An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
Record ID 118625
Buffon histoire Natuerelle tome 2:d
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas.
John Russell Junior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du roi [Buffon]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1752-1768. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 86 times in 41 borrowing records
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Record ID 118631
& Biographia Britannica Vol. 5:th
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Russell Junior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Granger (Male, born 1723, died 1776)
Genre: History
A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5
Confidence level: Certain
James Granger (Male, born 1723, died 1776)
Genre: History
A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of Characters disposed in different Classes, and adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads. Intended as An Essay towards reducing our Biography to System, and a Help to the Knowledge of Portraits. Interspersed with Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a great Number of Persons, not to be found in any other Biographical Work. With a Preface, shewing the Utility of a Collection of Engraved Portraits to supply the Defect, and answer the various Purposes, of Medals. By the Rev. J. Granger, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769-1774. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 6
ESTC: T90309
James Granger (Male, born 1723, died 1776)
Genre: History
Biographical History of England
Record ID 118646
Tronchin de Colica Picton
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
John Wall
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86360. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1765-1769. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Théodore Tronchin (Male, born c.1707, died 1781)
Genre: Medicine
T. Tronchin, in Academia Genevensi ... de colica pictonum.
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections E.B. .615928 Tro..
Confidence level: Certain
Théodore Tronchin (Male, born c.1707, died 1781)
Genre: Medicine
T. Tronchin,... De Colica Pictonum.
Language: Latin . Published: Geneva. Date of publication: 1757. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 5
Théodore Tronchin (Male, born c.1707, died 1781)
Genre: Medicine
De Colica Pictonum
Record ID 118658
Also history of Barbados
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Wall
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86360. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1765-1769. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Genre: History
A short history of Barbados, from its first discovery and settlement, to the end of the year 1767.
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections P*.31.36 .
Record ID 118664
Macquer's Chemistry Vol. 1:st & 2:d
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/12/0.
Finlay Fergusson
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/87046. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1765-1770.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Record ID 118673
Ball's Practice 2 V:s
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
James Stark
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/80498. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1770. Other: Indian Medical Service, 1772.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Ball (Male, born c.1704, died 1779)
Genre: Medicine
The modern practice of physic : or, a method of judiciously treating the several disorders incident to the human body [Ball].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
John Ball (Male, born c.1704, died 1779)
Genre: Medicine
The modern practice of physic: or, a method of judiciously treating the several disorders incident to the human body: Together With a Recital of their Causes, Symptoms, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and the Regimen necessary to be observed in regard of them.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1762. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 38 times in 21 borrowing records
ESTC: N5047
John Ball (Male, born c.1704, died 1779)
Genre: Medicine
Modern Practice of Physic [John Ball]
Record ID 118679
Pott on Ruptures
Borrowed: 1770/4/20 (Friday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/4/0.
Thomas Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise on ruptures
Confidence level: Certain
Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788)
Genre: Medicine
A treatise on ruptures.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1756. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 44
ESTC: T68468
Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise on Ruptures
Record ID 118682
Medical pamphlets C.b.2 [?]
Borrowed: 1770/4/21 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/5/3.
James Mclurg
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91520. Dissertation: De Calore.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1766-1769; MD (Edin), 1770. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767. Origin: Virginia.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Genre: Medicine
Medical pamphlets.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 8
Record ID 118685
& Acta Taurinensia Vol. 2.dum
Borrowed: 1770/4/21 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
James Mclurg
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91520. Dissertation: De Calore.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1766-1769; MD (Edin), 1770. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767. Origin: Virginia.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Acta Taurinensia.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 118697
Also Potts Litheogeognoise en 2 tomes
Borrowed: 1770/4/21 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
James Mclurg
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91520. Dissertation: De Calore.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1766-1769; MD (Edin), 1770. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767. Origin: Virginia.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou examen chimique des pierres et des terres en général [Pott]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou examen chymique des pierres et des terres ... Avec une dissertation sur le feu et sur la lumière.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 8 times in 4 borrowing records
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou Examen Chymique des Pierres et des Terres
Record ID 118703
Hooke's history Vol. 3:d
Borrowed: 1770/4/21 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2/0/0.
William Steuart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Hooke's history
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 118709
& Dictionaire de Chymie tome 2:d
Borrowed: 1770/4/21 (Saturday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
William Steuart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie : contenant la theorie & la pratique de cette science [Macquer]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physíque, à l'histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l'économie animale; avec l'explication détaillée de la vertu & de la manière d'agir les médicamens chymiques.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 197 times in 105 borrowing records
Pierre Joseph Macquer (Male, born 1718, died 1784)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Dictionnaire de Chymie, Contenant la Théorie & la Pratique de Cette Science
Record ID 118763
Berkeley on Tar-Water
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/2/0.
Thomas Dancer
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/75451. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1770.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Bishop George Berkeley (Male, born 1685, died 1753)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water, and divers other subjects.
