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Library Receipt Book 1776-1779. (UYLY207-3), page 72

Record ID 142272

Lewiss's Edr Dispenc .

Borrowed: 1776/11/13 (Wednesday). Returned: 1776/11/29 (Friday). Classmark: Q5 . 9. Original Returned Text: Lewiss 's Dispensatory.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Unspecified, born 1681)
Genre: Medicine
The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica, and practical observations on the preparations, both Simple and Compound. To which are added The Prescriptions, as well Extemporaneous as Officinal, in Use at the Royal Hospital. By W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S.
Classmark: Q.5.9.

Record ID 142275

Tatler  1 . 2d Vol

Borrowed: 1776/12/19 (Thursday). Returned: 1777/2/1 (Saturday). Classmark: L6. 17. Original Returned Text: Tatler 1 . 2d Vol.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Classmark: L.6.17, B.7.2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1747-1748. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 144 times in 67 borrowing records


Book Work

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Borrowed: 1776/12/19 (Thursday). Returned: 1777/2/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729), Genre: Belles Lettres

Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 142278

Pemberton Dispenr[blot] .[blot]

Borrowed: 1777/2/4 (Tuesday). Returned: 1777/2/10 (Monday). Classmark: H11 .3. Original Returned Text: Pemberton.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Henry Pemberton (Male, born 1694, died 1771)
Genre: Medicine
The dispensatory Of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Translated into English with Remarks, &c. By H. Pemberton, M.D. Professor of Physic in Gresham College, and F.R.S.
Classmark: R.5.37, H.11.3.

Borrowed: 1777/2/4 (Tuesday). Returned: 1777/2/10 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Henry Pemberton (Male, born 1694, died 1771), Genre: Medicine

Dispensatory Of the Royal College of Physicians, London

Record ID 142281

Borrowed: 1777/2/15 (Saturday). Returned: 1777/2/15 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Nikolai Detlef Falck (Male, born 1736, died 1783), Genre: Medicine

Treatise on the Venereal Disease [Nikolai Detlef Falck]

Record ID 142284

Boerhaave's Materia Medica

Borrowed: 1777/3/22 (Saturday). Returned: 1777/3/22 (Saturday). Classmark: H8. 14. Original Returned Text: Boerhave's Materia Medica.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Hermanni Boerhaave Libellus de materia medica et remediorum formulis, quae serviunt Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.
Classmark: H.8.14.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Hermanni Boerhaave Libellus de materia medica et remediorum formulis, quae serviunt Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.
Language: Latin . Published: Leiden. Date of publication: 1727. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1


Book Work

Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738)
Genre: Medicine
Libellus de Materia Medica et Remediorum Formulis

Borrowed: 1777/3/22 (Saturday). Returned: 1777/3/22 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Herman Boerhaave (Male, born 1668, died 1738), Genre: Medicine

Libellus de Materia Medica et Remediorum Formulis

Record ID 142287

Cullen's Nosology

Borrowed: 1777/4/28 (Monday). Returned: 1777/5/5 (Monday). Classmark: H11. 5. Original Returned Text: Cullen's Nosology.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Synopsis nosologiae methodicae. In usum studiosorum. Editio altera. In quarta parte emendata; et adjectis morborum speciebus aucta. A Gulielmo Cullen, M.D. et in acad. Edinb. P.
Classmark: H.11.5.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Synopsis nosologiæ methodicæ. In usum studiosorum.
Language: Latin . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1772. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 29 times in 25 borrowing records


Book Work

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae

Borrowed: 1777/4/28 (Monday). Returned: 1777/5/5 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790), Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine

Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae

Record ID 142290

Tatler  1 . 2d Vol

Borrowed: 1777/5/5 (Monday). Returned: 1777/6/4 (Wednesday). Classmark: L6. 17. Original Returned Text: Tatler 1 . 2d Vol.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Classmark: L.6.17, B.7.2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1747-1748. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 144 times in 67 borrowing records


Book Work

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Borrowed: 1777/5/5 (Monday). Returned: 1777/6/4 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729), Genre: Belles Lettres

Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 142293

Tatler  3 - 4 Vol

Borrowed: 1777/6/4 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/6/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: ------. Original Returned Text: Tatler 3 - 4 Vol.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Classmark: L.6.17, B.7.2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq [The Tatler]
Language: English . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1747-1748. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 144 times in 67 borrowing records


Book Work

Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Borrowed: 1777/6/4 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/6/18 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Joseph Addison (Male, born 1672, died 1719), Sir Richard Steele (Male, born 1672, died 1729), Genre: Belles Lettres

Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 142296

Astruc . Venerial Diseases

Borrowed: 1777/6/10 (Tuesday). Returned: 1777/6/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: J3. 8. Original Returned Text: Astruc Venereal Diseases.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Jean Astruc (Male, born 1684, died 1766)
Genre: Medicine
A treatise of venereal diseases, in nine books ; containing an account of the origin, propagation, and contagion of this distemper. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders, whether local or universal. Togethre with a short abstract of the lives of the authors who have wrote on those diseases, and a list of their works. By John Astruc, physician to his present Majesty the King of France. Translated from the last Latin Edition printed at Paris.
Classmark: J.3.8.

