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A bill for permitting the exportation of wool, and woollen or bay yarn, from any port in Ireland, to any port in Great Britain.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1753]- Books
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Seasonable considerations upon the corn-trade, as it respects the land-owner, the tenant or farmer, the miller, and baker; and the poor and labouring part of the people, throughout the whole nation; wherein The common Practice of buying Corn by Sample is impartially consider'd; And the Primary or only Causes of the late High-Price of Corn fairly laid open. And some Methods humbly offer'd to the Consideration of Parliament to prevent the same Calamity hercaster; with A free Examination of some Parts of two curious Letters in the Gentleman's Magazine for February and March last, for continuing the Bounty on Exportation of Corn. And Also of a Paper sign'd Britanicus in the London Evening-Post, of October 6th 1757, against those Canibals the Corn-Dealers, &c. With a short appendix, Shewing an Easy Method whereby the Poor may if they please reduce the Price of Wheat-Corn; and Some proper Observations on Poplicola, a sanguine Writer in the London Evening-Post of October 25th. 1757. By a true born Englishman and lover of his country.
True born Englishman and lover of his country.Date: 1757- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Part of the sequel of the historical account of the city of Edinburgh's duty on ale, and management thereof. By Andrew Chalmer writer in Edinburgh. Containing the papers which were before the gentlemen appointed, in June 1752, to examine into the facts set forth in that pamphlet; with Mr. Chalmer's observes on the report made by them, after thirteen months dependance, without their having let him know what they were a-doing for the seven last months, or having shewn him the intended report before they gave it in to the town-council, &c.
Chalmer, Andrew.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Museum rusticum et commerciale: or, Select papers on agriculture, commerce, arts, and manufactures.
Date: MDCCLXIV.-MDCCLXVI. [1764-1766]- Books
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An act for granting to his Majesty a duty on auctions, on certain Manufactures of Glass, and on Paper Hangings; and for granting further Duties on the Importation of Corks, Glauber-Salts, and Paper-Hangings; and a further Duty on Licenses to keep Malt Houses, and for securing the Duties granted on Hides and Skins, tanned with Shumack, and dressed in Oil; and for granting certain Sums out of the Surplus of the consolidated Fund, for Salaries to the Professors of Italian, French, German, and Spanish, Languages, in Trinity-College, Dublin, and for granting certain Duties, and additional Duties to be levied by the Commissioners of the Stamp Duties. Monday the Twenty-Fourth Day of April, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, Royal Assent given. John Gayer, D. Cler. Parl.
Ireland.Date: 1797- Books
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Considerations on the nature, causes, cure, and prevention of pestilences; being a Collection of Papers, Published on that Subject by The Free - Thinker.
Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The london and country brewer. Containing an Account I. Of the Nature of the Barley-Corn, and of the proper Soils and Manures for the Improvement thereof. II. Of making Good Malts. III. To know Good from Bad Malts. IV. Of the Use of the Pale, Amber, and Brown Malts. V. Of the Nature of several Waters, and their Use in Brewing. VI. Of Grinding Malts. Vii. Of Brewing in general. Viii. Of the London Method of Brewing Stout, Butt-Beer, Pale and Brown Ales. IX. Of the Country or Private Way of Brewing. X. Of the Nature and Use of the Hop. XI. Of Boiling Malt - Liquors, and to Brew a Quantity of Drink in a little Room, and with a few Tubs. XII. Of Foxing or Tainting of Malt - Liquors; their Prevention and Cure. XIII. Of Fermenting and Working of Beeks and Ales, and the unwholesome Practice of Beating in the Yeast, detected. XIV. Of several Artificial Lees for Feeding, Fining, Preserving, and Relishing Malt-Liquors. XV. Of several Pernicious Ingredients put into Malt-Liquors to increase their Strength. XVI. Of the Cellar or Vault for keeping Beers and Ales. XVII. Of Sweetening and Cleaning Casks. XVIII. Of Bunging Casks and Carrying them to some Distance. XIX. Of the Age and Strength of Malt-Liquors. XX. Of the Profit and Pleasure of Private Brewing, and the Charge of Buying Malt-Liquors. To which is added, A Philosophical Account of Brewing strong October Beer. By a Person formerly concerned in a Common Brewhouse at London, but for Twenty Years past has resided in the Country.