Confidence level: Certain
Bishop George Berkeley (Male, born 1685, died 1753)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water, and divers other subjects connected together and arising one from another.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1744. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T9521
Bishop George Berkeley (Male, born 1685, died 1753)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water
Record ID 118769
Whytt's Physiological Essays
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas.
John Story
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86235. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological essays [Whytt]
Confidence level: Certain
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological essays containing, I. An inquiry into the causes which promote the circulation of the fluids in the very small vessels of animals. II. Observations on the sensibility and irritability of the parts of men and other Animals; occasioned by M. de Haller’s late treatise on these subjects.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1766. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 23
ESTC: N12311
Robert Whytt (Male, born 1714, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Physiological Essays [Robert Whytt]
Record ID 118775
Medical pamphlets AAAEDb [?]
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Story
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/86235. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Genre: Medicine
Medical pamphlets.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 8
Record ID 118781
Pott Litheogeognoise en 2 tomes
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.
James Mclurg
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91520. Dissertation: De Calore.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1766-1769; MD (Edin), 1770. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1767. Origin: Virginia.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou examen chimique des pierres et des terres en général [Pott]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou examen chymique des pierres et des terres ... Avec une dissertation sur le feu et sur la lumière.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1753. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 8 times in 4 borrowing records
Johann Heinrich Pott (Male, born 1692, died 1777)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Lithogéognosie ou Examen Chymique des Pierres et des Terres
Record ID 118793
Lives of the Popes A.F.c17 8:vo
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/6.
Walter Minto
Gender: Male.
Class: Divinity. Origin: Scottish. Life dates: 1753-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Lives of the Popes
Historical Shelfmark: A.F.c.17.
Record ID 118814
& history of Cha:s XII A.F.c.18
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
Walter Minto
Gender: Male.
Class: Divinity. Origin: Scottish. Life dates: 1753-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Histoire de Charles XII. roy de Suede [Voltaire]
Historical Shelfmark: A.F.c.18.
Confidence level: Certain
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède.
Language: French . Published: Berlin. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 9
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
History of Charles XII, King of Sweden
Record ID 118838
Boerhaave Institutiones ab Hallero Vol. 1
Borrowed: 1770/4/23 (Monday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea. Funds deposited: Linen Note.
Richard Budd
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/79075. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1769-1770. Other: Royal Medical Society, 1770; MB (Cambridge), 1770; MD (Cambridge), 1775; FRCP(1777) . Origin: English. Life dates: 1746-1821.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Hermanni Boerhaave, phil. et med. ... , Praelectiones academicae in proprias institutiones rei medicae.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Hermanni Boerhaave,... Praelectiones academicae, in proprias institutiones rei medicae edidit et notas addidit Albertus Haller.
Language: Latin . Published: Göttingen. Date of publication: 1739-1744. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 46 times in 13 borrowing records
Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Praelectiones Academicae [Herman Boerhaave]
Record ID 118844
Harris Hermes
Borrowed: 1770/4/24 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/0/0. Funds deposited: Dumfries Note.
Matthew Stewart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Harris (Male, born 1709, died 1780)
Genre: Education
Hermes, or, A philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar
Possible modern shelfmark: Main Library - Special Collections ; SC 9217.
Confidence level: Very likely
James Harris (Male, born 1709, died 1780)
Genre: Education
Hermes, or, A philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 25
ESTC: T116396
James Harris (Male, born 1709, died 1780)
Genre: Education
Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar
Record ID 118853
Huxham on fevers
Borrowed: 1770/4/24 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: Guinea.
John Morison
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83941. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
John Huxham (Male, born 1692, died 1768)
Genre: Medicine
Essay on fevers [Huxham]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections (E. B. .6169 Hux.).
Confidence level: Certain
John Huxham (Male, born 1692, died 1768)
Genre: Medicine
An essay on fevers : to which is now added, A dissertation on the malignant, ulcerous sore-throat.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1769. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 68
ESTC: N3353
John Huxham (Male, born 1692, died 1768)
Genre: Medicine
Essay on Fevers to which is now added, A Dissertation on the Malignant, Ulcerous Sore-throat
Record ID 118862
& Tissot on D:o
Borrowed: 1770/4/24 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.
John Morison
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83941. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1768-1769.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Samuel Auguste David Tissot (Male, born 1728, died 1797)
Genre: Medicine
An essay on bilious fevers [Tissot]
Confidence level: Certain
Samuel Auguste David Tissot (Male, born 1728, died 1797)
Genre: Medicine
An essay on bilious fevers; or, the history of a bilious epidemic fever at Lausanne, in the year MDCCLV.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1760. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 6
ESTC: T76165
Samuel Auguste David Tissot (Male, born 1728, died 1797)
Genre: Medicine
Essay on Bilious Fevers; or, The History of a Bilious Epidemic Fever at Lausanne