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Studying early printed books, 1450-1800 : a practical guide / Sarah Werner.
Werner, Sarah, 1969-Date: 2019
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A collection of seven and fifty approved receipts good against the plague : Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations. By W. J. gent.
W. JDate: 1665
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The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus : in XVII. books. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that learned divine Doctor Everard.
Date: 1650 [i.e. 1649]
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The Catalogue of the fellows and other members of the Royal College of Physicians, London / printed October 4, 1695 ; with some necessary amendments and advertisements.
Date: Printed in the Year, MDCXCVI [1696]
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Ductor dubitantium, or the rule of conscience in all her general measures : serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience. In four books. ... / By Jeremy Taylor, chaplain in ordinary to King Charles the First, and late Lord Bishop of Down and Conner.
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667Date: M DC LXXVI. [1676]
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The mystery of faith opened up: or Some sermons concerning faith (two whereof were not formerly printed) : wherein the nature, excellency, and usefulnesse of that noble grace is much cleared, and the practice thereof most powerfully pressed. Whereunto are added other three sermons, two concerning the great salvation, one of these not formerly printed, and a third concerning death. / by Mr. Andrew Gray, late minister of the gospel in Glasgow.
Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656Date: Anno Dom. 1678
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There is newly published, the four following usefull and necessary books : The queens closet opened ... The exact dealer refined ... the third edition, enlarged. ... The young secretary's guide: or, A speedy help to learning. In two parts. ... The strange and prodigious religions, customs, and manners, of sundry nations ... the second edition. All four printed for Henry Rhodes.
Date: [1695?]
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Pharmacopæia Londinensis. Or, The new London dispensatory : in VI. books. Translated into English for the publick good, and fitted to the whole art of healing. Illustrated with the preparations virtues and uses of all simple medicaments, vegetable, animal and mineral: of all the compounds both internal and external: and of all the chymical preparations now in use. Together with some choice medicines added by the author. As also the praxis of chymistry, as it's now exercised, fitted to the meanest capacity. The third edition corrected amd amended. By William Salmon, professor of physick; at the blue Balcony by the ditch-side nigh Holbourn-bridge.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1685
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Histories, novels, and translations / written by the most ingenious Mrs. Behn ; the second volume, the greatest part never before printed.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689Date: M.DCC [1700]
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The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation : together with the description of the choicest furnaces and vessels used by ancient and modern chymists : and the anotomy of gold and silver, with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof : together with their virtues : in six books / by John French ... ; to which is added in this third impression calcination and sublimation, in two books ; as also, The London-distiller exactly and truly shewing the way (in words at length, and not in myterious characters and figures) to draw all sorts of spirits and strong-waters ; together with their virtues, and other excellent waters.
French, John, 1616-1657Date: 1664
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The London practice of physick, or, The whole practical part of physick contained in the works of Dr. Willis : faithfully made English, and printed together for the publick good.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: 1689
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Peri psychroposias, of drinking water : against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge / by Richard Short.
Short, Richard, -1668Date: 1656
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The London practice of physick, or, The whole practical part of Physick contained in the works of Dr. Willis : faithfully made English, and printed together for the publick good.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: 1685
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The marrow of chymical physick; or, The practice of making chymical medicines : Divided in three books: viz. Shewing the true and perfect order to distil, or draw forth from vegetables, minerals, and metals, their spirits, oyls, vinegars, salts, extracts, or tinctures, essences and magisteries, flowers, and salts, &c. Whereunto is added at the end of every such preparation, its most excellent vertue and medicinal use, for the preservation of health, and restoring the diseased to sanity. A rare way of making metaline glass of any colour whatsoever. Very useful for the making artificial rubies, saphirs, jacinths, &c. Likewise for the enamiling [sic] of rings, or for jewels; being very excellent and easie. By W. T. philo-astro-medicus, and student in chymistry.
Thrasher, WilliamDate: 1669
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A charter granted to the apothecaries of London the 30th of May, 13 Jac. I : translated and printed for the better information of the said apothecaries in their duty to the city of London, the Colledg of Physicians and their own society.
