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Record ID 293551

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/6 (1774-1776, Type: Other). Page: 42

Noodt opera one vol. 4.

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/23 (Thursday). Fine pledged in case of late return: one pound sterl.


Borrower

Mr William Craig Lord Craig
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1768. Life dates: 1745-1813.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice. Law > Sheriff.


Book Holding

Gerard Noodt (Male, born 1647, died 1725)
Genre: Law
Opera omnia [Noodt]
Possible modern shelfmark: AL: Historical Collection [e].4.14.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Gerard Noodt (Male, born 1647, died 1725)
Genre: Law
Gerardi Noodt,... Opera omnia, cum ante edita, tum adhuc inedita.
Language: Latin . Published: Leiden. Date of publication: 1713. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 4


Book Work

Gerard Noodt (Male, born 1647, died 1725)
Genre: Law
Works of Gerard Noodt

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/23 (Thursday).

Borrower: Mr William Craig Lord Craig

Author: Gerard Noodt (Male, born 1647, died 1725), Genre: Law

Works of Gerard Noodt

Record ID 293569

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/6 (1774-1776, Type: Other). Page: 44

Scarlett on Exchanges 8vo

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday). Fine pledged in case of late return: see entry above.


Borrower

Mr Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1762. Life dates: d. 1780.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate.


Book HoldingLibrary record

John Scarlett (Male)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The stile of exchanges containing both their law & custom as practised now in the most cousiderable [sic] places of exchange in Europe [Scarlett]
Possible modern shelfmark: AL: Historical Collection TR E.141.7].

Record ID 293572

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/6 (1774-1776, Type: Other). Page: 44

Sessions Papers for 1755 in fol.

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday). Fine pledged in case of late return: five pounds sterl.


Borrower

Mr George Fergusson Lord Hermand
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1765. Life dates: 1743-1827.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.


Book Holding

Genre: Law
Session Papers 1755

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday).

Borrower: Mr George Fergusson Lord Hermand

Genre: Law

Session Papers 1755

Record ID 293566

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/6 (1774-1776, Type: Other). Page: 44

Cunningham on Bills of Exchane 8.vo

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday). Fine pledged in case of late return: Seven shillings sterl.


Borrower

Mr Alexander Bruce of Kinnaird
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1762. Life dates: d. 1780.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate.


Book Holding

Timothy Cunningham (Male, died 1789)
Genre: Law, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-notes, and insurances [Cunningham]
Possible modern shelfmark: AL: TR E.139.3].

Record ID 39138

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 99v

Plutarchs Lives Vol 2, 3d 4, 5, 6

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: Febry 23. Original Borrower: Alexander [covered by next page].


Borrower

Alexander Unknown 23 February 1775
Gender: Male.


Book Holding

Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Plutarch’s lives, in six volumes. Translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed The life of Plutarch, written by Mr. Dryden.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Plutarch’s lives, in six volumes. Translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed The life of Plutarch, written by Mr. Dryden.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 142 times in 116 borrowing records


Book Work

Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Lives [Plutarch]

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday).

Borrower: Alexander Unknown 23 February 1775

Author: Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119), Genre: Lives

Lives [Plutarch]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6

Record ID 39139

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 99v

Gordon's Tacitus vol 1 2

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: Febry 23. Original Borrower: James Baillie. Other reader: Willm Grieve.


Borrowers

James Baillie
Gender: Male.

William Grieve
Gender: Male. Borrower type: Other.


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Cornelius Tacitus (Male, born c.56, died 120)
Genre: History
Works of Tacitus. With political discourses upon that author, By Thomas Gordon, Esq.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.1326.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Cornelius Tacitus (Male, born c.56, died 120)
Genre: History
The works of Tacitus. With political discourses upon that author.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1770. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Gordon, Thomas, -1750
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 96 times in 59 borrowing records


Book Work

Cornelius Tacitus (Male, born c.56, died 120)
Genre: History
Works of Tacitus

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday).

Borrowers: James Baillie , William Grieve

Author: Cornelius Tacitus (Male, born c.56, died 120), Genre: History

Works of Tacitus

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 39137

Library: Haddington Library. Register: MS16480 (1732-1790, Type: Town). Page: 99v

Rapins coninuation vol 1

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: Febry 23. Original Borrower: Thomas Fairbairn.


Borrower

Thomas Fairbairn
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Sheriff.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Nicholas Tindal (Male, born 1687, died 1774)
Genre: History
Continuation of Mr Rapin de Thoyras’s History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II. By N. Tindal, M. A. Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire and Chaplain to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. Illustrated With Thirty-Six heads of the Kings, Queens, and several Eminent Persons; also with Twenty Maps and Sea-Charts.
Modern Shelfmark: NLS Special Collections Gray.1411-1413.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1

Record ID 104534

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 84-85

Varenius Geo. 1. 2d Vol

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/10 (Friday). Classmark: B6. 7. Original Returned Text: Varenius Geo. 1 . 2d Vol.


