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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 9
Date: May 1905 - Feb 1906Reference: WF/E/01/01/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895Reference: WF/E/11/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895- Books
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A catalogue of the capital collection of prints, drawings and books of prints, of the late Right Honourable Henry, Lord Viscount Colerane, Never yet expos'd to Sale; consisting of The most Eminent Masters of the Italian, French and Flemish Schools. To which is added, The Small but Curious library of Ephraim Chambers, Esq; Editor of the Cyclopedia, or the Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Amongst which are Compleat Setts of the Classicks in Usum Delphini, cum Notis Variorum, and those printed by Elzevir; the Philosophical Transactions compleat; Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol. Hen. Stephani Thesaurus Ling. Gr. ch. max. The Votes of the House of Commons; the Statutes at large by Hawkins; a large Collection of scarce old Plays in Quarto, &c. &c. Which will be sold this and every Day (the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, without any Abatement, for Ready Money only) At T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's in Gray's-Inn. Catalogues may be had at all the Chief Cities and Towns in England, and at the Place of Sale. - The Library of Lord Colerane is now, and will continue every Day selling. Catalogues in Two Volumes in Octavo, may be had at the Place of Sale; where may be had Money for any Library of Books, Prints or Manuscripts. N. B. A Sett of Manuscript Sermons to be disposed off, warranted Originals, and never copied.
T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Booksellers)Date: 1756]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1768. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. With Emendations to the present Publication.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1768]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1771. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies; Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. To which is added, a Correct list of all the Bankers.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1771]- Books
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Love and truth: in two modest and peaceable letters, concerning the distempers of the present times. Written from a quiet and conformable citizen of London, to two busie and factious shopkeepers in Coventry. A new edition, with notes and a preface, by Thomas Zouch, M.A.
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.Date: [1795]- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Nicholas Munckley, Esq; of Hampstead, and several other gentlemen: Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following, Folio. Rapin and Tindal's Continuat. 5 vol. with all the cuts Sir James Ware's Works, 2 vol. Whitlock's Memorials, best edit. State Tryals, 6 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Journals H. Commons, with Indexes, 31 vol. Clarendon's Hist. and Continuat. 4 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. l. p. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. Mortan's Northamptonshire, l. pap. Thoresby's Leeds, l. pap. - small paper, in russia leather Religious Ceremonies. 6 vol. Antient and modern Hist. 23 vol. Le Brun's Voyages, 3 vol. Wheeler and Spon's Travels, Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Voyages de Norden, 2 tom. - de Thevenot, 2 tom. Locke, 3 vol. Bacon, 3 vol. Boyle, 5 vol. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts, large and sm. pap. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 vol. Bayle, 5 vol. General, 10 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Collier, 4 vol. Miller's Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Portuguese and English Dict. Bible, l pap. by Buck and Daniel - with fine cuts, in turkey leather, printed by Watson, - - Edinb. Patrick, Lowth and Whitby, 6 vol. Bp. Stillingfleet's Works, 6 vol. Dr. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Cases in the House of Lords, 18 vol. Coke's Institute, 2, 3, 4, last edit. Reports, by Croke, 3 vol. Raymond, 2 vol. Leonard, Bulstdoe, Shower, 2 vol. Siderfin, Hardress, Ventris, Vernon, &c. Bracton de Legibus Selden's Works, 6 vol. Le Grand Coustumier de Normandie Plinius Harduini, 3 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Herodotus Wesselingius Thucidides Duckeri Strabo, 2 tom. Thuanus, 7 tom. Gale Scriptores Ang. 3 tom. Twysden, Script. Ang. Anderson Diplomat. Scotiae Kircheri Oedip-Aegypt. 4 tom. Hill's Nat. Hist. 3 vol. coloured - Fossils, l. p. coloured Hortus Elthamens, 2 tom. Gualtieri Index Testac. Hippocrates & Galeni Opera a Chartatis, 9 tom. cum fig. