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Record ID 271808
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/2/21 (Tuesday). Returned: yes.
William Bernard Ainslie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
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: 1826/2/21 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William Bernard Ainslie
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 271835
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
De Tott's Memoirs
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
James Anderson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Baron François Tott (Male, born 1733, died 1793)
Genre: Travel
Baron de Tott's Memoirs
Confidence level: Speculative
Baron François Tott (Male, born 1733, died 1793)
Genre: Travel
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the state of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the late war with Russia.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 131 times in 103 borrowing records
ESTC: T121379
Baron François Tott (Male, born 1733, died 1793)
Genre: Travel
Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, during the Late War with Russia
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: James Anderson
Author: Baron François Tott (Male, born 1733, died 1793), Genre: Travel
Record ID 271883
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Coxe's Russia v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/2. Returned: yes.
James Borrowman
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Coxe's Russia
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S. fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to his grace the Duke of Marlborough. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N27892
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Borrowed: 1826/2.
Borrower: James Borrowman
Author: William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828), Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 271886
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
James Borrowman
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: James Borrowman
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 271931
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/4/30 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Patrick Borrowman
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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: 1826/4/30 (Sunday).
Borrower: Patrick Borrowman
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 271955
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Ancell's Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
John Brown Junior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Samuel Ancell (Male, died 1802)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
Ancell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Certain
Samuel Ancell (Male, died 1802)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
A journal of the late and important blockade and siege of Gibraltar, from the twelfth of September 1779, to the third day of February 1783. Containing A minute Detail of the memorable and interesting Transactions, Naval and Military Operations; Interspersed With historical Accounts of the Garrison, genuine and entertaining Anecdotes, &c. &c. By Samuel Ancell, Clerk to the 58th Regiment, In a Series of Letters wrote on the Spot
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1786. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 46
ESTC: T97134
Samuel Ancell (Male, died 1802)
Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Brown Junior
Author: Samuel Ancell (Male, died 1802), Genre: Politics, Society and Political Economy
Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 271961
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cordiner's Antiquities
Borrowed: 1826/5/13 (Saturday).
John Brown Junior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Charles Cordiner (Male, born c.1746, died 1794)
Genre: History, Genre: Travel
Cordiner's Antiquities
Confidence level: Certain
Charles Cordiner (Male, born c.1746, died 1794)
Genre: History, Genre: Travel
Antiquities & scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant, Esqr. By the Revd. Chas. Cordiner, Minister of St. Andrew’s Chapel, Bamff.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 11 times in 10 borrowing records
ESTC: T56850
Charles Cordiner (Male, born c.1746, died 1794)
Genre: History, Genre: Travel
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant
Borrowed: 1826/5/13 (Saturday).
Borrower: John Brown Junior
Author: Charles Cordiner (Male, born c.1746, died 1794), Genre: History, Genre: Travel
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, to Thomas Pennant
Record ID 271988
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cooke v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Blackwood Minor
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Blackwood Minor
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272021
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/6/7 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
John Sandeman Boswell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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: 1826/6/7 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Sandeman Boswell
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 272039
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1826/1/4 (Wednesday).
John Taylor Brown
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
Arnot's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 143
ESTC: T142880
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1826/1/4 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Taylor Brown
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: History
Record ID 272141
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Age of Louis the 14th v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Barns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Age of Louis the 14th v. 1, 2
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The age of Louis XIV. To which is added, an abstract of the age of Louis XV. Translated from the last Geneva edition of M. de Voltaire, with notes, critical and explanatory, by R. Griffith, Esq. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 31 times in 27 borrowing records
ESTC: T137661
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Age of Louis XIV
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Barns
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272114
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Robertson's America v. 3, 4
Borrowed: 1825/10/11 (Tuesday). Returned: yes.
John Barns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
Robertson's History of America
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Speculative
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of America. By William Robertson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 207 times in 188 borrowing records
ESTC: T78964
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Borrowed: 1825/10/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: John Barns
Author: William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793), Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 272111
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Robertson's America v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/10/28 (Friday). Returned: yes.