Borrowed: 1777/6/10 (Tuesday). Returned: 1777/6/18 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Jean Astruc (Male, born 1684, died 1766), Genre: Medicine

Treatise of Venereal Diseases

Record ID 142299

Borrowed: 1777/6/25 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/7/2 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: William Buchan (Male, born 1729, died 1805), Genre: Medicine

Domestic Medicine [William Buchan]

Record ID 142302

Borrowed: 1777/7/2 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/8/3 (Sunday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: William Buchan (Male, born 1729, died 1805), Genre: Medicine

Domestic Medicine [William Buchan]

Record ID 142305

Ramsay's  poems

Borrowed: 1777/7/2 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/8/3 (Sunday). Classmark: A6. 33. Original Returned Text: Ramsay's poems.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Allan Ramsay (Male, born 1685, died 1758)
Genre: Poetry
Poems by Allan Ramsay.
Classmark: A.5.13, A.6.33, Q.3.2.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Very likely

Allan Ramsay (Male, born 1685, died 1758)
Genre: Poetry
Poems by Allan Ramsay.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1721. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 21


Book Work

Allan Ramsay (Male, born 1685, died 1758)
Genre: Poetry
Poems by Allan Ramsay

Borrowed: 1777/7/2 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/8/3 (Sunday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Allan Ramsay (Male, born 1685, died 1758), Genre: Poetry

Poems by Allan Ramsay

Record ID 142308

Borrowed: 1777/10/22 (Wednesday). Returned: 1777/12/18 (Thursday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: George Wilson (Male, born c.1631, died 1778), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge

Compleat Course of Chemistry

Record ID 142311

Hanway's Horace

Borrowed: 1777/11/11 (Tuesday). Returned: 1777/12/18 (Thursday). Classmark: O6.33. Original Returned Text: Hanways Horace.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Horace (Male, born BCE65-12-8, died BCE8-11-27)
Genre: Poetry
Translations of several odes, satyrs, and epistles of Horace. With some versions out of Catullus, Martial, and the Italian poets. As likewise several occasional copies of verses by the author. [ed. Hanway]
Classmark: O.6.33.

Record ID 142314

Wright  Trigonometry

Borrowed: 1777/12/6 (Saturday). Returned: 1777/12/18 (Thursday). Classmark: G3. 8. Original Returned Text: Wright Trigonometry.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Wright (Male)
Genre: Mathematics
Elements of trigonometry, plane and spherical; With the principle of perspective, and projection of the sphere. By John Wright.
Classmark: G.3.8, M.7.43.

Borrowed: 1777/12/6 (Saturday). Returned: 1777/12/18 (Thursday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: John Wright (Male), Genre: Mathematics

Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical

Record ID 142317

Fenning's Mensuration

Borrowed: 1777/12/26 (Friday). Returned: 1778/2/21 (Saturday). Classmark: G3. 37. Original Returned Text: Fennings Mensuration.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Daniel Fenning (Male)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The young measurer’s complete guide; or a new and universal treatise of mensuration, both with regard to theory and practice. Containing: I. A plain and easy Introduction to Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic, and the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. II. A select Number of Geometrical Problems useful in Mensuration. III. The Method of measuring all kinds of Superficies. IV. The whole Art of surveying or measuring Land, explained in the most easy and familiar Manner. V. The Method of measuring the Works of Bricklayers, Joyners, Carpenters, Glaziers, Painters, Plasterers, and Plumbers. VI. The Art of measuring Solids, both regular and irregular. Vii. The Art of Guaging all kinds of Vessels. Viii. The practical and true Methods of Measuring Timber, Stone, &c. IX. The Manner of calculating Tables for measuring Timber, &c. X. The best Methods of taking the Dimensions of Timber, so as to avoid the gross Errors attending the common Practice. XI. The Art of measuring standing Timber. XII. The Manner of finding the Tonnage of Ships very accurately. XIII. The Method of measuring Sawyers Work. XIV. Of measuring Cases, &c. sent by Sea, and which pay Freight by the solid Foot. XV. The Method of measuring Cord-Wood, Marle-Pits, Hayricks, Statues, and other irregular Bodies. XVI. The Construction of the Plain Scale, and its various Uses in the Practical Branches of the Mathematics. The Whole laid down in so easy and familiar a Manner, as to render it not only useful for Youths at School, but also necessary for Artificers of every Kind, and for such Gentlemen as are desirous of Surveying their Lands, Measuring their Buildings, Timber, &c. By D. Fenning. Author of the British Youth’s Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic, and the Royal English Dictionary, &c.
Classmark: G.3.37.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Daniel Fenning (Male)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The young measurer’s complete guide; or a new and universal treatise of mensuration, both with regard to theory and practice. Containing: I. A plain and easy Introduction to Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic, and the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. II. A select Number of Geometrical Problems useful in Mensuration. III. The Method of measuring all kinds of Superficies. IV. The whole Art of surveying or measuring Land, explained in the most easy and familiar Manner. V. The Method of measuring the Works of Bricklayers, Joyners, Carpenters, Glaziers, Painters, Plasterers, and Plumbers. VI. The Art of measuring Solids, both regular and irregular. Vii. The Art of Guaging all kinds of Vessels. Viii. The practical and true Methods of Measuring Timber, Stone, &c. IX. The Manner of calculating Tables for measuring Timber, &c. X. The best Methods of taking the Dimensions of Timber, so as to avoid the gross Errors attending the common Practice. XI. The Art of measuring standing Timber. XII. The Manner of finding the Tonnage of Ships very accurately. XIII. The Method of measuring Sawyers Work. XIV. Of measuring Cases, &c. sent by Sea, and which pay Freight by the solid Foot. XV. The Method of measuring Cord-Wood, Marle-Pits, Hayricks, Statues, and other irregular Bodies. XVI. The Construction of the Plain Scale, and its various Uses in the Practical Branches of the Mathematics. The Whole laid down in so easy and familiar a Manner, as to render it not only useful for Youths at School, but also necessary for Artificers of every Kind, and for such Gentlemen as are desirous of Surveying their Lands, Measuring their Buildings, Timber, &c. By D. Fenning. Author of the British Youth’s Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic, and the Royal English Dictionary, &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1772. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 15


Book Work

Daniel Fenning (Male)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Young Measurer’s Complete Guide

Record ID 142320

Cicero to  Brutus

Borrowed: 1778/2/14 (Saturday). Returned: 1778/2/16 (Monday). Classmark: D4. 34. Original Returned Text: Cioceroto Brutus.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Male, born BCE106-1-3, died BCE43-12-7)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives
The epistles of M. T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero: with the Latin text on the opposite page, and English notes to each epistle. Together with a prefatory dissertation, in which the authority of the said epistles is vindicated, and all the Objections of the Revd. Mr. Tunstall particularly considered and confuted. By Conyers Middleton, D.D. Principal Library Keeper of the University of Cambridge.
Classmark: K.6.8, D.4.34.

Borrowed: 1778/2/14 (Saturday). Returned: 1778/2/16 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Male, born BCE106-1-3, died BCE43-12-7), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives

Letters to Brutus

Record ID 142326

Cullen's Materia Medica

Borrowed: 1778/7/22 (Wednesday). Returned: 1778/7/22 (Wednesday). Classmark: J3 . 6. Original Returned Text: Cullen's Materia Medica.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Lectures on the Materia Medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M. D. Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Now Published by Permission of the Author, And with many Corrections from the Collatiohn of different Manuscripts by the Editors.
Classmark: J.3.6.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Lectures on the Materia Medica, as delivered by William Cullen, M. D. Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Now Published by Permission of the Author, And with many Corrections from the Collatiohn of different Manuscripts by the Editors.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1773. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 96 times in 93 borrowing records


Book Work

William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790)
Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine
Lectures on the Materia Medica [William Cullen]

Borrowed: 1778/7/22 (Wednesday). Returned: 1778/7/22 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: William Cullen (Male, born 1710, died 1790), Genre: Education, Genre: Medicine

Lectures on the Materia Medica [William Cullen]

Record ID 142329

Robertson's   hist Scot -1 .2d V.

Borrowed: 1778/9/2 (Wednesday). Returned: 1778/10/14 (Wednesday). Classmark: N5 22. Original Returned Text: Robertson's hist . 1 . 2d Vol.


Borrower

Robert Halkerston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. till his accession to the crown of England. With a review of the Scottish history previous to that period; and an appendix containing Original Papers. In Two Volumes. By William Robertson, D. D. Minister of Lady Yester’s, Edinburgh. ...
Classmark: N.5.22, N.7.24?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Borrowed: 1778/9/2 (Wednesday). Returned: 1778/10/14 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Robert Halkerston

Author: William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793), Genre: History

History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2