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Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1), page 44

Record ID 164022

Rollin's Belles Letters 4 & 3Vol

Borrowed: 1768/12/16 (Friday). Returned: 1769/1/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: B. 6 6. Original Returned Text: Rollin's Belles Letters 4 & 3 Vol.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Method of teaching and studying the belles lettres, or an introduction to languages, poetry, rhetoric, history, moral philosophy, physicks, &c. with reflections on taste; and instructions with regard to the eloquence of the pulpit, the bar, and the stage. The whole illustrated with passages from the most famous poets and orators, antient and modern, with critical remarks on them. Designed more particularly for students in the universities. By Mr. Rollin, late principal of the university of Paris, now professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, and member of the Royal Academy of inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French.
Classmark: J.5.3, J.5.2, B.6.6, B.3.27.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Borrowed: 1768/12/16 (Friday). Returned: 1769/1/18 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741), Genre: Belles Lettres

Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 164031

Desagulliers System ofExperimental philos &. C

Borrowed: 1769/1/5 (Thursday). Returned: 1769/1/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: C5:63. Original Returned Text: Desagulliers System of Experimental philosphy.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Theophilus Desaguliers (Male, born 1683-3-12, died 1744-2-29)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lectures of Experimental philosophy wherein The Principles of Mechanicks, Hydrostaticks, and Opticks, are Demonstrated and Explained at large, by a great Number of curious Experiments: With a Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: Of the Condensing-Engine; as also of the different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, with several Experiments to prove and explain Sir Isaac Newton's Theory of Light and Colours, as performed in a Course of mechanical and experimental philosophy. By J. T. Desaguliers, M.A. F.R.S. Illustrated with several curious Copper Plates suitable to each Subject. To which is added, a description of Mr. Rowley's Machine, called the orrery, which represents the Motion of the Moon about the Earth, Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System: All carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr. Desaguliers.
Classmark: F.7.56, C.5.63.

Record ID 164037

Letters from a painter 2 Vol

Borrowed: 1769/1/18 (Wednesday). Returned: 1769/1/20 (Friday). Classmark: Q5. 7. Original Returned Text: Letters from a painter 2 V:.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

James Russel (Male, born c.1720, died 1763)
Genre: Travel
Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England. Adorned with copper plates.
Classmark: J.6.9, Q.5.7.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

James Russel (Male, born c.1720, died 1763)
Genre: Travel
Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England. Adorned with copper plates.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1748. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 8 times in 4 borrowing records


Book Work

James Russel (Male, born c.1720, died 1763)
Genre: Travel
Letters from a Young Painter Abroad to his Friends in England

Borrowed: 1769/1/18 (Wednesday). Returned: 1769/1/20 (Friday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: James Russel (Male, born c.1720, died 1763), Genre: Travel

Letters from a Young Painter Abroad to his Friends in England

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 164043

Annet's  Short hand

Borrowed: 1769/1/20 (Friday). Returned: 1769/2/10 (Friday). Classmark: T. 5. 6. Original Returned Text: Annet's Short hand.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected, Containing, Plain and easy Examples and Instructions for Learning it.
Classmark: T.5.6.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected, Containing, Plain and easy Examples and Instructions for Learning it.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1761. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 26


Book Work

Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected

Borrowed: 1769/1/20 (Friday). Returned: 1769/2/10 (Friday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Peter Annet (Male, born 1693, died 1769), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge

Annet's Short-Hand, Perfected

Record ID 164049

Pamela  Vol 1 & 3 d

Borrowed: 1769/1/24 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/1/28 (Saturday). Classmark: D6 . 40. Original Returned Text: Pamela Vol 1 & 2 d.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Samuel Richardson (Male, born 1689, died 1761)
Genre: Fiction
Pamela: or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: and afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality, upon the most Important and Entertaining Subjects, In Genteel Life. The third and fourth volumes. Publish’d in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. By the editor of the two first. ...
Classmark: K, J.7.5, J.7.4, D.6.40.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 3

Borrowed: 1769/1/24 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/1/28 (Saturday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Samuel Richardson (Male, born 1689, died 1761), Genre: Fiction

Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 3

Record ID 164055

Borrowed: 1769/1/28 (Saturday). Returned: 1769/2/8 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Bernard de Fontenelle (Male, born 1657, died 1757), Genre: Natural Philosophy

Week's Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds with Defence on the Newtonian Philosophy

Record ID 164058

Hist of Pyrats

Borrowed: 1769/2/8 (Wednesday). Returned: 1769/4/6 (Thursday). Classmark: A5 .38. Original Returned Text: Hist: of Pyrats.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Charles Johnson (Male)
Genre: Lives
A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates, and also their policies, discipline and government, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, in 1717, to the present year 1724. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny. To which is prefix’d an account of the famous Captain Avery and his companions; with the manner of his death in England. The whole digested into the following chapters; chap. I. Of Captain Avery. II. The rise of Pyrates. III. Of Captain Martel. IV. Of Captain Bonnet. V. Of Captain Thatch. VI. Of Captain Vane. Vii. Of Captain Rackam. Viii. Of Captain England. IX. Of Captain Davis. X. Of Captain Roberts. XI. Of Captain Worley. XII. Of Captain Lowther. XIII. Of Captain Low. XIV. Of Captain Evans. And their several crews. To which is added. A short abstract of the statute and civil law, in, relation to pyracy. By Captain Charles Johnson.
Classmark: A.6.3, A.5.38.

