Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Scottish and British affairs A VERY LARGE COLLECTION OF WORKS, PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS IN 31 VOLUMES: Wedgwood, Josiah. An Attempt to Compare and Connect the Thermometer for strong fire…read at the Royal Society, May 13, 1784 [London, 1784], engraved plates—Downie, Murdo. The New Pilot of Scotland…accompanied by four charts. For the author, 1792—Lunardi, Vincent. An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland… for the author, 1786—Burke, Edmund. Speech…on moving…resolutions for conciliation with the colonies, March 22, 1775. The third edition. For J. Dodsley, 1778; and many others, on British trade and commerce, plans for prisons, bridges and other works in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth-century, reports on the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum (early nineteenth century); Minutes and Proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers of Edinburgh, Heads of Bills (e.g. for enlarging and improving the Harbour of Leith for erecting docks (with engraved plate); collections of poetry in various editions (e.g. Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, 1770); Letters to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Narratives of Riots in Edinburgh, accounts of elections, the peerage, some accounts of slaves (e.g. Information for John Wedderburn…against Joseph Knight a Negro, Pursuer… July 1775), surveys of collieries, Forms of Prayer to be used in Scotland, exhibition catalogues, trials, Informations relating to various trade and land disputes, bankruptcies, lists of creditors, rules of Friendly Societies, faculty reports, observations on the introduction of roads to the Scottish Highlands, trade in Holland and Germany, parliamentary arguments for the reform of gambling clubs, instructions for the swordsman, patents, proposals for the relief of the poor, essays on bleaching, works on language, histories of the wars in Scotland, letters from Tenerife, Brazil, the East Indies and Russia, accounts of Philanthropic Societies, Widow’s Petitions; Proceedings of the Society for the Suppression of Vice; many Edinburgh imprints; some works with the ownership signature of Sir William Forbes or other contemporaries, some presentation copies, occasional manuscript notes interleaved; 4to and 8vo, chiefly contemporary or near contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 69, 101, 206, 230, 231, 236, 239, 243, 244, 273, 278, 310, 321, 334, 337, 339, 360, 362, 363, 375, 377, 376 , 378), some works in poor condition, bindings sometimes rubbed or defective (31)
Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Scottish and British affairs A VERY LARGE COLLECTION OF WORKS, PAMPHLETS AND TRACTS IN 31 VOLUMES: Wedgwood, Josiah. An Attempt to Compare and Connect the Thermometer for strong fire…read at the Royal Society, May 13, 1784 [London, 1784], engraved plates—Downie, Murdo. The New Pilot of Scotland…accompanied by four charts. For the author, 1792—Lunardi, Vincent. An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland… for the author, 1786—Burke, Edmund. Speech…on moving…resolutions for conciliation with the colonies, March 22, 1775. The third edition. For J. Dodsley, 1778; and many others, on British trade and commerce, plans for prisons, bridges and other works in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth-century, reports on the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum (early nineteenth century); Minutes and Proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers of Edinburgh, Heads of Bills (e.g. for enlarging and improving the Harbour of Leith for erecting docks (with engraved plate); collections of poetry in various editions (e.g. Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, 1770); Letters to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Narratives of Riots in Edinburgh, accounts of elections, the peerage, some accounts of slaves (e.g. Information for John Wedderburn…against Joseph Knight a Negro, Pursuer… July 1775), surveys of collieries, Forms of Prayer to be used in Scotland, exhibition catalogues, trials, Informations relating to various trade and land disputes, bankruptcies, lists of creditors, rules of Friendly Societies, faculty reports, observations on the introduction of roads to the Scottish Highlands, trade in Holland and Germany, parliamentary arguments for the reform of gambling clubs, instructions for the swordsman, patents, proposals for the relief of the poor, essays on bleaching, works on language, histories of the wars in Scotland, letters from Tenerife, Brazil, the East Indies and Russia, accounts of Philanthropic Societies, Widow’s Petitions; Proceedings of the Society for the Suppression of Vice; many Edinburgh imprints; some works with the ownership signature of Sir William Forbes or other contemporaries, some presentation copies, occasional manuscript notes interleaved; 4to and 8vo, chiefly contemporary or near contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 69, 101, 206, 230, 231, 236, 239, 243, 244, 273, 278, 310, 321, 334, 337, 339, 360, 362, 363, 375, 377, 376 , 378), some works in poor condition, bindings sometimes rubbed or defective (31)
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