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Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2), page 65

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Record ID 16377

Proceedings agt L. Lovat

Borrowed: 1749/3/14 (Friday). Returned: 1749/3/20 (Thursday). Classmark: K.2.10. Original Returned Text: Proceedings agt L. Lovat.. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Genre: History, Genre: Law, Genre: Lives
The whole proceedings in the House of Peers, upon the impeachment exhibited by the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled, in the names of themselves, and of all the commons of Great Britain; against Simon Lord Lovat, for high treason: the proceeding in Westminster-Hall being begun on Monday the 9th day of March, and continued on Tuesday the 10th, Wednesday the 11th, Friday the 13th, Monday the 16th, Wednesday the 18th, and Thursday the 19th days of March, 1746-7: on the last of which days judgment of high treason was given against him. Published by order of the House of Peers.
Classmark: K.2.10, N.3.31.

Record ID 16378

Puffendorf's Introd. to ye Hist. of Europe

Borrowed: 1749/3/14 (Friday). Returned: 1749/3/24 (Monday). Classmark: K.5.16. Original Returned Text: Puffendorfs Introduction. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Freiherr von Samuel Pufendorf (Male, born 1632, died 1694)
Genre: History
An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe. By Samuel Puffendorf, ... Made Euglish [sic] from the original High-Dutch. The eighth edition corrected and improved. With an appendix, ...
Classmark: K.5.23, K.5.16, D.5.13.

Record ID 16379

Rollin's belles Lettres Vol. 3d

Borrowed: 1749/3/16 (Sunday). Returned: 1749/3/31 (Monday). Classmark: J.5.2. Original Returned Text: Rollin's belles Lettres Vol. 3<sup>d</sup>. Professor: David Gregory.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Method of teaching and studying the belles lettres, or an introduction to languages, poetry, rhetoric, history, moral philosophy, physicks, &c. with reflections on taste; and instructions with regard to the eloquence of the pulpit, the bar, and the stage. The whole illustrated with passages from the most famous poets and orators, antient and modern, with critical remarks on them. Designed more particularly for students in the universities. By Mr. Rollin, late principal of the university of Paris, now professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, and member of the Royal Academy of inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French.
Classmark: J.5.3, J.5.2, B.6.6, B.3.27.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Borrowed: 1749/3/16 (Sunday). Returned: 1749/3/31 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Dalgleish

Author: Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741), Genre: Belles Lettres

Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Record ID 16380

Watts Improvt of ye Mind

Borrowed: 1749/3/20 (Thursday). Returned: 1749/4/15 (Tuesday). Classmark: K.5.25. Original Returned Text: Watt's Improv<sup>t</sup> of the Mind. Professor: David Gregory.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Isaac Watts (Male, born 1674, died 1748)
Genre: Philosophy and Morality
The improvement of the mind: or, a supplement to the art of logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in common Life. By I. Watts, D.D.
Classmark: K.4.8, K.5.25, B.5.17.

Borrowed: 1749/3/20 (Thursday). Returned: 1749/4/15 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Robert Dalgleish

Author: Isaac Watts (Male, born 1674, died 1748), Genre: Philosophy and Morality

Improvement of the Mind: or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick

Record ID 16381

Nature display'd Vol. 1st

Borrowed: 1749/3/24 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/15 (Tuesday). Classmark: J.4.20. Original Returned Text: Nature display'd Vol. 1<sup>st</sup>. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

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. Vol. III. Translated from the original French.
Classmark: J.4.20, B.5.26, B.4.31.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Very likely

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. Vol. III. Translated from the original French.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1736. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 132 times in 96 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: 1749/3/24 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/15 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Robert Dalgleish

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

Record ID 16382

Blackwals Introdn to ye Classicks

Borrowed: 1749/3/31 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/7 (Monday). Classmark: E.7.15. Original Returned Text: Blackwalls Introd to ye Classicks. Professor: John Young.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Belles Lettres
An introduction to the classics: containing, a short discourse on their excellencies; and directions how to study them to advantage: with an essay, on the nature and use of those emphatical and beautiful figures which give strength and ornament to writing. By Anthony Blackwall, M.A.
Classmark: E.7.15, O.7.43, R.8?.

Borrowed: 1749/3/31 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/7 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Dalgleish

Author: Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730), Genre: Belles Lettres

Introduction to the Classics

Record ID 16383

Enquiry into ye Life of Homer

Borrowed: 1749/4/7 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/29 (Tuesday). Classmark: J.4.22. Original Returned Text: Enquiry into the Life of Homer. Professor: David Gregory.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Thomas Blackwell (Male, born 1701, died 1757)
Genre: Belles Lettres
An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer.
Classmark: J.4.22, B.7.17.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Thomas Blackwell (Male, born 1701, died 1757)
Genre: Belles Lettres
An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1736. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 12


Book Work

Thomas Blackwell (Male, born 1701, died 1757)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer

Borrowed: 1749/4/7 (Monday). Returned: 1749/4/29 (Tuesday).