John Barns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
Robertson's History of America
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of America. By William Robertson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 207 times in 188 borrowing records
ESTC: T78964
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Borrowed: 1825/10/28 (Friday).
Borrower: John Barns
Author: William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793), Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272120
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
John Barns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Confidence level: Speculative
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The history of the Russian empire under Peter the Great. Newly translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 29
ESTC: N18015
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Barns
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Record ID 272126
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Gibbon's History v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Barns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Edward Gibbon (Male, born 1737, died 1794)
Genre: History
Gibbon's History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
Edward Gibbon (Male, born 1737, died 1794)
Genre: History
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1776-1788. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 120 times in 95 borrowing records
ESTC: T78357
Edward Gibbon (Male, born 1737, died 1794)
Genre: History
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Barns
Author: Edward Gibbon (Male, born 1737, died 1794), Genre: History
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 272195
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman's Voyage v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Archibald Borthwick
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman's Voyage
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
Borrower: Archibald Borthwick
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 272264
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Coxe's Russia v. 3, 4
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Brown
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Coxe's Russia
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Very likely
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S. fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to his grace the Duke of Marlborough. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N27892
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Brown
Author: William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828), Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 272228
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1825/10/28 (Friday). Returned: yes.
William Brown
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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: 1825/10/28 (Friday).
Borrower: William Brown
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 272306
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook [?] quarto
Borrowed: 1826/7/9 (Sunday).
John Brown Senior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
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: 1826/7/9 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Brown Senior
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Record ID 272285
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages
Borrowed: 1826/1/22 (Sunday).
John Brown Senior
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
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: 1826/1/22 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Brown Senior
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Record ID 272273
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Natural History v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
John Brown Senior
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 1, Volume 2
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: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Brown Senior
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 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272351
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Elegant Extracts
Borrowed: 1825/11/27 (Sunday).
James Bryce
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Education
Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining passages in prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical & other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading; Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 9 times in 8 borrowing records
ESTC: T127932
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Record ID 272363
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages
Borrowed: 1826/1/22 (Sunday).
William Blackwood Major
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
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: 1826/1/22 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Blackwood Major
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Record ID 272402
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Voltaire's Louis 14th v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Edward Bonthorne
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Voltaire's Louis 14th
Shelfmark: 14.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The age of Louis XIV. To which is added, an abstract of the age of Louis XV. Translated from the last Geneva edition of M. de Voltaire, with notes, critical and explanatory, by R. Griffith, Esq. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 31 times in 27 borrowing records
ESTC: T137661
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Age of Louis XIV
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
Borrower: Edward Bonthorne
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272414
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Natural History v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/2/5 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Edward Bonthorne
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 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/2/5 (Sunday).
Borrower: Edward Bonthorne
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 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272444
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Natural History v. 3, 4
Borrowed: 1825/10/13 (Thursday). Returned: yes.
William Beverton
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 3, Volume 4
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: 1825/10/13 (Thursday).
Borrower: William Beverton
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 3, Volume 4
Record ID 272441
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/10/30 (Sunday).
William Beverton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
Arnot's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 143
ESTC: T142880
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/10/30 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Beverton
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: History
Record ID 272483
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1826/6/11 (Sunday).
William Beverton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Peter the Great
Confidence level: Speculative
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The history of the Russian empire under Peter the Great. Newly translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 29
ESTC: N18015
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1826/6/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Beverton
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Record ID 272534
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
Walter Bruce
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
Borrower: Walter Bruce
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 272606
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Alexander Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Confidence level: Speculative
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The history of the Russian empire under Peter the Great. Newly translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 29
ESTC: N18015
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Borrower: Alexander Crawford
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Record ID 272645
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Wilson's Pelew Islands
Borrowed: 1826/1/6 (Friday).
