Burn, teacher of English, Glasgow.
Burn, John, -1793.Date: 1786- Books
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The writing-Master and accountant's assistant containing an extensive system of practical arithmetic with a valuable set of engravings of business writing &c. Designed for the use of Academies and Boarding Schools Written by C. Buchanan Greenock. Engraved by Kirkwood & Son. Edinburgh.
Buchanan, C.Date: 1798- Books
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A poem upon tea. Wherein its antiquity, its several virtues and influences are set forth; and the Wisdom of the sober Sex commended in chusing so mild a Liquor for their Entertainments. Likewise, the reason why the Ladies protest against all Imposing Liquors, and the Vulgar Terms used by the Followers of Bacchus. Also, the Objections against Tea, answered; the Complaint of the Fair Sex redress'd, and the best way of proceeding in Love-Affairs: Together with the sincere Courtship of Dick and Amy, &c. By Duncan Campbell.
Campbell, Duncan.Date: [1735][1734]- Books
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The tariff: or, book of rates and duties, on goods passing through the sound, at Elsingoer in Denmark; As the same is settled by Treaties, and otherwise allowed of, together with Extracts of said Treaties, and Remarks thereon; also Directions for the Masters of Ships, regarding their Entries at the Custom-House there; Regulations concerning the Trade in general; Accounts of the Weights, Measures, and Monies, useful for the Merchant and Shipmaster to know. Also Instructions for the Lowering to the Castle of Cronburg, &c. Carefully collected by John Atkinson, Who resided in Elsingoer several Years.
Atkinson, John, of Elsingoer, Denmark.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The complete French master for ladies and gentlemen: containing, I. A new methodical French grammar. II. A well-digested and copious Vocabulary. III. Familiar Phrases and Dialogues on all manner of Subjects. IV. Dialogues of Wit and Humour. V. A Taste of the French Poetry. VI. A Collection of French Songs. Vii. A Collection of Choice Proverbs, both French and English. Viii. A catalogue of the most approved French books, recommended for a Lady's or Gentleman's Library. For the use of the late Duke of Glocester. By Mr A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English.
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The duties, afflictions, and consolations, of The Faithful Minister. A sermon. Preached at the Ordination of Mr. John Macara, in the Associate Congregation of Path-Struie, June 15. 1785. With The Charge of the Minister, and Address to the People. By John Jamieson, Minister of the Gospel, Forfar.
Jamieson, John, 1759-1838.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The Edinburgh new dispensatory : ... Being an improvement upon the new dispensatory of Dr Lewis.
Lewis William, 1708-1781.Date: 1789- Books
The natural history of British moths, sphinxes, &c / Illustrated by thirty-two plates; with memoir and portrait of Madam Merian. By Duncan, M.W.S.
Duncan, James, 1804-1861.Date: 1836- Books
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The instructor: or, Young man's best companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person without the help of a master. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse. How to write letters on business or friendship, forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Also merchants' accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties and market-towns in England and Wales; and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new style. Together with the method of measuring, carpenters', joiners', sawers', bricklayers', plasterers', plumbers', masons', glaziers', and painters' work. How to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity; and the common wages of journeymen: with the description of gunter's line, and coggeshall's sliding-rule. Likewise the practical gauger made easy: the art of dialing, and how to erect and fix dials; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy; also, some useful interest tables. By George Fisher, accomptant.
Fisher, George, accomptant.Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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Flora Scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides / by John Lightfoot, A.M.
Date: MDCCXCII [1792]- Books
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The practical counting house; Or, calculation and accountantship illustrated, in all the cases that can occur in trade, domestic or foreign proper or company; in buying, selling, drawing, remitting, exporting, importing, factorage, brokerage, insurance, exchange, &c. To which is added, an appendix, containing procedents of writing, English and Sco[t]s, proper for every regular counting house; and a book of rates, exhibiting, at one view, the duty and drawback upon every commodity the British merchant exports or imports, with a summary of the laws respecting the same. By James Scruton, of the academy in Glasgow, author of the mercantile penmanship.
Scruton, James.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The catechism modernized: And adapted to the meridian of patroange and late improvements in the Church of Scotland: With suitable creeds and prayers.
Bruce, Archibald, 1746-1816.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Free thoughts on the toleration of popery, deduced from a review of its principles and history, with respect to liberty and the interests of princes and nations. Wherein the Question concerning the repeal of the penal statutes is examined, and some late acts of the British legislature are considered; with some Occasional Remarks on the Religious Establishment and Laws of Great Britain. The whole Authenticated and illustrated by a Variety of Historical Notes and unexceptionable Testimonies. To which is subjoined An Appendix, containing several Papers relative to the Subject. By Calvinus Minor, Scoto-Britannus.
Bruce, Archibald, 1746-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Medical cases, selected from the records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh: with remarks and observations. By Andrew Duncan, M.D. F.R. & A.S.Ed. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Member of the Royal Societies of Medicine of Paris, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, &c.
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... / containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, an account of the natural history, qualities, operations and uses, of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the new editions of the London (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) pharmacopoeias; with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each: together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; With new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781.Date: 1791- Books
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Six dreadful alarms, in order to the right improving of the Gospel; Or the substance of a sermon on Matthew vii. 24. Therefore whosoever hereth these sayings of mine and doth them, I will liken him unto a wise which built his house upon a rock, &c. Preached by Mr. Michael Bruce minister of the Gospel.
Bruce, Michael, 1634 or 1635-1693.Date: 1738- Books
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The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates and their crews, from Captain Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Captain John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, &c. who were hanged at Execution-Dock, June 11, 1735, for Piracy and Murder; and afterwards hanged in Chains between Blackwall and Deptford: And in this Edition continued down to the Year 1735. Giving a more full and true Account than any yet published, of all their Murders, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Way of Living. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the laws against piracy.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1769- Books
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The British songster, being a select collection of favourite Scots and English songs, catches, &c.
Date: 1786