Borrower

James Robertson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compleat system of general geography : explaining the nature and properties of the earth; viz. it's figure, magnitude, motions, situation, contents, and division into land and water, mountains, woods, desarts, lakes, rivers, &c. : with particular accounts of the different appearances of the heavens in different countries; the seasons of the year over all the globe; the tides of the sea; bays, capes, islands, rocks, sand-banks, and shelves : the state of the atmosphere; the nature of exhalations; winds ,storms, tornados &c. : the origin of springs, mineral-waters, burning mountains, mines, &c. : the uses and making of maps, globes, and sea-charts. The foundations of dialling; the art of measuring heights and distances; the art of ship-building, navigation, and the ways of finding the longitude at sea / originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius, M. D. ; since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Jurin ; and now translated into English; with additional notes, copper-plates, an alphabetical index, and other improvements ; particularly useful to students in the universities; travellers, sailors, and all those who desire to be acquainted with the mixed mathematics, geography, astronomy, and navigation by Mr. Dugdale ; the whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw, M. D.
Classmark: K.3., K.6.6, K.5.38, K.6.18, B.6.7.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
A compleat system of general geography : explaining the nature and properties of the earth; viz. it's figure, magnitude, motions, situation, contents, and division into land and water, mountains, woods, desarts, lakes, rivers, &c. : with particular accounts of the different appearances of the heavens in different countries; the seasons of the year over all the globe; the tides of the sea; bays, capes, islands, rocks, sand-banks, and shelves : the state of the atmosphere; the nature of exhalations; winds ,storms, tornados &c. : the origin of springs, mineral-waters, burning mountains, mines, &c. : the uses and making of maps, globes, and sea-charts. The foundations of dialling; the art of measuring heights and distances; the art of ship-building, navigation, and the ways of finding the longitude at sea / originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius, M. D. ; since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Jurin ; and now translated into English; with additional notes, copper-plates, an alphabetical index, and other improvements ; particularly useful to students in the universities; travellers, sailors, and all those who desire to be acquainted with the mixed mathematics, geography, astronomy, and navigation by Mr. Dugdale ; the whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw, M. D.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1734. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 72 times in 39 borrowing records


Book Work

Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Compleat System of General Geography

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/10 (Friday).

Borrower: James Robertson

Author: Bernhardus Varenius (Male, born 1622, died 1650), Genre: Natural Philosophy

Compleat System of General Geography

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 107138

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 100-101

Aristote's poetica

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/13 (Monday). Classmark: K5 . 36. Original Returned Text: Aristotes poetica.


Borrower

Robert Bisset
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1759-1805. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1367213916.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Aristotle (Male, born BCE384, died BCE322)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Aristotelous peri poiētikēs. = Aristotelis de poetica liber, græce et latine, cum notis.
Classmark: K.5.36, L.4.41.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Aristotle (Male, born BCE384, died BCE322)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Aristotelous peri poiētikēs. = Aristotelis de poetica liber, græce et latine, cum notis.
Language: Greek | Latin . Published: Oxford. Date of publication: 1760. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 8


Book Work

Aristotle (Male, born BCE384, died BCE322)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Philosophy and Morality
Poetics

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/13 (Monday).

Borrower: Robert Bisset

Author: Aristotle (Male, born BCE384, died BCE322), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Philosophy and Morality

Poetics

Record ID 123296

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 220-221

Essay on original Geneus

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday). Classmark: Q4. 18. Original Returned Text: Essay on Geneus.


Borrower

William Constable
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1759-1836. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1373586804.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

William Duff (Male, born 1732, died 1815)
Genre: Belles Lettres
An essay on original genius; and its various modes of exertion in philosophy and the fine arts, particularly in poetry / [by William Duff].
Classmark: Q.4.18, P.5.12.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

William Duff (Male, born 1732, died 1815)
Genre: Belles Lettres
An essay on original genius; and its various modes of exertion in philosophy and the fine arts, particularly in poetry / [by William Duff].
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1767. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 36


Book Work

William Duff (Male, born 1732, died 1815)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Essay on Original Genius

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/1 (Wednesday).

Borrower: William Constable

Author: William Duff (Male, born 1732, died 1815), Genre: Belles Lettres

Essay on Original Genius

Record ID 123737

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 226-227

Hale's Statical Essays 1 . 2d V.

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Classmark: F4. 9. Original Returned Text: Hale's Stati. Essay 1 -2d V.