Thomas Jackson Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
George Keate (Male, born 1729, died 1797)
Genre: Travel
Wilson's Pelew Islands
Confidence level: Certain
George Keate (Male, born 1729, died 1797)
Genre: Travel
An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, Who, In August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, In The Antelope, A Packet Belonging To The Honourable East India Company, by George Keate, Esq. F. R. S. and S. A.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1788. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 49
ESTC: T122142
George Keate (Male, born 1729, died 1797)
Genre: Travel
Account of the Pelew Islands
Borrowed: 1826/1/6 (Friday).
Borrower: Thomas Jackson Crawford
Author: George Keate (Male, born 1729, died 1797), Genre: Travel
Record ID 272681
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cantby Tale V. 1, 2, 3, 4
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Thomas Jackson Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Borrower: Thomas Jackson Crawford
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 272708
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Art of Tanning
Borrowed: 1825/12.
James Coxe
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Art of Tanning
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The Art of tanning and currying leather: with an account of all the different processes made use of in Europe and Asia, for dying leather red and yellow. Collected and published at the expence of the Dublin Society. To which are added, Mr. Philippo’s method of dying the turkey leather, as approved of by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. and for which he had a reward of one hundred pounds, and their gold medal, for the secret. Also, the new method of tanning: invented by the late David Macbride, M.D.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: N1996
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Art of Tanning and Currying Leather
Record ID 272705
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
James Coxe
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
Arnot's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 143
ESTC: T142880
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
Borrower: James Coxe
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: History
Record ID 272756
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
West's Mathematics
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
William Cumming
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
West's Mathematics
Confidence level: Certain
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics. Illustrated with 30 copper-Plates. For the Use of Schools. By John West, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 7
ESTC: N3455
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Cumming
Author: John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818), Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics
Record ID 272762
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
West's Mathematics
Borrowed: 1826/2/14 (Tuesday).
William Cumming
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
West's Mathematics
Confidence level: Certain
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics. Illustrated with 30 copper-Plates. For the Use of Schools. By John West, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 7
ESTC: N3455
John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics
Borrowed: 1826/2/14 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William Cumming
Author: John West (Male, born 1756, died 1818), Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Elements of Mathematics. Comprehending Geometry. Conic Sections. Mensuration. Spherics
Record ID 272786
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Cumming
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Cumming
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 272801
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Adam Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: Adam Crawford
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 272807
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
William Cunningham
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
Borrower: William Cunningham
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 272867
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Beattie's Essays
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday).
Nathaniel Machart Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
James Beattie (Male, born 1735, died 1803)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Beattie's Essays
Confidence level: Certain
James Beattie (Male, born 1735, died 1803)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Essays: on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the usefulness of classical learning. By James Beattie, LL. D. Professor Of Moral Philosophy And Logic In The Marischal College And University Of Aberdeen.
Language: English . Published: London | Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T137390
James Beattie (Male, born 1735, died 1803)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Essays on Poetry and Music
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday).
Borrower: Nathaniel Machart Crawford
Author: James Beattie (Male, born 1735, died 1803), Genre: Belles Lettres
Record ID 272861
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 2
Borrowed: 1825/10/28 (Friday). Returned: yes.
Nathaniel Machart Crawford
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
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: 1825/10/28 (Friday).
Borrower: Nathaniel Machart Crawford
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 272921
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Colin Clarke
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Colin Clarke
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 272978
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Canterbury Tales v. 1, 2, 3, 4
Borrowed: 1826/5/18 (Thursday). Returned: yes.
Alexander Halby Cairns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1826/5/18 (Thursday).
Borrower: Alexander Halby Cairns
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Record ID 272945
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Letters of a Young Nobleman
Borrowed: 1825/11/25 (Friday).
