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Robert Lowell : setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character / Kay Redfield Jamison.
Jamison, Kay R.Date: 2017- Books
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A view of the coasts, countries and islands within the limits of the South-Sea-Company. Containing An Account of the Discoveries, Settlements, Progress and Present State; together with the Bays, Ports, Harbours, Rivers, &c. The Various Winds and Soundings; the Product, People, Manufactures, Trade and Riches of the several Places: viz. From the River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through the South Sea to the farthest Bounds of the late Act of Parliament. To which is added, An Account of Former Projects in England for a Settlement, and the Accomplishment of the Last in the Establishing the New Company; with a List of the Commissioners Names appointed by Her Majesty to take the Subscriptions. As also some Useful Oservations on the several Voyages that have been hitherto Publish'd. The whole collected from the best authors, as well manuscripts as printed. Illustrated with a general map, and particular draughts of the most important places; by Herman Moll, geographer.
Moll, Herman, -1732.Date: 1711- Pictures
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Storage reservoir at Claremont Square, Pentonville, under construction. Wood engraving, 1856.
Date: 1856Reference: 37788i- Books
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Cancer of the breast : a further consideration of its chemical extirpation / C.W. Strobell.
Strobell, Charles William.Date: 1913- Books
Along a river : the first French-Canadian women / Jan Noel.
Noel, JanetDate: [2013]- Books
This borrowed earth : lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world / Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.
Hernan, Robert Emmet.Date: 2010- Books
Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.
Mount, ToniDate: 2014- Books
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Angling in all its branches, reduced to a complete science: Being the Result of More than Forty Years Real Practice and Sirict Observation Throughout the Kingdoms of Creat Britain and Ireland. In three parts. First, Describing (among other things) the Counties of England, Wales, and Scotland, in alphabetical order; the Rivers and other Waters which they contain; their rise, progress, and curiosities; together with those of Ireland; the Fish they produce, and the parts best adapted for Angling; Intersperied with curious and entertaining incidents and practical remarks never before made public. Secondly, A full description of the different kinds of Fish taken by Angling, &c. their natures, haunts, seasons, spawning-times, baits, biting-times; and how to angle for each; with many curious, useful, and pleasing observations. Thirdly, A list of Artificial Flies (the completest collection ever yet known), which will take Fish in all Waters in each of the above Countries; the materials, and how to make each as described; the most skilful way of throwing the line, and-of managing it when in the water; Night Fly-Fishing; Natural Fly-Fishing, &c. The Whole forming a Work of real Utility, Comprising objects too numerous to be detailed in a Title Page, and of a very different nature from those insignificant little Pamphlets hitherto published, which treat chiefly of angling in the Thames, the New River, and other Waters of equal consequence about London. By Samuel Taylor, gent.
Taylor, Samuel, angler.Date: 1800- Books
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An abstract of an act, for building a bridge cross the river Thames, from the new palace yard in the city of Wesminster, to the opposite shore in the county of Surrey. To which are added, the terms of insurance for the benefit of the adventurers, from (at least) one half of the Loss they must (otherwise) sustain by their Blanks, in the Lottery for Building a Bridge cross the said River as they are now finally settled and fixed: So as, That the most Unfortunate who shall have four Blanks together, or but one Prize (of Ten Pounds) in his four Insured Tickets, shall have that Prize, And his whole Premium (paid for this Insurance) return'd him by the Bank of England.
Great Britain.Date: 1736- Books
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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1776: Containing fifty two pages for accounts, bills due, appointments, and occasional memorandums, with a much greater variety of useful articles than are to be found in any other publication of this kind; particularly, list of holidays in the year 1775. Tables of interest. Value of annuities. Tables for buying and selling by weight or measure. Upwards of seventy things very necessary to be known in various brances of business. A complete term table, with the returns. Distances of towns, villages, &c. upon the River Thames. Manner of producing colours by the mixture of colourless fluids. Ditto by coloured fluids. List of all the cities, towns, and villages in England, with their distances from London, and market-days. List of all the public-officers. List of Bankers. Account of the days and hours for transferring stock. Table shewing the bearing, distance, longest day, and differene of meridians of most of the principal cities in the world, from the city of London. Daily pay of each rank in His Majesty's land forces. Circuits of the judges. The economist; shewing how comfortably a family may live for a little money, also the cheapest way of keeping horses and carriages. Road from Boston to New-York, Phildelphia, Annapolis Maryland, Williamsburg, Virgina, Charles, Town South Carolina, through the country; likewise the names of the towns, forts &c. from the river St. Lawrence to the Missisippi. Weight of gold compared with other metals. Rational amusements, consisting of upwards of thirty curious experiments. A correct list of the two Houses of Parliament, with the officers belonging to each House. Prices of different comodities from the year 1000 to 1760, and a variety of other articles, which may be seen in the table of contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1776]- Books
Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England / edited by Isabel Rivers.
Date: 1982- Books
Physics in a mad world : Houtermans, Golfand / editor, M. Shifman, University of Minnesota ; translated from Russian by James Manteith.
Date: [2016]- Pictures
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The New River, Islington. Etching by W. Hollar, 1665.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: 1665Reference: 38521i- Books
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Reason, grace, and sentiment : a study of the language of religion and ethics in England, 1660-1780 / Isabel Rivers.
Rivers, IsabelDate: 1991-2000- Books
Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays / edited by Isabel Rivers.
Date: 2001- Books
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Englands grievance discovered, in relation to the coal trade; with the map of the river of Tine, and situation of the town and corporation of Newcastle: the tyrannical oppression of those magistrates, their charters and grants; the several tryals, depositions, and judgements obtained against them; with a breviate of several statutes proving repugnant to their actings; with proposals for reducing the excessive rates of coals for the future; and the rise of their grants appearing in this book. By Ralph Gardiner, of chirton, in the county of Northumberland, Gent.
Gardiner, Ralph, 1625-Date: 1796- Books
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Rivers 1627 : a new almanacke and prognostication for the yeare since the Nativitie of Christ MDCXXVII, beeing the third after leape-yeare : calculated for the Vniversitie of Cambridge, and may generally serve for the whole ile of Great Brittaine / by Peregrine Rivers.
Rivers, PeregrineDate: 1627- Books
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Rivers 1631 : a new almanack for the yeare since the nativitie of our Saviour MDCXXXI, being the third after leap-yeare : calculated for the famous Vniversitie and towne of Cambridge, and may generally serve for the whole isle of Great Britain / by Peregrine Rivers.
Rivers, PeregrineDate: 1631- Books
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Rivers. 1629 : A new almanacke and prognostication for the yeare since the Nativitie of Christ MDCXXIX. Beeing the third after leape-yeare. Calculated for the Vniversitie of Cambridge: and may generally serve for the whole ile of Great Britaine. / By Peregrine Rivers student in the sciences mathematicall.
Rivers, PeregrineDate: 1629- Books
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Rivers 1633 : A new almanack for the yeare since the nativitie of our Saviour MDCXXXIII. Being the first after the leap-yeare. : Calculated for the famous Vniversitie and towne of Cambridge; and may generally serve for the whole isle of Great Britain. / By Peregrine Rivers student in the sciences mathematicall.
Rivers, PeregrineDate: 1633..- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book, describing West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths, of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The English pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents. &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the carribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances form one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M.DCC,LXV. [1765]- Pictures
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A wooden aqueduct on the New River at Bush Hill near Enfield, North London. Lithograph.
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The New River : a legal history / Bernard Rudden.
Rudden, Bernard.Date: 1985