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Glasgow University Library 2454
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Edinburgh University Library 1113
Advocates Library 559
Royal High School of Edinburgh 480
Selkirk Library 423
Westerkirk 391
Dumfries Presbytery Library 356
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Aberdeen Theological Library 266
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Hunterian Museum Library 22
Wigtown Subscription Library 13
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Inverness Kirk Sessions Library 2

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Male 9305
Female 96
Unknown 4

Borrower occupation

Education 6699
University Student 5122
University Professor 1392
Religion and Clergy 1154
Minister/Priest 1130
Church of Scotland 1078
Law 629
Advocate 595
School Child 455
Military 168
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Retailer/Shopkeeper 7
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Author

Francis Hutcheson 364
David Hume 342
Samuel Richardson 298
William Shakespeare 264
Tobias George Smollett 231
Charles Rollin 220
Eliza Fowler Haywood 194
Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon 170
Robert Traill 148
Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke 145
Henry Fielding 124
James Lind 120
Edinburgh Philosophical Society 116
Jean-Baptiste Massillon 113
Thomas Nettleton 108
Royal Society (Great Britain) 103
Jean le Rond d' Alembert 96
Denis Diderot 95
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) 83
William Melmoth 83
Sir William Temple 75
Nathaniel Hooke 74
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 74
Archibald Bower 70
Philip Doddridge 70
Nathaniel Lardner 69
John Campbell 67
Thomas Sherlock 67
Jacques Saurin 62
Académie royale des sciences et belles lettres (Berlin, Germany) 61
Jonathan Swift 61
John Leland 60
James Hervey 59
Voltaire 59
Robert Whytt 57
George Buchanan 54
Dr Samuel Johnson 53
John Hill 53
Edmund Ludlow 51
Edward Burt 47
Robert Paltock 46
Herman Boerhaave 45
John Milton 45
Nicholas Tindal 45
Marcus Tullius Cicero 42
Pietro Metastasio 42
William Congreve 42
David Moysie 41
William Warburton 39
Humphrey Prideaux 37
James Foster 37
John Brown 37
John Potter 37
Henry Grove 36
James Burgh 36
Charlotte Lennox 35
John Locke 35
George Young M. D. 34
Jonas Hanway 34
William Maitland 34
John Taylor 33
James Barclay 32
Joseph Addison 32
Sir Richard Steele 32
Thomas Blackwell 32
Conyers Middleton 31
Johannes de Gorter 30
Matthew Bacon 30
Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol 30
Alexander Gordon 29
François Gayot de Pitaval 29
Noël Antoine Pluche 29
William Hogarth 29
Abbé Prévost 28
Isaac Watts 28
Johann Lorenz Mosheim 28
Andrew MacDowall Lord Bankton 27
Robert Wallace 27
Charles Viner 26
James Thomson 26
John Sharp 26
Robert Clayton Bishop of Clogher 26
Clifton Wintringham 25
Linnaeus 25
Daniel Neal 24
Molière 24
Arrigo Caterino Davila 23
Country Gentleman 23
Henri-François de La Solle 23
James Balfour 22
John Evans 22
William Smellie 22
John Erskine 21
Joseph Spence 21
Samuel Johnson 21
Thomas Carte 21
Edmund Spenser 20
Longinus 20
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen 19
Baron Albrecht von Haller 19