Ellis, William, brewer.Date: [1742] [1743]- Books
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A catalogue of a choice and valuable collection of books, and curious tracts, chiefly relative to English history, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, Russia, &c. among them are Chauncy's Herefordshire, Atkin's Gloucester, large paper, Thoroton's Nottingham, Bridges's Northamptonshire, Nash's Worcestershire, Sandford's Genealogical History, Tanner's Notitia Monastica, Chronicles by Fabian and Froissart, best Edition, D'anville's Atlas, Biographica Brittannica, by Dr. Kippis, &c. Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, illustrated with curious Portraits, Memoirs de Grammont, Lord Orford's Works, large paper, Strutt's Antiquities of England, Archalogia, Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Antiquarian Society. - The Tracts consist chiefly of the Time of Charles I. and the Common-Wealth; many of them with uncommon Wood-Cuts and Portraits, Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Richardson, At his House, No. 31, the Corner of Villier-Street, in the Strand, On Wednesday, January 22, 1800, And the Six following Days, at 12 o'clock.
Richardson, William, active 1778-1815.Date: 1800]- Books
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A faithful narrative of some facts, which have been industriously and grossly misrepresented by persons who were offended at a visitation sermon, preached at Sudbury, 1769: shewing the unlawfulness of ecclesiastical merchandise, and the Injury done thereby to the Church of Christ. By H. Crossman, M.A.
Crossman, Henry, 1711?-1792.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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A protestant's reasons, why he cannot turn Papist: being a full answer, paragraph by paragraph, to a paper industriously dispersed; called, A Roman Catholick's reasons, why he cannot conform to the Protestant religion.
Protestant.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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Military reflections on the attack and defence of the city of London; Proved by the Author to have been the most vulnerable Part of Consequence in the whole Island, in the Situation it was left in the Year 1794. to which is added, reflections on the loss of Plymouth or Harwich, and on the greater safety of Portsmouth. -Desultory Invasions in various Parts. - District where 3000 men may land, occupy, and maintain for a considerable Time against the whole Force of Britain. - That celebrated Officer, General Lloyd's Abilities and System used in the Defence of the Capital, and his general System on the Defence of Rivers applied to the Thames. - Treatise on Floating Batteries and Gallies. - Treatise on Riflemen, Sharp Shooters, Jaegers, and Chasseurs; the Utility of them in all Countries, and the particular Want of them in this Country and the British Army. - Remarks on Landguard and Tilbury Forts, and other Fortifications. - --Reflections on the Dearness of Bread. - --Proposals how the laborious and industrious Poor might be supplied with Bread at a moderate Price in Times of Scarcity. - --Improper Application of His Majesty's generous Donation of one Pound and a Half of Bread per Day to the Soldier, and how it ought to be applied. - --Including general Remarks on the whole Island. By Lieut. Col. George Hanger. Most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. Thomas Skinner, Lord Mayor of London.
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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A protestant's reasons why he cannot turn Papist; being a full answer to a paper industriously dispersed; called, A Roman Catholick's reasons why he cannot conform to the Protestant religion.
Protestant.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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The book-binder, book-printer, and book-seller confuted: Or, The author's vindication of himself, from the calumnies in a paper, industriously dispers'd by one Edlin. Together with some observations on the history of the Bible, as it is at present publish'd by the said Edlin. By the Reverend Mr. Stackhouse, curate of Finchley.
Stackhouse, Thomas, approximately 1680-1752.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The answer of the Scots linnen manufacturers to the report of the Lords Commissioners of trade and plantations; and to a Paper falsly call'd, The Case of the Printing of Linnen in Great-Britain, &c. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Honorable House of Commons.
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The afflicted man's companion: or, a directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness, or any other distress. With Directions to the Sick, Both under and after Affliction. Also, Directions to the Friends of the Sick, and others who visit them. And likewise to All, how to prepare both for Sickness and Death; and how to be Exercised at the time of Dying. To which is Added. A Collection of Comfortable Texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying Believers. - The Choice Sayings of many Eminent Dying Saints. - The Author's Last Advice to his Wife and Children: And his Dying Words, written by himself, and found among his Papers after his Death. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, Late Minister of the Gospel in Dundee. Very Necessary for all Families.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Supplement to Boletarium: or, a collection of papers, squibs, songs, &c. written on the second mushroom contest at Carlisle, December, 1786. Together with complete lists of the legal freemen who voted for Rowland Stephenson and Edward Knubley, Esqrs. the candidates. Also the celebrated song of the poacher: - verses on my sweet pretty kitty, by a Member of the House of Commons:-&c. &c.
