An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1785/1/8
Your search matched 5 borrowing records.
Record ID 224528
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137143 (Type: Student). Page: 165
Pope's Iliad v. 4
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
William Finlayson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Homer (Male)
Genre: Poetry
Pope's Homer's Iliad
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4
Confidence level: Very likely
Homer (Male)
Genre: Poetry
The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq;
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1743. Format: 12mo.
Translators: Pope, Alexander
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 64 times in 63 borrowing records
ESTC: N9218
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday).
Borrower: William Finlayson
Author: Homer (Male), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4
Record ID 226439
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137143 (Type: Student). Page: 193
Modern Hist v. 9
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
Alexander Fraser
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Modern Universal History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 9
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: History
The modern part of the universal history. Compiled from original writers; by the authors of the antient. Which will perfect the work, and render it a complete body of history, from the earliest account of time, to the present. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1759-1765. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 39 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N35097
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday).
Borrower: Alexander Fraser
Genre: History
Modern Part of the Universal History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 9
Record ID 226838
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137143 (Type: Student). Page: 199
Preceptor v. 1
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
John Sawer
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Praeceptor
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 226895
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137143 (Type: Student). Page: 200
Buffon's Nat Hist v. 5
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
Charles Parker
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Buffon's Natural History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5
Confidence level: Speculative
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural history, general and particular; by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with three hundred and one copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations by the translator. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1781. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 8 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 455 times in 403 borrowing records
ESTC: N42265
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788)
Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday).
Borrower: Charles Parker
Author: Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (Male, born 1707, died 1788), Genre: Natural Philosophy
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon
Volumes borrowed: Volume 5
Record ID 227984
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137143 (Type: Student). Page: 218
Nature Displayed v. 6
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
John Grant
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Nature Displayed
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6
Confidence level: Speculative
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display’d. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates. Translated from the original French.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1733. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 117 times in 115 borrowing records
ESTC: T131954
Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Borrowed: 1785/1/8 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Grant
Author: Noël Antoine Pluche (Male, born 1688, died 1761), Genre: Education, Genre: Natural Philosophy
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display’d
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6