Book Work

Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present 848
System of Moral Philosophy [Francis Hutcheson] 364
History of Sir Charles Grandison 295
Works of William Shakespeare 264
Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium [Charles Rollin] 220
History of England [David Hume] 200
Monthly Review. A Periodical Work, Giving an Account ... of, and Extracts from, the New Books, Pamphlets, &c. 199
Scots Magazine 185
Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon 170
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 166
Works of the Late Reverend Robert Traill 148
Biographia Britannica: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland 126
Amelia 124
Treatise on the Scurvy 118
Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary 116
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 116
Sermons of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 113
Philosophical Transactions: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World 103
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers 95
Invisible Spy 83
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects 77
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 76
Works of Sir William Temple 75
Medical Essays and Observations [Philosophical Society of Edinburgh] 74
Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth 74
History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless 71
Family Expositor 70
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time 70
Credibility of the Gospel History 69
Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church [Thomas Sherlock] 67
Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 65
Treatise on Virtue and Happiness 63
Sermons sur Divers Textes de l'Écriture Sainte 62
Histoire de l'Acádemie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres de Berlin 61
Lives of the Admirals and Other Eminent British Seamen 61
Works of Jonathan Swift 61
Letters on the Study and Use of History 59
Theron and Aspasio: or, A Series of Dialogues and Letters 59
Essay on the Vital and Other Involuntary Motions of Animals 57
History of Scotland [George Buchanan] 54
Discourses Preached on Several Occasions [Thomas Sherlock] 52
Philosophical Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 52
View of the Principal Deistical Writers 52
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq 51
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London 47
Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, on Several Subjects 46
Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man 46
Continuation of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the Revolution to the Accession of King George II 45
New Method of Chemistry 45
Some Thoughts Voncerning Virtue and Happiness 45
Works of William Congreve 42
Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland [David Moysie] 41
History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy 40
Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio 39
Enquiry concerning the principles of morals [David Hume] 38
Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue 37
Essays on the Characteristics [John Brown] 37
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of his Friends: with Remarks by William Melmoth 37
Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations 37
Dignity of Human Nature. Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence 36
System of Moral Philosophy [Henry Grove] 36
Age of Louis XIV 35
Life of Harriot Stuart 35
Works of John Locke 35
Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea 34
History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time 34
Treatise on Opium 34
Greek Rudiments 32
Memoirs of the Court of Augustus 32
Paradise Lost 32
Spectator 32
Works of Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke 31
Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, and at this Time are Fulfilling in the World 30
Medicina Hippocratica exponens Aphorismos Hippocratis 30
New Abridgment of the Law 30
Analysis of Beauty. Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste 29
Causes Célèbres et Intéressantes avec les Jugemens qui les ont Decidées 29
History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia 29
History of the Heavens, Considered According to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses 29
Bible - New Testament [Greek] 28
Histoire Générale des Voyages 28
Dictionary of the English Language 27
Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Antient and Modern Times 27
Institute of the Law of Scotland in Civil Rights 27
Political Discourses 27
Works of Isaac Watts 27
Archaelogia Graeca: or, The Antiquities of Greece 26
General Abridgment of Law and Equity 26
Rambler 26
Works of James Thomson 26
Works of the Most Reverend Dr John Sharp 26
Works of the Late Clifton Wintringham, Physician at York 25
History of a Woman of Quality: or, The Adventures of Lady Frail 24
History of the Puritans [Daniel Neal] 24
Works of Molière 24
Country Gentleman's Companion 23
History of the Civil Wars of France 23
Memoirs of a Man of Pleasure, or The Adventures of Versorand 23
Modern Characters: Illustrated by Histories in Real Life, and Address'd to the Polite World 23
Delineation of the Nature and Obligation of Morality 22

Book language

English 7971
French 1039
Latin 343
Italian 102
Greek 84
Hebrew 3
Spanish 2

Book place of publication

London 5600
Edinburgh 1919
Paris 676
Glasgow 415
The Hague 120
Amsterdam 111
Neuchâtel 95
Dublin 70
Berlin 62
Göttingen 45
Aberdeen 44
Oxford 37
Leipzig 34
Leiden 29
Aldershot 26
Helmstedt 26
Cambridge 25
Dresden 17
Stockholm 14
Vienna 11
Copenhagen 10
Lausanne 10
Florence 8
Hamburg 8
Utrecht 7
Whitehaven 7
Venice 6
Milan 5
Rome 4
St Petersburg 4
Boston, MA 3
Zurich 3
Berwick 2
Besançon 2
Bologna 2
Frankfurt am Main 2
Frankfurt an der Oder 2
Lyon 2
Madrid 2
Naples 2
Amiens 1
Anvers 1
Brescia 1
Brussels 1
Colmar 1
Jena 1
Padua 1
Rotterdam 1
Strasbourg 1
Turin 1
unknown 1

Book format

8vo 4111
12mo 2477
4to 2016
folio 745

Genre

History 2374
Philosophy and Morality 1087
Fiction 989
Periodicals 889
Theology 861
Lives 696
Natural Philosophy 610
Sermons 553
Poetry 540
Medicine 480
Belles Lettres 439
Drama 335
Law 215
Reference Works 193
Politics, Society and Political Economy 180
Travel 171
Education 165
Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge 108
Fine Arts 67
Mathematics 31

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