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Edinburgh University Library

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Book Holding ID 22616
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Louis-Ellies Du Pin (Male, born 1657, died 1719)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliothèque universal ... [Du Pin]
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

Louis-Ellies Du Pin (Male, born 1657, died 1719)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliothèque universal.
Language: French . Published: Amsterdam. Date of publication: 1708. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1


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Louis-Ellies Du Pin (Male, born 1657, died 1719)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliothèque Universal

Book Holding ID 23795
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Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine
B.S. Albini De sceleto humano liber.
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine
B. S. Albini de Sceleto humano liber.
Language: Latin . Published: Leiden. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 1


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Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770)
Genre: Medicine
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body

Book Holding ID 22910
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Baudouin Ronsse (Male, died 1596)
Genre: Medicine
Balduinus Ronsseus ... epistolæ medicinales ...
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

Baudouin Ronsse (Male, died 1596)
Genre: Medicine
Balduini Ronssei ... Epistolæ medicinales, in quibus plurima ad praxin digna & necessaria reperiuntur.
Language: Latin . Published: Amsterdam. Date of publication: 1661. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1


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Baudouin Ronsse (Male, died 1596)
Genre: Medicine
Epistolae Medicinales [Baudouin Ronsse]

Book Holding ID 22655

Bangorian Controversy, 9 vols
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 13 times in 2 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (1 borrowing), Volume 3] (1 borrowing), Volume 4] (1 borrowing), Volume 5] (1 borrowing), Volume 6] (2 borrowings), Volume 7] (2 borrowings), Volume 8] (2 borrowings), Volume 9] (2 borrowings)

Book Holding ID 27366

Banks's Voyages
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 19 times in 16 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (4 borrowings), Volume 2] (9 borrowings), Volume 3] (6 borrowings)

Book Holding ID 21368
Library record

Bénédict Pictet (Male, born 1655, died 1724)
Genre: Theology
Benedicti Picteti ... Theologia Christiana, ex puris SS. literarum fontibus hausta.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 1 time in 1 borrowing record
Volumes: Volume 1] (0 borrowings), Volume 2] (1 borrowing)

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Confidence level: Certain

Bénédict Pictet (Male, born 1655, died 1724)
Genre: Theology
Benedicti Picteti,... Theologia christiana ex puris S. S. Literarum fontibus hausta.
Language: Latin . Published: Geneva. Date of publication: 1696. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 5


Book Work

Bénédict Pictet (Male, born 1655, died 1724)
Genre: Theology
Theologia Christiana ex Puris S. S. Literarum Fontibus Hausta

Book Holding ID 67827
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Johann Albrecht Bengel (Male, born 1687, died 1752)
Genre: Theology
Bengelius's introduction to his exposition of the Apocalypse [Robertson]
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; *C.29.7.
Number of borrowings: 1

Book Holding ID 24263
Library record

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770), Bartolomeo Eustachi (Male, born c.1500, died 1574)
Genre: Medicine
Bernardi Siegfried Albini Explicatio Tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii, anatomici summi.
Number of borrowings: 3

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Confidence level: Certain

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770), Bartolomeo Eustachi (Male, born c.1500, died 1574)
Genre: Medicine
B. S. Albini Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum [Nos. 9-47] B. Eustachii ... Auctor ... denuo edidit.
Language: Latin . Published: Leiden. Date of publication: 1761. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 3


Book Work

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Male, born 1697, died 1770), Bartolomeo Eustachi (Male, born c.1500, died 1574)
Genre: Medicine
Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii

Book Holding ID 26952

Genre: Theology
Biblia Hebraea 4to
Historical Shelfmark: R.h.6.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 6 times in 6 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (4 borrowings), Volume 2] (1 borrowing), Volume 5] (1 borrowing)

Book Holding ID 26510
Library record

Jan Swammerdam (Male, born 1637, died 1680)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Biblia naturæ; sive historia insectorum, in classes certas redacta, nec non exemplis, et anatomico variorvm animalculorum examine, aeneisque tabulis illustrata [Swammerdam]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections L.15.18-19.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (1 borrowing)

