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St Andrews University Library 2028
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Male 7450
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Education 5036
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Minister/Priest 647
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Author

Francis Hutcheson 595
Thomas Reid 389
John Locke 383
David Hume 374
Marcus Tullius Cicero 328
James Beattie 268
Isaac Watts 254
John Leland 209
Adam Smith 202
Xenophon of Athens 198
Voltaire 188
Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury 163
Francis Bacon 145
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 143
John Gregory 119
John Witherspoon 119
George Campbell 115
Thomas Nettleton 114
Plato 103
Edmund Burke 97
Freiherr von Samuel Pufendorf 95
Aristotle 87
Thomas Stanley 82
William Paley 79
Henry Grove 78
Epictetus 76
Dugald Stewart 73
Elizabeth Carter 69
Johann Georg Zimmermann 65
Bernard Mandeville 62
Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome 61
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 52
David Hartley 51
James Harris 49
Benjamin Franklin 48
Louis-Sébastien Mercier 47
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius 44
John Brown 38
John Millar 38
Baron Charles de Secondat Montesquieu 37
Thomas Gisborne 37
James Burgh 36
Archibald Campbell 35
Longinus 34
Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 33
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 33
Ralph Cudworth 33
Richard Hurd 33
James Balfour 32
Thomas Blackwell 32
Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly 30
William Hogarth 30
Johann Jakob Brucker 28
Thomas Morgan 28
Freiherr von Christian Wolff 27
George Turnbull 27
Nicolas Malebranche 27
Samuel Parker 27
Theophrastus 27
Bishop George Berkeley 26
Francis Bragge 25
Plutarch 24
Peter Browne Bishop of Cork and Ross 23
Pierre Gassendi 23
Dominique Bouhours 22
William Dodd 22
Eliza Fowler Haywood 21
Isocrates 21
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 21
Samuel Johnson 21
Thomas Percival 21
William Keir 19
John Theophilus Desaguliers 18
Joseph Priestley 18
Pierre Bayle 18
Thomas Browne 18
Ely Bates 17
Jeremy Collier 17
Sir Roger L'Estrange 15
Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo Lord Pitsligo 14
Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford 14
Jean de La Bruyère 14
John Bethune 14
John Hartcliffe 14
Marchese Cesare Beccaria 14
René Descartes 14
Thomas Salmon 14
Graf von Benjamin Rumford 13
Justus Lipsius 13
Philo of Alexandria 13
Richard Cumberland 13
Theophilus Gale 13
Abraham Tucker 12
Daniel Defoe 12
Helvetius 12
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 12
Athenaeus of Naucratis 11
Jean André de Luc 11
Sir Thomas Browne 11
Antoine Arnauld 10

