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Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.1
Dates:
18th century.
`Fondament van de Geometry`, a practical treatise with propositions and proofs from Euclid.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.7
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 43) by remarks on surveying. The inverted folios contain mathematical and geometrical problems.
The front cover has the letters A O and the date 1705.
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Notes, in Dutch, on a course of commercial arithmetic, compiled by John Pringle, possibly Sir John Pringle.
File
Identifier: Acc.4239
Dates:
1725.