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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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The gentleman's and citizen's almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, bookseller, for the year of our Lord, 1781. The First after Leap - Year, And the Twenty-First Year of K. George III. Reign. till 25 Oct. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month: Week-Days: Sun's Rising and Setting: Moon's Age and Changes: a Table of Equation: The Times of High Water, at Dublin-Bar. Several Tables, Altered, Renewed, or Continued. The Marriages and Deaths of the Princes of Europe. The Names of The Lord Lieutenant; of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and of The Lords and Commons of Parliament, (printed by Authority:) Also, The Judges, and several other Persons in Places of High Trust, and Office in Ireland, both Civil and Military: The Dublin Society: The Hospitals: The Roads and Fairs: The Post-Towns: Noted Places referring to them, and Foreign Postages. N. B. The Names of the several Officers of the Four Courts are printed here by the Leave of the Lord Chancellor, and Judges.
Watson, Samuel, active 1761-1802.Date: 1781- Books
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The British palladium: or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1775. The twenty-seventh number published. In two parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects: With an Alphabetical Chronicle (number IV.) of original Customs, useful Discoveries, Arts, and Inventions. Another (number V.) of the first Discovery of Countries. Another (number VI.) of the Beginning of States, Cities, Towns, &c. Also an Alphabetical List of the States of Europe, and of the Religions of each State. For the Information of young Historians and Youth at School. - This historical Chronology to be continued yearly in a Variety of different Classes; with the Geography, Produce, Customs, and Curiosities, of each Country. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of the Improved Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: [1775]- Books
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The Travels and surprising adventures of John Thomson, who was taken, and carried to America, and sold for a slave there: - how he was taken captive by the savages. - With an account of his happy delivery, after four months slavery, and his return to Scotland. Entered according to order.
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A warning against Socinianism: drawn up, and published, by a Committee of the Associate Synod. In which, particular notice is taken, of a late publication, intituled, A practical essay upon the death of Jesus Christ: by Dr. M'Gill, one of the ministers of Air. - The dangerous errors in that essay, are pointed out; and the opposite truths established.
Secession Church. Associate Synod.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A concise spelling book, for the use of children. In three parts. I. The letters, with tables of words, from one to eight Syllables; and Four Tables of Proper Names. I. Practical Lessons, in Prose and Verse, with Tables interspersed, collected from the Lessons. - Also, A Table of Words having Silent Letters, and other difficulties in reading. II. Some Observations on the Principles of the English Language. - Words changed in Sound and Sense by e final. - A few Contractions explained. - A small Collection of Words, the same in Pronunciation, but different in Spelling and Signification. - Numbers expressed by Letters and Figures. - To which are subjoined, the Old English Characters. By James Gray, Master of the English School of Peebles.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The bengal kalendar and register, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, containing Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Chronological Notes for the Year, Moon's Phases, Holidays, Moveable Feasts, &c. Daily Tables of Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, Moon's Southing, High Water at Calcutta, Equation of Time, Sun's Progress in the Ecliptic, Hindoo and Mahomedan Holidays, Terms in the Supreme Court, &c. &c. also full and accurate lists of the Honourable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Comprehending complete Views and Details, of the Civil & Military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Supreme Court of Judicature-Advocates, Attornies, &c. - establishment of Police-Commissioners of the court of requests-orphan, free school, and other societies-native hospital-marine department,-houses of agency-insurance companies,-tontines - merchants of different nations established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the pay, batta, and other allowances of the army-tables of post office rates, &c. &c. &c. The whole diligently compared and corrected by Official Documents. To which is added a list of the European inhabitants, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country, not in the service corrected from the official lists.