Book Work

System of Moral Philosophy [Francis Hutcheson] 364
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 273
Works of John Locke 242
Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense 237
Works of Cicero 211
View of the Principal Deistical Writers 209
Works of Xenophon 193
Theory of Moral Sentiments 192
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times 161
Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 134
Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections 131
Essay Concerning Human Understanding 120
Works of John Witherspoon 119
Works of Voltaire 117
Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume 115
Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism 111
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man 103
Works of Francis Bacon 100
Essays [James Beattie] 99
Logick: or, the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth 98
History of Philosophy [Thomas Stanley] 82
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 79
System of Moral Philosophy [Henry Grove] 78
Of the Law of Nature and Nations 76
Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World 72
Treatise on Virtue and Happiness 69
Works of Epictetus 69
Improvement of the Mind: or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick 62
Works of Plato 62
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 61
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 59
Fable of the Bees 58
Essay on Universal History 55
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind 54
Works of Aristotle 53
Philosophical Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 52
Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy 52
Observations on Man [David Hartley] 51
Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr Benjamin Franklin 48
Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician 47
Essays on the Active Powers of Man 46
Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 45
Some Thoughts Voncerning Virtue and Happiness 45
Operum ad Universam Juris Prudentiam 44
Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects [Isaac Watts] 44
De Officiis [Cicero] 39
Enquiry concerning the principles of morals [David Hume] 38
Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke 38
Essays on the Characteristics [John Brown] 37
Solitude; or The Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death 37
Dignity of Human Nature. Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence 36
Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue 35
On the Sublime 34
Moral and Political Dialogues; with Letters on Chivalry and Romance 33
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality 33
Memoirs of the Court of Augustus 32
Analysis of Beauty. Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste 30
Essays, Moral and Political 30
Theory of Agreeable Sensations 30
Moral Philosopher [Thomas Morgan] 28
Nightcap 28
Solitude Considered with Respect to its Influence upon the Mind and the Heart 28
De Natura Deorum 27
Essays on Divers Weighty and Curious Subjects. Particularly on Mr Lock's and Sir William Temple's Notions 27
Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy [George Turnbull] 27
Republic [Plato] 27
Works of Isaac Watts 27
Treatise of Human Nature 26
Practical Treatise of the Regulation of the Passions 25
Three Treatises [James Harris] 25
Elements of Moral Science 24
Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain 24
Doctrine of the Passions Explain'd and Improv'd 23
Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon 23
Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding 23
Delineation of the Nature and Obligation of Morality 22
Dissertations Moral and Critical 22
Historia Critica Philosophiae, a Mundi Incunabulis ad Nostram usque Aetatem Deducta 22
Reflections on Death 22
Elements of Philosophy [Samuel Johnson] 21
Epistles for the Ladies 21
Moral and Literary Dissertations 21
Mélanges de Littérature, d'Histoire, et de Philosophie 21
Works of Pierre Gassendi 21
Arts of Logick and Rhetorick, Illustrated by Examples Taken out of the Best Authors 20
Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society 20
Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 20
De Officio Hominis et Civis 19
Summons of Wakening 19
Tableau de Paris 19
British Cicero; or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language 18
Course of Experimental Philosophy 18
Essays of Francis Bacon 18
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 18
Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 18
Essays Moral and Critical... with Reflections upon Taste; and Many Other Curious Topicks 17
Rural Philosophy: or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness 17
Works of Seneca 17
Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de l'Homme, et l'Origine du Mal 16
Philosophical Essays [Dugald Stewart] 16

Book language

English 5940
Latin 1149
Greek 474
French 420
German 2
Spanish 2
Italian 1

Book place of publication

London 4306
Edinburgh 1250
Glasgow 589
Geneva 236
Oxford 192
Paris 169
Amsterdam 157
Leiden 102
Frankfurt am Main 99
Basel 70
Neuchâtel 59
Lyon 55
Cambridge 47
The Hague 47
Leipzig 44
Kehl 33
Venice 33
Dublin 28
Warrington 21
Hawick 19
Halle 16
Antwerp 10
Frankfurt 10
Cologne 7
Dresden 5
New Haven, CT 5
Birmingham 4
Zurich 4
Florence 3
Franecker 3
Hamburg 3
Hanover 3
Jena 3
Lund 3
Nuremberg 3
Rouen 3
Berlin 2
Bouillon 2
Lausanne 2
Mainz 2
Orleans 2
Rotterdam 2
Saumur 2
Wesel 2
unknown 2
Amsterdam? 1
Bordeaux 1
Brunswick 1
Brussels 1
Gouda 1
Göttingen 1
Hanau 1
Koln 1
Leeuwarden 1
London? 1
Marburg 1
Morges 1
Parma 1
Utrecht 1
Yverdon 1
i.e. Paris? 1

Book format

8vo 3812
4to 1434
12mo 1192
folio 898
18mo 8
16mo 4
24mo 1

Genre

Philosophy and Morality 7540
Belles Lettres 667
Theology 626
Politics, Society and Political Economy 599
History 568
Natural Philosophy 201
Lives 193
Law 186
Fiction 170
Education 74
Fine Arts 56
Medicine 49
Mathematics 33
Poetry 6
Drama 2

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