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Record ID 202247

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 21

Borrowed: 1740/4/30 (Saturday). Returned: 1740/6/18 (Saturday).

Author: John Ray (Male, born 1627, died 1705), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Theology

Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Record ID 202253

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 21

Collection of VoyagesVol: 2d

Borrowed: 1740/4/30 (Saturday). Returned: 1740/6/18 (Saturday).


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William Johnston
Gender: Male.


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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 2

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: 1740/4/30 (Saturday). Returned: 1740/6/18 (Saturday).

Borrower: William Johnston

Genre: Travel

Collection of Voyages and Travels

Volumes borrowed: Volume 2

Record ID 202259

Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 21

Vertot's History of the RoRepub:

Borrowed: 1740/4/30 (Saturday). Returned: 1741/9/2 (Saturday).


Borrower

Thomas Hamilton
Gender: Male.
Life dates: d. 1772.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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Abbé René Aubert de Vertot (Male, born 1655, died 1735)
Genre: History
The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic. Written in French by the Abbot de Vertot, Author of the History of the Revolutions in Sweden and in Portugal. English’d by Mr. Ozell and others. ...
Classmark: 10.6.1-2.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2

Book Edition

Confidence level: Speculative

Abbé René Aubert de Vertot (Male, born 1655, died 1735)
Genre: History
The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1720. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 2v.
Translators: Ozell, John, -1743 (and others)
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 62 times in 36 borrowing records


Book Work

Abbé René Aubert de Vertot (Male, born 1655, died 1735)
Genre: History
History of the Revolutions that happened in the Government of the Roman Republic

Borrowed: 1740/4/30 (Saturday). Returned: 1741/9/2 (Saturday).

Borrower: Thomas Hamilton

Author: Abbé René Aubert de Vertot (Male, born 1655, died 1735), Genre: History

History of the Revolutions that happened in the Government of the Roman Republic

Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2