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The Boke of the introduction of knowledge. The which doth teache a man to speake part of all maner of languages. and to knowe the vsage and fashion of al maner of coũtreys. And for to knowe the moste parte of all maner of coynes of money, ye which is curraunt in euery region / Made by Andrew Borde, of phisicke doctor. [London: W. Copland, 1562? STC 3385, facsimile reprint].
Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.Date: [1814]- Books
Human ecology : the science of social adjustment / by Thomas Robertson.
Robertson, Thomas, 1894-Date: [1948]- Books
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Batty, or Batta tables, for turning, or reducing Arcot, Madrass, and Bombay pice, annoes, and rupees, to Bengall currency; and currency to Arcot, Madrass, or Bombay specie. Calculated from 1 pie to 1000000 of rupees. Also, Tables shewing how many Rupees, &c. 100 Ounces of various Species of Silver-Coin produce in Madrass, and Bombay Mints.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Ephemera
Francis Watkins, optician, at Charing Cross, London : makes spectacles of all sorts, ground in the correctest manner, and set in gold, silver and tortoiseshell ... money weights and scales finished with the greatest exactness = Francois Watkins, opticien, à Charing Cross, à Londres.
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: [1777?]- Books
Priced out : the economic and ethical costs of American health care / Uwe E. Reinhardt ; forewords by Paul Krugman and Sen. William H. Frist.
Reinhardt, Uwe E.Date: [2019]- Books
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Chronicon preciosum: or, an account of English money, the price of corn, and other commodities, for the last 600 years. In a letter to a student in the University of Oxford.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: MDCCVII. [1707]- Books
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A discourse concerning the currencies of the British plantations in America. Especially with regard to their paper money. With a postscript thereto.
Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The complete exchanger, containing tables of exchange for the ready and exact computing of any sum of money from Great Britain to Holland, and from Holland to Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, &c. The Shortest Way to perform the same by the pen without the Tables. A Relation of the Monics commonly used in most Trading Places in the World, by way of Exchange, in Alphabetical Order. Also Rules to be observed in Drawing and Accepting of Bills of Exchange, Foreign or Domestick. By William Banson.
Banson, William.Date: 1717- Books
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A vade-mecum of morbid anatomy, medical and chirurgical : with pathological observations and symptoms / by W. Money.
Money, William.Date: 1831- Books
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A Letter to -- -- merchant in London, concerning a late combination in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, to impose or force a private-currency called land-bank-money.
Date: 1741- Books
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New articles of the game of cricket, as settled and revised at the Star and Garter, Pallmall, February the 25th, 1774; by a committee of noblemen and gentlemen of Kent, &c. To which is added the old laws, as settled by the several cricket-clubs. Embellished with a neat copper-plate of the Representation of the Game.
Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English coins; deducing the antiquities, customs, and manners of each people to modern times; particularly the origin of feudal tenures, and of parliaments: illustrated throughout with critical and historical remarks on various authors, both sacred and profane. By William Clarke, A. M. Chancellor of the Church of Chichester, Residentiary of it, and Vicar of Amport, Hants.
Clarke, William, 1696-1771.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Pictures
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A large balloon representing the British national debt placed on top of the Stock Exchange in London. Aquatint by F. Jukes after Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps after William Phelps.
Phelps, William, active 1780-1785.Date: July 1. 1785Reference: 31502i- Books
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Chronicon preciosum: or, an account of English gold and silver money; the price of corn and other commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, &c. in England, for six hundred years last past: shewing From the Decrease of the Value of Money, and from the Increase of the Value of Corn and other Commodities, &c. that A Fellow, who has an Estate in Land of Inheritance, or a perpetual Pension of Five Pounds per Annum, may conscientiously keep his Fellowship, and ought not to be compelled to leave the same, tho' the Statutes of his College (founded between the Years 1440 and 1460) did then vacate his Fellowship on such Condition. By Bishop Fleetwood. To which is added, an historical account of coins, illustrated with several plates of Gold and Silver Coins.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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A comparative state of the two rejected money bills, in 1692 and 1769. With some observations on poynings act, and the explanatory statute of Philip and Mary. By a Barrister.
Power, Richard.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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A comparative state of the two rejected money bills, in 1692 and 1769. With some observations on poynings act, and the explanatory statute of Philip and Mary. By a Barrister.
Power, Richard.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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A comparative state of the two rejected money bills, in 1692 and 1769. With some observations on Poynings Act, and the explanatory statute of Philip and Mary. By a barrister.
Power, Richard.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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A modern universal table, the most copious and authentick that ever was published, of the present state of the real and imaginary monies of the world: divided into four parts, viz. Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Which are Sub-Divided into Sixty Parts or Lines, containing the Names of the most Capital Places, the Species whereof are specified, each Sub-Division in one Line, ascending from the Beginning to the End, teaching how the Monies are reckoned by the respective Nations; and Figures standing under the Denomination of each Foreign Piece, is the English intrinsick Value thereof, according to the best Assays made at the Mint of the Tower of London. Explanation. By Real Money, is understood an effective Specie, representing in itself, the Value denominated thereby, as, A Guinea, &c. (other Pieces, as A Pound Sterling, &c. - This Mark is prefixed to the Imaginary Money, which is generally made use of in keeping Accompts, signifying a fictitious Piece which is not in being, or which cannot be represented but by several - This Mark of Alligation and Dependance is the Sign of Equality, signifying is, make, or equal to. - This Mark is set under each Line, to lead the Eye to the intrinsick Value in Sterling of each Foreign Piece standing over it, and all Fractions therein contained are Parts of a Penny. The whole contrived and accurately calculated, by John Paraire, who disowns all such tables, which are not signed by himself as counterfeits, And is willing to clear any Doubt that may arise about the Monies of any Place, and to resolve any Questions either in Exchange or Arbitrations. Humbly Dedicated to the merchants of England.
Paraire, John.Date: 1756- Books
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A friendly check, from a kind relation, to the chief cannoneer, founded on a late information, dated N.E. Castle-William, Feb. 1720,21.
Wise, John, 1652-1725.Date: 1721]- Pictures
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The elaborately dressed rake holds a purse as a man presents him with an invoice; a lace-seller, a fencing master, a violin player, a cocker and a jockey represent the services and pursuits he is engaged in. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.Date: [1735]Reference: 38339iPart of: The progress of a rake, exemplified in the adventures of Ramble Gripe Esqr son of Sr Positive Gripe- Books
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Two letters to Mr. Wood, on the coin and currency in the Leeward Islands, &c.
Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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A vade-mecum of morbid anatomy, medical and chirurgical : with pathological observations and symptoms. Illustrated by upwards of two hundred and fifty drawings.
Money, William.Date: 1830- Pictures
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Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 15907i- Books
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The Irish comes commercii, or trader's-companion. ... Calculated mostly by Edward Hatton, ... and the whole work corrected at the press, by John Watson, ...
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1765- Books
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The irish comes commercii, or trader's-companion. Containing Exact and Useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated mostly by Edward Hatton, Gent. To which are prefixed, The New Table of Coin, as the same was made current by the Lords Justices Proclamation, since the 8th Day of July, 1751: And a Table of the Number of Yards in the several Scores of Linen, from 1 to 150. These last Calculated originally, and the whole book cast up in manuscript, and corrected at the press, by John Watson, Bookseller.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1765