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Record ID 323020

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 115

Volney les ruines 8vo

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr James Burnet of Monboddo; Lord Monboddo
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1737. Life dates: 1714-1799.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: History
Les ruines, ou meditations sur les revolutions des empires [Volney]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: Aq.2.11.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: History
Les Ruines ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1791. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3


Book Work

Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: History
Ruines ou Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires

Record ID 323011

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 115

Monthly Review vol 4.6

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr John Maclaurin Lord Dreghorn
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1756. Life dates: 1734-1796.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice. Law > Lord President.


Book Holding

Genre: Periodicals
Monthly review; or, Literary journal.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4, Volume 6

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Genre: Periodicals
The Monthly review. A periodical work, giving an account, with proper abstracts of, and extracts from, the new books, pamphlets, &c. as they come out. ... By several hands
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1749-1789. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 349 times in 204 borrowing records


Book Work

Genre: Periodicals
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c.

Record ID 323014

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 115

Fontenelle Hist. des Oracles

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr James Burnet of Monboddo; Lord Monboddo
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1737. Life dates: 1714-1799.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Bernard de Fontenelle (Male, born 1657, died 1757)
Genre: Theology
Histoire des oracles [Fontenelle]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: E.49.d.9.

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Bernard de Fontenelle (Male, born 1657, died 1757)
Genre: Theology
Histoire des oracles. Par l'auteur des Dialogues des morts.
Language: French . Published: Paris. Date of publication: 1698. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 2


Book Work

Bernard de Fontenelle (Male, born 1657, died 1757)
Genre: Theology
Histoire des Oracles

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).

Borrower: Mr James Burnet of Monboddo; Lord Monboddo

Author: Bernard de Fontenelle (Male, born 1657, died 1757), Genre: Theology

Histoire des Oracles

Record ID 323017

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 115

Herodotus Ed. Glasg. tom 2.3.

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr James Burnet of Monboddo; Lord Monboddo
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1737. Life dates: 1714-1799.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Herodotus (Male, born c.BCE484, died BCE428)
Genre: History
Herodoti Halicarnassensis historia. Ex editione Jacobi Gronovii; tomis novem.
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: K.16.e.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2, Volume 3

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Herodotus (Male, born c.BCE484, died BCE428)
Genre: History
Hē tou Hērodotou Halikarnasseōs historia. = Herodoti Halicarnassensis historia. Ex editione Jacobi Gronovii; tomis novem. Adjectus est, ex eadem editione, liber de vita Homeri; vulgo sed falso, adscriptus Herodoto.
Language: Greek | Latin . Published: Glasgow. Date of publication: 1761. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 9 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 51 times in 18 borrowing records


Book Work

Herodotus (Male, born c.BCE484, died BCE428)
Genre: History
Histories [Herodotus]

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).

Borrower: Mr James Burnet of Monboddo; Lord Monboddo

Author: Herodotus (Male, born c.BCE484, died BCE428), Genre: History

Histories [Herodotus]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2, Volume 3

Record ID 323026

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 116

Williams on Education 4 vol

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/1/21 (Monday).


Borrower

Mr James Rutherford Drummond of Stragaeth
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1782. Life dates: d. 1811.


Book HoldingLibrary record

David Williams (Male, born 1738, died 1816)
Genre: Education
Lectures on education [Williams]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: [An].4/1.20-3.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

David Williams (Male, born 1738, died 1816)
Genre: Education
Lectures on education. Read to a society for promoting reasonable and humane improvements in the discipline and instruction of youth.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1789. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 4 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 8 times in 2 borrowing records


Book Work

David Williams (Male, born 1738, died 1816)
Genre: Education
Lectures on Education [David Williams]

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/1/21 (Monday).

Borrower: Mr James Rutherford Drummond of Stragaeth

Author: David Williams (Male, born 1738, died 1816), Genre: Education

Lectures on Education [David Williams]

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4

Record ID 323029

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 117

Bliths Husbandry 4to

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr James Dickson of Antonshill
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1764. Life dates: 1745-1825.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Walter Blith (Male)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The English improver improved or the survey of husbandry surveyed discovering the improueableness of all lands [Blith]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: [Ap].3/1.21.

Record ID 323032

Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/17 (1792-1793, Type: Other). Page: 117

Husbandry treatise by Wight

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).


Borrower

Mr James Dickson of Antonshill
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1764. Life dates: 1745-1825.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Andrew Wight (Male)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Present state of husbandry in Scotland [Wight]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: M.41.d.[alpha].
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6

Book Edition

Confidence level: Certain

Andrew Wight (Male)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Present state of husbandry in Scotland.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 43 times in 16 borrowing records


Book Work

Andrew Wight (Male)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Present State of Husbandry in Scotland

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: 1793/2/21 (Thursday).

Borrower: Mr James Dickson of Antonshill

Author: Andrew Wight (Male), Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge

Present State of Husbandry in Scotland

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6

Record ID 240485

Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 167

Rollin's Ancient History v. 2

Borrowed: 1793/1/21 (Monday). Returned: yes.


Borrower

Ran Macdonald
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.


Book Holding

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
Rollin's Ancient History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. By Mr. Rollin, ... Translated from the French. In seven volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 7v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 871 times in 851 borrowing records


Book Work

Charles Rollin (Male, born 1661, died 1741)
Genre: History
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians