Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

List of libraries

edinburgh-university
58

EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/3/Da.2.11, page 44

Record ID 145092

Priestly on Air

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/5/0.


Borrower

Adam Hotchkis
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/83501. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1773-1778. Other: Apprentice of Royal Colllege of Surgeons, 1774; Royal Medical Society, 1775; Indian Medical Service, 1778.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air [Priestley]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections I*.20.25.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1774. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 21


Book Work

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Adam Hotchkis

Author: Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804), Genre: Natural Philosophy

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 145095

Priestly on Electricity

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 1/7/0. Funds deposited: Air Note.


Borrower

Thomas Elliot
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/77472. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1774-1775. Other: British Navy, 1776.
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]

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1767. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 55


Book Work

Joseph Priestley (Male, born 1733, died 1804)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments

Record ID 145098

& Pringle's Observations

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.


Borrower

Thomas Elliot
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/77472. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1774-1775. Other: British Navy, 1776.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

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

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Sir John Pringle (Male, born 1707, died 1782)
Genre: Medicine
Observations on the diseases of the army, by John Pringle, Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1765. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 148


Book Work

Sir John Pringle (Male, born 1707, died 1782)
Genre: Medicine
Observations on the Diseases of the Army

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Thomas Elliot

Author: Sir John Pringle (Male, born 1707, died 1782), Genre: Medicine

Observations on the Diseases of the Army

Record ID 145101

Salmon's Geography

Borrowed: 1775/6/13 (Tuesday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/6/0.


Borrower

Philip Morison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Thomas Salmon (Male, born 1679, died 1767)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A new geographical and historical grammar [Salmon]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections P*..23.35 .

Record ID 145107

Nature Displ: Vs 1-2-3

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas.


Borrower

Thomas Ruddiman Steuart
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91884. Dissertation: De Apoplexia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1776; MD (Edin), 1777. Origin: Scoto-Brit..
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature displayed. (original title)
Spectacle de la nature : or, Nature display'd. (standardised title)

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history, as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1750. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 7 vols.
Translators: Humphreys, Mr
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 153 times in 91 borrowing records


Book Work

Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday).

Borrower: Thomas Ruddiman Steuart

Author: Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761), Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy

Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3

Record ID 145116

& Wheatly on Gardening

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.


Borrower

Thomas Ruddiman Steuart
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/91884. Dissertation: De Apoplexia.. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1776; MD (Edin), 1777. Origin: Scoto-Brit..
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Thomas Whately (Male, died 1772)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Observations on modern gardening : illustrated by descriptions [Whately]
Possible modern shelfmark: Special Collections *K.21.69.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Whately (Male, died 1772)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1


Book Work

Thomas Whately (Male, died 1772)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Observations on Modern Gardening

Record ID 145119

Smith's Optics 2 V:s

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 2 Guineas. Funds deposited: Glasgow Note.


Borrower

Peter Cochrane Cochran
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/84898. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1773-1775. Other: Indian Medical Service, 1780.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Robert Smith (Male, born 1689, died 1768)
Genre: Mathematics
A compleat system of opticks in four books [Smith]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Robert Smith (Male, born 1689, died 1768)
Genre: Mathematics
A compleat system of opticks in four books, viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise : To which are added Remarks upon the whole. / By Robert Smith LL.D. Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, and Master of Mechanicks to his Majesty.
Language: English . Published: Cambridge | London. Date of publication: 1738. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 67 times in 37 borrowing records


Book Work

Robert Smith (Male, born 1689, died 1768)
Genre: Mathematics
Compleat System of Opticks

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday).

Borrower: Peter Cochrane Cochran

Author: Robert Smith (Male, born 1689, died 1768), Genre: Mathematics

Compleat System of Opticks

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 145122

Pott on Ruptures

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: 0/10/0.


Borrower

George Shepherd
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/78489. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1773. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise on ruptures

Book Edition

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


Book Work

Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788)
Genre: Medicine
Treatise on Ruptures

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday).

Borrower: George Shepherd

Author: Percivall Pott (Male, born 1714, died 1788), Genre: Medicine

Treatise on Ruptures

Record ID 145125

& Med: pamphlets C.b. 27.

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday). Loan period: Fortnight. Deposit: see entry above.


Borrower

George Shepherd
Gender: Male.
Historical Alumni Database: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/record/78489. Class: Medicine. Academic dates: 1772-1773. Other: Apprentice to Royal College of Surgeons, 1771.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Genre: Medicine
Medical pamphlets C.b.27

Record ID 145128

Borrowed: 1775/6/15 (Thursday).

Borrower: Ebenezer Russell E.

Author: Thomas Haweis (Male, born 1734, died 1820), Genre: Theology

Evangelical Expositor: or, A Commentary on the Holy Bible

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2