Alexander Halby Cairns
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Baron George Pitt Rivers (Male, born 1721, died 1803)
Genre: Education
Letters of a Young Nobleman
Confidence level: Certain
Baron George Pitt Rivers (Male, born 1721, died 1803)
Genre: Education
Letters to a young nobleman, upon various subjects, particularly on government and civil liberty. Wherein occasion is taken to remark on the writings of some eminent authors upon those subjects; and, in the first place, upon those of the reverend Doctor price. With some thoughts on the English constitution, and the heads of a plan of a Parliamentary reform.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: T65241
Baron George Pitt Rivers (Male, born 1721, died 1803)
Genre: Education
Letters to a Young Nobleman [Baron George Pitt Rivers]
Borrowed: 1825/11/25 (Friday).
Borrower: Alexander Halby Cairns
Author: Baron George Pitt Rivers (Male, born 1721, died 1803), Genre: Education
Record ID 273083
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman's Voyages v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/5/28 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Walter Bairnesfeather Dickson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/5/28 (Sunday).
Borrower: Walter Bairnesfeather Dickson
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 273140
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Smollet
Borrowed: 1826/6/9 (Friday).
Christopher James Douglas
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Smollet
Confidence level: Speculative
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Travels through France and Italy. In two volumes. Containing observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett, M.D. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T55400
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Travels through France and Italy
Borrowed: 1826/6/9 (Friday).
Borrower: Christopher James Douglas
Author: Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771), Genre: Travel
Record ID 273131
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Smollet's Travels
Borrowed: 1826/4/28 (Friday).
Christopher James Douglas
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Smollet's Travels
Confidence level: Certain
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Travels through France and Italy. In two volumes. Containing observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett, M.D. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T55400
Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771)
Genre: Travel
Travels through France and Italy
Borrowed: 1826/4/28 (Friday).
Borrower: Christopher James Douglas
Author: Tobias George Smollett (Male, born 1721, died 1771), Genre: Travel
Record ID 273176
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Family Picture
Borrowed: 1826/1/20 (Friday).
George Douglish
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Holcroft's Family Picture
Confidence level: Certain
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
The family picture; or, Domestic dialogues on amiable and interesting subjects; illustrated by histories, allegories, tales, fables, anecdotes, &c. Intended to strengthen and inform the mind. By Thomas Holcroft, author of Duplicity, a comedy. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1783. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 6
ESTC: T57335
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Family Picture; or, Domestic Dialogues on Amiable and Interesting Subjects
Borrowed: 1826/1/20 (Friday).
Borrower: George Douglish
Author: Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Family Picture; or, Domestic Dialogues on Amiable and Interesting Subjects
Record ID 273179
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Coxe's Russia v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/3/1 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
George Douglish
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Coxe's Russia
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S. fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to his grace the Duke of Marlborough. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N27892
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Borrowed: 1826/3/1 (Wednesday).
Borrower: George Douglish
Author: William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828), Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273215
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Coxe's Travels v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Dickson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Coxe's Travels
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S. fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to his grace the Duke of Marlborough. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N27892
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Dickson
Author: William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828), Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273233
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Canterbury Tales v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday). Returned: yes.
William Scott Elliott
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday).
Borrower: William Scott Elliott
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273236
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Canterbury Tales v. 3, 4
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday). Returned: yes.
William Scott Elliott
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1825/12/9 (Friday).
Borrower: William Scott Elliott
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 3, Volume 4
Record ID 273245
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Diversions of Purley
Borrowed: 1826/1/18 (Wednesday).
William Scott Elliott
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
John Horne Tooke (Male, born 1738, died 1812)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Diversions of Purley
Confidence level: Certain
John Horne Tooke (Male, born 1738, died 1812)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Epea pteroenta. Or, the diversions of Purley. Part I. By John Horne Tooke, A. M. late of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1786. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: T32790
John Horne Tooke (Male, born 1738, died 1812)
Genre: Belles Lettres
Epea pteroenta. Or, The Diversions of Purley
Borrowed: 1826/1/18 (Wednesday).
