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Record ID 15371

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 18

Gullivers Travells 2 Voll.

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/6/1 (Saturday). Classmark: A.6.27. Original Returned Text: Gullivers Travells 2. Voll.. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

William Taylor
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Jonathan Swift (Male, born 1667, died 1745)
Genre: Fiction
Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. ...
Classmark: A.6.27, A.5.22, S.5.3.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Very likely

Jonathan Swift (Male, born 1667, died 1745)
Genre: Fiction
Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1726. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 111 times in 58 borrowing records


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Jonathan Swift (Male, born 1667, died 1745)
Genre: Fiction
Gulliver's Travels

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/6/1 (Saturday).

Borrower: William Taylor

Author: Jonathan Swift (Male, born 1667, died 1745), Genre: Fiction

Gulliver's Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 15372

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 19

Antiquities of Constantinople

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/30 (Thursday). Classmark: A.6.28. Original Returned Text: Antiquities of Constantinople. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Jerome Stone Hieronymus
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1727-1756. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1413267284.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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John Ball (Male, born c.1704, died 1779), Pierre Gilles (Male, born 1490, died 1555)
Genre: History
The antiquities of Constantinople. With a description of its situation, the conveniencies of its port, its publick buildings, the statuary, sculpture, architecture, and other curiosities of that city. With cuts explaining the chief of them. In four books / Written originally in Latin by Petrus Gyllius a Byzantine historian. Now translated into English, and enlarged with an ancient description of the wards of that city, as they stood in the reigns of Arcadius and Honorius. With Pancirolus's notes thereupon. To which is added a large explanatory index. By John Ball.
Classmark: A.6.28.

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/30 (Thursday).

Borrower: Jerome Stone Hieronymus

Author: John Ball (Male, born c.1704, died 1779), Pierre Gilles (Male, born 1490, died 1555), Genre: History

Antiquities of Constantinople

Record ID 15374

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 19

ffosters Sermons Vol. 3 & 4th

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/27 (Monday). Classmark: K.. Original Returned Text: ffoster's Sermons Vol. 3 & 4<sup>th</sup>. Professor: Andrew Shaw.


Borrower

Laurence Gillespie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

James Foster (Male, born 1697, died 1753)
Genre: Sermons
Sermons on the following subjects, viz. Of the universal sense of good and evil. The characters of the righteous and good man compared; or benevolence the noblest branch of social virtue. The perfection of the Christian scheme of benevolence; in answer to the objection from its not having particularly recommended private friendship, and the love of our country. Of the image of God in man; or the excellency of human nature. God not an arbitrary being. Of the abuses of free-thinking. Of Mysteries. Agur’s prayer; or the middle condition of life, generally, the most eligible. The mischiefs of flavish complaisance, and cowardice. Rules for the profitable reading the Holy Scriptures. Of Heresy. Of Schism. Of the pleasures of a religious life. Religion founded on reason, and the right of private judgment. The evidence of a future state, on the principles of reason and revelation, distinctly consider’d. The nature, folly, and danger of scoffing at religion. By James Foster.
Classmark: K.4.10, K.5.26, K.5.20, P.6.9, P.8.8, E.7?.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/27 (Monday).

Borrower: Laurence Gillespie

Author: James Foster (Male, born 1697, died 1753), Genre: Sermons

Sermons on the Following Subjects [James Foster]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 15373

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 19

Buckinghames Works Vol. 1st

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/30 (Thursday). Classmark: A.5.34. Original Returned Text: Buckinghames Works Vol.1<sup>st</sup>. Professor: Henry Rymer.


Borrower

Jerome Stone Hieronymus
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1727-1756. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1413267284.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham (Male, born 1647, died 1721)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham.
Classmark: A.5.34, A.6.6.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham (Male, born 1647, died 1721)
Genre: Belles Lettres
The works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1723. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 17 times in 12 borrowing records


Book Work

John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham (Male, born 1647, died 1721)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1748/5/30 (Thursday).

Borrower: Jerome Stone Hieronymus

Author: John Sheffield Duke of Buckingham (Male, born 1647, died 1721), Genre: Belles Lettres

Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 16624

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 76

Transactions of ye Society for im - proving agriculture

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1750/3/18 (Wednesday). Classmark: K . .. Original Returned Text: Transactions on Agriculture.


Borrower

Professor Ninian Young
Gender: Male.
Life dates: c. 1681-1753. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1420760084.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland (Unspecified)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Select transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland : directing the husbandry of the different soils for the most profitable purposes, and containing other directions, receipts and descriptions : together with an Account of the Society's endeavours to promote our manufactures / prepared for the press by Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a member of the Society, and revised by the preses [sic] and a committee appointed for that end.
Classmark: K.4.15.

Record ID 16623

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 76

Horse-hooing Husbandry

Borrowed: 1748/5/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1749/9/4 (Thursday). Classmark: A.5.21. Original Returned Text: Horse hoing husbandry.


Borrower

Professor Ninian Young
Gender: Male.
Life dates: c. 1681-1753. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1420760084.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Jethro Tull (Male, born 1674, died 1741)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, an Essay On the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein in shewn A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, In order to Increase their Product, and diminish the common Expence; By the use of Instruments described in Cuts. By I. T.
Classmark: A.5.21.