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Library

St Andrews University Library 1899
Glasgow University Library 1893
Royal High School of Edinburgh 1111
Haddington Library 478
Edinburgh University Library 392
Advocates Library 379
Innerpeffray Library 298
Dumfries Presbytery Library 244
Leighton Library 224
Selkirk Library 211
Aberdeen Theological Library 102
Westerkirk 80
Craigston Castle Library 18
Hunterian Museum Library 14
Chambers' Circulating Library 1
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 1

Borrower title

Mr 676
Reverend Mr 142
Professor 119
Dr 100
Reverend 58
Principal 41
Sir 40
Captain 28
Mrs 13
Lieutenant 8
Lady 7
Miss 7
Corporal 4
Major 2
Colonel 1
Rev. 1
Reverend Dr 1
Sous Lieutenant 1

Borrower gender

Male 7284
Female 58
Unknown 7
Unclear 1

Borrower occupation

Education 5380
University Student 3379
University Professor 1113
School Child 1084
Religion and Clergy 855
Minister/Priest 811
Church of Scotland 758
Law 421
Advocate 399
Arts and Letters 132
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 97
Sheriff 97
Independent Means 96
Author 90
Chaplain 80
Military 79
Prisoner of War 68
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 64
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 60
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 47
Merchants/Traders 45
Presbyterian Seceder 45
Politics/Office Holders 43
Print and Book Trade 42
Printers 41
Agricultural 36
Gentleman 32
Dean of Faculty 31
Domestic Service 31
Indoor Servants 31
School Master/Dominie 30
Librarian 28
Tenant 28
Farmer 25
Medicine and Health 25
Provost 24
MP (Britain) 23
Teacher 22
Surgeon 20
Clerk of Session 16
Dyer 14
Retailer/Shopkeeper 14
Clerks 13
Judge 13
Curator 12
Advocate Depute 11
Miscellaneous 11
Clerk 10
Lay Preacher 10
Lord President 10
Mason/Miller 10
Poet 10
Lord Advocate 9
Notaries/Clerks 9
Writer/Procurator 9
Army 6
Barrister 6
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 6
Watchmaker 6
Widow 6
Advocate’s Clerk 5
Baron of the Exchequer 5
Glover 5
Physician 5
Wife/Spouse 5
Officer 4
Tanner/Currier 4
Tax Collector 4
Construction 3
Customs Collector 3
Mercer/Draper/Weaver 3
Publishers 3
Service Provision and Hospitality 3
Brewer 2
Engineer 2
Episcopalian 2
Factor/Agent 2
Glazier 2
Smiths/Metal Workers 2
Solicitor-General 2
Tutor 2
Writer to the Signet (WS) 2
Active Service/Soldiers 1
Architect 1
Attorneys/Lawyers/Solicitors 1
Grocer 1
Land Manager/Factor 1
Magistrate 1

Author

Charles Rollin 806
John Campbell 329
Paul Rapin de Thoyras 265
Eliza Fowler Haywood 164
Marcus Tullius Cicero 133
Nathaniel Hooke 122
John Harris 111
Royal Society (Great Britain) 104
James Foster 97
Terence 93
Philip Doddridge 90
Henry Fielding 85
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
John Abernethy 82
Sarah Fielding 79
Henry Grove 77
Joseph Addison 68
Sir Richard Steele 68
Homer 66
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
Alexander Pope 54
David Fordyce 53
Nathaniel Lardner 52
Livy 50
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius 46
Virgil 45
Lucian of Samosata 42
Sir Matthew Hale 38
Comte Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus 37
Francis Hutcheson 36
Ephraim Chambers 35
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon Archibishop of Cambrai 35
Ralph Cudworth 33
Abbé Prévost 32
Robert Drury 32
Sallust 32
Edward Young 31
John Marchant 31
David Gregory 30
Matthew Bacon 30
Robert South 30
Vicomte Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Turenne 30
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
William Lewis 27
Charles Viner 26
Thomas Simpson 26
Maria Edgeworth 23
Michael Hughes Volunteer 23
Pliny the Younger 22
William Dunlop 22
Edmund Law 21
Thomas Carte 21
Willem Jacob 's Gravesande 21
Richard Pococke 20
Robert Boyle 20
Colley Cibber 18
Dennis De Coetlogon M. D. 18
John Coustos 18
John Theophilus Desaguliers 18
Ovid 18
Alexander Monro 17
Herman Boerhaave 17
Jacques Saurin 17
James Harris 17
Thomas Salmon 17
Frederik Ruysch 16
James Hervey 16
Pieter Van Musschenbroek 16
Samuel Shuckford 16
Stephen Weston 16
Thomas Stackhouse 16
Bernard Forest de Belidor 15
Bartolomeo Eustachi 14
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 14
Lorenz Heister 14
Marquis d' Argens 14
Sir Isaac Newton 14
Henry Home Lord Kames 13
Robert Leighton 13
Thomas Blacklock 13
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus 13
Andrew Snape 12
Joseph Grove 12
Thomas Stanley 12
Albertus Seba 11
Baron Albrecht von Haller 11
Diodorus Siculus 11
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 11
Roger Long 11
Antonio Francesco Gori 10
François Pomey 10
Hippocrates 10
Imperatorska︠i︡a akademī︠i︡a nauk (Russia) 10
Jean Astruc 10
Monsieur J. de Blainville 10
Philalethes Cestriensis 10
Samuel Butler 10
Thomas Blackwell 10
Thomas Emlyn 10
Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury 9