Borrower: William Scott Elliott
Author: John Horne Tooke (Male, born 1738, died 1812), Genre: Belles Lettres
Record ID 273284
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Criminal Trials
Borrowed: 1825/10/11 (Tuesday).
James Ewing
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
Arnot's Criminal Trials
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. 1536, to 1784. With historical and critical remarks. By Hugo Arnot, Esq. Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 23
ESTC: T142881
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland
Borrowed: 1825/10/11 (Tuesday).
Borrower: James Ewing
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: Law
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland
Record ID 273287
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 1, 3
Borrowed: 1825/12/24 (Saturday). Returned: yes.
James Ewing
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 3
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1825/12/24 (Saturday).
Borrower: James Ewing
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 3
Record ID 273296
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 8
Borrowed: 1826/3/29 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
James Ewing
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 8
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1826/3/29 (Wednesday).
Borrower: James Ewing
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 8
Record ID 273314
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia v. 12
Borrowed: 1826/7/5 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
James Ewing
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia
Volumes borrowed: Volume 12
Confidence level: Very likely
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1826/7/5 (Wednesday).
Borrower: James Ewing
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 12
Record ID 273341
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman's Voyage v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/4/2 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Brown Fullarton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman's Voyage
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/4/2 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Brown Fullarton
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 273344
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Volney's Travels v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/4/30 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Brown Fullarton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Volney's Travels
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785. Containing the present natural and political state of those countries, their Productions, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners, Customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs. Illustrated with copper plates. By M. C-F. Volney. Translated from the French. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1787. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 2 vols.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 264 times in 197 borrowing records
ESTC: T12217
Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785
Borrowed: 1826/4/30 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Brown Fullarton
Author: Constantin François de Chasseboeuf Comte de Volney (Male, born 1757, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273398
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Holcroft's Family Picture
Borrowed: 1826/4/13 (Thursday).
Alexander Fiddes
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Holcroft's Family Picture
Confidence level: Certain
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
The family picture; or, Domestic dialogues on amiable and interesting subjects; illustrated by histories, allegories, tales, fables, anecdotes, &c. Intended to strengthen and inform the mind. By Thomas Holcroft, author of Duplicity, a comedy. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1783. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 6
ESTC: T57335
Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Family Picture; or, Domestic Dialogues on Amiable and Interesting Subjects
Borrowed: 1826/4/13 (Thursday).
Borrower: Alexander Fiddes
Author: Thomas Holcroft (Male, born 1745, died 1809), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Education
Family Picture; or, Domestic Dialogues on Amiable and Interesting Subjects
Record ID 273434
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Kincaird's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
James Forrest
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Alexander Kincaid (Male)
Genre: History
Kincaid's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Alexander Kincaid (Male)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts to the present time; by way of guide to the city and suburbs. To which is annexed, a gazetteer of the county. Embellished with a plan of the Town and Suburbs; as also, a map of the Environs, The Radius Eleven Miles East, South, and West.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1787. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: 5
ESTC: T36367
Alexander Kincaid (Male)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
Borrower: James Forrest
Author: Alexander Kincaid (Male), Genre: History
History of Edinburgh, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time
Record ID 273488
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Lempriere's Dictionary
Borrowed: 1826/5/4 (Thursday).
Frederick Campbell Grant
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Lempriere's Classical Dictionary
Confidence level: Very likely
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliotheca classica; or, a classical dictionary, containing a full account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors. To which are subjoined, tables of coins, weights, and measures, in use among the Greeks and Romans.
Language: English . Published: Reading. Date of publication: 1788. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T143339
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliotheca Classica; or, A Classical Dictionary
Borrowed: 1826/5/4 (Thursday).
Borrower: Frederick Campbell Grant
Author: John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824), Genre: Reference Works
Record ID 273449
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
Frederick Campbell Grant
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
Arnot's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 143
ESTC: T142880
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/10/26 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Frederick Campbell Grant
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: History
Record ID 273512
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/29. Returned: yes.
