Anon.
Anon.
Collection of books, mainly on Scottish industrial history and archaeology. Also includes some literature, notably by Sir Walter Scott and Allan Ramsay.
Agnew, James Percival, 1905-1998, chairman of the Scottish College of CommerceList of books selected by Anderson from the Bibliotheca Mooriana published in 1779. Anderson did not purchase all of these books.
'Vue de la ville de Méssine'
'Dessiné par J. Hoüel en 1779'
'Gravé a l'eau forte par P. C. Le Bas, le Jeune'
'Le Ciel par M[ademoise]lle Denis et terminée par Michel'
'J. Hoüel direxit'
'Imprimé par Gayant J[eu]n'
P[ ] C[ ] Le Bas, [ ] Denis and [ ] Michel after Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel.
Hoüel, Jean Pierre Louis Laurent, 1735-1813, painter, engraver, architect and author'P. Sandby R.A. pinx[i]t'
'F. Chesham sculp.'
'Published as the Act directs by G. Kearsly in Fleet Street May 1 1779'
F[ ] Chesham after P[ ] Sandby.
'Plate XLVII' inscribed top right corner.
From an unidentified publication.
MS letter in Hebrew, with translation. Pinto greets his "master and teacher, learned in the Torah. Rabbi Anderson" and promises to do service both by day and night". Translation by Professor Noah Morris, 1938.
Contents: I. Of war as a scientific art; II. Of the improvement of artillery. The latter title is not actually present in the volume.
'Vue generale des debris du plus grand des temples de Selinunte.'
'J. Houel del. et sculp'
'Pl. xx.' from unidentified publication.
Hoüel, Jean Pierre Louis Laurent, 1735-1813, painter, engraver, architect and author'Vue d'une partie do Covent St. Cosimato. Avec le pont moderne sur l'Anio et une partie de l'aquaeduc de Claude'
'Peint à Guache par J. Ph. Hackert 1780'
'Gravé a l'euaforte par B. A. Dunker et termé par George Hackert'
B[ ] A[ ] Dunker and George Hackert after J[ ] Ph[ ] Hackert.
Discourse read to the Literary Society in Glasgow College, November 1780. Includes rainfall records for Glasgow, 1761-1779, and records for Britain, Europe and North America, 1695-1779.