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec Stuart's Athens Rossi's Statues Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 tom. l. pap. Vitruve, par Perrault L'ediffices de Rome, par Desgodeta With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on August 5th, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mr. Merrie, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1765]- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the Right Hon. Lord Teynham, (gone Abroad) The Revd. Mr. Smith, late of Hythe, Mr. Alderman Creed, late of Canterbury, And many other collections, lately purchased. Containing Above thirty thousand Volumes, In most languages, and in every Branch of Literature: Among which are the following: Folio. Religious Ceremonies, L. P. 6 vol. Banyer's Ovid Metam. L. P. 2 vol. Guillim's Heraldry, best Edit. Du Halde's Hist. of China, 2 vol. Maitland's Hist. of London, 2 vol. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vol. Caesar's Commentaries, by Duncan Gentleman's Recreation, best Edit. Pococke's Travels, 3 vol. Universal History, 8 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vol. Rapin and Tindal's History of England, 5 vol. Jacob's Pecrage, 2 vol. Philipot's Villare Cantianum Somner and Dart's Canterbury Bayle's Dictionary, 5 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquities, 7 vol. Travels, by Mortraye, Le Brun, Shaw, Wheeler, &c. Dugdale's History of St. Paul's. History of England, by Rapin, Tindal, Guthrie, Echard, Kennet, Lediard, &c. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vol. Calmet's Dictionary, 3 vol. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vol. Chambers and Scot's Diction. 4 vol. Miller's Dictionary Miller's Figures of Plants, coloured, 2 vol. Reports, by Bulstrode, Dyer, Hardres, Lutwytche, Pollexfen, Vernon, &c. Aristophanis Comoediae ap. Aldus Xenophontis Opera, edit. opt. Wilkins's Concilia, 4 vol. Marmora Oxoniensia Mattaire Diodori Seculi Wesselingio, 2 vol. Suidae Lexicon Kusteri, 3 vol. Hoffmanni Opera, 4 vol. Critica Sacra, edit. opt. 9 vol. Demosthenis, Gr. Platonis Opera omnia, Gr. Eusebius, Socratis, &c. Not. Reading, 3 vol. St. Chrysostomi Opera, 11 vol. Oeuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. Du Halde Descrip. de la Chine, 4 tom. Dictionnaire de Trevoux, 5 tom. With many Others equally good. Which will be Sold very Cheap, (the Price printed in the Catalogue) on the [blank] Day of this Instant, and continue on Sale every Day, By T. Smith and Son, Booksellers, in Canterbury. Catalogues may be had Gratis of Mr. Law, in Ave-Mary Lane; Mr. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mr. White, Fleet-Street; Mr. Owen, Temple Bar; Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Robson, New Bond Street; Mr. Payne, at the Mews Gate; Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, London; Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Prince, and Mr. Parker, Oxford; Messrs. Fletcher and Hodson, Mr. Woodyer, Mr. Merril, and Mr. Matthews, Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the Full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. - Catalogues may be also had of the Men who deliver the Canterbury Journal.
T. Smith and Son (Booksellers : Canterbury, England)Date: 1780]- Books
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A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published. By William Gostling, M. A. A Native of the Place, and Minor Canon of the Cathedral. Embellished with a new and correct Plan of the City, in which is introduced, the Old Church of St. Andrew, Archbishop Abbot's Conduit, and a North View of St. Augustine's Monastery. - Also an elegant Engraving of the Church Gate, and a Chart of those Parts described in a Tour through East Kent.
Gostling, William, 1696-1777.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Publications printed by order of the Society for preserving liberty and property against Republicans and Levellers. Number VI. Containing reasons for contentment. - Lord Loughborough's speech on the alien bill.
Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)Date: [1793]- Books
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The northern farmer: or select essays on agriculture; adapted to the soil and climate of the northern counties of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The duty and obligation, Of Ministers and People, To endeavour to spread the Gospel, universally, Throughout the Kingdom, Being, peculiarly, the Work of the Day: and, That Missions to Heathen Countries, in the present juncture, are Ill-Judged, And Highly Unseasonable, Demonstrated. Respectfully addressed to the Religious World in general, and to the Readers of the Evangelical Magazine in particular. By A Clergyman.
