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Library

Edinburgh University Library 1337
Glasgow University Library 820
St Andrews University Library 535
Selkirk Library 441
Advocates Library 404
Royal High School of Edinburgh 297
Leighton Library 216
Innerpeffray Library 207
Haddington Library 172
Aberdeen Theological Library 82
Craigston Castle Library 52
Wigtown Subscription Library 52
Westerkirk 22
Hunterian Museum Library 11
Dumfries Presbytery Library 3
Chambers' Circulating Library 2
Orkney Library 2

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Mr 765
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Mrs 11
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Colonel 3
Corporal 3
Lady 3
Midshipman 1
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Right Honourable 1
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Sous-Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 4603
Female 36
Unknown 7
Unclear 2

Borrower occupation

Education 3084
University Student 2267
University Professor 634
Law 434
Advocate 389
Religion and Clergy 376
Minister/Priest 372
Church of Scotland 341
School Child 296
Military 114
Medicine and Health 103
Prisoner of War 102
Sheriff 94
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 87
Surgeon 82
Arts and Letters 81
Agricultural 74
Author 67
Independent Means 61
Politics/Office Holders 59
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Chaplain 54
Farmer 52
Dean of Faculty 48
Print and Book Trade 44
Printers 43
MP (Britain) 42
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 37
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 37
Presbyterian Seceder 26
Gentleman 24
Merchants/Traders 24
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Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 23
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Writer/Procurator 21
Notaries/Clerks 20
Judge 17
Lord President 17
Advocate Depute 16
Clerks 13
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Librarian 10
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Factor/Agent 9
Lord Advocate 9
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Writer to the Signet (WS) 8
Retailer/Shopkeeper 7
Teacher 7
Army 6
Barrister 6
Miscellaneous 6
Officer 6
Curator 4
Customs Collector 4
Episcopalian 4
Service Provision and Hospitality 4
Accountant 3
Baron of the Exchequer 3
Construction 3
Dyer 3
Engineer 3
Mason/Miller 3
Tailoring/Clothing/Apparel 3
Tanner/Currier 3
Widow 3
Wife/Spouse 3
Bishop 2
Brewer 2
Clerk 2
Grocer 2
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 2
Publishers 2
Solicitor-General 2
Advocate’s Clerk 1
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Booksellers 1
Glover 1
Land Manager/Factor 1
Lay Preacher 1
Lord Provost/Provost 1
Navy 1
Poet 1
Secretary of State 1
Shoemaker 1
Supporting Activities 1
Unknown denomination 1

Author

William Guthrie 304
Henry Brooke 174
Charles de Brosses 172
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
George Cleghorn 115
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 101
Adam Ferguson 97
Denis Diderot 95
James Lind 93
William Smellie 86
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
James Boswell 83
Pons Augustin Alletz 77
Nathaniel Hooke 74
Henri-Franc̦ois Le Dran 69
John Toland 66
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
John Campbell 61
Robert Whytt 51
William Lewis 51
Percivall Pott 48
Jonathan Swift 45
François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages 43
Catherine Macaulay 42
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 41
Sir William Blackstone 41
Pietro Metastasio 39
Samuel Chandler 39
John Leland 38
Anton de Haen 37
Lorenz Heister 37
John Jortin 35
William Shakespeare 30
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
Abbé Prévost 28
James Burrow 28
William Alexander 27
Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah 26
Charles Rollin 24
John Byron 24
John MacPherson 24
Thomas Nugent 22
George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton 21
James Oswald 20
Ferdinando Warner 19
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 19
Royal College of Physicians of London 19
Thomas Otway 19
Voltaire 18
Edward Harwood 16
James Thomson 16
Jean-Baptiste Massillon 16
Samuel Richardson 16
Arthur Young 15
Thomas Pennant 14
Alexander Dow 13
Sir James Porter 13
Court of Chancery Great Britain 12
David Hume 12
Elizabeth Carter 12
Epictetus 12
Isaac Hawkins Browne 11
Samuel Auguste David Tissot 11
William Wilkie 11
Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche 10
James Balfour 10
William Shenstone 10
Horace Walpole 9
Jean-François Marmontel 9
Joseph Priestley 9
Richard Price 9
Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 8
Gilbert Stuart 8
Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Linnaeus 8
Mrs Elizabeth Montagu 8
Daniel Magenise 7
John Joshua Kirby 7
John Ray 7
John Rotheram 7
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 7
Thomas Gray 7
Académie Royale des sciences (Paris) Académie des sciences (Paris) 6
Charles Bonnet 6
Eduard Sandifort 6
James Stuart 6
Joseph Jacob Ritter von Plenck 6
Nicolas Revett 6
Paul François Velly 6
William Saunders 6
Alexandre Savérien 5
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 5
Giuseppe Baretti 5
William Smith M. D. 5
Baron Albrecht von Haller 4
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 4
Catherine II Empress of Russia 4
Freiherr von Jacob Friedrich Bielfeld 4
Gerard van Swieten 4

