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Book Holding ID 48943
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Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of criticism : volume I [-II].
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 13 times in 13 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (10 borrowings), Volume 2] (3 borrowings)

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Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of criticism
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 2v..
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 26 times in 22 borrowing records


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Henry Home Lord Kames (Male, born 1696, died 1782)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Elements of Criticism

Book Holding ID 34274

Henry Care (Male, born 1646, died 1688)
Genre: Law
English liberties: or, The free-born subject’s inheritance, containing I. Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act; and divers other most useful statutes: with large comments upon each of them. II. The proceedings in appeals of murther; the work and power of parliaments; the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. Plain directions for all persons concerned in ecclesiastical courts; and how to prevent or take off the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo. As also the oath and duty of grand and petty juries. III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others concern’d, thereupon; and an abstract of all the laws against papists.
Classmark: 5.6.25.
Number of borrowings: 2

Book Holding ID 49024
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Jean La Placette (Male, born 1639, died 1718)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essais de morale / par Jean La Placete.
Classmark: 14.2.9-12.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 1 time in 1 borrowing record
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (0 borrowings), Volume 3] (0 borrowings), Volume 4] (0 borrowings)

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Jean La Placette (Male, born 1639, died 1718)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essais de morale / par Jean La Placete.
Language: French . Published: Amsterdam. Date of publication: 1716. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 1


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Jean La Placette (Male, born 1639, died 1718)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Essais de Morale

Book Holding ID 42698

Robert Boyle (Male, born 1627, died 1691)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Essays of the strange subtilty determinate nature great efficacy of effluviums. To which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable. Together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass. Also An essay, about the origine and virtue of gems. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids giving an account of the Earth, and its productions. By Nicholas Steno. Englished by H.O.
Classmark: 6.6.18.
Number of borrowings: 1

Book Holding ID 33785

John Archer (Male)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Every man his own doctor. In two parts. Shewing I. How every one may know his own constitution and complection, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food as well meats, as drinks. Whereby every man and woman may understand what is good or hurtful to them. Treating also of air, passions of mind, exercise or body, sleep, venery and tobacco, &c. The second part shews the full knowledge and cure of the pox, and running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions, and obstructions, agues. Shewing their causes and signs, and what danger any are in, little or much, and perfect cure with small cost and no danger of reputation. Written by John Archer chymical physitian in ordinary to the King.
Classmark: 8.7.15.
Number of borrowings: 3

Book Holding ID 33731
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Paul P. Jasz-Berenyi (Male)
Genre: Theology
Examen doctrinae ariano-socinianae à quodam anonymo sub hoc titulo evulgatae : doctrina de Deo, & Christo, & Spiritu Sancto, ipsis scripturae verbis, ante paucos annos, à quodam divinæ veritatis confessore, in sermone Germanico concinnata, nunc vero, in gratiam exterorum, Latine edita : in quo, loca de S.S. Trinitate insigniora, à cavillis adversariorum consensu orthodoxorum perpetuo, constantique tam antiquorum patrum, quàm recentiorum doctorum expositione illustrata, vindicantur : addita est orthodoxa S.S. Trinitatis defensio, adversus erroneum cujusdam anonymi scriptum. Unà cum veteris ecclesiæ de arianis judicio. Studiô & opera Pauli P. Jasz-Berenyi, Transylvano-Hungari.
Classmark: 5.5.18.
Number of borrowings: 1