28 results filtered with: Edinburgh (Scotland) - History
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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
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The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Parochial Board.Date: 1862- Books
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God's judgements against sin: or, a relation of three dreadful fires happening in the city of Edinburgh. Poematized by James Porterfield, School-Master in Edinburgh.
Porterfield, James.Date: M.DCC.II. [1702]- Books
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The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Arnot, Hugo, 1749-1786.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Blackfriars' Wynd analyzed / by George Bell.
Bell George, 1813-1889.Date: 1850- Books
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Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor.
Date: 1861- Books
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Report on the condition of the poorer classes of Edinburgh and of their dwellings, neighbourhoods, and families : prepared by order of a public meeting of the inhabitants, held in the Council Chamber, under the presidency of The Right Honourable the Lord Provost, on the 15th April 1867, and adopted and ordered to be published, at a meeting held on the 28th of February 1868.
Date: 1868- Books
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The traveller's companion through the city of Edinburgh and suburbs: comprehending a concise history of the city, From The Earliest Accounts To The Present Period; with a description of the public buildings, illustrated with engravings. To which are added several views taken in the environs of the city.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Edinburgh and District Water Bill. St. Mary's Loch scheme. Speeches of Bailie Lewis, convener of works committee, Edinburgh and District Water Trust, at the meetings of town council, on 30th May and 1st June, 1871.
Lewis David Magistrate of the City of Edinburgh.Date: [1871]- Books
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The history of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts to the present time. Containing I. An Historical Account of the Revolutions in Scotland from 1093. II. The Manners-Learning-Trade-Religion-Prices of Provisions-Discovery of Coal-Public Amusements, &c. III. Progress and Present State of the City of Edinburgh. IV. Public Buildings and Establishments, &c. V. An Account of the University, and other Seminaries of Learning, and Literary Societies. VI. Legislative and Judicative Assemblies, with an Account of their Jurisdictions. Vii. Political and Military Constitution-Charitable Institutions-Revenue. Viii. An Account of Leith, its Trade, Shipping, Manufactures, &c. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate, author of the collection of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland. To which is added, an appendix, Containing I. A Dissertation on Scottish Music. II. An Account of Remarkable Funeral Processions. III. A Comparative View of the Modes of Living-Manners-Literature-Trade and Improvements of the City, from the 1763 to the present period. &c. &c. &c. Embellished with Twenty Engravings of Public Buildings and Views, and an Elegant and Correct Plan of the City, as it now is.
Arnot, Hugo, 1749-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Edinburgh merchants and merchandise in old times.
Chambers Robert, 1802-1871.Date: 1859- 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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Report on the mortality of Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven, for the months of January, and February, 1846 / by James Stark.
Date: 1846- Books
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The geology of the neighbourhood of Edinburgh : (map 32) / by H.H. Howell and Archibald Geikie ; appendix and lists of fossils by J.W. Salter.
Date: 1861- Books
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The history of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts to the present time; by way of guide to the city and suburbs. To which is annexed, a gazetteer of the county. Embellished with a plan of the Town and Suburbs; as also, a map of the Environs, The Radius Eleven Miles East, South, and West. By Alexander Kincaid.
Kincaid, Alexander.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Day and night in the wynds of Edinburgh / by George Bell.
Bell George, 1813-1889.Date: 1849- Books
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The history of Edinburgh, from its foundation to the present time. Containing A faithful Relation of the publick Transactions of the Citizens; Accounts of the several Parishes; its Governments, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military; Incorporations of Trades and Manufactures; Courts of Justice; State of Learning; Charitable Foundations, &c. With the several Accounts of The Parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other Districts within the Suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present State of the Town of Leith, and a Perambulation of divers Miles round the City. With an Alphabetical Index. In nine books. By William Maitland, F. R. S. Author of the History of London. The whole illustrated with a Plan of the Town, and a great Variety of other fine Cuts of the principal Buildings within the City and Suburbs.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A catalogue of the indigenous phenogamic plants growing in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh : and of certain species of the class Cryptogamia, with reference to their localities / by James Woodforde.
Woodforde, James, 1771-1837.Date: 1824- Books
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The information for His Majesty's Advocate, for His Highness's interest; against Captain Porteous; and also The information in behalf of Porteous, in answer thereto. Being the Pleadings on both Sides. Together with the Petition which was presented to Her Majesty, in behalf of Porteous, for a Pardon. With a full and particular Account of the Method taken by the Mob in executing him, more authentic than any yet published.
Scotland. Lord Advocate (Forbes : 1725-1737)Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Observations, pathological and therapeutic, on the epidemic cholera as it has prevailed in Edinburgh and its vicinity / by David Craigie.
Date: [1833?]- Books
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Interim report by the Works Committee of the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees.
Date: [1870]- Books
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Plan of sanitary improvements of the City of Edinburgh, August 17, 1866 / by Messrs Cousin and Lessels.
Date: 1866- Books
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Information for His Majesty's Advocate, for His Highness's interest; against John Porteous late Captain-Lieutenant of the city-guard of Edinburgh, pannel.
Scotland. Lord Advocate (Forbes : 1725-1737)Date: 1736]- Books
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Letter to the Right Honourable William Chambers of Glenormiston, Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, on the aims and practical working of the Association, more especially in reference to the employment of the poor / by David Curror.
Date: 1868- Books
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Anno regni Georgii I. Regis. Magn. Britann. Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, quarto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the seventeenth day of March, Anno Dom. 1714. In the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George I. by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Twenty first Day of November, 1717. Being the Third Session of this present Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1737