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Record ID 206258

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 32

Voyages Vol: 4 fol:

Borrowed: 1745/8/28 (Saturday). Returned: 1745/8/28 (Saturday).


Borrower

John Dickie
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1800.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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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 4

Book Edition

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


Book Work

Genre: Travel
Collection of Voyages and Travels

Borrowed: 1745/8/28 (Saturday). Returned: 1745/8/28 (Saturday).

Borrower: John Dickie

Genre: Travel

Collection of Voyages and Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 4

Record ID 206261

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 32

Baddam's Philosph: Transactions-Vols 3d & 7t

Borrowed: 1745/8/28 (Saturday). Returned: 1745/8/28 (Saturday).


Borrower

William Irvine
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1768.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Independent Means > Landowner/Landlord/Laird.


Book Holding

Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals
Memoirs of the Royal Society; being a new abridgment of the Philosophical transactions: Giving an Account of the Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Learned and Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the World; from the first Institution of that Illustrious Society in the Year 1665, to under their Royal Founder King Charles II. to the Year of our Lord 1735 inclusive. Dispos’d under proper General Heads, with a Translation of the Latin Tracts from their Originals; the Whole regularly abridg’d, the Order of Time observ’d, the Theoretical Parts apply’d to Practical Uses, and an Explanation of the Terms of Art as they occur in the Course of the Work; being a Work of general Use to the Publick, and worthy the Perusal of all Mathematicians, Artificers, Tradesmen, &c. for their Improvement, in various Branches of Business. By Mr. Baddam. Illustrated with Copper Plates. Vol. I.
Classmark: 11.8.6-7-8-9-12-13-14-15.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 7

Borrowed: 1745/8/28 (Saturday). Returned: 1745/8/28 (Saturday).

Borrower: William Irvine

Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Periodicals

Memoirs of the Royal Society; Being a New Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 7