An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1801/10/30
Your search matched 6 borrowing records.
Record ID 352988
Library: Leighton Library. Register: Ledger 1 (1780-1840, Type: Town). Page: 141
Vol: 4th Part 2d & Vol: 5th Parts first & second
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday). Lending Record Other Info: Returned.
Mr Cornelius Stewart
Gender: Male. Address: Dunblane.
Subs Date: 15 December 1800. Subs: 5s.
Occupation (normalised): Medicine and Health > Surgeon.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature.
Language: English. Publication Place: Edinburgh. Publication Year: 1788-97. Format: 4to (quarto). Modern shelfmark: Leighton 13-C-1.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4, Volume 5
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1788-1797. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 262 times in 223 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: Mr Cornelius Stewart
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4, Volume 5
Record ID 243071
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 218
Cook's Voyages 5 vols
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday). Returned: yes.
John Playfairs
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
Confidence level: Speculative
Genre: Travel
A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, ... history of Captain Cook’s first, second, third and last voyages, ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyage ... It is proper to observe, that some other editions of these works ... would cost a purchaser ... upwards of twenty guineas; ... but the present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers, ... enables every person, ... to become familiary [sic] acquainted with those ... voyages ... Now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784-1786. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 536 times in 506 borrowing records
ESTC: T134074
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: John Playfairs
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
Record ID 243068
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 218
Buchanan's History of Scotland
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
John Playfairs
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
Buchanan's History of Scotland
Confidence level: Likely
George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
Buchanan’s history of Scotland. In twenty books. Containing, I. An account of its several situations; and the nature of its soil and climate. II. The antient names, manners, laws, and customs of the country, and what people inhabited the island from the very beginning. III. A chronicle of all its kings; in an exact series of succession, from Fergus, the first founder of the Scottish monarchy, to the reign of King James VI. of Scotland, and I. of England. The fourth edition. Translated from the Latin original. Wherein several errors in the English editions are corrected. To which is added, an appendix, containing a genealogy of all the kings from Fergus I. to James VI. In two volumes. Adorned with copper-plates, and a map of Scotland.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1751. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 54 borrowing records
ESTC: N15167
George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582)
Genre: History
History of Scotland [George Buchanan]
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: John Playfairs
Author: George Buchanan (Male, born 1506, died 1582), Genre: History
Record ID 243119
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 219
History of Europe
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Thomas Erskine
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Russell (Male, born 1741, died 1793)
Genre: History
History of Europe
Confidence level: Speculative
William Russell (Male, born 1741, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of modern Europe. With an account of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and a view of the progress of society. From the rise of the modern kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763. In a series of letters from a nobleman to his son. A new edition, carefully corrected. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1789. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 32 times in 28 borrowing records
ESTC: T114188
William Russell (Male, born 1741, died 1793)
Genre: History
History of Modern Europe
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: Thomas Erskine
Author: William Russell (Male, born 1741, died 1793), Genre: History
Record ID 243158
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 220
Langhorne's Plutarch
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Charles Wardie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Langhorn's Plutarch
Confidence level: Likely
Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Plutarch’s Lives, translated from the original Greek, with notes critical and historical, and a new Life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, M.A. In six volumes.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1770. Format: 8vo.
Translators: Langhorne, John and Langhorne, William
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 252 times in 163 borrowing records
ESTC: T107379
Plutarch (Male, born c.46, died 119)
Genre: Lives
Lives [Plutarch]
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: Charles Wardie
Record ID 244718
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137144 (Type: Student). Page: 244
Swinburne's Travels v. 2
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday). Returned: yes.
William McKenzie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Henry Swinburne (Male, born 1743, died 1803)
Genre: Travel
Swinburne's Travels
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Henry Swinburne (Male, born 1743, died 1803)
Genre: Travel
Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776. In which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot. By Henry Swinburne, Esq. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1787. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 118 times in 113 borrowing records
ESTC: T88895
Henry Swinburne (Male, born 1743, died 1803)
Genre: Travel
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776
Borrowed: 1801/10/30 (Friday).
Borrower: William McKenzie
Author: Henry Swinburne (Male, born 1743, died 1803), Genre: Travel
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2