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GB 249 OA/5/4 · Item · 1770s
Part of John Anderson papers

Lists 335 specimens. Title at rear of volume, "Catalogue of fossils which are contained in a large wooden case in Mr Anderson's house, having this inscription upon it 'Fossilia secundum systema Cronstedt'". The place of origin is mentioned and the synonyms of Wallerius, Linnaeus and Da Costa. The volume has been reused later to record weather observations 1831-1834.

GB 249 OA/5/5 · Item · 1770s
Part of John Anderson papers

Contains a detailed account of the Roman conquest of Britain, description of the Antonine Wall and the Roman artefacts excavated there. Anderson refers to the ongoing building of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the antiquities discovered by the builders at Castlecary and elsewhere along the route of the canal. Some of the essays were delivered as papers to the Literary Society of Glasgow College, possibly in 1771 and 1773.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1489 · Item · 1773
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

'La Topografia di Roma Di Gio Batta Nol[l]i Dalla Maggiore in Questa Minor Tauloa Dal Medesimo ridot[t]a E Da Ignazio Benedetti Incisa'

Scale unspecified.

Dedication to Cardinal Gio. Carlo Boschi in top left corner.

'3' endorsed top left corner in manuscript in pencil.

[Cities Exhibition.]

This is the second edition of Giovanni Battista Nolli's small map of Rome (1748), (Denison, Cara D., Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles, 'Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries' (Montréal: Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993), p. 84).

Benedetti, Ignazio, 1725-1790, engraver
Treatise on natural history
GB 249 OA/3/2 · Item · [1774 - 1798]
Part of John Anderson papers

Another copy of the text of Anderson's Discourses of natural and artificial systems in natural history delivered to the Literary Society in Glasgow College, 1774, without the initial details about the Society but prefaced by several comments dated 1797 and 1798 on the importance of the work and its possible publication as a memorial to Professor Anderson, who died in 1796.

Rome
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1539 · Item · [1774-1779]
Part of Italy: Individual towns, cities, regions etc.

Three engravings from G.B. Piranesi's 'Trofeo osia Magnifica Colonna Coclide...' (1774-1779).

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1726-1778, engraver and architect