Andrew Gordon
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
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: 1826/29.
Borrower: Andrew Gordon
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 273554
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Swinburne's Travels v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
William Steele Gairdner
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 1, 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: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Borrower: William Steele Gairdner
Author: Henry Swinburne (Male, born 1743, died 1803), Genre: Travel
Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273575
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 12
Borrowed: 1826/5/24 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
John Charles Hope Gibson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 12
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: 1826/5/24 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Charles Hope Gibson
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 12
Record ID 273566
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/3/17 (Friday).
John Charles Hope Gibson
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/3/17 (Friday).
Borrower: John Charles Hope Gibson
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 273581
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 1
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Gowans
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Gowans
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 273599
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/1/4 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
John Gowans
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/1/4 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Gowans
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273602
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Natural History v. 7
Borrowed: 1826/1/8 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
John Gowans
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 7
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: 1826/1/8 (Sunday).
Borrower: John Gowans
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 7
Record ID 273650
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 16
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
George Hill
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 16
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1826/6/25 (Sunday).
Borrower: George Hill
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 16
Record ID 273626
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 6, 13, 12
Borrowed: 1825/11. Returned: yes.
George Hill
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6, Volume 12, Volume 13
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: 1825/11.
Borrower: George Hill
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 6, Volume 12, Volume 13
Record ID 273674
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman's Voyage v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/6/21 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
Andrew Hunter
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Other.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman's Voyage
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/6/21 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Andrew Hunter
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 273671
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman's Voyage v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/6/11 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Andrew Hunter
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Other.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman's Voyage
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/6/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: Andrew Hunter
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 273755
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Boswell's Tour
Borrowed: 1826/4/30 (Sunday).
Thomas Samuel Hendrie
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Travel
Boswell's Tour
Confidence level: Certain
James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Travel
The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, Esq. containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: with an authentick account of The Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 99 times in 98 borrowing records
ESTC: T53594
James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795)
Genre: Travel
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Borrowed: 1826/4/30 (Sunday).
Borrower: Thomas Samuel Hendrie
Author: James Boswell (Male, born 1740, died 1795), Genre: Travel
Record ID 273794
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Voyage to California
Borrowed: 1826/2/1 (Wednesday).
Thomas Hunter
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (Male, born 1728, died 1769)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
Voyage to California
Confidence level: Certain
Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (Male, born 1728, died 1769)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
A voyage to California to observe the transit of Venus.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T67626
Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (Male, born 1728, died 1769)
Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
Voyage to California to Observe the Transit of Venus
Borrowed: 1826/2/1 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Thomas Hunter
Author: Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (Male, born 1728, died 1769), Genre: Natural Philosophy, Genre: Travel
Record ID 273791
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/1/18 (Wednesday).
Thomas Hunter
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/1/18 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Thomas Hunter
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 273833
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Encyclopedia Britannica v. 4
Borrowed: 1826/6/21 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
James Harwood
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4
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 261 times in 222 borrowing records
ESTC: N6642
Borrowed: 1826/6/21 (Wednesday).
Borrower: James Harwood
Genre: Reference Works
Volumes borrowed: Volume 4
Record ID 273881
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Canterbury Tales v. 1, 2, 3, 4
Borrowed: 1826/3/29 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
Charles Ireland
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1826/3/29 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Charles Ireland
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Record ID 273947
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Coxe's Russia v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/7/7 (Friday). Returned: yes.
John Greenshields Johnston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Coxe's Russia
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Very likely
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S. fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to his grace the Duke of Marlborough. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 38 borrowing records
ESTC: N27892
William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828)
Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Borrowed: 1826/7/7 (Friday).
Borrower: John Greenshields Johnston
Author: William Coxe (Male, born 1747, died 1828), Genre: Travel
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 273968
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Peter Thomas Johnston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
Arnot's Edinburgh
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
The history of Edinburgh. By Hugo Arnot, Esq; Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 143
ESTC: T142880
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: History
History of Edinburgh
Borrowed: 1825/12/11 (Sunday).