Date: 1795- Books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium and diary, for the year of our Lord 1756. Containing, (besides what is usual,) many new improvements in science, on a plan quite new: particularly, perpetual astronomical and chronological tables; by which the moon's age, and place, for any month and day in the year for ever, are known at sight; and likewise the sun's place, time of high water at London, and moon's rising and setting for the same time. The discovery of the longitude, reduced to practice, by observation of the moon; according to the method first pointed out by the late celebrated astronomer royal, Dr. Edmund Halley. The eighth number published. Aut disce aut discere. - Humbly inscribed to the Royal Society. By the late author of The ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The irish lottery begins drawing the eighteenth of November, 1799. The English Lottery Begins Drawing the Third of March, 1800. Schemes. Irish Lottery. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 1 of 15,000 is 16,000 2 - 10,000 - 20,000 3 - 5,000 - 15,000 3 - 2,000 - 6,000 4 - 1,000 - 4,000 8 - 500 - 4,000 30 - 100 - 3,000 100 - 20 - 2,000 9,000 - 9 - 81,000 9,151 Prizes 15,849 Blanks 35,000 Tickets - 150,000 Part of the Capitals will be determined at under. First-Drawn 21st Day - - 5,000 First-Drawn 23d Day - - 10,000 English Lottery, No. of Prizes Value of each Total Value. 2 of -30,000 is 60,000 3 - 20,000 - 60,000 3 - 10,000 - 30,000 4 - 5,000 - 20,000 5 - 2,000 - 10,000 10 - 1,000 - 10,000 10 - 500 - 5,000 26 - 100 - 2,600 54 - 50 - 2,700 16,650 - 18 - 299,700 16,767 Prizes 38,233 Blanks 55,000 Tickets -500,000 Part of the Capitals will be determined as under. First-Drawn 20th Day -20,000 First-Drawn 26th Day -30,000 Tickets and Shares of Tickets Are selling, in Variety, at the Old Established offices of T. Bish, Stock Broker, (one of the original contractors.) No. 4, Cornhill, London; Manchester, and Edinburgh. All Business in the Public Funds transacted with Fidelity and Dispatch, and the current Price for All Prizes Paid on Demand.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Books
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An introduction to arithmetic; containing arithmetical tables; with the most useful Rules in common Arithmetic. Vulgar and decimal Fractions. - --Extraction of the Square and of the Cube Root. Rules for working on the Carpenters sliding Rule, and on Gunters Scale. - --Duodecimals, or cross Multiplication. - --Practical Questions in Mensuration. The Gregorian Calendar; with a perpetuai Almanac. - --A Table for finding on what Day of the Week, any Month begins; also a Table for Planting. A few Forms of Bills and promissory Notes; with a small Collection of miscellaneous Questions. By James Gray, Author of the Concise Spelling Book, for the use of Children.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: [1797]- Books
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A letter from a gentleman at Mahon, to - giving an account of the escape and marriage of three nuns of the order of St. Clare.
A- L-.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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A godly ballad declaring by the Scriptures the plagues that haue insued whordome.
A. I., active 1566Date: Anno Domini 1566. Nouembris. 25. [1566]- Books
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A catalogue of a very valuable collection of books, Consisting of many thousand volumes, most of them lately imported from abroad, containing the fullest assortment of French authors, of different kinds, that ever appeared in this country, the best editions new, and elegantly bound. Also a very large collection of the best editions of the Greek and Latin classics, in fine condition. Likewise a great variety of histories, both civil and ecclesiastick, law, divinity, miscellanies, and the best English authors both in prose and verse; Which begins to be sold by auction, for ready money, at the auction-house in the east-wing of the Exchange, on Monday the 26th of November, at four o'clock afternoon, and to continue every day at the same hour till all are sold off. Catalogues to be had at the Shop of John Balfour, who will execute commissions for gentlemen in the country, or for such as cannot attend, so as to give them intire satisfaction. The common rules of auction will be observed. Amongst the books in this catalogue are those following: folio. Dictionnaire de Martiniere, 10 tom. - de Breton - de Chauspie, 4 tom. - de Marchand, 2 tom. - de Savary, 3 tom. - de Richelet, 3 tom. - de Moreri, 10 tom. - de Furetiere, 4 tom. Dictionnaire canonique, &c. 5 tom. Dict. de la langue Celtique, 3 tom. Chamber's dict. and supplem. 4 vols dict. of trade and commerce, 2 vs Johnson's English dictionary, 2 vs Harris's lexicon technicum, 2 vols Hoffmanni lexicon univers. 4 vols Martini lexicon philologicum, 2 vs Vocabulario della crusea, 5 tom. Gesneri thes. linguæ Lat. 4 vols Stephani thes. linguæ Lat. 4 vols Du Cange glossarium, 6 vols Pitisei lexicon, 3 vols vide next pate.
