Labat Voyage a l'Amerique 8 tom 12^o

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/4/12 (Friday). Fine pledged in case of late return: see entry above.

Borrower

Mr John Maclaurin Lord Dreghorn
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1756. Life dates: 1734-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice. Law > Lord President.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Jean Baptiste Labat (Male, born 1663, died 1738)
Genre: Travel
Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique [Labat]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: E.133.f.11-18.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8

Tertre Histoire des Antilles tom 2 4.^to

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/4/12 (Friday). Fine pledged in case of late return: One pound sterl.

Borrower

Mr John Maclaurin Lord Dreghorn
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1756. Life dates: 1734-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice. Law > Lord President.

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Jean Baptiste Du Tertre (Male, born 1610, died 1687)
Genre: Travel
Histoire generalle des Antilles habitées par les Francois [Du Tertre]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: E.139.a .
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

La physique des Arbes par Duhamel 2 vol. 4^to

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/4/12 (Friday). Fine pledged in case of late return: Two pounds sterl.

Borrowers

Mr Henry Home Lord Kames
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1723. Life dates: 1696-1782.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.

Mr Alexander Kemp
Gender: Male. Borrower type: Other.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate’s Clerk.

Book HoldingLibrary record

M. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (Male, born 1700, died 1782)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
La physique des arbres [Duhamel]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: An.6.6-7.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Pighii Annales 3 vol. fol

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/4/12 (Friday). Fine pledged in case of late return: Three pounds Sterl.

Borrower

Mr Edward McCormick
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1772. Life dates: 1745-1814.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Sheriff.

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Stephanus Vinandus Pighius (Male, born 1520, died 1604)
Genre: History, Genre: Lives
Annales Romanorum [Pighius]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: E.71.a.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3

Eusebii Thesaurus Temporum in fol

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/4/12 (Friday). Fine pledged in case of late return: One pound sterl.

Borrower

Mr Allan Maconochie of Meadowbank; Lord Meadowbank
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1770. Life dates: 1748-1816.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor. Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice. Law > Sheriff.

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Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea (Male, born c.260, died 340)
Genre: Theology
Thesaurus Temporum [Eusebius]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: K.21.c.[3].

Boswell's Corsica

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6. Funds deposited: G. 3. 1775..

Borrower

William Moubray
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83948. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1776-1778. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1775; Indian Medical Service, 1783.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Account of Corsica [Boswell]

Priestly on Electricity

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.

Borrower

Alexander Robb
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
History and present state of electricity, with original experiments [Priestley]

Byrom's Stenography

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0. Funds deposited: Linen Note.

Borrower

David Anderson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

John Byrom (Male, born 1692, died 1763)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The universal English shorthand [Byrom]

Bromfield's Surgery 2 V:^s

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.

Borrower

William Graham
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91909. Dissertation: De Perspirationis usu.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1777; MD (Edin), 1781. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1779. Origin: British.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

William Bromfield (Male, born 1712, died 1792)
Genre: Medicine
Chirurgical observations and cases [Bromfield]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Lowthorp's Abridgement vol. 3^d

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0.

Borrower

Arthur Leith
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
The philosophical transactions and collections, : to the end of the year MDCC, abridged and disposed under general heads.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

& Sully's Memoirs vol. 5:^th

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.

Borrower

Arthur Leith
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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Maximilien Bethune Duc de Sully (Male, born 1559, died 1641)
Genre: Lives
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune : duke of Sully, prime minister to Henry the Great.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5

Lind on the Scurvy

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/7/0.

Borrower

Alexander Longmore
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83698. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: MA 1774; 1775.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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James Lind (Male, born 1716, died 1794)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise of the scurvy [Lind]

Monro on Mineral waters 2 V^s

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.

Borrower

Thomas Bell
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/87864. Dissertation: De Diaeta.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1773-1782; MD (Edin), 1783. Origin: Irish.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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Donald Monro (Male, born 1727, died 1802)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise on mineral waters [Monro]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections *L.28.8-9.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Pringle's Observations

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.

Borrower

John Cristall
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/75418. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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Sir John Pringle (Male, born 1707, died 1782)
Genre: Medicine
Observations on the diseases of the army [Pringle]

Keill's Animal Oeconomy

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/6.

Borrower

John Aitken
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/84585. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1763-1770. Other: Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student. Medicine and Health > Surgeon.

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James Keill (Male, born 1673, died 1719)
Genre: Medicine
Essays on several parts of the animal oeconomy [Keill]

Michelij Genera plant:

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas.

Borrower

George Shaw
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/78482. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Pier Antonio Micheli (Male, born 1679, died 1737)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nova plantarum genera juxta Tournefortii methodum disposita [Micheli]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections *.K.18.24.

Aretæus

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.

Borrower

Thomas Clerk
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/90736. Dissertation: De Hydrocephalo.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1775; MD (Edin), 1776. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1775; Royal Army Medical Corps, 1777; LRCP(1781) . Origin: Scoto-Brit..
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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Aretaeus of Cappadocia (Male)
Genre: Medicine
Aretaei Cappadocis, De causis et signis acutorum.

& Haller Med: pract: vol. 4:^th

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.

Borrower

Thomas Clerk
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/90736. Dissertation: De Hydrocephalo.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1775; MD (Edin), 1776. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1775; Royal Army Medical Corps, 1777; LRCP(1781) . Origin: Scoto-Brit..
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

Baron Albrecht von Haller (Male, born 1708, died 1777)
Haller's Disp: Med: Pract:
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Hill's Exotic Botany

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas. Funds deposited: G. 3. 1772..

