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Library

Glasgow University Library 1235
St Andrews University Library 1098
Dumfries Presbytery Library 374
Royal High School of Edinburgh 312
Edinburgh University Library 252
Advocates Library 186
Haddington Library 155
Aberdeen Theological Library 132
Selkirk Library 124
Leighton Library 89
Innerpeffray Library 82
Hunterian Museum Library 23
Craigston Castle Library 15
Westerkirk 15
Orkney Library 12
Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 3

Borrower title

Mr 318
Dr 114
Reverend Mr 70
Professor 62
Reverend 17
Captain 14
Principal 14
Mrs 10
Sir 10
Major 6
Miss 3
Prof. 3
Lieutenant 2
Lieutenant Colonel 2
Reverend Dr 2
Sous Lieutenant 2
Midshipman 1
Ms 1
Rev. 1

Borrower gender

Male 4074
Female 18
Unknown 7

Borrower occupation

Education 2959
University Student 2078
University Professor 714
Religion and Clergy 691
Minister/Priest 676
Church of Scotland 649
School Child 298
Law 214
Advocate 204
Arts and Letters 91
Chaplain 67
Military 64
Author 48
Prisoner of War 46
Independent Means 45
Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice 41
Landowner/Landlord/Laird 37
Sheriff 36
Librarian 33
Print and Book Trade 30
Printers 30
Politics/Office Holders 25
Commerce, Trade, and Finance 24
School Master/Dominie 24
Medicine and Health 23
Crafts, Artisans, and Manufacturing 20
Merchants/Traders 20
Presbyterian Seceder 20
Surgeon 18
Agricultural 17
Domestic Service 16
Indoor Servants 16
MP (Britain) 16
Dean of Faculty 15
Tenant 13
Army 10
Farmer 9
Lord Advocate 9
Retailer/Shopkeeper 9
Teacher 9
Curator 8
Gentleman 8
Clerk of Session 6
Judge 6
Officer 6
Provost 6
Writer/Procurator 6
Lay Preacher 5
Lord President 5
Physician 5
Advocate Depute 4
Poet 4
Tanner/Currier 4
Tax Collector 4
Banker 3
Barrister 3
Clerk 3
Customs Collector 3
Dyer 3
Episcopalian 3
Factor/Agent 3
Navy 3
Non-Presbyterian Dissenter 3
Service Provision and Hospitality 3
Solicitor-General 3
Writer to the Signet (WS) 3
Baillie 2
Baron of the Exchequer 2
Brewer 2
Lord Justice Clerk 2
Mason/Miller 2
Notaries/Clerks 2
Accountant 1
Advocate’s Clerk 1
Gardener 1
Glover 1
Innkeeper/Tavernkeeper 1
Miscellaneous 1
Shoemaker 1
Unknown denomination 1
Widow 1

Author

Paul Rapin de Thoyras 517
Samuel Clarke 289
Herman Moll 142
Thomas Salmon 142
Molière 138
Royal Society (Great Britain) 130
Gilbert Burnet 119
Noël Antoine Pluche 115
Samuel Shuckford 98
Homer 93
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
Ralph Cudworth 81
George Buchanan 68
Jacques Saurin 53
Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay 50
Nicholas Brady 47
Sir Isaac Newton 44
Daniel Neal 43
Demosthenes 43
Thucydides 43
Isaac Watts 41
Claude Fleury 40
Andrew Baxter 37
John Clarke 37
Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon 36
Archibald Campbell 34
Thomas Stackhouse 33
Thomas Rymer 32
Abbé Prévost 31
Alexander Monro 31
John Conybeare 31
Pierre Bayle 29
Francis Bacon 28
Herman Boerhaave 27
Matthew Tindal 26
Nathaniel Marshall 24
Philip Miller 24
Freiherr von Christian Wolff 22
John Leland 21
Suetonius 19
Bryan Robinson 18
Jacques Lenfant 18
Joseph Addison 18
Robert Millar 18
William Cheselden 18
John Arbuthnot 17
Marcus Junianus Justinus 17
Saint John Chrysostom 17
Bernard Nieuwentyt 16
Edward Wright Esq. 16
Frederik Ruysch 16
John Horsley 16
Virgil 16
François Catrou 15
James Thomson 15
Pierre Julien Rouillé 15
Sieur Charles Du Fresne Du Cange 15
Sir William Temple 15
Alexander Pope 14
Carlo Sigonio 14
Philipp van Limborch 14
James Peirce 13
John Knox 13
John Milton 13
Joseph Harris 13
Aubry de La Mottraye 12
Augustin Calmet 12
John Oldmixon 12
John Gay 11
Pietro Giannone 11
Polybius 11
Alexander Malcolm 10
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont 10
Nathaniel Lardner 10
Horace 9
Jacques-Auguste de Thou 9
James Gibbs 9
Johann Christoph Wolf 9
Simon Tyssot de Patot 9
Antonio Francesco Gori 8
George Stanhope 8
Jean Le Clerc 8
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 8
John Freind 8
Marcus Tullius Cicero 8
Peter Browne Bishop of Cork and Ross 8
Georg Ernst Stahl 7
George Benson 7
Imperatorska︠i︡a akademī︠i︡a nauk (Russia) 7
Michael Geddes 7
Richard Simon 7
Voltaire 7
William Forbes 7
William Newton 7
Aulus Persius Flaccus 6
James Foster 6
Johann Jakob Dillenius 6
Persius 6
Sir Thomas Craig 6
William Wall 6