Borrower: Peter Thomas Johnston
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: History
Record ID 273977
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Canterbury Tales v. 1, 2, 3, 4
Borrowed: 1826/2/5 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Peter Thomas Johnston
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Confidence level: Certain
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
The Canterbury tales of Chaucer.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1775-1778. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 5 vols.
Editors: Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 71 times in 24 borrowing records
ESTC: T76319
Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400)
Genre: Poetry
Canterbury Tales
Borrowed: 1826/2/5 (Sunday).
Borrower: Peter Thomas Johnston
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer (Male, died 1400), Genre: Poetry
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2 3, Volume 4
Record ID 274088
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Scot's Magazine 1810
Borrowed: 1826/5/10 (Wednesday).
John Knight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Periodicals
Scots Magazine 1810
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Periodicals
The Scots magazine.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1739-1803. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 306 times in 185 borrowing records
ESTC: P1945
Genre: Periodicals
Scots Magazine
Record ID 274085
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Scot's Magazine 1809
Borrowed: 1826/5/10 (Wednesday).
John Knight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Periodicals
Scots Magazine 1809
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Periodicals
The Scots magazine.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1739-1803. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 306 times in 185 borrowing records
ESTC: P1945
Genre: Periodicals
Scots Magazine
Record ID 274139
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Elegant Extracts v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
James Legate
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Education
Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining passages in prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical & other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading; Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 9 times in 8 borrowing records
ESTC: T127932
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Record ID 274121
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Lempriere's Clas. Dictionary
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
James Legate
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Lempriere's Classical Dictionary
Confidence level: Very likely
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliotheca classica; or, a classical dictionary, containing a full account of all the proper names mentioned in antient authors. To which are subjoined, tables of coins, weights, and measures, in use among the Greeks and Romans.
Language: English . Published: Reading. Date of publication: 1788. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 3
ESTC: T143339
John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824)
Genre: Reference Works
Bibliotheca Classica; or, A Classical Dictionary
Borrowed: 1826/2/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: James Legate
Author: John Lemprière (Male, born c.1765, died 1824), Genre: Reference Works
Record ID 274133
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Robertson's America v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/4/14 (Friday). Returned: yes.
James Legate
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
Robertson's History of America
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
The history of America. By William Robertson, ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1780. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 207 times in 188 borrowing records
ESTC: T78964
William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793)
Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Borrowed: 1826/4/14 (Friday).
Borrower: James Legate
Author: William Robertson (Male, born 1721, died 1793), Genre: History
History of America [William Robertson]
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 274175
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Hutton's Arithmetic v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/4/16 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Charles Lindsay
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Charles Hutton (Male, born 1737, died 1823)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Hutton's Arithmetic
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Charles Hutton (Male, born 1737, died 1823)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
A complete treatise on practical arithmetic; and book-keeping, both by single and double entry. Adapted to the use of schools. The eighth edition. By Charles Hutton, LL.D. and F.R.S. &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1788. Format: 12mo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
ESTC: T162227
Charles Hutton (Male, born 1737, died 1823)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Complete Treatise on Practical Arithmetic; and Book-Keeping
Borrowed: 1826/4/16 (Sunday).
Borrower: Charles Lindsay
Author: Charles Hutton (Male, born 1737, died 1823), Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Complete Treatise on Practical Arithmetic; and Book-Keeping
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 274196
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1825/12/22 (Thursday).
David Langlands
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
Voltaire's Peter the Great
Confidence level: Speculative
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
The history of the Russian empire under Peter the Great. Newly translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. In two volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1778. Format: 12mo. Pagination: 2v.
Number of borrowings: 29
ESTC: N18015
Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778)
Genre: History
History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great
Borrowed: 1825/12/22 (Thursday).
