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Record ID 262376
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137145 (Type: Student). Page:
Life of Sir [unclear] v. 1
Borrowed: 1811/11/2 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
William Elder
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Lives
Life of Sir W [unclear]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 262379
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137145 (Type: Student). Page:
Life of Sir W [unclear] v. 2
Borrowed: 1812/1/25 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
William Elder
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Lives
Life of Sir W [unclear]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 263861
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137145 (Type: Student). Page:
Rooke's Arrian
Borrowed: 1812.
William Elder
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Arrian of Nicomedia (Male, born c.87)
Genre: History
Rooke's Arrian (original title)
History of Expedition of Alexander translated by Rooke [Arrian] (standardised title)
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Arrian of Nicomedia (Male, born c.87)
Genre: History
Arrian's history of Alexander's expedition. Translated from the Greek. With notes historical, geographical, and critical. By Mr. Rooke. In two volumes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1729. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 2 vols.
Editors: Rooke
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 16 times in 9 borrowing records
ESTC: T139954
Arrian of Nicomedia (Male, born c.87)
Genre: History
History of Alexander's Expedition
Borrowed: 1812.
Borrower: William Elder
Author: Arrian of Nicomedia (Male, born c.87), Genre: History
History of Alexander's Expedition
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 263855
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137145 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1812. Returned: yes.
William Elder
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Speculative
Genre: Travel
A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, ... history of Captain Cook’s first, second, third and last voyages, ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyage ... It is proper to observe, that some other editions of these works ... would cost a purchaser ... upwards of twenty guineas; ... but the present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers, ... enables every person, ... to become familiary [sic] acquainted with those ... voyages ... Now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784-1786. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 536 times in 506 borrowing records
ESTC: T134074
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Borrowed: 1812.
Borrower: William Elder
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 263858
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137145 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 2
Borrowed: 1812. Returned: yes.
William Elder
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
Genre: Travel
A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, ... history of Captain Cook’s first, second, third and last voyages, ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyage ... It is proper to observe, that some other editions of these works ... would cost a purchaser ... upwards of twenty guineas; ... but the present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers, ... enables every person, ... to become familiary [sic] acquainted with those ... voyages ... Now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784-1786. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 536 times in 506 borrowing records
ESTC: T134074
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Borrowed: 1812.
Borrower: William Elder
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2