Balfour, John, -1795.Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
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Some remarks on a book lately come abroad into this nation, Intitled, The Religious Establishment of Scotland, examined on Protestant Principles, &c. With a Relation of some Occurrences which have lately happened, that have a Tendency to the End and Scope of the Author, in the Ruin and Destruction of that happy Establishment. - -----And one that hath a plain Tendency to the Subversion of pure and undefiled Religion amongst us, if not adverted to. By James M̀connel, Indweller in Beith.
M'Connel, James.Date: Printed in the Year, M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Dooms-Day: or, a discourse upon the day of judgement: OR, Great Day of Our Lord; raised, by way of sermon, from the 2 Thess: 1 chap: 10 vers: - When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, &c. Dedicated Unto the Right Honourable, The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Kingdom of Scotland, for the Behoof of the Poor especially. By W. C. Preacher of the gospel.
W. C., preacher of the gospel.Date: Printed in the Year 1721- Books
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The universal calculator; or the merchant's, tradesman's, and family's assistant. Being an entire, new, and complete set of tables, adapted for dealers in every branch of trade, by wholesale or retail, and all families, Shewing, at one View, The Amount or Value of any Number or Quantity of Goods or Merchandise, from One to Ten Thousand, at all the various Prices, from One Farthing, in regular progression, to Twenty Shillings. With I. Tables of Interest, from 1 Day to 30, and from 1 Month to 12-2. A Table, shewing the Number of Days from any Day in one Month to the same Day in any other. - 3. Tables of Commission or Brokerage, from 1/8 to 5 per Cent. To which are prefixed, I. A Table, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. - 2. A Table, for reducing English Bushels and Quarters to the Edinburgh Standard Corn Measure. - 3. An Entire New Set of Tables of the Different Weights and Measures, English and Scots, and such other Things as are necessary to be known in Different Branches of Business. A new edition. By John Thomson, Accomplant in Edinburgh, Author of the Tables of Interest, and Tables for Calculating the Price of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Englands monethly observations and predictions, for the yeare of our blessed Saviour, 1653 : Fore-told by those two famous astrologers of our age, Mr. William Lilly, and Mr. Culpeper. The tune is. Faire angel of England.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681Date: [1653]- Books
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Primiti? & ultima: or, the early labours and last remains that will meet the public eye, in several practical discourses, eminently calculated for alarming sinners and Hypocrites in Zion, and Affording Instruction, Correction, and Consolation, to Genuine Believers, of the late Rev. and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick,-Author of the Fourfold State, &c. &c. Now first published from his manuscripts. In three volumes. ...
Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.Date: 1800-01- Books
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The Gospel-history, from the text of the four evangelists. With explanatory notes. In five books. To which are subjoined, tables-of the chapters and verses of each evangelist, with references to the pages of this work in which they are to be found; - of the miracles, parables, and discourses, of Christ; -and of the several years from his birth to his ascension, with the corresponding years of the Julian period, Olympiads, and years of Rome, the times of the Passover, and the important events of Profane history. By Mr. Robert Wait, minister of Galston.
Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A catalogue of curious and valuable books, to be disposed of by way of sale, (The lowest price being marked at each book), at the shop of Alexander Donaldson, the first fore-stair above the entry to the royal bank, Edinburgh. The sale to begin on Monday the 12th day of June 1758, and to continue for two months. In this collection are the following books. Folio. Grævii thesaurus antiq[ue] italiæ, 45 vols Rymer's fœdera, 20 tomes, 10 vols Andersoni diplomata scotiæ The general dictionary, 10 Vols Bayle's dictionary, 5 vols, large paper Johnson's English dictionary, 2 vols Savary's dictionary of trade and commerce, 2 vols Chambers's dictionary, 2 vols The supplement to ditto, 2 vols Millar's gardener's dictionary Jacob's law-dictionary A complete collection of state-trials, 6 vols Thurloe's collection of state-papers, 7 vols Piranesi's antiqulties of Rome, 4 vols Churchill's voyages, 6 vols Harris's voyages and travels, 2 vols Boyle's works, 5 vols, Bacon's works, 3 vols Locke's works, 3 vols Tillotson's works, 3 vols The fine Oxford Bible, 2 vols The grand theatre of Venice Causei musæum Romanum, 2 vols Gualteri index testarum conch. 110 fig. Stephani thesaurus linguæ Græcæ, 5v. Gesneri thesaurus linguæ Latinæ, 4 v. Ciceronis opera omnia, 4v. ap. Steph. All these are the best editions. The list continued on the other side. The books are in good condition, all complete, many of them new; and being priced very low, will be sold only for ready money. - As the person who first commissions or demands a book, must always be preferred, it is hoped that those who intend to be purchasers will send their orders soon. Catalogues to be had at the shop of Alexander Donaldson, who gives ready money for any library, on large parcel of books.
