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The gardeners pocket-calendar, on a new plan, in regular alphabetical order, with the necessary directions for keeping a garden, in proper order, ... Also for cultivating vegetables, for the use of an army, in camp or garrison. By Richard Weston, Esqr: ...
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: 1800- Books
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Vade mecum: or, the necessary pocket companion. Containing, I. Sir Samuel Moreland's perpetual almanack, ... XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, guineas, and broad gold.
Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686.Date: 1725- Books
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Vade mecum: or, The necessary pocket companion. Containing, I. Sir Samuel Moreland's prepetual almanack readily shewing the day of the month, and moveable feasts and terms, for any year past, present, or to come, curiously graved in copper; with many useful tables proper thereto. II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring land. III. Remarkable fairs in England, a tide-table, and a table of expence. IV. The years of each King's reign from the norman conquest, compar'd with the years of Christ. V. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchin and flower-gardens. VI. The reduction of weights, measures and coins; wherein is a tables of the assize of bread. VII. A table wherein any number of Farthings, Half-pence, Pence, or Shillings, are ready cast up; of great use to all traders. VIII. The interest and rebate of money; the forbearance, discompt and purchase of annuities. IX. The rales of post-letters, both in-land and out-land. X. An account of the Penny-post. XI. The principal roads in England. XII. The names of the counties, cities and borough-towns in England and Wales, with the number of knights, citizens and burgesses chosen therein to serve in Parliament. XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fairs of coach-men, car-men and water-men. XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, Guineas and broad gold. The ninth edition with additions. To which is added, interest in epitome; or Tables, in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 Millions, at 5, 6, 7, and 8, per cent. by Isreal Falgate, at the Bank of England. The third edition augmented.
Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686.Date: 1708- Books
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The merchant's companion, and tradesman's vade mecum: or, practical arithmetick, both vulgar and decimal, Rendered more clear, short, and easy, than ever before. In Which Most of the Rules of Arithmetick are altered to Advantage, and New Methods laid down, whereby the young Scholar may, with Ease, become a Proficient in a short time. Together with an appendix for those who are advanced in accompts, Containing Mensuration, both Superficial and Solid; as also many Contractions, tho' none that are meerly curious, but such as may be serviceably applied to Trade and Merchandise. The whole necessary for all men of business, teachers of accompts, and their scholars. By John Saxton, Writing-Master and Accomptant in Manchester.
Saxton, John.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Every young man's companion: Containing directions for spelling, reading, and writing English. Instructions in the art of penmanship. Epistolary writing, containing letters of compliment and business. Forms of address to persons of all ranks. Arithmetic, vulgar, fractional, decimal, logarithmetical, and algebraical. Practical geometry. Astronomy, or an account of the globe, fixed stars, planets and comets. Geography, or a general account of the world, and a particular description of Great-Britain and Ireland. Plain trigonometry. The resolution of astronomical questions. The making and fixing all kinds of dials. The measuring superficies, solids, timber, carpenters, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, glasiers, and joiners work, &c. Surveying of land. Gauging of casks, with a description of everard's gauging-rule. The gardener's calendar, shewing what work is to be done every month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit garden. Farriery, or the art of knowing and curing the diseases of horses. Useful receipts of various kinds. The art of making rockets, and artificial fireworks. The method of painting dials, rooms, timber work, and mezzotinto prints on glass, and of the making and mixing colours. The art of colouring maps, plots, and prints. Forms for business in the mercantile way. Forms in law of general use. Together with a great variety of cuts and tables, accurately drawn and made for the more ready performance of the different operations taught in this treatise. By W. Gordon, teacher of the mathematics.
Gordon, W.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Every young man's companion. Containing I. Rules and directions for reading and writing English. ... Together with a great variety of cuts and tables. By W. Gordon, ...
Gordon, W.Date: 1765- Books
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The Bank of England's vade mecum; or sure guide; extremely proper and useful for all persons who have any money matters to transact in the hall of the Bank, ... With two copper-plate plans. By a gentleman of the Bank, &c.