Date: printed in the year, [1787]- Books
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A catalogue of a large and curious collection of books; Containing several libraries lately purchased, In all Languages and Faculties; Amongst great Numbers of valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio Hollinshed's Chronicle, 3 vol. Rymer's Foedera, 20 tom. in 10 vol. Madox's Exchequer, 2 vol. l. p. Plott's Staffordshire, l. p. morocco Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Spelman's Glossary, best edit. H. Stephani Glossar. Gr. St. Chrysostom, 13 tom. Edit. Benedicti Nov. Test. Gr. cor. turc. R. Steph. Bacon's Abridgment, 5 vol. Year Books, 9 vol. Repertorium Juridicum Precedents in Chancery Bracton de Legibus, corio turt. Rhetores Graece, compleat Comment. in Aristotelis omnes Willoughby on Birds - on Fishes R. Stephani Thesaurus, 4 tom. cor. russ. Chronique de Monstrelet - de Froissart Plinii Hist. Naturalis, 3 tom. Tanner Biblioth. Britan. - Monasticon Constantini Lexicon A compleat and fine Sett of Philosophical Transactions to the present Time State Trials, 10 vol. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 tom. - Warwickshire - Baronage - Origines Juridiciales Thoresby's Nottinghamshire Stukeley's Itinerary, Stone-Henge, and Abury, 4 vol. mariana's Hist. of Spain, l. p. Ancient and Mod. History, 24 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. l. paper Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Voyages par Le Bruyn, 3 tom. James's Dictionary, 3 vol. Bayle and Biograph. Brit. 12 vol. Vocab. della Crusca, 6 vol. Diccionar. Espanola, 6 tom. H. Stephani Thesaur. Gr. 5 tom. Hickes Thesaur. Ling. Septentrion. 3 tom. Meninski Thes. Linguar. Orient. 4 tom. Giggei Thesaur. Ling. Arab. 4 tom. Encyclopedie, 28 tom. Du Fresne Glossarium, 6 tom. Pindar - Oxon. Caesaris Comment. a Clarke Xenophon, Gr. - ap. Ald. Plutarchi Opera, 2 tom. Par. Diodorus Sicusus, 2 tom. Polybius, Casauboni Homer, 4 tom. ch. max. Glasg. Biblia Hebraica, a Houbegant, 4 tom. Montfaucon, 15 tom. gr. pap. Graevius & Gronovius, cum Suppl. 57 tom. Hayes's Birds, coloured Hippocratis & Galen, 9 tom. Sandrart Academ. Ars Pict. Ramelli's Machines Bieau's Atlas, 12 vol. De Liste's Atlas, l. paper And many others equally good, which will be sold, for Ready Money only, this Day, July 1779, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne and Son, booksellers, Next the Mews Gate, in Castle Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had, with Prices printed (price 6d) at Mr. Sewell's, Bookseller, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street; Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, Russel Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Walter, Bookseller, at Charing Cross; Mr. Ridley, Bookseller, St. James's Street; Mr. Robson, Bookseller, New Bond Street; of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge, and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Thomas Payne and Son.Date: 1779]- Books
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A Letter to Sir - on the publication of a paper, containing reasons for the representatives of the people of Great Britain to take advantage of the present rate of interest, for the more speedy lessening the national debt, and taking off the most burthensome of the taxes.