Record ID 164061

Boswell hist of Corsica

Borrowed: 1769/2/10 (Friday). Returned: 1769/2/14 (Tuesday). Classmark: P5 , 9. Original Returned Text: Boswell Corsica.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli / by James Boswell, Esq; illustrated with a new and accurate map of Corsica.
Classmark: P.5.9.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1768. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 85 times in 83 borrowing records


Book Work

James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

Borrowed: 1769/2/10 (Friday). Returned: 1769/2/14 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795), Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel

Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

Record ID 164067

Robertson's hist Vol 1 & 2d

Borrowed: 1769/2/14 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/2/28 (Tuesday). Classmark: N5 . 22. Original Returned Text: Robertson's histV 1 & 2d.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till his accession to the crown of England. With a review of the Scottish history previous to that period; and an appendix containing Original Papers. In Two Volumes. By William Robertson, D. D. Minister of Lady Yester’s, Edinburgh. ...
Classmark: N.5.22, N.7.24?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Borrowed: 1769/2/14 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/2/28 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793), Genre: History

History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 164073

Pitte's  Virgil 1 & 2 Vol

Borrowed: 1769/2/28 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/7 (Tuesday). Classmark: N6 . 19. Original Returned Text: Pitt's Virgil 1 & 2 Vol:.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Virgil (Male, born BCE70-10-15, died BCE19-9-21)
Genre: Poetry
The Works of Virgil. In English Verse. The Aeneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Watson. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Aeneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Iapis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And, Three Essay on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor. In Four Volumes.
Classmark: N.6.19, R.9.14.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Borrowed: 1769/2/28 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/7 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Virgil (Male, born BCE70-10-15, died BCE19-9-21), Genre: Poetry

Works of Virgil

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 164079

Pitt's  Virgil 3 & 4 th Vol

Borrowed: 1769/3/7 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/14 (Tuesday). Classmark: N6 . 19. Original Returned Text: Pitt's Virgile 3 & 4 Vol:.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Virgil (Male, born BCE70-10-15, died BCE19-9-21)
Genre: Poetry
The Works of Virgil. In English Verse. The Aeneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Watson. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Aeneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Iapis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And, Three Essay on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor. In Four Volumes.
Classmark: N.6.19, R.9.14.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Borrowed: 1769/3/7 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/14 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Virgil (Male, born BCE70-10-15, died BCE19-9-21), Genre: Poetry

Works of Virgil

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 164082

Adventurer 1 & 2 Vol

Borrowed: 1769/3/14 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/18 (Saturday). Classmark: L7. 29. Original Returned Text: Adventurer 1 & 2 V:.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The adventurer. ... . On vent’rous wing in quest of praise I go, And leave the gazing multitude below.
Classmark: L.7.29.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The adventurer. ... . On vent’rous wing in quest of praise I go, And leave the gazing multitude below.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 222 times in 105 borrowing records


Book Work

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Adventurer ... . On Vent’rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below

Borrowed: 1769/3/14 (Tuesday). Returned: 1769/3/18 (Saturday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800), Genre: Belles Lettres

Adventurer ... . On Vent’rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 164085

adventurer 3 & 4th

Borrowed: 1769/3/18 (Saturday). Returned: 1769/3/28 (Tuesday). Classmark: L7 - 29. Original Returned Text: adventurer 3 & 4 V..


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The adventurer. ... . On vent’rous wing in quest of praise I go, And leave the gazing multitude below.
Classmark: L.7.29.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The adventurer. ... . On vent’rous wing in quest of praise I go, And leave the gazing multitude below.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 222 times in 105 borrowing records


Book Work

Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Adventurer ... . On Vent’rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below

Borrowed: 1769/3/18 (Saturday). Returned: 1769/3/28 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Richard Bathurst (Male, died 1762), John Hawkesworth (Male, born c.1715, died 1773), Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Joseph Warton (Male, born 1722, died 1800), Genre: Belles Lettres

Adventurer ... . On Vent’rous Wing in Quest of Praise I Go, And Leave the Gazing Multitude Below

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 164088

Butler's Hudibras

Borrowed: 1769/3/30 (Thursday). Returned: 1769/4/6 (Thursday). Classmark: C8. 1. Original Returned Text: Butler's Hudibras.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Samuel Butler (Male, born 1612, died 1680)
Genre: Poetry
Hudibras: in three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with additions. ... With an exact index to the whole; never before printed. Adorn’d with cuts.
Classmark: C.8.1.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Samuel Butler (Male, born 1612, died 1680)
Genre: Poetry
Hudibras: in three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with additions. ... With an exact index to the whole; never before printed. Adorn’d with cuts.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1710. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 15


Book Work

Samuel Butler (Male, born 1612, died 1680)
Genre: Poetry
Hudibras

Borrowed: 1769/3/30 (Thursday). Returned: 1769/4/6 (Thursday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: Samuel Butler (Male, born 1612, died 1680), Genre: Poetry

Hudibras

Record ID 164091

Keill's   astronomy

Borrowed: 1769/4/6 (Thursday). Returned: 1769/5/8 (Monday). Classmark: B7. 39. Original Returned Text: Keille's astro:.


Borrower

Coll McDougal
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

John Keill (Male, born 1671, died 1721)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
An introduction to the true astronomy: or, astronomical lectures, read in the astronomical school of the University of Oxford. By John Keill, M. D. Fellow of the Royal-Society, and professor of astronomy in that University.
Classmark: F.7.55, B.7.39.

Borrowed: 1769/4/6 (Thursday). Returned: 1769/5/8 (Monday).

Borrower: Coll McDougal

Author: John Keill (Male, born 1671, died 1721), Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy

Introduction to the True Astronomy