England and Wales.Date: 1695
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The Four great years of the plague, viz. 1593, 1603, 1625, and 1636 : compared by the weekly bills of mortality printed every Thursday in the said years, by which its increase and decrease is plainly discerned in all those years.
Date: 1665
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The whole art of navigation : in five books. Containing I. The principles of navigation and geometry. II. The principles of astronomy. III. The practical part of navigation. IV. The description and use of such instruments, as are useful in taking observations at sea, and therein, the use of a large new sinical quadrant, performing with more exactness than any yet extant, all questions relating to navigation; rendered so easie as to be understood by the meanest capacity. V. Useful tables in navigation, wherein those of the suns and stars declination and right ascension, &c. are newly calculated. The whole delivered in a very easie and familiar stile, by way of dialogue between a tutor and his scholar. By Captaine Daniel New-house.
Newhouse, DanielDate: MDCXCVIII. [1698]
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The universal body of physick : in five books; comprehending the several treatises of nature, of diseases and their causes, of symptomes, of the preservation of health, and of cures. Written in Latine by that famous and learned doctor Laz. Riverius, counsellour and physician to the present King of France, and professor in the Vniversity of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by VVilliam Carr practitioner in physick.
Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655Date: MDCLVII. [1657]
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Medicinal experiments: or, A collection of choice remedies : for the most part simple, and easily prepared, which may be made very serviceable to country people, and useful for families. / By the Honorable R. Boyle, Esq; ... To which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1692
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A tutor to astronomy and geography. Or, an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, celestial and terrestrial : In six books. The 1. Teaching the rudiments of astronomy and geography. ... More fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others ... With an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere. The fifth edition corrected and enlarged. By Joseph Moxon. Whereunto is added the antient poetical stories of the stars; shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the Cœlestial globe. As also a discourse of the antiquity, progress and augmentation of astronomy.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691Date: MDCXCVIII. [1698]
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The practice of physick, in seventeen several books : Wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs; together with the cure of all diseases in the body. By Nicholas Culpeper, physitian and astrologer. Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick. And William Rowland, physitian. Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius, sometimes councellor and physitian to the King of France. To which are added four books containing five hundred and thirteen observations of famous cures. By the same author. And a fifth book of select medicinal counsels. By John Fernelius. With a table of the principal matters treated therein. As also a physical dictionary, explaining the hard words used in these books.
Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655Date: M D C LXXVIII. [1678]
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The mystery of faith opened up: or Some sermons concerning faith (two where of were not formerly printed.) : Wherein the nature, excellency, and usefulness of that noble grace is much cleared, and the practice thereof most powerfully pressed. Whereunto are added other three sermons, two concerning the great salvation, one of these not formerly printed, and a third concerning death. / By that pious and worthy servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray, late minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. All these sermons being now carefully revised, and much corrected.
Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656Date: Anno 1668
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The good-husbands jewel, or, Plain and easie directions how to know the meanes whereby horses, beasts, sheep, &c. come to have many diseases, and the way to cure them perfectly, and that with little cost or charges / written by a very skillful hand, who had this knowledge not by reading or perusing any books, but by above thirty years experience, besides the practice of his ancestors ... ; also an admirable and safe way for gelding and spaying both of male and female.
Crawshey, JohnDate: 1651
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The good-husbands jewel. Or Plain and easy directions how to know the means, whereby horses, beasts, sheep, &c. come to have many diseases, and the way to cure them perfectly, and that with little cost or charges : Written by a very skilfull hand, who had this knowledge, not by reading or perusing any books, but by above thirty years experience, besides the practice of his ancestors. Most usefull for all countrey-men, whereby they may be enabled to preserve their cattell. Also an admirable and safe way for gelding and spaying, both of male and female. Approved by the testimony of diverse worthy gentlemen, both knights and esquires, in the county of York and Lincolne.
Crawshey, JohnDate: 1646 [i.e. 1656]
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Calendarium Catholicum, or, An universall almanack 1661, the first after leap-year : with memorable observations, never before printed.
Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679Date: MDCLXI [1661]