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1840 1D MULREADY WRAPPER CARLUKE, LANARK TO LEITH WITH 'EDINBURGH ENVELOPE ADVERTISER' (SPEC MA7k). Good used 1d Mulready wrapper, stereo unclear, from Carluke to 'Mr P. S. Beveridge, Solicitor, Leith', some soiling and creasing, cancelled red Maltese cross of Carluke? and on reverse 'LEITH' date stamp SEP 18 1840. Within is fine 'EDINBURGH ENVELOPE ADVERTISER' (Spec MA7k) which as been overwritten with letter. Fine advert 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE. Already Published, strongly bound in Linen or Cloth Boards. Directory of Infant Education 2/0, First Book of Reading 1½d, ... Moral Class Book 1/6, First Book of English Composition 6d, Introduction to the Sciences 1/0, Natural Philosophy, First Book 10d, ... Rudiments of Chemistry 1/4, Euclid's Elements of Plane Geometry 2/6, ... Animal Physiology 1/9, History of Greece etc etc etc...'; 'Sell by Auction... LIBRARIES Bought or Sold...'; 'Edinburgh Ladies Institution for the Southern Districts... ELEMENTARY ENGLISH, ADVANCED ENGLISH COURSE... WRITING AND BOOKEEPING...FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE...PIANOFORTE AND THEORY OF MUSIC...DANCING AND CALISTHENICS etc etc'; 'The Cheapest Sale of Books that ever was in Edinburgh...BACON'S Works...Gibbon's Rome...Hume and Smollett's History of England...Church History...Smith's Wealth of Nations etc etc'; 'THE HISTORY of MOSES for the Use of Children...'; 'INNES AND BUDGE...TEA-DEALERS, DRY SALTERS AND WINE MERCHANTS...'; 'NEW WORCESTER ROYAL PORCELAIN FLINT GLASS AND STONEWARE SHOWROOMS...Best Flint Wine Glasses...Best Cut Wine Glasses...Eight handsome Cut Wine Decanters...'; 'NOTICE TO FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. GEORGE CAMPBELL, CATTLE AND SHEEP SALESMEN, Edinburgh thanks those FARMERS and GRAZIERS who have honoured him with their consignments...'; 'SUPERIOR PRESTONPANS TABLE-BEER and EIGHT PORTER...Edinburgh NEW ALE...Fine Old MALT AND WHISKY...'; 'DR ALLISON'S (EDINBURGH) Specific Solution of Copaiba, FOR URETHRAL DISEASES...DR A's TEETH SOLUTION... DR A's NEW CORN and BUNION SOLVENT...'; 'EILL AND CO, PRINTERS, TYPEFOUNDERS and STEREOTYPERS...'. A very rare advert with only one unused and two used examples recorded to date. (Ref 140958).
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