Book Work

Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature 497
General History of Scotland [William Guthrie] 304
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Fool of Quality, or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland 174
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes 172
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 115
Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca 115
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Essay on the History of Civil Society 97
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates 93
Critical Review, or Annals of Literature 87
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery 86
Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli 83
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
History of Ancient Greece; from the Earliest Times, till it Became a Roman Province [Pons Augustin Alletz] 75
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 74
Operations in Surgery of Henri-Franc̦ois Le Dran 69
Van Swieten's Commentaries Abridged 66
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Experimental History of the Materia Medica 51
Works of Robert Whytt 51
Works of Jonathan Swift 45
Nosologia Methodica [François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages] 43
History of England [Catherine Macaulay] 42
Commentaries on the Laws of England 41
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 41
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Sermons on the Following Subjects [Samuel Chandler] 39
Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation 38
General System of Surgery 37
Ratio Medendi in Nosocomio Practico Vindobonensi 37
Medical Observations and Inquiries 30
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
Works of William Shakespeare 29
Histoire Générale des Voyages 28
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, since the Death of Lord Raymond 28
Experimental Essays [William Alexander] 27
History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar 26
Some Few General Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations 25
Critical Dissertations on ... the Ancient Caledonians 24
Narrative of the Honourable John Byron 24
Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion 23
Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those Injuries to which the Head is Liable from External Violence 23
Travels through Germany [Thomas Nugent] 22
Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion 20
Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century 19
Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London 19
Works of Thomas Otway 19
Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady 16
New Introduction to the Study and Knowledge of the New Testament 16
Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 16
Works of James Thomson 16
Farmer's Letters to the People of England 15
British Zoology 14
Full and Plain Account of the Gout 14
History of Hindostan 13
History of the Life of King Henry the Second 13
Nova Acta Eruditorum 13
Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners, of the Turks 13
Works of Voltaire 13
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians 12
Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery 12
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Remarks on Ecclesiastical History 12
Works of Epictetus 12
Fables [William Wilkie] 11
Poems upon Various Subjects, Latin and English 11
Philosophical Essays [James Balfour] 10
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 10
Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone 10
Belisarius [Jean-François Marmontel] 9
Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts 9
Four Dissertations [Richard Price] 9
Rudiments of English Grammar 9
Dialogues of the Dead 8
Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons 8
Historical Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the English Constitution 8
Works of Gottried Leibniz 8
Works of Henri François d' Aguesseau 8
Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis 7
Doctrine of Inflammations Founded upon Reason and Experience 7
Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy 7
Essay on Faith, and its Connection with Good Works 7
Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres 7
Mémoires de Littérature Tirés des Registres de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 7
Oeuvres de Maupertuis 7
Poems [Thomas Gray] 7
Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation 7
Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated 6
Catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library 6
Considerations sur les Corps Organisés 6
Histoire de France depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie jusqu'au Regne de Louis XIV 6
Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third 6
New and Easy Method of Giving Mercury 6
Thesaurus Dissertationum, Programmatum, aliorumque Opusculorum Selectissimorum ad Omnem Medicinae Ambitum Pertinentium 6

Book language

English 3856
French 592
Latin 156
Italian 56
German 1
Irish 1
Saami 1

Book place of publication

London 2900
Edinburgh 735
Paris 388
Glasgow 101
Neuchâtel 95
Berlin 64
Amsterdam 55
Oxford 46
The Hague 46
Dublin 43
Vienna 40
Birmingham 29
Geneva 26
Leipzig 24
Leiden 12
Lyon 7
Rotterdam 6
St Petersburg 6
Stockholm 6
Lausanne 4
Naples 3
Twickenham 3
Frankfurt am Main 2
Helmstadt 2
Livorno 2
Rome 2
Verona 2
Florence 1
Jena 1
Madrid 1
Nuremberg 1
Parma 1
Siena 1
Trondheim 1
Venice 1
Yverdon 1

Book format

8vo 2902
4to 928
12mo 620
folio 182

Genre

Periodicals 1396
Medicine 865
History 832
Travel 364
Belles Lettres 293
Natural Philosophy 208
Fiction 207
Lives 170
Poetry 162
Theology 155
Law 135
Politics, Society and Political Economy 125
Reference Works 114
Philosophy and Morality 82
Sermons 55
Drama 52
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 29
Mathematics 25
Fine Arts 22
Education 20

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