Gentleman of the Bank, Bank of England.Date: 1782- Books
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Vade mecum: or, the necessary pocket companion. Containing I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual Almanack; readily shewing the Day of the Month, and Moveable Feast's and Terms, for any Year past, present, or to come; with many useful Tables proper thereto, and Rules to sind them out for ever. II. Directions relating to the Purchasing and Measuring of Land. III. Remarkable Fairs in England, a Tide-Table, and a Table of Expence. IV. The Years of each King's Reign from the Norman Conquest to this Time, compared with the Years of Christ. V. Directions for every Month in the Year, what is to be done in the Orchard, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardens. VI. The Reduction of Weights, Measures, and Coins; wherein is a Table of the Assize of Bread. Vii. A Table wherein any Number of Farthings, Halfpence, Pence, or Shillings, are ready cast up; of great Use to all Traders. Viii. The Interest and Rebate of Money; the Forbearance, Discompt, and Purchase of Annuities. IX. The Rates of Post Letters, both In-Land and Out-Land, according to the New Establishment. X. An Account of the Penny-Post. XI. The Principal Roads in England. XII. The Names of the Counties, Cities, and Borough Towns in Great Britain, with the Number of Knights, Commissioners of Shires, Citizens, and Burgesses, chosen therein to serve in Parliament. XIII. The usual and authorized Rates or Fares of Coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen. XIV. Tables for casting up Nobles, Marks, and Guineas. To which is added, Interest in Epitome; or, Tables in a shorter Method, than any yet Published, from 1 Pound to 10 Millions, at 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. by Israel Falgate, at the Bank of England.
Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686.Date: 1739- Books
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The american oracle. Comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, Necessary to be known in all families, for the Promotion of their present felicity and future happiness. By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, LL.D. and doctor of physic; Astronomer to his majesty's provinces of Quebec, and new brunswic; also to the commonwealth of massachusetts, and the state of vermont, in America.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: 1791- Books
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A thousand notable things of sundry sorts, enlarged : Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious. Whereunto is now added one hundred excellent conceits never before printed, very witty, usefull, and delightfull.
Lupton, ThomasDate: 1660- Books
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The mariner's jewel: or, a pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; To know the Eurthen, and how to Rig a Ship; With an Easie and Exact Method for all Gunners, Carpenters, and Boatswanes, whereby to know the Expence of their Stores every Month, and what they have Remaining; With Proper Directions for making of Masts and Yards according to Proportion; With a new List of the Royal Navy; A General Pay-Table for all Degrees of Men; An Abstract of Parliament for the Encouragement of Seamen, with Her Majesty's Approbation hereto; A Guide for Pursers and Stewards; The most usual Terms at Sea explain'd, with Directions how to Work a Ship at Sea; And a Compendium of Sea Gunnery; With several other things needful to be understood by all sorts of Sea-Faring Men. By James Love, Mathematician.
Love, James (Mathematician)Date: 1705- Books
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The family pocket-book: or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The farrier's guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases; a certain Cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing Cure for the Grease; and another for broken-winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue between a Horse-Doctor and a Groom, by a late eminent Surgeon. The best Manner of breaking a Colt, of ordering a Horse of Pleasure, and ample Directions for the Management of a Race-Horse. Certain Method of preventing Chimneys from smoaking, let their Form or Situation be what they will; with a Print, the better to enable those concerned in building to prevent those great Inconveniencies for the future. The valuable Fire-Ball; by the Use of which, Families may make four or five Bushels of Coals go as far as forty. An excellent Way to bring Singing Birds to a very great Perfection, by that famous German, Lewis de Burgh. Extraordinary Method of Breeding Game-Cocks; the Manner of dieting and ordering them for Battle; sure Way of matching them: with a choice and valuable Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, communicated by a noble Lord, by which very extraordinary way of feeding, upwards of ninety Battles have been won out of a Hundred. Indian Way of marking on Silk, Linen, Woollen, &c. Curious Method of casting Urinc, and how Disorders are known by it. The Art of curling, dressing, or colouring Hair. Sir Hans Sloane's valuable Cure for Disorders of the Eyes. Certain Method of preventing the Teeth from being uneven, or bad, by Sig. Curzoni, Operator of the Teeth and Gums. Mons. Rouille's Lip-Salve. The Tea-Tree, and Manner of growing it in England. Instructions for mounting Fans. The Gardener's Legacy; containing all the Instructions necessary for the Cultivation of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen-Garden. The good housewife's daily companion; being a choice Collection of the most famous Physical Receipts, for the Cure of almost all Disorders of the human Body, taken chiefly from the late Sir Hans Sloane's, and the ingenious Dr. Lower's Works. Compiled after Thirty Years Experience, by Peregrine Montague, Gent.
