Smellie, William, 1740-1795.
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Literary and characteristical lives of John Gregory, M.D. Henry Home, Lord Kames. David Hume, Esq. and Adam Smith, L.L.D To which are added A dissertation on public spirit; and three essays. By the late William Smellie, Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh.
Smellie, William, 1740-1795.Date: 1800
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Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, illustrated with above six hundred copper plates. The history of man and quadrupeds, translated with notes and observations by William Smellie... A new edition, carefully corrected and considerably enlarged, by many additional articles, notes and plates, and some account of the life of M. de Buffon. By William Wood.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1812- E-books
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Proposals for printing, by subscribtion, a work, intitled, encyclopædia britannica; or, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences , Composed in the form of distinct treatises or systems. With accurate defitnitions and explanations of all the terms as they occur in the order of the alphabet; also full descriptions of the various machines, insruments, tools, figures, &c. necessary for illustrating them; and of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids. Together with the account of the kingdoms provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world. Illustrated with above one hundred and fifty large copperplates, exhibiting several thousand figures, accurately engraven. By a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. To be dedicated, by permission, to Sir Laurence Dundas of kerse, baronet, member of Parliament for the city of Edinburgh.
Date: 1768]