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The orphan: or, The unhappy marriage. A tragedy.
Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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The works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; volume the first. Containing, The ambitious step-mother. Tamerlane. The fair penitent. Ulysses.
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Historical memoirs of His late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Including the military and political history of Great-Britain, during that period.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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An attempt to illustrate some of the prophecies of the Old and New Testament. By Thomas Zouch, M.A.
Zouch, Thomas, 1737-1815.Date: [1800]- Books
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A complete digest of the theory, laws, and practice of insurance; compiled from the best authorities in different languages, which are quoted and referred to throughout the Work; and arranged in alphabetical order, Under many select heads, with ample references, and a general index; affording immediate and full Information, on every distinct Matter, Question, or Point. Containing I. The principles, doctrines, and usages, touching all matters of Insurance. II. All the cases of Insurance that have been adjudged in our Courts of Law and Equity, collected from the numerous Reports, and other law books extant, down to the present time;-with several others which have never before been printed:-and some material Cases adjudged in foreign Courts. III. Extracts from all the statutes relating to Insurance, and matters immediately connected therewith. IV. The most useful Articles of all the foreign ordinances and regulations upon this subject. V. Extracts from treaties of commerce, &c. with regard to Freedom of Navigation, Contraband, Neutral Ships and Property, War, &c. VI. The respective Rights and Duties of insurers, insureds, brokers, agents, owners, freighters, masters of Ships, &c. as relative to matters of Insurance. Vii. The Nature, Object, and select Forms of policies of Insurance, Bottomry and Respondentia bonds;-the true construction and operation of their several Terms and Clauses; with Cautions and Remarks concerning written clauses. Viii. Rules interspersed throughout, for guarding against, and detecting fraud and imposition. IX. The curious Question discussed, with regard to the advantage, disadvantage, and legality, of insuring the Ships and Property of enemies; with new and interesting Observations thereon. X. Accounts of the several companies & societies in England, for Insurance; their Plans, Terms, &c. with critical and useful Remarks:-Also of the chambers of assurance abroad; their Regulations, Authority, and summary Modes of Decision. XI. Concerning the maritime and other courts; -the maritime laws;-the law of nations;-the laws of England;-The lex mercatoria:-also Trials, Verdicts, and Arbitrations; with regard to Insurance. XII. Various new matters, Rules, Cases, Methods, and Remarks, not in any other Book. With a preliminary discourse; Wherein are delineated the very great disorders which prevail in Affairs of Insurance; their principal causes explained; and methods proposed for better regulation and prevention. By John Weskett, Merchant.
Weskett, John.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The law and practice of ejectments: being a compendious treatise of the Common and Statute Law relating thereto: to which are added select precedents of Pleas, Special Verdicts, Judgments, Executions, and Proceedings in Error: with two distinct tables to the whole.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Pictures
A tiger lily (Lilium tigrinum): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by J. Macfarlane, c. 1873, after himself.
MacFarlane, J. L., 1836-approximately 1913.Date: 1873Reference: 28146i- Pictures
An orchid (Dendrobium chrysotis): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by J. Mac Farlane, c. 1871, after himself.
MacFarlane, J. L., 1836-approximately 1913.Date: 1871Reference: 28123i- Pictures
A gladiolus cultivar (Gladiolus Àlice Wilson'): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by J. Macfarlane, c. 1873, after himself.
MacFarlane, J. L., 1836-approximately 1913.Date: 1873Reference: 28142i- Books
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The case of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, baronet, fairly and impartially stated. Containing a full and exact account of the singular disorder in the eye of this gentleman. With a faithful relation of the great variety of uncommon circumstances attending his cure. And a clear demonstration of the highest probability of his perfect recovery, humbly inscrib'd to himself / by J. Taylor, Doctor of Physick; Oculist to his Majesty; and member of several of the colleges of Physicians in Foreign parts.