Borrower

Edmund Simpson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/90749. Dissertation: De Oculo humano.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1775-1778; MD (Edin), 1779. Origin: English.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

John Hill (Male, born c.1714, died 1775)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Exotic botany, illustrated in thirty-five figures of curious and elegant plants [Hill]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. FF .58213 Hil..

Maclaurin's View

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.

Borrower

Thomas May
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Colin MacLaurin (Male, born 1698, died 1746)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries, in four books [Maclaurin]

V. Paterculus 8:^vo

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.

Borrower

John Aitken
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/84585. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1763-1770. Other: Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student. Medicine and Health > Surgeon.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Velleius Paterculus (Male, born c.BCE19, died 30)
Genre: History
C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex Historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus [Burman]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections W*.30.21.

Burnett's  Sermons

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/22 (Wednesday). Classmark: ----. Original Returned Text: Burnetts Ser.

Borrower

Patrick ('Clerk') Wilson Clerk/Clark
Gender: Male.

Book HoldingLibrary record

Gilbert Burnet (Male, born 1643, died 1715)
Genre: Sermons
A defence of natural and revealed religion: being an abridgment of the sermons preached at the lecture founded by the Hon[ble] Robert Boyle, Esq; by Dr. Bentley Bp. Kidder Bp. Williams Bp. Gastrell Dr. Harris Bp. Bradford Bp. Blackhall Dr. Stanhope Dr. S. Clarke Dr. Hancock Mr. Whiston Dr. Turner Dr. Butler Dr. Woodward Mr. Derham Dr. Ibbot Bp. Leng Dr. J. Clarke Archd. Gurdon Dr. Burnet Dr. Berriman. In four volumes. With a general index. By Gilbert Burnet, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex.
Classmark: J.4.13, B.7.2, B.4.24.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4

Fenolong on Eloquence

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/13 (Wednesday). Classmark: M8. 15. Original Returned Text: Fenolong.

Borrower

Henry David Hill
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1762-1820. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1386090556.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon Archibishop of Cambrai (Male, born 1651-8-6, died 1715-1-7)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Réflexions sur la Rhétorique et sur la Poétique. Dialogues sur l'éloquence par Messire François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, Archevêque Duc de Cambray &c.
Classmark: M.8.15.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Amelia  3. 4th Vol

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/21 (Thursday). Classmark: -- -. Original Returned Text: Amelia 3 . 4 ^th Vol.

Borrower

Henry Whinfield
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

Henry Fielding (Male, born 1707, died 1754)
Genre: Fiction
Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq; In four volumes. ...
Classmark: M.7.8, R.7.2, B.6.9?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Elements of Crit. 1 . 2^d V.

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Classmark: R . .. Original Returned Text: Elements Crit^s 1 . 2^{d V..}

Borrower

Robert Henry
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1385762356.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of criticism. In three volumes. ...
Classmark: R.5.33, R.6.10.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Shakespear's Works  1 . 2^d V.

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/18 (Monday). Classmark: Q6. 16. Original Returned Text: Shakes . Works 1 . 2^d Vol.

Borrower

George Rollo
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

William Shakespeare (Male, born 1564, died 1616)
Genre: Drama, Genre: Poetry
Works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out. Together with the author’s life; a glossary; copious indexes; and, a list of the various readings. In eight volumes.
Classmark: Q.6.15, S.8.2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Life  of Q. Mary 1 . 2^d Vol

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/14 (Thursday). Classmark: C4. 26. Original Returned Text: Life of Q. Mary 1 . 2^d V..

Borrower

Robert Bonthron
Gender: Male.
Life dates: bap. 1758. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1367913244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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James Anderson (Male, born 1662, died 1728)
Genre: History, Genre: Lives
Collections relating to the history of Mary Queen of Scotland, in four volumes : containing a great number of original papers never before printed : also a few scarce pieces reprinted, taken from the best copies / revised and published by James Anderson, Esq; with an explanatory index of the obsolete words, and prefaces shewing the importance of these collections.
Classmark: J.3.8, C.4.26?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Amelia  3 . 4 Vol

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/21 (Thursday). Classmark: M7. 8. Original Returned Text: Amelia 3. 4 ^th Vol.

Borrower

William Campbell
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1371468060.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

Henry Fielding (Male, born 1707, died 1754)
Genre: Fiction
Amelia. By Henry Fielding, Esq; In four volumes. ...
Classmark: M.7.8, R.7.2, B.6.9?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Goldsmith's hist Eng Vol 2^d

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/5/4 (Saturday). Classmark: G4. 2. Original Returned Text: Gold. hist- Eng. Vol 2^d.

Borrower

Thomas Barty
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1758-1832. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1365794620.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

Book Holding

Oliver Goldsmith (Male, born c.1730, died 1774)
Genre: History
The history of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith. ...
Classmark: G.4.2, R.5.11.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Dych's Spelling-book

Borrowed: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1776/3/12 (Tuesday). Classmark: O7. 39. Original Returned Text: Dych's Spelling book.

Borrower

Daniel McKiech
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.

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Thomas Dyche (Male, died c.1733)
Genre: Education
A Guide to the English Tongue. In Two Parts. The First proper for Beginners, shewing a Natural and easy Method to pronounce and express both Common Words, and Proper Names; in which particular Care is had to shew the Accent, for preventing Vicious Pronunciation. The Second, for such as are advanc’d to some Ripeness of Judgment, containing Observations on the Sounds of Letters and Diphthongs, Rules for the true Division of Syllables, and the Use of Capitals, Stops, and Marks, with large Tables of Abbreviations, and Distinctions of Words, and several Alphabets of Copies for Young Writers. By T. Dyche, School-Master at Stratford-Bow.
Classmark: O.7.39.