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Record ID 208514

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 37

a Collection of5th vol. fol .

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/3/16 (Saturday).


Borrower

Andrew Beveridge
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1776.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


Book HoldingLibrary record

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 5 (Barbot)

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: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/3/16 (Saturday).

Borrower: Andrew Beveridge

Genre: Travel

Collection of Voyages and Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 5 (Barbot)

Record ID 15182

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 8

Rollins Belles Lettres Vol 1st

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/4/28 (Sunday). Classmark: J.5.3. Original Returned Text: Rollins Bell. Lett. Vol. 1<sup>st</sup>. Professor: Andrew Shaw.


Borrower

Robert Balfour
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1365070252.
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 1

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/4/28 (Sunday).

Borrower: Robert Balfour

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

Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 15183

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 8

Pamphlets No 7

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/3/29 (Friday). Classmark: J.3.30. Original Returned Text: Pamphlets No. 7. Professor: Andrew Shaw.


Borrower

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


Book Holding

Pamphlets [J.3.30]
Classmark: J.3.30.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 7

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/3/29 (Friday).

Borrower: Thomas Thomson

Pamphlets [J.3.30]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 7

Record ID 15180

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 8

Nature displayed Vol. 1st & 2d

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748. Classmark: J.4.20. Original Returned Text: Nature displayed Vol. 1 & 2d. Professor: Andrew Shaw.


Borrower

Robert Balfour
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1365070252.
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, Volume 2

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: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748.

Borrower: Robert Balfour

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, Volume 2

Record ID 15181

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 8

Jewish Ceremonies

Borrowed: 1748/3/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1748/4/28 (Sunday). Classmark: J.4.12. Original Returned Text: Jewish Ceremonies. Professor: Andrew Shaw.


Borrower

Robert Balfour
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1365070252.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Abraham Mears (Male)
Genre: Theology
The book of religion, ceremonies, and prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their synagogues and families On all Occasions: On their Sabbath and other Holy-Days Throughout the Year. To which is added, A Preface shewing the Intent of the Whole. The Contents, and an Index, with the Hebrew Title of each Prayer made English; with many Remarkable Observations and Relations of the Rabbies: All which are what the Modern Jews Religiously observe. Translated immediately from the Hebrew, by Gamaliel ben Pedahzur, Gent.
Classmark: J.4.12, D.4.27.