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Record ID 280823

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 56

the first Vol. .Folio Voyages

Borrowed: 1757/1/1 (Saturday).


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Walter Riddell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Independent Means > Landowner/Landlord/Laird.


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Genre: Travel
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts. Others translated out of foreign languages, and now first publish’d in English. To which are added some few that have formerly appear’d in English, but do now for their excellency and scarceness deserve to be reprinted. In four volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation, from its first beginning to the perfection it is now in, &c. The whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps, and cuts, all engraven on copper. The authors contain’d in this volume, see over leaf.
Classmark: 1.2.1-2-3-4 and 13.3or4.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

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Confidence level: Certain

Genre: Travel
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1704. Format: folio.
Editors: Compiled by Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 163 times in 144 borrowing records


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Genre: Travel
Collection of Voyages and Travels

Borrowed: 1757/1/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: Walter Riddell

Genre: Travel

Collection of Voyages and Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1