Taylor, John, 1703-1772.Date: 1743- Books
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The adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses. By Mons. Fenelon, Tutor to the Princes of France, Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, and Prince of the Holy Empire. Translated from the French, and illustrated with a compleat body of notes Mythological, Historical, Poetical, Chorographical, and Chronological. Adorn'd with a beautiful set of cuts, engraven by Scotin and Fourdrinier. By J. Kelly, of the Inner Temple, Esq; In two volumes.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1742-43]- Books
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Biographia Britannica: or, the lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, To The Present Times: collected from the best authorities, Printed And Manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary. The second edition, with corrections, enlargements, and the addition of new lives: by Andrew Kippis, D. D. and F. S. A. With the assistance of other gentlemen. ...
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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En nøttelig legebog ffaar ffattige och rige unge och gamle om mange atskillige siwgdomme som menniskene hender til ath komme paa deris legeme i mange honde maade oc om gode raad oc legedomme til dem ath de som lese kunde mwe hielpe dem selffve oc andre flere met urter som her voxe i riget / [Paolo].
Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428Date: 1533- Pictures
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A beggar dressed in ragged clothes walks on crutches begging for scraps. Coloured lithograph by E. Hull, 1825.
Date: March 1825Reference: 664653i- Books
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Songs, comic, and satyrical. By George Alexander Stevens.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Tenants law: or, the laws concerning landlords, tenants and farmers. (viz.) 1. Of the several Kinds of Tenures, as well Freehold as Copyhold. 2. Of Leases, Covenants, Surrenders, Assignments, &c. 3. Rent: Acceptance and Extinguishment thereof. 4. Of Crops growing, and Trees blown down, &c. who are entitled to them. 5. Of Distresses, Replevins, and Rescous. 6. Of Waste in Buildings, Lands, Woods, &c. whether voluntary or permissive. 7. Of Common for Cattle. 8. Of Frauds in buying and selling Lands or Goods. 9. Of Trespasses and Nusances. 10. Of the late Act to prevent Fires; and Rules to be observed in erecting of new Buildings about London. Useful for all Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solicitors, and others, concerned in the buying, selling or letting of estates. The tenth edition corrected. In which are added all such Acts of Parliament and Resolutions, as relate to these Subjects, down to the present year 1735.
Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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Ichtyologiae Biblicae pars prima, de ave selav / [Olof Rudbeck].
Rudbeck, Olof, 1660-1740Date: 1705- Books
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The reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. in English, in thirteen parts complete; with references to all the ancient and modern books of the law. Exactly translated and compared with the first and last edition in French, and printed Page for Page with the same. To which are now added, the respective pleadings, i N English. The whole newly revised, and carefully Corrected and Translated, with many additional Notes and References, by George Wilson, Serjeant at Law.
Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The law of uses and trusts: collected and digested in a proper order, from the reports of adjudg'd cases, in the courts of law and equity, and other books of authority. Together with a treatise of dower. To which is added, a complete table of all the matters therein contain'd.
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir, 1674-1726.Date: MDCCXLI [1741]- Books
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The works of Mr. Thomas Otway; in three volumes. Consisting of his plays, poems, and letters.
Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A new abridgment of the law. By Matthew Bacon of the Middle Temple, Esq;
Bacon, Matthew, active 1730.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, translated into English. The seventh edition, with very considerable amendments and improvements, from the most accurate and elegant French edition of Peter Coste. In three volumes. ...
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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Thomae Sydenham Methodus curandi febres, propriis observationibus superstructa.
Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.Date: 1666- Books
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The attorney's practice in the Court of Common Pleas: or, an introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that Court, as it now stands on the Regulation of several late Acts of Parliament, Rules, and Determinations of the said Court. with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, drawn or perused by Counsel; and a complete index to the whole. By Robert Richardson, gent. ...
Richardson, Robert, active 18th century.Date: 1778]- Books
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Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wissenschaften in der Mark Brandenburg : von den ältesten Zeiten an bis zu Ende des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts / herausgegeben von J.C.W. Moehsen.
Möhsen, Johann Karl Wilhelm, 1722-1795.Date: 1783