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1450-1945

Listing for Reader: John Drummond Erskine

 

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1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debtPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marke...John Drummond Erskine HelvetiusA treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. HooperPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to ...John Drummond Erskine William TennantIndian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William TennantPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Conten...John Drummond Erskine Francis GladwinDissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis GladwinPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a t...John Drummond Erskine HafizThe works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. ...John Drummond Erskine Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ...John Drummond Erskine Joseph EminThe life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himselfPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi...John Drummond Erskine OvidMetamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan BaileyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or ...John Drummond Erskine Stephen WestonA specimen of the conformity of the European languagesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af...John Drummond Erskine James BeattieScoticisms arranged in alphabetical orderPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oeconomyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Loui...John Drummond Erskine Jean de La BruyereLes caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. CostePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days...John Drummond Erskine John SinclairObservations on the Scottish dialect. By John SinclairPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ...John Drummond Erskine William JonesGrammar of the Persian Language, APrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Ra...John Drummond Erskine Francois BernierHistory of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 p...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight point...John Drummond Erskine William JonesPoeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These ...John Drummond Erskine HoraceQuinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira RomanaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ...John Drummond Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleri...John Drummond Erskine Andrew FullerAn apology for the late Christian missions to IndiaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points o...John Drummond Erskine John RichardsonGrammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India CompanyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of...John Drummond Erskine Niccolo MachiavelliThe works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans ....Print: Book

 

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