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Record ID 209204

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 42

Collections of Voyages Vol: 5:

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/8/1 (Saturday).


Borrower

George Duncan
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1692-1765.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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Genre: Travel
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts. Others translated out of foreign languages, and now first publish’d in English. To which are added some few that have formerly appear’d in English, but do now for their excellency and scarceness deserve to be reprinted. In four volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation, from its first beginning to the perfection it is now in, &c. The whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps, and cuts, all engraven on copper. The authors contain’d in this volume, see over leaf.
Classmark: 1.2.1-2-3-4 and 13.3or4.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5 (Barbot)

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Genre: Travel
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1704. Format: folio.
Editors: Compiled by Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 163 times in 144 borrowing records


Book Work

Genre: Travel
Collection of Voyages and Travels

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/8/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: George Duncan

Genre: Travel

Collection of Voyages and Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 5 (Barbot)

Record ID 17600

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 118

Ellis's Voyage to Hudsons bay

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/12/28 (Monday). Classmark: J.6.19. Original Returned Text: Ellis' . Voyage.


Borrower

Professor David Gregory
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Henry Ellis (Male, born 1721, died 1806)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to Hudson's-Bay, : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a North West Passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, Gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.
Classmark: J.6.19, D.4.7, P.8.3.

Record ID 17602

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 118

Universal History Vol 9th & 10th

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/12/7 (Monday). Classmark: K.4.14. Original Returned Text: Universal Hist. V. 9 & 10.


Borrower

Professor David Gregory
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Genre: History
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Authors; and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes, &c. With a general Index to the Whole.
Classmark: K.4.1, K.4.14, M.5.1, M.6.1.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 9, Volume 10

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Genre: History
An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Authors; and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes, &c. With a general Index to the Whole.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1747-1754. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 1453 times in 850 borrowing records


Book Work

Genre: History
Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/12/7 (Monday).

Borrower: Professor David Gregory

Genre: History

Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present

Volumes borrowed: Volume 9, Volume 10

Record ID 17601

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 118

Bayle's Dictionary Vol 1st & 2d

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/11/15 (Sunday). Classmark: K.1.. Original Returned Text: Bayle's Dictionary V. 1 & 2d.


Borrower

Professor David Gregory
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Pierre Bayle (Male, born 1647, died 1706)
Genre: Lives
A general dictionary, historical and critical: in which a new and accurate translation of that of the celebrated Mr. Bayle, with the corrections and observations printed in the late edition at Paris, is included; and interspersed with several thousand lives never before published. The whole containing the History of the most illustrious persons of all ages and nations, particularly those of Great Britain and Ireland, distinguished by their rank, actions, learning and other accomplishments. With reflections on such passages of Mr. Bayle, as seem to favour Scepticism and the Manichee System. By the Reverend Mr. John Peter Bernard; The Reverend Mr. Thomas Birch; Mr. John Lockman; and other Hands.
Classmark: K.2.5, K.1.5, P.2.1.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Borrowed: 1750/8/1 (Saturday). Returned: 1750/11/15 (Sunday).

Borrower: Professor David Gregory

Author: Pierre Bayle (Male, born 1647, died 1706), Genre: Lives

Historical and Critical Dictionary

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2