Clergyman.Date: 1796- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Sir John Barnard, Knt, Late Vicar of St. George's in the East, Dr. Mid Dleton of Bristol, and Dr. Ross, deceased; Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following: Folio. Journals House of Commons, 31 vol. ... Monasticon & Stevens's Contin. 3 v. Thornton's Nottingshamshire Philipot's Kent Antiquities of Palmyra - Balbec - Spalatro - Athens Religious Ceremonies, l. pap. 6 vol. russia Universal Hist and Supplement, 8 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. russia leather Voyages par Le Brun, 3 tom. - de Norden, 2 tom. Bacon's Works, 3 vol. Dictionaries, viz. Miller's, Chamber's, 4 vol. Ainsworth, Johnson, Postlethwayte, Collier, Bayle, 5 vol. Biog. Brit. 6 vol. General, 10 vol. Portuguese, Gesneri Thesaur. 4 tom. H. Stephani Thesaur. Graece, 5 tom. ch. max. Hoffmanni Lexicon, 4 tom. Appendix ad H.Stephani Thesaur. 2 tom. Golii Lexicon Arabicum Assemanni Biblio, Orient. 4 tom. ... Calmet sur la Bible, 9 tom. Musaeum Florentinum, 10 tom. corio russ. Statue Antiche, di Rossi Antiq. de Rom. par Desgodetz Medailles de Louis XIV. relie en maroquin Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. l. p. coloured Hill on Fossils, l. paper, coloured Herbarum Amboinens. 7 tom. ... Ornithologie, par Brisson, grand nomb. des fig. 6 tom. grande pap. in turkey leather With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on March 18, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mess. Merril, and Matthews, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where is given the full Value for any Library, or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1765]- Books
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The vapour bath in miniature : recommended by more than seventy eminent medical gentlemen, as useful in the prevention of almost every disease, and beneficial during the periods of convalescence.
Cochrane, Basil, 1753-1826.Date: 1825- Books
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The English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physicial discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete method of physic whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three-pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies ... / By Nich. Culpepper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1799- Books
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The sacred outcry. Upon a view of the principal errors and vices of Christendom, in the eighteenth century. By M. W----, A.M. Author of - "the Church of England as old as Christianity."
M. W.----, A.M.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Authentick memoirs of the life and conduct of the Reverend Dr. Codex: from his infancy to the present time: Containing, His Birth, Parentage and Education, his being designed for the Law, but all of a sudden turning Parson, and from a Jacobite to a profess'd Whig. Doctor Codex a noted Author, his Writing a voluminous Work, his Ingratitude to his Bookseller. Taken Notice of by Archbishop - and made his Librarian and Rector of L- The strange Rise of his Fortune, being made a B- and a vehement Opposer of the late Dr. Atterbury. Dr. Codex a consummate Courtier, and his intermeddling between the P- M- r and L- C-r about the B-k of Gl-r. His Rancour and Malice shewn to Dr. R- with many other curious Remarks about the Means he has taken to pave his Way to L-. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: [1735]- Books
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A catalogue of a large and valuable collection of books, Containing near Six Thousand Volumes, In most Parts of Polite Literature, in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English; In which is included, The library of the Rev. Mr. Cleave Greenhill, Late of Abbot's Langley, in Hertfordshire, deceas'd. Amongst the folio are, Collection of Voyages, 6 vol. Harris's Voyages; new Edit. 2 vol. State Trials, new Edit. 6 vol. Guthrie's History of England, 2 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Chamber's Dictionary, 2 vol. best Edit. Bacon's Works, 4 vol. Anstis's Order of the Garter, 2 vol. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 vol. Patrick, Lowth and Whithy, 6 vol. Salmon's modern History, 3 vol. Compleat System of Geography, 2 vol. Bacon's Abridgment, 3 vol. Year Books, best Edit. compleat Dictionaire & Oeuvres de Bayle, 9 vol. L'antiquite Expliq. par Montfaucon, 15 vol. Description de la Chine, 4 vol. Colonna Trajana & Antonina. 2 vol. Anatomia Demostrata di Lanciss Prospettiva di Roma di Rossi, Rom. Dutch Bible, with Cuts by Hoet, Houbraken and Picare, 3 vol. Statuarum Urbis Rom. Icones J. de Ruheis Perrier's Statues St. August. Op. Edit. Benedict. 12 vol. Biblia Pylyglotta & Lexicon, 8 vol. Grotii Opexa, 4 vol. Eait. Opt. Poetae Graeci Pr. Heroic. 2 vol. H. Steph. Steph. Thesaurus Linguae, Gr. 4 vol. - Latinae Lingitae, 4 vol. Sreidae Lexicon Kusteri, 3 vol. Xenophon Leunclavii, Gr. & Lat. Pyndarus, Gr. & Lat. Oxon. Dion. Cassius ... Gr. & Lat. Diod. Siculus ... Gr. & Lat. Lucianus Bourdelotii, Gr. & Lat. Plutarchus Xylandri, 2 vol. Dion. Halicarnas. Sylburgii, Gr. & Lat. Demosthenes Wolsii, Gr. & Lat. Platonis Opera, Gr. ap. Aldum. Libanii Opera, 2 vol. Gr. & Lat. M. Mairtaive Corp. Poet. 2 vol. ch. max. Raii Hist. Plantarum, 3 vol. F. Hildanus & Severinus, &c. &c. with several of the Classicks, in usum Delphini, Quarto, cum Notis variorum & apud Elzevir. Which will begin to be Sold Cheap, the Price printed in the Catalogue, this Day. By Charles Marsh, Bookseller, At Cicero's-Head, in New-Round-Court, in the Strand. Catalogues to be had gratis at the following Coffee-Houses, St. James's, St. James's-Street; Exchequer, Westminster-Hall-Gate; Temple-Exchange, Fleet-Street; St. Paul's, St. Paul's Church-Yard; at Mr. Steydel's, Bookseller, in Bond-Street; Mrs. Nutt's, at the Royal-Exchange; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library.
