Showing Collections: 11 - 20 of 1987
17th century notebook (Heylin / Van Helmont / Gregory)
Notebook in multiple hands , including "Observations out off Heylin's Cosmographie", "Religio Medici Van Helmont", "Catlogus Lib. Math consulente Gregario". Also, list of seeds, 1690.
18th century and 19th century legal documents some in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
18th century Royal warrant commanding the preparation of letters patent granting Robert Barker use for fourteen years of his invention 'La nature a coup d'oeil ... for displaying views of nature ... by oil painting', or 'panorama'
24 drawings of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects by James Tait Black
250th Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin
The material is composed of: copies of 24 articles by the United States Information Service (USIS) on Benjamin Franklin, his life and work; 8 off-prints and articles on Franklin produced by The Franklin Institute; and, 37 accompanying photographs (attached to USIS material) with captions.
1950s study on the assimilation of African and West Indian students in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge
This thesis of 296 pages was probably written in the mid- to late-1950s and is written in language that reflects the period. It features a bibliography of works from between 1902 and 1954, and the work is concerned with the black community and assimilation within the 'bluebrick universities' of Oxford and Cambridge.
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen
‘A commentary or Dissertation upon the words of the institution of the sacrament of the Lords Supper…’ by Albert Munro (fl.1757)
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‘A compilement of Lamentations specially formed for the churches indifferent use on mourneful occasions’
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A Law: notes from lectures on Chemistry by Joseph Black
The lectures on chemistry by Joseph Black consist of:
- 3 volumes of lecture notes (1775)