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New Acquisitions: Catching the Tide

19/01/2017by St Andrews Special Collections 1 Comment

Last weekend we were delighted to receive officially our Catching the Tide acquisition from photographer Colin McPherson. From the moment we first saw this iconic image,we knew this series of […]

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St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme

28/07/2016by St Andrews Special Collections 1 Comment

This is the final post in our series about the St Andrews Photography Festival – you can see the previous posts in the series below: Robert Moyes Adam: Golf Photographic […]

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St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam

21/07/2016by St Andrews Special Collections 2 Comments

This is the fifth post in a weekly series that highlights images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest]. Winter sunlight illuminates […]

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St Andrews Photography Festival: Golf Photographic Collection

14/07/2016by St Andrews Special Collections 4 Comments

This is the fourth post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest]. Four gentlemen golfers in […]

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St Andrews Photography Festival: The Weighing Machine (Franki Raffles, 1989)

07/07/2016by St Andrews Special Collections 1 Comment

This is the third post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest] Soviet Russia, 1989: a […]

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The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine : vvherein is declared his life and death, with all his glorious battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and pagans, which (for the honour of his country) he most worthily atchieued. As also, all the noble acts, and heroicke deeds of his valiant knights of the Round Table. Newly refined, and published for the delight, and profit of the reader.
Elements of chemistry and natural history. To which is prefixed, The philosophy of chemistry. / By A.F. Fourcroy. Translated from the fourth and last edition of the original French work, by R. Heron. In four volumes.
An outline of the mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, and of the island of Arran. Illustrated with copper-plates. With an appendix; containing observations on peat, kelp, and coal. / by Robert Jameson, member of the Royal Medical, and Natural History Societies, Edinburgh; and of the Linnæan Society, London.
Prelude to chemistry. An outline of alchemy, its literature and relationships. / By John Read ...
A new system of chemical philosophy. / By John Dalton.
Researches, chemical and philosophical; chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration. / By Humphry Davy, Superintendent of the Medical Pneumatic Institution.
Elements of chemistry, and natural history. To which is prefixed The philosophy of chemistry. / By A.F. Fourcroy.
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