An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1749/6/1
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Record ID 16598
Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1748-1753. (UYLY205-2) (1748-1753, Type: Other). Page: 75
Dr Houston's Memoirs
Borrowed: 1749/6/1 (Sunday). Returned: 1749/6/9 (Monday). Classmark: J.6.2. Original Returned Text: D<sup>r</sup> Houstons Memoirs. Professor: David Gregory.
Alexander Duncan
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1733-1799. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1377717276.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
James Houstoun (Male, born c.1690)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Dr. Houstoun’s memoirs of his own life-time. Containing, among other curious particulars, during upwards of thirty years travels, an account of I. The Scotch settlement at Darien. II. The great Advantages accruing to Great Britain from an Incorporated Union of the Whole Island. III. The Rise and Progress of the Royal African and Assiente Companies. IV. The Rise and Fall of the grand South Sea Bubble, &c. in 1720. V. The Conduct of the Spaniards, and Manner of their Trade in the West Indies. VI. The secret Expedition thither in 1740. Vii. Some Anecdotes of the Government of Jamaica, with the Characteristicks of its Inhabitants. Viii. The Importance of Cape-Breton to the British Nation. IX. An Essay on Genius and Education. Collected from the Author’s Original Manuscripts, and Publish’d by Jacob Bickerstaff, M. A.
Classmark: J.6.2, Q.5.23.
Confidence level: Certain
James Houstoun (Male, born c.1690)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Dr. Houstoun’s memoirs of his own life-time. Containing, among other curious particulars, during upwards of thirty years travels, an account of I. The Scotch settlement at Darien. II. The great Advantages accruing to Great Britain from an Incorporated Union of the Whole Island. III. The Rise and Progress of the Royal African and Assiente Companies. IV. The Rise and Fall of the grand South Sea Bubble, &c. in 1720. V. The Conduct of the Spaniards, and Manner of their Trade in the West Indies. VI. The secret Expedition thither in 1740. Vii. Some Anecdotes of the Government of Jamaica, with the Characteristicks of its Inhabitants. Viii. The Importance of Cape-Breton to the British Nation. IX. An Essay on Genius and Education. Collected from the Author’s Original Manuscripts, and Publish’d by Jacob Bickerstaff, M. A.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1747. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 7
ESTC: T114818
James Houstoun (Male, born c.1690)
Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel
Dr Houstoun’s Memoirs of His Own Life-Time
Borrowed: 1749/6/1 (Sunday). Returned: 1749/6/9 (Monday).
Borrower: Alexander Duncan
Author: James Houstoun (Male, born c.1690), Genre: Lives, Genre: Travel