Book Work

Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 1129
Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium [Charles Rollin] 806
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 329
Collection of Voyages and Travels 272
History of England [Paul Rapin de Thoyras] 265
Scots Magazine 185
Female Spectator 134
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 126
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 122
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 119
Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels 111
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Works of Cicero 103
Sermons on the Following Subjects [James Foster] 97
Comedies [Terence] 93
Miscellanies [Henry Fielding] 85
Discourses Concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God 82
Works of Henry Grove of Taunton 77
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
Family Expositor 70
Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff 67
Iliad 66
Adventures of David Simple 64
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Sermons [Henry Grove] 59
Sermons and Tracts: Being the Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Mr Henry Grove 59
Dialogues Concerning Education [David Fordyce] 53
Credibility of the Gospel History 52
History of Rome [Livy] 50
Operum ad Universam Juris Prudentiam 44
Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts 42
History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time 39
Contemplations Moral and Divine 38
Oriental Tales, Collected from an Arabian Manuscript 37
Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy 36
Works of Lucian of Samosata 36
Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences 35
Adventures of Telemachus 34
Essay on Man, Eloisa to Abelard, Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Messiah A Sacred Eclogue, and a Few Other Copies of Mr Pope's 33
True Intellectual System of the Universe 33
Histoire Générale des Voyages 32
Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar 32
Works of Sallust 32
Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality 31
Exposition on the Books of the New Testament 31
Fortunate Foundlings 30
Military Memoirs and Maxims of Marshal Turenne 30
New Abridgment of the Law 30
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions [Robert South] 30
Treatise of Practical Geometry 30
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
Georgics of Virgil 28
Course of Practical Chemistry 27
Elements of Plane Geometry [Thomas Simpson] 26
General Abridgment of Law and Equity 26
Leonora 23
Plain Narrative or Journal of the Late Rebellion, begun in 1745 23
Epistles of Pliny the Younger 22
Sermons Preached on Several Subjects and Occasions [William Dunlop] 22
Considerations on the Theory of Religion 21
General History of England [Thomas Carte] 21
Letters to Brutus 21
Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, Confirmed by Experiments 21
Description of the East, and Some Other Countries 20
Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner 20
Works of Robert Boyle 20
Genuine Memoirs of the Life of Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat 19
Whole Proceedings in the House of Peers ... against Simon Lord Lovat, for High Treason 19
Bibliothèque Raisonnée des Ouvrages des Savans de l'Europe 18
Course of Experimental Philosophy 18
Sufferings of John Coustos 18
Universal History of Arts and Sciences 18
Essay on Comparative Anatomy 17
Essays Moral and Critical... with Reflections upon Taste; and Many Other Curious Topicks 17
Metamorphoses 17
Nouveaux Sermons sur l'Histoire de la Passion de Notre seigneur Jesus-Christ 17
Three Treatises [James Harris] 17
Works of Horace 17
Elements of Natural Philosophy [Pieter Van Musschenbroek] 16
Meditations among the Tombs. In a Letter to a Lady 16
New History of the Holy Bible 16
Opera Omnia Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgica 16
Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected 16
Sermons on Various Subjects, Moral and Theological [Stephen Weston] 16
Works of Virgil 16
Architecture Hydraulique 15
Character and Conduct of Cicero, Considered 15
Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple 15
Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation, not from Reason or Nature 15
Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii 14
Jewish Letters: or, A Correspondence Philosophical, Historical and Critical, Betwixt a Jew and his Correspondents, in Different Parts 14
Self-Knowledge. A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science 14
Essay on Man [Alexander Pope] 13
Lady's Drawing Room. Being a Faithful Picture of the Great World 13
Nova Acta Eruditorum 13
Poems on Several Occasions [Thomas Blacklock] 13
Praelectiones Academicae [Herman Boerhaave] 13
Works of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus 13
Forty Five Sermons on Several Subjects 12
History of Philosophy [Thomas Stanley] 12

Book language

English 6297
Latin 721
French 497
Greek 77
Italian 15
Hebrew 7
Arabic 5
Aramaic 5
Syrian 5
Spanish 1

Book place of publication

London 5783
Paris 312
Edinburgh 282
Glasgow 226
Amsterdam 196
Dublin 148
Geneva 141
Berlin 66
The Hague 51
Cambridge 44
Leiden 30
Leipzig 29
Aldershot 26
Göttingen 26
Rotterdam 17
Lausanne 15
Newcastle upon Tyne 14
St Petersburg 14
Halle 11
Florence 10
Utrecht 10
Vienna 10
Frankfurt 9
Oxford 9
Frankfurt am Main 8
Rome 8
Venice 6
Lyon 4
Boston, MA 3
Milan 3
Bologna 2
Heidelberg 2
Lübeck 2
Naples 2
Savoy 2
i.e. Paris? 2
Copenhagen 1
Hanover 1
Jena 1
Madrid 1
Padua 1
Rouen 1
Stockholm 1
Strasbourg 1
Turin 1
Zurich 1

Book format

8vo 4378
4to 1269
folio 991
12mo 648

Genre

History 3145
Periodicals 769
Lives 722
Theology 608
Belles Lettres 525
Travel 490
Fiction 338
Philosophy and Morality 325
Sermons 309
Poetry 301
Natural Philosophy 285
Politics, Society and Political Economy 240
Law 215
Medicine 168
Education 135
Drama 109
Reference Works 87
Mathematics 79
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 38
Fine Arts 32

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