Book Work

History of England [Paul Rapin de Thoyras] 517
Sermons [Samuel Clarke] 289
Modern History: or, The Present State of All Nations 142
Collection of Voyages and Travels 139
Select Comedies of Molière 138
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time 117
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 116
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd 115
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected 98
Iliad 93
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
History of Scotland [George Buchanan] 68
Discours Historiques, Critiques, Théologiques, et Moraux, sur les Événemens les plus Mémorables du Vieux, et du Nouveau Testament 53
Travels of Cyrus 50
Several Sermons, Chiefly upon Practical Subjects [Nicolas Brady] 47
History of the Peloponnesian War 43
History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 43
Orations of Demosthenes 43
Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul 37
History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641 36
Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue 34
New History of the Holy Bible 33
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality 33
Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliae, et Alios Quosuis Imperatores, Reges 32
Anatomy of the Human Bones and Nerves 31
Defence of Revealed Religion 31
Life of Mr Cleveland Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell 31
Abridgment of Dr Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe 27
Elementa Chemiae [Herman Boerhaave] 27
Logick: or, the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth 27
Christianity as Old as the Creation 26
Histoire Ecclésiastique [Claude Fleury] 26
Philosophical Transactions 26
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St John 25
Gardeners Dictionary 24
Sermons on Several Occasions [Nathaniel Marshall] 24
Essay upon Study 22
Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon 22
Answer to a Book Intituled, Christianity as Old as the Creation 21
True Intellectual System of the Universe 21
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light 19
Twelve Caesars 19
Bibliothèque Raisonnée des Ouvrages des Savans de l'Europe 18
History of the Council of Constance 18
Treatise of the Animal Oeconomy 18
Anatomy of the Human Body [William Cheselden] 17
Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments 17
Historical and Critical Dictionary 17
Justini Historiae Philippicae. Cum Versione Anglica ... Or, the History of Justin. With an English Translation 17
Works of Saint John Chrysostom 17
Britannia Romana: or The Roman Antiquities of Britain 16
Evidences of the Christian Religion 16
History of the Church under the Old Testament, from the Creation of the World 16
Opera Omnia Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgica 16
Religious Philosopher 16
Some Observations Made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the Years 1720, 1721, and 1722 16
Works of Virgil 16
Acta Eruditorum 15
Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et infimae Latinitatis 15
Roman History [François Catrou & Pierre Julien Rouille] 15
Seasons [James Thomson] 15
Works of Sir William Temple 15
Ecclesiastical History [Claude Fleury] 14
History of the Inquisition 14
Works of Alexander Pope 14
Works of Carlo Sigonio 14
Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland 13
Nova Acta Eruditorum 13
Paradise Lost 13
Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians, Philippians, and Hebrews 13
Treatise of Navigation 13
Demonstration of some of the Principal Sections of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of Natural Philosophy 12
Historical, Critical, Geographical, Chronological, and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible 12
History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart 12
Humble Attempt Toward the Revival of Practical Religion among Christians 12
London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer 12
Philosophia Prima, sive Ontologia 12
Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa 12
Works of Pierre Bayle 12
Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples 11
Histories [Polybius] 11
Poems on Several Occasions [John Gay] 11
Credibility of the Gospel History 10
History of England, during the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne King George I 10
Christian's Duty from the Sacred Scriptures 9
Histoire des Empereurs et des Autres Princes qui ont Régné Durant les Six Premiers Siècles de l'Eglise 9
Historiarum Sui Temporis [Jacques-Auguste de Thou] 9
Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture 9
Translations of Several Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace. With some Versions out of Catullus, Martial, and the Italian poets 9
Travels and Adventures of James Massey 9
Museum Florentinum, Exhibens Insigniora Vetustatis Monumenta quae Florentiae sunt 8
New System of Arithmetick, Theorical and Practical [Alexander Malcolm] 8
On the Orator [Cicero] 8
Opera Omnia Medica [John Freind] 8
Paraphrase and Comment upon the Epistles and Gospels 8
Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human 8
Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 7
Critique de la Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques et des Prolégomènes de la Bible 7
Institutes of the Laws of Scotland 7

Book language

English 3090
Latin 617
French 585
Greek 119
Italian 11
Chinese 5
Welsh 3

Book place of publication

London 3093
Paris 309
Amsterdam 134
Edinburgh 122
The Hague 88
Leipzig 54
Cambridge 53
Dublin 46
Leiden 45
Jena 22
Frankfurt am Main 19
Brussels 15
Milan 15
Florence 13
St Petersburg 13
Venice 13
Hamburg 9
Berlin 7
Oxford 7
Nuremberg 6
Halle 5
Lyon 5
Zurich 5
Augsburg 4
Dresden 4
Franecker 4
Rotterdam 4
Geneva 3
Helmstedt 3
Uppsala 3
Verona 3
York 3
Altdorf 2
Basel 2
Naples 2
Bologna 1
Braunschweig 1
Grenoble 1
Rome 1

Book format

8vo 1856
4to 897
folio 846
12mo 342
map 1

Genre

History 1210
Theology 681
Periodicals 402
Sermons 370
Natural Philosophy 346
Travel 327
Lives 223
Politics, Society and Political Economy 209
Poetry 196
Education 183
Philosophy and Morality 164
Drama 140
Belles Lettres 131
Medicine 130
Fiction 99
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 69
Law 61
Reference Works 49
Mathematics 32
Fine Arts 17

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