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The Library, by gift and purchase, has reached a size of some 40,000 volumes. These include long runs of nineteenth century journals, many early scientific books, the works of local authors, and a great deal of printed historical source material.
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- David Gregory (1659-1708)
- Elias Ashmole’s Institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter (1672)
- George Adams (1750–1795)
- George Parker Bidder (1806–1878)
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823)
- James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794)
- James Middleton
- Jane Marcet (1769–1858)
- John Bowring’s Kingdom and people of Siam (1857)
- John Gabriel Stedman (1744-1797)
- John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817)
- John Lewis Burckhardt’s Arabic proverbs, or, The manners and customs of the modern Egyptians (1830)
- John Smeaton (1724-1792)
- Joseph Hooker’s Himalayan journals (1854)
- Maria Rundell’s New system of domestic cookery (1835)
- Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
- Mountstuart Elphinstone’s Account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India (1815)
- Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
- Robert Fortune (1813-1880)
- Samuel Horsley (1733-1806)
- Samuel Parkes (1761-1825)
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- Sir George Staunton (1737-1801)
- Sir John Bowring (1792-1872)
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- Thomas Malton the Elder (1726-1801)
- Thomas Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrides (1774-1776)
- Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829)
- Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799-1861)
- Thomas Young (1773-1829)
- Vivant Denon (1747-1825)
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- William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879)
- William Spreat’s Picturesque sketches of the churches of Devonshire (1842)
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- Bryan Edwards, ‘The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies’, (1807-1819)
- Charles Johnson, ‘Ferns of Great Britain’ with illustrations by John E. Sowerby, (1855)
- H. M Bowdler, ‘Pen Tamar : or, the History of an old maid’, (1830)
- Hannah Glasse, ‘The art of cookery made plain and easy’, (1788)
- James Middleton, ‘A celestial atlas’, (1842)
- John Francis Rigaud (translator), ‘Leonardo Da Vinci : a treatise on painting’, (1802)
- John Lewis Burckhardt, ‘Travels in Nubia’, (1819)
- John Lloyd Warden Page, ‘An exploration of Dartmoor and its antiquities’, (1889)
- Thomas Hobbes, ‘The moral and political works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury’, (1750)
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