Donaldson, Alexander, -1794.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of Richard Wright, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, (deceased.) consisting of An Elegant and Extensive Collection of Books in every Branch of Learning; particularly, in History, Physic, Criticism, Divinity, and the Greek and Roman Classics, many of the scarcest Editions of the Old English Poets, Novels and Romances, also a most singular Assemblage of Theatrical Writers, including the rarest Productions of the English Drama: Which will be Sold by Auction, By T. and J. Egerton, Booksellers; at their room, in Scotland Yard, Opposite the Admiralty: On Monday, April 23d, 1787; And the Eleven following Days, (sunday excepted.) To be Viewed on Wednesday, April 18th, and to the Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'Clock. - Catalogues, Price 6d. may be had at the Place of Sale: also of Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; and Mess. Egerton, Whitehall,
Thomas and John Egerton.Date: 1787]- Books
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An entire new magazine. On Friday, February 1, 1793, will be Published, (price only Sixpence) Elegantly Printed on a Superfine Paper, and Embellished with a most Beautiful Frontispiece, finely Engraved by a Capital Artist, The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of extraordinary productions and events In Nature and Art: Consisting Entirely of Matters which come under the Denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the way! and Unaccountable! Including Many surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers, strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, and a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious and surprizing. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Travellers, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. No. 1, for January, 1793. (to be continued Monthly.) Containing (among a great Variety of other Particulars equally marvellous and curious) the following most extraordinary Articles. A wonderful Deliverance-Instances of Persons who have changed their Sex-The Bloody Bell, an extraordinary Execution-The Gammon of Bacon-The Birth of a Devil-The English Irishman-The Female Sleep Walker-The Drumming Well-A Woman with Child 27 Years-A Camp set on Fire hy Sparrows-A surprising Discovery of Murder-The Original of Peeping Tom of Coventry-Surprizing Examples of Instinct in Animals-A monstrous Serpent-The Sea punished by Command of Xerxes, the Persian King-Remarkable Anecdote relating to Death-The Bearded Woman-The Stone Eater-An Unaccountable Transformation of a Cheshire Cheese-The Grateful Lion-The Law of Cuckoldom in Scotland-Extracts from Baron Munchausea's Romantic Travels-Whimsical Anecdote of a Drunken Man-A most Extraordinary Event-A Lady burnt to Ashes by a Fire kindled in her own Body. - &c. &c. &c. With many other astonishing Relations too numerous to be mentioned in this Hand-Bill.
Date: 1793- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine library of John Watson Reed, Esq. F. S. A. Late of Ely-Place, deceased, containing, amongst other curious articles, Shakespeare's Works, first Edition-Many of Shakespeare's Plays, the Original Quarto Editions,-Domesday Book, 2 vol. - several of the English County Histories-Madox's Works,-Dufresne, Carpentier, Skinner, Spelman, Junius and Chambers's Dictionaries-Hearne, Byrne and Watts's Views-a Receipt for Boydell's Edition of Shakespeare, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction by J. Egerton, Bookseller, At the room in Scotland Yard, on Monday, March 1st, 1790, And the following Day. To be viewed on Saturday, February 27th, and to the Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. L. Davis, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; and of Messrs. Egerton, Whitehall.
Egerton, John, -1795.Date: 1790]