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Absalom and Achitophel. A poem.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.Date: 1708?]- Books
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Absalom and Achitophel. A poem.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.Date: 1708]- Pictures
King William IV and Lord Grey inspect a race-horse with the head of Lord Althorp in a paddock. Coloured lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 1 March 1831Reference: 651321i- Books
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The true-Born Scot: inscribed to John Earl of Bute.
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The True-born Scot inscribed to John Earl of Bute.
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Archives and manuscripts
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871), President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical Society
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1792-1871, President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical SocietyDate: 1815-1871Reference: MS.5220- Books
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Reflections on American music : the twentieth century and the new millennium : a collection of essays presented in honor of the College Music Society / and co-edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle.
Date: 2000- Pictures
A valley with rocky hills on either side: men and women are guarding livestock, dancing and playing music. Etching and stipple by J. Scott, 1815, after W.M. Craig after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: July 1 1815Reference: 3043152i- Pictures
A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Engraving after B. Wilson, 1766.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: [18 March 1766?]Reference: 582581i- Pictures
A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Etching after B. Wilson, 1766.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: [1766]Reference: 2475206i- Pictures
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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- Pictures
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Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.
Date: 1849Reference: 15670i- Pictures
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The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 August 1816Reference: 12212i- Books
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An impartial account of the affairs of Scotland, from the death of K. James the fifth, to the tragical exit of the Earl of Murray, Regent of Scotland. In four books. Wherein, besides other material passages of state not hitherto published, is the Scotch Embassy to Queen Elizabeth, to declare her successor, with the learned arguments on that head. Also some remarkable instances that may give light into the dependency of Scotland on the crown of England. With an extract of Mary Queen of Scot's Letters to the Earl of Bothwell, plainly detecting the whole design and execution of her husband's murder. Written by an eminent hand.
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.Date: 1705- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 3: P-Z
Date: 20th CenturyReference: SA/RSP/A/11/3Part of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
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The universal Scots almanack, for the year of Our Lord, M.DCC.LX. being leap year, is, with the greatest submission, dedicated to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Dundonald, and to the Honourable George Drummond, Christopher Rhodes, Alexander Udny, Richard Dauber, Esqurs. Commissioners and Governors for the management of his Majesty's revenue of excise in Scotland, by their Honours most humble, and most obedient servant, John Chapman.
Date: [1760]- Books
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A sonnet, supposed to have been written by Mary Queen of Scots, to the Earl of Bothwell; previous to her marriage with that nobleman. Translated into English. To which is subjoined a copy of the French sonnet, written, as it is said, with the Queen's own hand; and found in casket, with other secret papers.
Mary, Queen of Scotland.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of the late Reverend John Cumming, D.D. Minister of the Scots Church, in London. Who departed this life Sept. 7. 1729. Aetat. 44. Preached at Founders-Hall, September 21. By Jabez Earle, D. D. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Douglas.
Earle, Jabez, 1676?-1768.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The history of England, during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart. Wherein the errors of late histories are discover'd and corrected; With Proper Reflections, And several Original Letters from King Charles II. King James II. Oliver Cromwell, &c. As also the Lord Saville's Famous Forg'd Letter of Invitation, which brought the Scots into England in the Year 1640, And gave Occasion to the Beginning of the Civil Wars. This Letter being never before publish'd, led the Earl of Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, Mr. Echard, Dr. Welwood, and other Writers, into Egregious Mistakes upon this Head. To all which is Prefix'd, Some Account of the Liberties taken with Clarendon's History before it came to the Press, such Liberties as make it Doubtful, What Part of it is Clarendon's, and what Not. The whole Collected from the most Authentick Memoirs, Manuscript and Printed. By the author of the Critical history of England.
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to George Newman from various correspondents
Date: 1890-1940Reference: MS.6201Part of: Newman, Sir George (1870-1948), pioneer of public and child health care- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellany, English
Nesmith, Robert, fl.1682Date: 1655-1910Reference: MS.9258- Pictures
Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.Date: Sept. 1762Reference: 38090i- Books
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The scots gardener for the climate of Scotland, in three parts: Treating of the following particulars, I. Of contrivance and design. II. Of gardens and orchards, &c. III. Of levelling, measuring, and dividing land. IV. Of cultivating and preparing ground. V. Of forest and fruit trees. VI. Of gathering and preserving fruits. Together with the gardener's Kalendar, the florist's vade-mecum, the practical bee-master, observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's treatise on forest-trees. Written originally by John Reid, Gardener to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, and now carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by. An Eminent Hand.
Reid, John, Gardener.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The scots gardiner for the climate of Scotland, In Three Parts. Treating of the following Particulars, I. Of Contrivance and Design. II. Of Gardens and Orchards, &c. III. Of levelling, measuring, and dividing Land. IV. Of cultivating and preparing Ground. V. Of Forest and Fruit-Trees. VI. Of gathering and preserving Fruits. Together with the gardiner's kalendar, the florist's vade-mecum, The practical, bee-master, observations on the weather, and the Earl of Haddington's treatise on forest-trees. Written originally by John Reid, Gardiner to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, and no carefully corrected, with alterations and additions, by an eminent hand.
Reid, John, Gardener.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Books
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A dissertation concerning the competition for the crown of Scotland, betwixt Lord Robert Bruce and Lord John Baliol, in the Year 1291. Wherein is proved, That by the Laws of God and of Nature, by the Civil and Feudal Laws, and particularly by the fundamental Law and Constitution of Scotland, at that Time, and ever since, the Right of Robert Bruce was preferable to that of John Baliol: in Answer to the Author of a late Pamphlet, intitled, The Right of the House of Stewart to the Crown of Scotland considered; to the Reverend Mr. Logan's two Treatises on Government, and to three anonymous Papers in the Scots and British Magazines. With an appendix, Demonstrating, that the Claim said to have been made to the Crown of Scotland, by William first Earl of Douglas, anno 1371, is without Foundation. By Tho. Ruddiman, A. M.
Ruddiman, Thomas, 1674-1757.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]