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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library of Thomas Thomson, Esq., Advocate;
Author: Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library of Thomas Thomson ... to be Sold by Auction by Mess. C. B. Tait&Co. ... on Monday June 28, 1841, and Twelve Following Days
Author: Thomas ThomsonReading the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Mark TowseyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004193510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the history of reading, this book explores the reception of books by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and Thomas Reid (amongst many others), assessing their impact on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of readers across the social scale. In the process, the book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Taylour-Tonneys
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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A catalogue of a ... collection of upwards of twenty-six thousand ancient and modern tracts and pamphlets, collected and arranged by John Russell Smith. On sale
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Charles Areskine’s Library
Author: Karen BastonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004315381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Charles Areskine’s Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate’s private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland. By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer’s library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine’s lifetime.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Catalogue of an Extensive Selection of Books in Various Classes of Literature from the Stock of William Paterson, 67 Princes Street Edinburgh
Author: William PatersonPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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