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179327862Edinburgh: Alexander Scott - Gazetteer Office 1793. Third edition corrected and greatly enlarged. Hardcover. Very good condition. Muir was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer who was ultimately accused of sedition was the first political prisoner transported to Australia from which he later escaped. Muir was sentenced to 14 years transportation for the the crime of sedition; for campaigning for parliamentary reform and for distributing copies of Thomas Paine's 'The Rights of Man'. His trial became one of the great sensations of the day; he was one of the group known as the 'Scottish Martyrs' who were sentenced in Scotland in 1793-4. <br /> <br /> Large 12mo 4 128pp rebound in a later half cloth and marble boards leather spine label revised engraved portrait frontis of Muir showing him from the waist up by J. Kay. OCLC 17619597 recorded at 8 locations. Libraries Australia ID 62770710 cites one copy at Queensland Univ. of Technology. Alexander Scott - Gazetteer Office hardcover
1768HCGAUF2TV4MGPorto 1768. 8vo. Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin cat's paw pattern sewn on 4 supports gold-tooled spine with the title in the 2nd compartment. 32 188 4 blank pp. Very rare second edition of a Portuguese textbook on pharmacology written as a series of questions and answers to prepare students in medicine for their examinations first published in Coimbra in 1735. The first part of the book is mainly concerned with general knowledge which the students have to know. The second part of the book consists of questions and answers on the work of the Syrian physician Masawaih al-Mardini d. 1015 in Bagdad and Cairo better known in the West as Mesue the younger the most important author for students of pharmacology. The book ends with explanations of various passages from the work of Mesue in Latin since the student would have read him in that language.With annotations on the second front endleaf and the title-page. Browned throughout with a water stain on the lower corner of pp. 129-160 and a hole in the second front endleaf.l Blake p. 290; Porbase 1 copy; WorldCat 77818650 & 14335394 1 copy. unknown