Borrower: David Langlands
Author: Voltaire (Male, born 1694, died 1778), Genre: History
Record ID 274208
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/3/19 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
David Langlands
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/3/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: David Langlands
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 274211
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/3/19 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
David Langlands
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
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: 1826/3/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: David Langlands
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Record ID 274271
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Elegant Extracts v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/5/14 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
George Lorimer
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Education
Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining passages in prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical & other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading; Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 9 times in 8 borrowing records
ESTC: T127932
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Record ID 274259
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Arnot's C. Trials
Borrowed: 1826/3/5 (Sunday).
George Lorimer
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
Arnot's Criminal Trials
Confidence level: Certain
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
A collection and abridgement of celebrated criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. 1536, to 1784. With historical and critical remarks. By Hugo Arnot, Esq. Advocate.
Language: English . Published: Edinburgh. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: 23
ESTC: T142881
Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786)
Genre: Law
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland
Borrowed: 1826/3/5 (Sunday).
Borrower: George Lorimer
Author: Hugo Arnot (Male, born 1749, died 1786), Genre: Law
Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland
Record ID 274256
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Johnson's Lives v. 1
Borrowed: 1826/3/5 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
George Lorimer
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives
Johnson's Lives
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. By Samuel Johnson. In four volumes. ...
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1781. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 61 times in 46 borrowing records
ESTC: T146734
Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives
Lives of the English Poets
Borrowed: 1826/3/5 (Sunday).
Borrower: George Lorimer
Author: Dr Samuel Johnson (Male, born 1709-9-18, died 1784-12-13), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Record ID 274304
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Cook's Voyages v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/3/15 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
Henry Liddell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Travel
Cook's Voyages
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/3/15 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Henry Liddell
Genre: Travel
New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Record ID 274322
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/6/9 (Friday).
Henry Liddell
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: History
Ansell's Siege of Gibraltar
Confidence level: Very likely
Genre: History
An authentic and accurate journal of the late siege of Gibraltar; being a curcumstantial account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis frigate with the preliminary articles of peace.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 19
ESTC: T72997
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Borrowed: 1826/6/9 (Friday).
Borrower: Henry Liddell
Genre: History
Authentic and Accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar
Record ID 274361
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Nature v. 2, 3
Borrowed: 1826/5/1 (Monday). Returned: yes.
William Laing
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 Nature
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2, Volume 3
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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 8vo. Pagination: 9 vols.
Translators: Smellie, William
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 41 times in 10 borrowing records
ESTC: T139144
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: 1826/5/1 (Monday).
Borrower: William Laing
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 2, Volume 3
Record ID 274385
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Buffon's Natural History v. 1, 2
Borrowed: 1826/3/19 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
Thomas Learmonth
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 1, Volume 2
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: 1826/3/19 (Sunday).
Borrower: Thomas Learmonth
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 1, Volume 2
Record ID 274409
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Elegant Extracts v. 1
Borrowed: 1825/11/13 (Sunday). Returned: yes.
George Mather
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1
Confidence level: Certain
Genre: Education
Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining passages in prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical & other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading; Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1784. Format: 8vo.
Editors: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 9 times in 8 borrowing records
ESTC: T127932
Genre: Education
Elegant Extracts
Record ID 274490
Library: Royal High School of Edinburgh. Register: SL137146 (Type: Student). Page:
Sparman v. 2
Borrowed: 1826/5/24 (Wednesday). Returned: yes.
Scipio Alexander MacTaggart
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Pupil.
Occupation (normalised): Education > School Child.
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Sparman
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2
Confidence level: Certain
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1785. Format: 4to. Pagination: 2 vols.
Translators: Forster, Georg.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 105 times in 92 borrowing records
ESTC: T150219
Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820)
Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Borrowed: 1826/5/24 (Wednesday).
Borrower: Scipio Alexander MacTaggart
Author: Anders Sparrman (Male, born 1748, died 1820), Genre: Travel
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World
Volumes borrowed: Volume 2