Borrower: Robert Dalgleish

Author: Thomas Blackwell (Male, born 1701, died 1757), Genre: Belles Lettres

Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer

Record ID 16384

Philosoph. Transactions Vol. 31st

Borrowed: 1749/4/15 (Tuesday). Returned: 1749/5/5 (Monday). Classmark: K.6.1. Original Returned Text: Philosophical Transactions V. 31<sup>st</sup>. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
Philosophical transactions : giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world.
Classmark: K.6.1.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 31-32 (1720-1723)

Record ID 16385

Abridgemt of ye phil. Transact. V. 1st

Borrowed: 1749/4/29 (Tuesday). Returned: 1749/5/20 (Tuesday). Classmark: F.5.19. Original Returned Text: Abridgem<sup>t</sup> of ye phil. Trans. V. 1<sup>st</sup>. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Royal Society (Great Britain) (Unspecified, born 1660)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
The philosophical transactions and collections to the End of the Year 1700. Abridg'd and Dispos'd under general heads. In three volumes. By John Lowthorp, M.A. and F.R.S.
Classmark: F.5.19.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 16386

Ellis's Voyage

Borrowed: 1749/5/8 (Thursday). Returned: 1749/6/6 (Friday). Classmark: J.6.19. Original Returned Text: Ellis's Voyage. Professor: David Gregory.


Borrower

Robert Dalgleish
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1731-1803. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1375400244.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Henry Ellis (Male, born 1721, died 1806)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to Hudson's-Bay, : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a North West Passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, Gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.
Classmark: J.6.19, D.4.7, P.8.3.

Record ID 16387

Carleton's Memoirs

Borrowed: 1749/3/17 (Monday). Returned: 1753/6/20 (Wednesday). Classmark: A.6.6. Original Returned Text: Carleton's Memoirs. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Andrew Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Genre: Travel
The memoirs of an English officer, who serv’d in the Dutch war in 1672. to the peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Containing Several Remarkable Transactions both by Sea and Land, and in divers Countries, but chiefly those wherein the Author was personally concern’d. Together with A Description of many Cities, Towns, and Countries, in which he resided; their Manners and Customs, as well Religious as Civil, interspers’d with many curious Observations on their Monasteries and Nunneries, more particularly of the famous one at Montserat. On the Bull-Feasts, and other publick Diversions; as also on the Genius of the Spanish People, amongst whom he continued several Years a Prisoner of War. No Part of which has before been made publick. By Capt. George Carleton.
Classmark: A.6.6, A.5.20.

Record ID 16388

Mandeville on ye Hypo & Vapours

Borrowed: 1749/3/17 (Monday). Classmark: F.8.52. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Andrew Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Bernard Mandeville (Male, born c.1670, died 1733)
Genre: Medicine
A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, vulgarly call’d the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method intirely new. The whole interspers’d, with instructive discourses on the real art of physick itself; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and aopthecaries: very useful to all, that have the misfortune to stand in need of either. In three dialogues. By B. De Mandeville, M.D.
Classmark: F.8.52.

Record ID 16389

Rowe's Works Vol 1st & 2d

Borrowed: 1750/3/2 (Monday). Returned: 1750/12/4 (Friday). Classmark: J.4.35. Original Returned Text: Rowes Works V 1 & 2<sup>d</sup>. Professor: John Young.


Borrower

Andrew Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Elizabeth Singer Rowe (Female, born 1674, died 1737), Thomas Rowe (Male, born 1687, died 1715)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Fiction, Genre: Poetry
The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. The greater part now first published, by her order, from her original manuscripts, by Mr. Theophilus Rowe. To which are added, poems on several occasions, by Mr. Thomas Rowe. And to the whole is prefix’d, an account of the lives and writings of the authors. In two volumes. Vol. ...
Classmark: J.4.35, B.7.7.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1 [ Elizabeth Singer Rowe (Female, born 1674, died 1737)], , Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Elizabeth Singer Rowe (Female, born 1674, died 1737), Thomas Rowe (Male, born 1687, died 1715)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Fiction, Genre: Poetry
The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. The greater part now first published, by her order, from her original manuscripts, by Mr. Theophilus Rowe. To which are added, poems on several occasions, by Mr. Thomas Rowe. And to the whole is prefix’d, an account of the lives and writings of the authors.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1739. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Rowe, Theophilus.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 56 times in 37 borrowing records


Book Work

Elizabeth Singer Rowe (Female, born 1674, died 1737), Thomas Rowe (Male, born 1687, died 1715)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Fiction, Genre: Poetry
Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs Elizabeth Rowe

Borrowed: 1750/3/2 (Monday). Returned: 1750/12/4 (Friday).

Borrower: Andrew Williamson

Author: Elizabeth Singer Rowe (Female, born 1674, died 1737), Thomas Rowe (Male, born 1687, died 1715), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Fiction, Genre: Poetry

Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs Elizabeth Rowe

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 16391

Plays Vol 1st

Borrowed: 1750/4/22 (Wednesday). Returned: 1750/5/1 (Friday). Classmark: J.6.. Original Returned Text: Plays V. 1<sup>st</sup>. Professor: John Young.


Borrower

Andrew Williamson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Genre: Drama
Plays 2 Voll, it. Vol. 3d [J.6.4]
Classmark: J.6.4.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Borrowed: 1750/4/22 (Wednesday). Returned: 1750/5/1 (Friday).

Borrower: Andrew Williamson

Genre: Drama

Plays 2 Voll, it. Vol. 3d [J.6.4]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1