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Aberdeen (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Aberdeen. Longitude: -2.0667. Latitude: 57.1667.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book in verse and prose.

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Identifier: Acc.6824
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701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.

Dates: late 17th century.

Emendations and additions to Morris and Le Clerc`s "Universal Dictionary", compiled by James Gordon of Aberdeen.

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Identifier: Acc.10143
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With observations and additions to Jeremy Collins, "Historical Dictionary", and a description of Aberdeen as an intellectual centre.

Dates: circa 1720.

Journal of a tour in Scotland of a dissenting English preacher.

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Identifier: Acc.13235
Scope and Contents The writer travelled from the vicinity of Hertford to Scotland to preach in order to raise funds for the Hibernian Society. While in Scotland he met with Seccession ministers and other Dissenters, preaching on numerous occasions to large congregations. Places visited include Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, Port Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen. Although preaching was the main purpose of the tour, this was the writer`s first visit to Scotland and he comments as a tourist on his...
Dates: 1820.

Notebook, circa 1620, containing part of the Aberdeen Confession of Faith, 1616.

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Identifier: Acc.4867
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With a poem concerning the Gunpowder Plot, seven sonnets, and a didactic poem, "Of Wisdome".

Dates: 1616-circa 1620.