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The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring, ... and a new, short, and familiar account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, neatly engraved, by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell, painter.
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704-1767.Date: 1773- Books
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The idylliums of Theocritus. Translated from the Greek, with notes critical and explanatory by Francis Fawkes, M.A.
Theocritus.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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In a few days will be published, dedicated to the Right Hon. Earl Temple, two new editions, one in two volumes quarto, to other in three volumes octavo, elegantly printed, of four hundred and nineteen letters, written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patricks, Dublin; and several of his friends, Viz. Mr. Addison, Bishop Atterbury, Earl of Anglesey, Dr. Arbuthnot, Lord Berkeley, Lord B-, Lord and Lady Bolingbroke, Lord Casteret, Earl of Ch- Lord Castledurrow, Dr. Davenant, Charies Ford, Esq; Lady Granville, Mr. Gay, Lady B- G-. Sir Thomas Hanmer, Anthony Henley, Esq; Lord Halifax, Mrs. Howard, Lord Hyde, Archbishop King, Mr. Jarvis, Lady Catherine Jones, Lord Primate Lindsay, Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, Erasmus Lewis, Esq; Lord Orkney, Duke and Duchess of Ormond, Earl of Orrery, Lord Peterborrow, Lord Chancellor Phipps, Mr. Pope, Lord Poulett, Mr. Prior, Duke and Duchess of Q-, Chevalier Ramsay, Sir Richard Steele, Earl of Strafford, Miss Vanhomrigh, Mr. Voltaire, Duke of Wharton, Lady Worsley, and others. From the year 1703 to 1740. Now first published from the originals, (in the hand-writing of the parties) which are deposited in the British Museum. With notes, explanatory and historical. By the late Reverend Thomas Birch, D.D. and John Hawkesworth, L.L.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: [1766]- Books
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Dissertation sur le jardinage de l'Orient. Par Mr. de Chambers, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais, avec plusieurs additions fournies par l'auteur.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: 1772- Books
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A voyage round the world. Performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. By Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-Ship L'Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Letters, written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. And several of his friends. From the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical, by John Hawkesworth, LL.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Letters; written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical. By John Hawkesworth, LL.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Letters, written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical, by John Hawkesworth, LL.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Sermons sur les circonstances Présentes, Prononcés dans L'Église Française de Londres, èn [sic] Threadneedle-Street, par Louis Mercier, l'un des Pasteurs de la dite Église.
Mercier, Louis, pastor of the French Church, London.Date: [1795]- Books
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A free translation of the preface to Bellendenus; containing animated strictures on the great political characters of the present time.
Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The principles, elements, or Primary particles of bodies, inquired into; And found to be, neither those of the chymists or of the natural philosophers; but earth, water, air, fire, and frost. Taken from the observance of nature, and numerous experiments. By John Gibson, M.D.
Gibson, John, active 1768-1799.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The New English Theatre in eight volumes, Containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage Vol. I. Busy body by Mrs. Centlivre. - A bold stroke for a wife by Do. Conscious lovers by Sir Richard Steele. The miser by Hen. Fielding Esq. Suspicious husband Dr. Hoadly. Revised by Mr. R. Johnson.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Chiropodologia, or, A scientific enquiry into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences : with a detail of the most successful methods of removing all deformities of the nails; and of preserving, or restoring, to the feet and hands their natural soundness and beauty. The whole ... systematically confirmed by the practice and experience of D. Low, chiropodist.
La Forest, Nicolas Laurent, Chirurgien-Pédicure, active 1781.Date: [1785]- Books
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Albina, Countess Raimond; a tragedy, by Mrs. Cowley; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market.
Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The royal kalendar: or, Complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. For the year 1799; Including a complete and correct list of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first session in September, 1796. Upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public: containing, England. Lists of both houses of Parliament; all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the court, in the City of London, and different parts of the kingdom; the Army and Navy; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the peers, baronets; state, law, revenue, and public, offices; universities, physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both houses of Parliament; list of the baronets; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices, bankers, deans, &c. &c. America. IV. Governors, law and revenue offices, &c. &c. Carefully corrected at the respective offices.
Date: 1799]- Books
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The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds. In five books. 1. On the Parts of Trees. 2. Their Vessels. 3. Their Encrease by Growth. 4. The different Disposition of their Parts in various Kinds. 5. The Particularities in their Vessels. With Figures Of Their Various Appearances, Of an Instrument invented for cutting Slices of extreme Thinness, And Of a Microscope of a new Construction, through which they were viewed. By John Hill, M. D. Member Of The Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The dramatick works of Philip Massinger complete, in four volumes. Revised and corrected, with notes critical and explanatory, by John Monck Mason, Esq. To which are added, Remarks and Observations of Various Authors Critical reflections on the old English dramatick writers; and a short essay on the life and writings of Massinger, Inscribed to Dr. S. Johnson. ...
Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Original poems and translations. By Francis Fawkes, M.A.
Fawkes, Francis, 1720-1777.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. With an introductory discourse concerning taste; and several other additions. By Edmund Burke, Esq.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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The history of the late war in Germany; between the King of Prussia, and the Empress of Germany and her allies: Containing, I. Reflections on the General Principles of War; and on the Composition and Characters of the different Armies in Europe. II. An Explanation of the Causes of the War. III. A Military Description of the Seat of War; wherein all the important Fortresses, Positions, Camps, Rivers, Roads, Defiles, &c. are indicated. IV. The Operations of the Campaigns of 1756 and 1757: With Reflections on the most considerable Transactions: From whence the Principles of War are deduced and explained; and the Reasons, which most immediately contributed to the Decision of them, given. With A Map of the Seat of War; and Plans of the Battles of Lowositz, Prague, Chotzemitz or Kollin, Rosbach, Breslaw, Lissa, and Gross Jagersdorff. By a general officer, who served several campaigns in the Austrian Army. Vol.I.
Lloyd, Henry, approximately 1720-1783.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
Monstres et prodiges au temps de la Renaissance / Centre de recherches sur la Renaissance ; directeur de la publication, M.T. Jones-Davies.
Date: 1980- Books
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Select eulogies of members of the French academy, with notes; by the late M. D'Alembert. Translated from the French, with a preface and additional notes, by J. Aikin, M.D. In two volumes. Vol. I.
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783.Date: 1799- Books
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Sentimental and practical theology. From the French of le Chevalier De *******
Lasne d'Aiguebelle, chevalier de.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Lodoik ; ou, leçons de morale pour l'instruction et l'amusement de la jeunesse. En six volumes. Vol. I.
Date: [1795]- Books
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La nature outragée par les écarts de l'imagination, ou nouveau traité d'onanisme, et guide physiologique pour la jeunesse / par M.C. ... R. ... [i.e. Coffin-Rony or -Rosny], ancien élève de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Trésorier de la Société Académique des Sciences.
Coffin-Rosny, André Jacques.Date: 1813