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Books
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A book of knovvledge : in three parts. The first, containing a brief introduction to astrology,shewing the nature, qualitie, and effects of the twelve signs, and seven planets; their dominion over bodies, with the fortunes of those calculated, who are born under them, also a delightful wheel of fortune. The second, a treatise of physick, the anatomy of mans body, the diseases incident to the body of man, rules and receipts for the curing of tem; also rules, for sweating, bathing, conserving, and preserving, and the way to make cordial-waters; also the principal rules of arithmatick, very plain and easie. The third, the country-mans guide to good husbandry, rules for setting and planting of orchards, gardens, and woods; also rare receipts for curing diseases in horses, sheep, cows, and oxen; also an almanack for ever, and other variety of inventions, very profitable and advantagious. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: 1663. [i.e. 1664]- Books
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A book of knowledge : In four parts. : Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the cælestial signs and planets. Measures of time movable terms, for 20 years, &c. Divers things necessary in trade and dealing, &c. To know the weather in all seasons of the year. Good and bad fortune as born under the several signs. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification; dreams, their interpretation. : Part second, The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. Fortunate and unfortunate days throughout the year. To know the changing of the moon by the prime observations on New years day. : Part third. A treatise of physick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. Receipts for curing all diseases in men, women, and children. The art of cookery. The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetic in all its parts. Remedies for diseases in horses, cows, oxen, hogs, sheep, &c. : A perpetual almanack for ever. A complete tide table. An account of all the market days, roads and fairs in England and Wales. : Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, or the country-mans guide to good husbandry / Composed by Samuel Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: [1700?]- Books
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The book of knowledge. In four parts. Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the coelestial signs and planets. Measures of time. Movable terms, for 20 years, &c. Divers things necessary in trade and dealing, &c. To know the weather in all seasons of the year. Good and bad fortune as born under the several signs. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification; Dreams, their interpretation Part second. The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. Fortunate and unfortunate days throughout the year. To know the changing of the moon by the prime observations on New-years-day. Part third. A treatise of physick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. Receipts for curing all diseases in men, women, and children The art of cookery. The forms of writing bonds bills, &c. Arithmetick in all its parts. Remedies for diseases in horses, cows, oxen, hogs, sheep, &c. A perpetual almanack for ever. A compleat tide talbe. An account of all the market days, roads, and fairs in England and Wales. Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, or the country-man's guide to good hu bandry [sic]. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, Samuel.Date: [between 1699 and 1708?]- Books
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The instructor; or, young man's best companion. Containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. ... To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, ...
Fisher, George, accomptant.Date: 1763- Books
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Vade mecum; or, Astronomical pocket-book: explaining the division of time, and construction of kalendars interspersed with many necessary and common tables. To which is added the geographic situation of remarkable places, as to latitude, longitude and country. And likewise a brief chronology of memorable events the whole forming a more useful compend than any other work of the kind hitherto extant.
Date: 1794- Books
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A book of knovvledge : In four parts. Part first; Shewing the nature of astrology by the cœlestial signs and planets. Measures of time. ...The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification. Dreams, their interpretation. Part second. The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. ... Observations on New-years-day. Part third. A treatise of phisick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. ... The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetick in all its parts. ... An account of all the market-days, roads, and fairs in England and Wales. Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, of the country-man's guide to good husbandry. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: 1696- Books
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The purchaser's pattern in two parts. Shewing, 1. The true value of land or houses, by Lease or otherwise. To which is added several Rules for the valuing of the ruin'd Foundations in the City of London, and for composing Differences between Landlord and Tenant about rebuilding them; with Rules and Tables for valuing all Party-Walls: Also Tables of Interest and Rebate at 6 per Cent. 11. The measuring of land, Board, Timber, &c. correcting the false Methods us'd by many therein. Also the art of gauging much enlarg'd shewing not only the measuring of Wine, Beer, and Ale Vessels, but likewise how to gauge all sorts of Brewers Tuns; together with Tables of the Excise of Beer and Ale. Also many other rules and tables of weights and measures, foreign and domestick; Tables of Accompts, Expences, &c. By Henry Phillips, Philomath.
Phillippes, Henry, -1677?.Date: 1719- Books
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Vade mecum: or, the necessary pocket companion. I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual Almanack, readily shewing the day of the month, the moveable feasts and terms, for any year past, present, or to come; with many useful tables proper thereto, and rules to find them out for ever. II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land. III. Remarkable fairs in England, a tide-table, and a table of expence. IV. The years of each King's reign from the Norman Conquest to this time. V. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchen, and flower-gardens. VI. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins, wherein is a table of that assize of bread. VII. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, or shillings, are ready cast up; of great use to all traders. VIII. The interest and rebate of money; the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. IX. The rates of post-letters, both in-land and out-land, according to the new establishment. X. An account of the penny-post. XI. The principal roads in England. XII. The names of the counties, cities, and borough towns in Great-Britain, with the number of knights, commissioners of shires, citizens, and burgesses, chosen therein to serve in parliament. XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen. XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, and guines. The seventeenth edition carefully corrected with additions and improvements. To which is added, interest in epitome; or, tables in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 millions, at 3,4,5 and 6 per cent.
Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686.Date: 1749