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Confidence level: Certain

Jan Swammerdam (Male, born 1637, died 1680)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Bybel der Natuure door J. S., of Historie der Insecten ... J. S. Biblia Naturæ; sive Historia Insectorum ... Accedit præfatio, in qua vitam auctoris descripsit H. Boerhaave.
Language: Dutch | Latin . Published: Leiden. Date of publication: 1737-1738.
Translators: Gaubius, Hieronymus David.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 6 times in 3 borrowing records


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Jan Swammerdam (Male, born 1637, died 1680)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Bybel der Natuure ... Historie der Insecten

Book Holding ID 27480
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Genre: Theology
Biblia Sacra ex Sebastiani Castellionis interpretatione.
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections A.5.5.
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

Genre: Theology
Biblia sacra ex Sebastiani Castellionis interpretatione.
Language: Latin . Published: Frankfurt am Main. Date of publication: 1697. Format: folio.
Editors: Castellion, Sébastien, 1515-1563
Number of borrowings: 1


Book Work

Genre: Theology
Bible [Latin]

Book Holding ID 24863
Library record

Genre: Lives
Biographia Britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 4 times in 3 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (2 borrowings), Volume 2] (1 borrowing), Volume 5] (1 borrowing)

Book Holding ID 17711

Sir William Blackstone (Male, born 1723, died 1780)
Genre: Law
Blackstone's Commentaries.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 19 times in 14 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (6 borrowings), Volume 2] (3 borrowings), Volume 3] (7 borrowings), Volume 4] (3 borrowings)

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Confidence level: Certain

Sir William Blackstone (Male, born 1723, died 1780)
Genre: Law
Commentaries on the laws of England.
Language: English . Published: Oxford. Date of publication: 1765-1769. Format: 4to. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 69 times in 40 borrowing records


Book Work

Sir William Blackstone (Male, born 1723, died 1780)
Genre: Law
Commentaries on the Laws of England

Book Holding ID 24812

Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Boerhaave de Lue Venerea
Number of borrowings: 2

Book Holding ID 25598

Boerhaave Greek and Latin
Number of borrowings: 1

Book Holding ID 28566
Library record

John Mair (Male, born c.1702, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Book-keeping moderniz'd [sic]: or, Merchant-accounts by double entry, according to the Italian form [Mair]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections *O.27.3.
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

John Mair (Male, born c.1702, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Book-Keeping moderniz’d: or, merchant-accounts by double entry, according to the Italian form. Wherein The Theory of the Art is clearly explained, and reduced to Practice, in copious Sets of Books, exhibiting all the varieties that usually occur in Real Business. To which is added, A Large Appendix. Containing, I. Descriptions and specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an account of her exports and imports. VI. The produce and commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a specimen of the accounts kept by the factors or storekeepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accounts. VII. The produce and commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a specimen of the accounts usually kept by the storekeepers. VIII. The method of keeping accounts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers. IX. The method of keeping the accounts of a Land-Estate. X. A Dictionary; explaining abstruse words and terms that occur in merchandise.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1773. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2


Book Work

John Mair (Male, born c.1702, died 1769)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Book-Keeping Methodiz’d: or, A Methodical Treatise of Merchant-Accompts

Book Holding ID 25301

Brendely [?] Chemia
Number of borrowings: 1

Book Holding ID 25085
Library record

William Camden (Male, born 1551, died 1623)
Genre: Travel
Britannia : or, A chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands [Camden]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections JY1179-1180 [Previously *P.16.5-6].
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (1 borrowing)

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Confidence level: Certain

William Camden (Male, born 1551, died 1623)
Genre: Travel
Britannia: or a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1722. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record


Book Work

William Camden (Male, born 1551, died 1623)
Genre: Travel
Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland

Book Holding ID 20276
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John Horsley (Male, born 1675, died 1732)
Genre: History
Britannia romana, or, The Roman antiquities of Britain.
Number of borrowings: 1

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Confidence level: Certain

John Horsley (Male, born 1675, died 1732)
Genre: History
Britannia Romana: or the Roman antiquities of Britain: in three books. The I. Contains the history of all the Roman Transactions in Britain, with an account of their legionary and auxiliary forces employed here, and a determination of the stations per lineam valli; also a large description of the Roman walls, with maps of the same laid down from a geometrical survey. II. Contains a compleat collection of the Roman inscriptions and sculptures which have hitherto been discovered in Britain, with the letters engraved in their proper shape and proportionate size, and the reading placed under each; as also an historical account of them, with explanatory and critical observations. III. Contains the Roman Geography of Britain, in which are given the originals of Ptolemy, Antonini Itinerarium, the Notitia, the anonymous Ravennas, and Peutinger’s table, so far as they relate to this island, with particular essays on each of these ancient authors, and the several places in Britain mentioned by them. To which are added, A chronological table, and indexes to the inscriptions and sculptures after the manner of Gruier and Reinsius. also geographical indexes both of the latin and english names of the roman place in Britain, and a general index to the work. The whole illustrated with above an hundred copper plates.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1732. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 4


Book Work

John Horsley (Male, born 1675, died 1732)
Genre: History
Britannia Romana: or The Roman Antiquities of Britain

Book Holding ID 27684
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Thomas Mortimer (Male, born 1730, died 1810)
Genre: Lives
British Plutarch, or, Biographical entertainer [Mortimer]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections R*.31.6-9.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 33 times in 6 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (1 borrowing), Volume 3] (1 borrowing), Volume 4] (2 borrowings), Volume 5] (2 borrowings), Volume 6] (2 borrowings), Volume 7] (4 borrowings), Volume 8] (4 borrowings), Volume 9] (4 borrowings), Volume 10] (4 borrowings), Volume 11] (4 borrowings), Volume 12] (4 borrowings)

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Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Mortimer (Male, born 1730, died 1810)
Genre: Lives
The British Plutarch; or, biographical entertainer. Being a select collection of the lives at large of the most eminent men, natives of Great Britain and Ireland; from the reign of Henry Viii. to George II.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 45 times in 18 borrowing records


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Thomas Mortimer (Male, born 1730, died 1810)
Genre: Lives
British Plutarch

Book Holding ID 23549
Library record

Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
British zoology [Pennant]
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 25 times in 8 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (6 borrowings), Volume 2] (8 borrowings), Volume 3] (8 borrowings), Volume 4] (3 borrowings)

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Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
British zoology.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1768-1770. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 49 times in 14 borrowing records


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Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
British Zoology

Book Holding ID 67755
Library record

Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
British zoology [Pennant] folio
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; JZ 271-272.
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
Volumes: Volume 1] (1 borrowing), Volume 2] (1 borrowing)

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Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The British zoology. Class I. Quadrupeds. II. Birds. Published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorian Society, instituted for the promoting use charities, and the knowledge of nature, among the descendants of the ancient Britons.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1766. Format: folio. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 3 times in 2 borrowing records


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Thomas Pennant (Male, born 1726, died 1798)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
British Zoology

Book Holding ID 24944

Bruncker Institutiones
Number of borrowings: 1

Book Holding ID 22454
Library record

George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
Buchanan's History of Scotland in twenty books
Number of borrowings: Volumes of this book were borrowed 35 times in 31 borrowing records
Volumes: Volume 1] (15 borrowings), Volume 2] (20 borrowings)

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Confidence level: Certain

George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
Buchanan’s History of Scotland.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1722. Format: 8vo.
Translators: Bond, William
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 35 times in 31 borrowing records


Book Work

George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
History of Scotland [George Buchanan]

Book Holding ID 24428

Buckingham's Works
Number of borrowings: 1