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Grave robbing

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  • Miravan opening the tomb of his ancestors in search of treasure, discovers that the treasure is not gold but repose. Mezzotint by V. Green after Joseph Wright of Derby, 1772.
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    Cranioklepty : grave robbing and the search for genius / Colin Dickey.

    Dickey, Colin. | Date: [2009], ©2009
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    The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.

    | Date: [1829?]
    • Ephemera

    Verses composed on the disgraceful traffic at present carried on of raising and selling the newly buried dead / William Smith.

    Smith, William, the Haddington cobbler | Date: [1829?]
    • Ephemera

    The resurrectionists / J. Catnach.

    | Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]
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    Scottish bodysnatchers / Norman Adams.

    Adams, Norman, 1936-2011. | Date: 2002
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