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1782.

Feb. 19. titled, Anglo-Norman antiquities confidered, in a tour through part of Normandy, illuftrated with 27 copper-plates, London 1767.

By Mrs PATRICK COCKBUrne.

192. A COPY of Archbishop Cranmer's Bible, containing the Liturgy, the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha, and explanatory tables, printed in folio, by Chriftopher Barker, 1578.

By Mr GEORGE Paton.

193. An old filver coin, diftinguished by a rude head on one fide, and a crofs on the other, with four crefcents in the angles. This appears from Dr Ducarel's publication in quarto, above mentioned, (No. 191), plate ift, to be an Anglo-Gallic coin of King William the Conqueror, not described in that ingenious work.

By Mr CAIRNCROSS.

194. THE head of a spear of iron, 14 inches in length, found in the mofs of Whitmuirhall, near Selkirk.

By the Reverend Dr HENRY.

195. A copy of his history of Great Britain, the first four volumes, in quarto.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of BUCHAN.

196. A COPPER-PLATE engraving of Mr Hamilton of Bangour, the celebrated poet, by Mr Strange, with twelve prints from it.

By Mr BELL Engraver.

197. FIVE engraved portraits of illuftrious men, viz. Colbert Marquis of Seignelay, the King of France's minifter; Cardinal MazaY rine;

1782.

Feb. 19. rine; Lord Drummore; Provost Drummond; and Count Vander Berghe, Privy Counsellor to his Catholic Majesty.

March 5.

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198. A RUSSIAN filver ruble of the Emperor Peter the Great.

By Mr ELPHINGSTON BALFOur.

199. AN Irifh fhilling of King James II. of Great Britain, dated April 1690; and a Swedish copper coin dated 1741.

By Mr CHARLES REOCH.

200. A DOUBLE barrelled gun, each barrel having a separate lock, the barrels moveable upon the ftock, fo as to fuit the cock, which serves both locks; the length of one of the barrels 19 inches, of the other, 7 inches; at the end of the stock, a brafs focket, ball, and fcrew, upon which a butt may be fixed.

By Mr JOHN HENDERSON Architect.

201. TEN antient Roman bronze coins; 1ft, of Vespasian; 2d, Conftantine; 3d, Maximinus Pius; 4th, Maximianus, and fix others; also a base filver coin of Mantua; on one fide the head of the Empress Maria Theresa, on the other, MLNI DUX 1758; four small copper Mantuan coins; on one fide, an imperial crown, and below, a noofed cord; the dates 1750, 1755, and 1778; a filver coin of the republic of Venice, dated 1734; and a filver coin of Pisa, dated 1715.

By the Rev. Dr GEDDES.

202. A COPY of the laws of Bifcay, in small folio, entitled, Fueros Franquezas Libertades de Vezcaya, printed at Bilboa, and licensed in 1704,

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1782. March 5.

By THOMAS HOGG, Efq;

203. A MOTHER of pearl fhell, the infide decorated with engravings, and a border in Perfic characters.

By Mr CREECH Bookfeller.

204. A COPY of Profeffor Adam Ferguson's Effay on the History of Civil Society, 4to, 1767; Lord Kaims's Sketches of the Hiftory of Man, 2 vols, 4to, handfomely bound in red Turkey, and gilt, 1774; Linnaeus's Syftema Naturae, 2 vols, 8vo.; and his Amoenitates Academicae, 6 vols, 8vo.

By Mr ANDREW BELL Engraver.

205. An engraving of a charter from K. William the Lyon, in his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh's poffeffion, executed by the donor; and an engraving of the parish of Monimufk, and Start of Cluny, Kemnay, &c. in Aberdeen-fhire.

By Mr JAMES MURRAY of Birmingham.

206. A PETRIFIED vermicular infect, from the heart of a lime rock, in the eminence on which Dudley caftle ftands, 24 inches long.

By Mr WILLIAM DUNBAR Writer to the Signet. 207. A QUARTER dollar of Philip V. of Spain, 1721.

By Dr WEBSter.

208. An old French copper coin; and a German medal of copper, on one fide the King of the Romans under a canopy, between the figures of Justice and Peace; on the other, the arms of the Empire,

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1782. March 5.

By Dr DUNCAN.

209. EXERCITATIO Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis, authore Gulielmo Harveo. Cantabrigiae 1649, 24to. A filver penny of King Edward I. of England, Villa Sci E. mundi. A guinea of K. William and Queen Mary, dated 1694. A Scots merk, dated 1673. A crown of Queen Anne, the letter E. under the head, dated 1708.

By Mr WALTER SMITON.

210. A TWENTY fhilling Scots piece of K. William, dated 1696.

By Mr THOMAS FORREST, Bailie of Douglas.

211. A FLAT piece of polished green marble, with sharp fides, 34 inches long, and 2 inches broad at the base, where it has been broke off, the fides tapering to a point, found in an out-field, on tilling, within a mile and a half of the antient caftle of Douglas: And an English fhilling of King Charles I.

By CHARLES M'KINNON, of M'Kinnon, Efq;

212. His book, entitled Observations on the Wealth and Force of Nations. The priftine reminifcence of juvenile jucundity. 12mo, Edinburgh 1782.

By Mr GEORGE PATON.

213. Dr Drake's Hiftoria Anglo-Scotica, 8vo, 1703. This book was burnt by the hands of the common hangman, by order of the parliament of Scotland, dated 30th of June 1703, as appears by the Scots acts of parliament, Vol. III. p. 636. in 12m0: And Joseph Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the West Indies, translated from the Spanish, in feven books, fmall 4to, London, 1604.

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1782. April 2.

By Mr THOMAS PEACOCK, Painter.

214. A ROSE fhilling of Queen Elizabeth, dated 1578.

By ROBERT GRAHAM of Gartmore, Efq;

215. A ROMAN facrificing ax of brafs, 5 inches long, and 2 24 broad at the edge.

SEVENTEEN Oriental gold coins; ift, A Mohaar of the East India Company. Seven Pagodas; 1ft, one of Madrafs; 2d, one of the Nabob Subder Ally Cawn; 3d, one of Portnova; 4th, one of Negapatam; 5th, one of Pullipot; 6th, one of Yekkary; 7th, a star Pagoda. Nine Fanams; ift, one of Madrass; 2d, one of Portnovo; 3d, one of Conderoyan; 4th, one of Apareinje; 5th, one of Aureyatora; 6th, one of Worreampolliam; 7th, one of Feriadra or Conjeveram; 8th, one of Aurany; 9th, one of Terputy or Chieng.

OF Oriental filver; fixty-one coins, viz. a coin of Nappal, a country betwixt India and Tartary; five rupees, of different kinds; ift, one of Bombay; 2d, one of Arcot; 3d, one of Surat; 4th, one of Pondicherry; 5th, one of Sicca. Five Fanams; ift, a French one of Pondicherry; 2d, one of Tranquebar; 3d, one of Pullicat; 4th, one of Tanjore; 5th, undescribed. Subdivifions of the (Rupee) I a fourth part; I a fixteenth part; 12, each an hundred and twentieth part; 36, each a four hundred and eightieth part.

OF Oriental copper, eleven coins; the doodie, which is the fourth part of the value of the fanam; and ten others.

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