Borrower

John Carstairs
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1780-1837. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1371971076.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Stephen Hales (Male, born 1677, died 1761)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Statical essays: containing haemastatics; Or, An Account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of animals. Also An Account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder; with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions. To which is added, an appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the First Volume. The greatest Part of which were read at several Meetings before the Royal Society. With an index to both volumes. Vol. II. By Stephen Hales, D.D. F.R.S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
Classmark: F.4.9.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 123926

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 230-231

Elliss's  Voyage

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/2/25 (Saturday). Classmark: D4. 30. Original Returned Text: Elliss's Voyage.


Borrower

Robert Mcara
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Henry Ellis (Male, born 1721, died 1806)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to Hudson's-Bay, : by the Dobbs galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a North West Passage; with an accurate survey of the coast, and a short natural history of the country : together with a fair view of the facts and arguments from which the future finding of such a passage is rendered probable / by Henry Ellis, Gent., agent for the proprietors in the said expedition ; to which is prefixed, an historical account of the attempts hitherto made for the finding a passage that way to the East-Indies ; illustrated with proper cuts, and a new and correct chart of Hudson's-Bay, with the countries adjacent.
Classmark: J.6.19, D.4.7, P.8.3.

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/2/25 (Saturday).

Borrower: Robert Mcara

Author: Henry Ellis (Male, born 1721, died 1806), Genre: Travel

Voyage to Hudson’s-Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the Years 1746 and 1747

Record ID 127214

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 250-251

Grove's  Ser. Vol  1st 6th

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Classmark: G5 .13. Original Returned Text: Grove's Ser.1st & 6 V..


Borrower

James Milne Mylne
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology
Sermons and tracts: being the posthumous works of the late reverend Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton. Published from the author's manuscript. In four volumes.
Classmark: G.5.13, N.4.26.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 6

Book Edition

Confidence level: Very likely

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology
Sermons and tracts: being the posthumous works of the late reverend Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1740. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 88 times in 59 borrowing records


Book Work

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology
Works of Henry Grove of Taunton

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons
Sermons. Being two additional volumes of the posthumous works of the late Reverend Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton. Published from the author's manuscript.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1742. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 88 times in 59 borrowing records


Book Work

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons
Sermons [Henry Grove]

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons
Sermons and Tracts: being the Posthumous Works Of the late reverend Mr. Henry Grove, Of Taunton. Published from the Author's Manuscript. In Four Volumes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1745. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 88 times in 59 borrowing records


Book Work

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons
Sermons and Tracts: Being the Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Mr Henry Grove

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology
The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. Henry Grove, of Taunton: Containing All the Sermons, Discourses, and Tracts published in his Life-Time. In Four Volumes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1747. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 112 times in 77 borrowing records


Book Work

Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738)
Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology
Works of Henry Grove of Taunton

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/2/23 (Thursday).

Borrower: James Milne Mylne

Author: Henry Grove (Male, born 1684, died 1738), Genre: Sermons, Genre: Theology

Works of Henry Grove of Taunton, Sermons [Henry Grove], Sermons and Tracts: Being the Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Mr Henry Grove

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 6

Record ID 127592

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 254-255

Helvetius Child of Nature 1 . 2d Vol

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/2 (Thursday). Classmark: J. . .. Original Returned Text: Helvetius Child of Nature 2 V..


Borrower

John Bennett Popkin
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Helvetius (Male, born 1715-1-26, died 1771-12-26)
Genre: Fiction
The child of nature, improved by chance. A philosophical novel. By Mr. Helvetius. In two volumes. ...
Classmark: J.7.6, L.9.11.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Helvetius (Male, born 1715-1-26, died 1771-12-26)
Genre: Fiction
The child of nature, improved by chance. A philosophical novel. By Mr. Helvetius. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1774. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 24 times in 12 borrowing records


Book Work

Helvetius (Male, born 1715-1-26, died 1771-12-26)
Genre: Fiction
Child of Nature, Improved by Chance. A Philosophical Novel

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/3/2 (Thursday).

Borrower: John Bennett Popkin

Author: Helvetius (Male, born 1715-1-26, died 1771-12-26), Genre: Fiction

Child of Nature, Improved by Chance. A Philosophical Novel

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Record ID 127583

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 254-255

Do   Do Vol 3d

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/5/2 (Tuesday). Classmark: G4.2. Original Returned Text: Do Vol 3.


Borrower

John Bennett Popkin
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book Holding

Oliver Goldsmith (Male, born c.1730, died 1774)
Genre: History
The history of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith. ...
Classmark: G.4.2, R.5.11.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Oliver Goldsmith (Male, born c.1730, died 1774)
Genre: History
The history of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 181 times in 97 borrowing records


Book Work

Oliver Goldsmith (Male, born c.1730, died 1774)
Genre: History
History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II

Borrowed: 1775/2/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1775/5/2 (Tuesday).

Borrower: John Bennett Popkin

Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Male, born c.1730, died 1774), Genre: History

History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II

Volumes borrowed: Volume 3