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  • Horseballs / prepared and sold by William Radley.
  • A tour thro' London about the year 1725 : being Letter V and parts of Letter VI of 'A tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain,' containing a description of the city of London, as taking in the city of Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts of Middlesex / Reprinted from the text of the original edition, 1724-1926 ; edited & annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor.
  • A sick lady addressing her husband, and being nursed by three women. Mezzotint by V. Green after E. Penny, 1774.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • The botanic garden, 1791 / Erasmus Darwin.
  • Observations on the air and epidemic diseases from the year 1728 to 1737 inclusive / made by Doctor Huxham, at Plymouth: together with a short dissertation on the Devonshire colic. Translated from the Latin original. And now published with the doctor's approbation.
  • Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi.
  • A vindication of man-midwifery, being the answer of Dr. Pocus, Dr. Maulus, and Dr. Barebones and others, their brethren, who, like legion, are many, to the Petition of the unborn babes, etc. In a letter to the President and Censors, and the elect of the College of Physicians, London.
  • Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom.
  • Genuine and universally approved horse medicines : prepared at the medical dispensary of the author : and sold by the publisher, no. 46, Fleet-Street, London.
  • The Polling by William Hogarth.
  • A tour thro' London about the year 1725 : being Letter V and parts of Letter VI of 'A tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain,' containing a description of the city of London, as taking in the city of Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts of Middlesex / Reprinted from the text of the original edition, 1724-1926 ; edited & annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor.
  • Horseballs / prepared and sold by William Radley.
  • XVIIIme siècle : institutions, usages et costumes, France 1700-1789 / Paul Lacroix.
  • Various ammonite fossils illustrating Hooke's discourse of Earthquakes.
  • Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
  • Distinta relazione delle presenti meravigliose figure nate nel contado di Pavia : in Milano, ed in Bologna M.DCC.XLVIII.
  • Conspectus historiae medicorum chronologicus. In usum praelectionum academicarum / confectus a Georgio Matthiæ.
  • Noi deputati all'Ufficio della sanità di Montecchio : Faciamo fede, come da questa terra, libera per l'iddiograzia, e sana da ogni sospetto di peste, si parte con li suoi arnesi per andare à ... / Ufficio della sanità di Montecchio.
  • [Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].
  • Delineatio partis sinistrae cranii devi Rumoldi martyris, Mechliniensium patroni colendisimi / concordat cum originali, attestor F.A. Vanderlinden, Urbis ac provinciae Mechlin Secretarius ; G. Herreyns delinearit.
  • The gentlemen, farmers, jockies, stage-coachmen and carriers universal medicine in the true cordial horse balls and preparation of antimony, adapted for the use and benefit of all, as well the race as cart horse : the cordial balls ... / Samuel Gibson.
  • London tradesmen's cards of the XVIII century : an account of their origin and use / by Ambrose Heal.
  • London tradesmen's cards of the XVIII century : an account of their origin and use / by Ambrose Heal.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • To be seen at ... the English Dwarf : this amazing prodigy of nature was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire ...
  • Distinta relazione delle presenti meravigliose figure nate nel contado di Pavia : in Milano, ed in Bologna M.DCC.XLVIII.
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • A tour thro' London about the year 1725 : being Letter V and parts of Letter VI of 'A tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain,' containing a description of the city of London, as taking in the city of Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts of Middlesex / Reprinted from the text of the original edition, 1724-1926 ; edited & annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor.