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The Guinness Book of Records, August 1955, First Trade Edition, First Impression
A copy of the very first printing of the Guinness Book of Records, which went on to became a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Initially produced as...
View full detailsMedicine; Simpson and Syme of Edinburgh, John A. Shepherd, 1969
A very nice copy of this biography of two remarkable Edinburgh doctors from the 19th Century. James Simpson's discovery of the use of chloroform ga...
View full detailsThe Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983); The First Two Hundred Years, Neil Campbell and R. Martin Smellie, 1983
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983); The First Two Hundred Years, by Neil Campbell and R. Martin Smellie. With a Foreword by the Hon. Lord C...
View full detailsMen of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits, Photographed by Lock and Whitfield, Thompson Cooper, 1876-1881. Chiswick Press.
Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...
View full detailsAberdeen University; Some Account of the Last Bajans of King's and Marischal Colleges M DCCC LIX - LX, William Johnston, 1899 Private printing of 100 copies
Aberdeen University; Some Account of the Last Bajans of King's and Marischal Colleges M DCCC LIX - LX, and of those who joined their Class in the U...
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