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Library Receipt Book 1776-1779. (UYLY207-3), page 185

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Record ID 149142

Histoire Naturelle P Buffon 1 Vol

Borrowed: 1779/6/12 (Saturday). Returned: 1779/6/12 (Saturday). Classmark: O: 6:14. Original Returned Text: Histoire Naturelle P Buf: Vol 1.


Borrower

Thomas Melville
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. [By Buffon, L. J. M. D'Aubenton, P. Guéneau de Montbeillard, G. L. C. A. Bexon, and the Count de Lacépède.]
Classmark: L.4.2, O.6.14.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. [By Buffon, L. J. M. D'Aubenton, P. Guéneau de Montbeillard, G. L. C. A. Bexon, and the Count de Lacépède.]
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1749-1767. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 243 times in 129 borrowing records


Book Work

Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon

Borrowed: 1779/6/12 (Saturday). Returned: 1779/6/12 (Saturday).

Borrower: Thomas Melville

Author: Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788), Genre: Natural Philosophy

Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 149148

 Home on Agriculture 1 Vol

Borrowed: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Classmark: L:7:57. Original Returned Text: Home on Agriculture.


Borrower

Thomas Melville
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The principles of agriculture and vegetation. By Francis Home, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.
Classmark: L.7.57.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The principles of agriculture and vegetation.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1757. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 8


Book Work

Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation

Borrowed: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Thomas Melville

Author: Francis Home (Male, born 1719, died 1813), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge

Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation

Record ID 149157

 Maitland  History of Edr 1 Vol

Borrowed: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Classmark: L2:28. Original Returned Text: Maitland hist. V 1 st.


Borrower

Thomas Melville
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

William Maitland (Male, born c.1693, died 1757)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh, from its foundation to the present time : containing a faithful relation of the publick transactions of the citizens; accounts of the several parishes; its governments, civil, ecclesiastical, and military; incorporations of trades and manufactures; courts of justice; state of learning; charitable foundations, &c. : with the several accounts of the parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other districts within the suburbs of Edinburgh : together with the antient and present state of the town of Leith, and a perambulation of divers miles round the city : with an alphabetical index : in nine books / by William Maitland, F. R. S. author of the History of London ; the whole illustrated with a plan of the town, and a great variety of other fine cuts of the principal buildings within the city and suburbs.
Classmark: N.3.9, Q.2.28.

Borrowed: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday). Returned: 1779/6/23 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Thomas Melville

Author: William Maitland (Male, born c.1693, died 1757), Genre: History

History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time