Marsh, Charles, -1782.Date: 1747?]- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1799]- Books
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A catalogue of a large collection of the best books, in all parts of learning, in Greek, Latin, French, Italian and English; containing Several Curious Libraries, Lately purchased. Amongst which are the following: Folio. Buck's Views of Ruins, &c. 4 v. russia leather Journals of the H. of Commons, 27 vol. Teniers Gallery Patrick and Lowth, 4 vol. Bible, with cuts, in morocco. Another, large paper, by Basket James's Medicinal Dictionary, 3 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2 vol. Hen. Stephani Thesaur. Ling. Gr. 5 tom. ch. max. Heads of Illust. Men, l. pap. 1st impress. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Gibson's Cambden, 2 vol. Temple's Works, 2 vol. l. paper Platonis Opera, Gr. Lat. Serrani, 3 vol. Polybius, Casauboni Euripides. Barnesii Plutarch. Xylandri, 2 tom. Demosthenes, Wolsii Josephus, Havercampi, 2 tom. Diodorus Siculus, Wesseling, 2 tom. Dion. Cassius, Reimari, 2 tom. Aristophanes, Kusteri Athenaeus, Casauboni Pausanias, Kuhnii Boyle's Works, 5 vol. Folio. Bacon's Works, 3 vol. Harris's Voyages, by Campbell, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Pocock's Travels, 2 vol. russia leather Antiquit. par Montsaucon, 15 t. gr. pap. L'art de Guerre, par Puysegur, 2 t. Par. Davila Hist. Civil di Francia, 2 tom. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 v. Bayle, 5 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Johnson, 2 vol. Calmet, 3 vol. Miller's - Bailey, by Scott - Somner's Saxon - Davis's Welsh Du Fresne Glossar. Lat. 6 tom. Pitischi Lex Antiq. Roman. 2 tom. Hoffmanni. Lexicon, 4 tom. Dictionaire de Bayle, 5 tom. Par. Dictionaire de Moreri, 8 tom. rel. in russ. Dictionaire de Richelet, 3 tom. Dictionaire de Menage, 2 tom. Vocab[u]lario della Crusca. 6 tom. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at Large, 6 vol. Cay's Abridgm. Statutes, 2 vol. Mac Dowal's Institutes, 3 vol. Peere Williams, 3 vol. Caresby's Carolina, 2 vol. Hippocrates & Galen, a Charterii, cum fig. 13 tom. Which will be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday, July 14, 1760, and continue on Sale till all are sold. By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6 d.) at the following Booksellers, viz. Mr. Ward's, Cornhill; H. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Owen, Temple-Bar; Robson (late Brindley's) New Bond-Street; Jackson, St. James's-Street; Walter, Charing-Cross; Mess. Merril and Matthews, at Cambridge; at Child's Coffee-House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1760]- Books
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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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The instructor: or, young man's best companion. Containing Spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies. How to write letters on business or friendship; forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Merchants' accompts, and a short and easy method of book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties, and market-towns in England and Wales, and a list of English and Scots fairs according to the new-style. The method of measuring Carpenters', Joiners', Sawers', Brick - layers', Plusterers', Plumbers', Masons', Glaziers', and Painters' work. How to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with the description of Gunter's line, and Coggeshall's sliding-rule. The Practical Gauger made easy; the art of dialing, and how to erect and fix dials; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which are added, the family's best companion; and a compendium of geography and astronomy; also, some useful interest tables. By George Fisher, Accomptant.
Fisher, George, accomptant.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]