Date: 1737]- Books
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Dengan sale. Part the first; containing the books. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library, prints, paintings, Statues, Music, Mathematical Instruments And Superb Furniture Of At The Chapel which belonged to the late Right Hon. Earl of Mornington, at Dengan Castle, and which will begin to be sold by auction by R. E. Mercier and Co. at their house, No. 31, Anglesea-Street, Dublin, on Monday 18th May 1795, And The Following Days, Until All Are Sold. The Library consists of near 10,000 Volumes; amongst which are the following: Addison's Works, 4 vols. 410. Fielding's Works, 4 vols. 410. Milton's Works, 4 vols. 410. Pope's Works, 15 vols. 410. Spencer's Fairy Queen, 3 vols. 410. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vols. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vols. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London. Fabian, Grasion, Halle, and Holinshed's Chronicles. Anecdotes of Painting, 4 vols. - Strawberry Hill. Willourbby's Ornithology. Morison Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, 2 vols large paper. Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vols. large paper. Hogarth's Works, finest impressions. Darley's Comic Prints. Kip's Britannia Illustrata, 3 vols. Ionian Antiquities. Wood's Palmyra. Montfaucon's Antiquities. Spence's Polymetis, first edition. Evangelium Sanctum Arabice, 1590, Editio Princeps, a splendid copy. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vols. Platonis, Serrani, 2 vols. large paper. Albertus, Magnus, typis Wilhelmum de Mechlinia. Aratus. Editso Princeps. Lucretius, 1486. Editio princeps. Lactantius, 1478. Martialis, 1475. Ovidius, 1486. Valerius Maximus, 1478. Magna Charta, a curious MS. Illustrious Heads, imperial paper.
R. E. Mercier and Co.Date: [1795]- Books
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The several reports with the appendix, which is to one of them, from the committee of the House of Commons, To whom the petition of the proprietors of the charitable corporation for relief of industrious poor by assisting them with small sums upon pledges at legal interest, assembled in their general court, was referred; and the proceedings of the said house thereupon. Published by order of the House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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A catalogue of books, Including the libraries of the following gentlemen, lately deceased, viz. Francis Hiorne, Esq; F. A. S. of Warwick; The Reverend Thomas Osborne, D. D. Rector of Clifton, Bedfordshire. Henry Brooker. Esq; late Keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office; Marmaduke Overend, Esq; of Chiswick; The Collection of Books of Architecture of Kenton Couse, Esq; late of the Board of Works; And the Medical Library of a Physician, who has left Practice: Also a singular Assemblage of Old English Poetry and Plays. Amongst others equally valuable are Military and Religious Orders, 800 Drawings, in colours, 8 vol. Morocco Antichita D'ercolano, 8 vol. Russ. Hodges's Views in India, on silk paper Piranesi's Works, 17 vol. Russ. Vitrovius Britannicus, 5 vol. large paper Atlantic Neptune, by Des Barres, 4 vol. Merian's Views, 11 vol. Graevius, Gronovius, & Burmann. 70 vol. Hill's Vegetable System, 26 vol. Seba Thesaur. Rer. Natur. 4 vol. Russ. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Weinman's Flowers and Fruits, 8 vol. do. Merian's Surinam Insects, ditto. Merian's European Insects, 3 vol. coloured by the Author Martyn, Born and Knott's Shells, ditto. Cramer, Ernst, Wilkes and Harris's Moths and Flies, ditto Sepp, Rosell, and Stoll's Insects, ditto Edwards, Lewin, Seligman and Brown's Birds, ditto Scheffer's Birds, Insects, &c. 12 vol. ditto Miller and Plenck's Plants, 4 vol. ditto Knott's Petrifactions, 4 vol. ditto Petiveri Opera, 3 vol. Moracco Morisoni Hist. Plant. 2 vol. ditto Salvianus de Piscibus Cowper, Albinus, Hunter and Smellie Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 8 vol. Russ. Biblia Polyglotta, Montani, 8 vol. Kennicol's Bible, and Woide's Test. 3 vol. Erasmi Opera, 11 vol. Lactantius, 1468-T. Aquinas, 1469 V. Max. Spira, 1471-Plinius Jenson, 1472 Herodotus, 1474-Diog. Laertius, 1475 Astronomi Veteres, ap. Aldum Breydenback Peregrinationes - 1486 Caesaris Comment. Clarkii, Morocco Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. ditto Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Russ. Stephani Thesaur. Gr. 6 vol. - Ducange & Carpentier Gloss. 10 vol. Meninski, Golii & Giggaei Lexicon Encyclopedie, 33 tom. - Paris Moutfaucon, & Supplem. 15 t. gr. papier. Fables de la Fontaine, 4 tom. ditto Polyphih Hypnerotomachia - Ald. Speculum Salvationis, MS. Domesday Book, 2 vol. Russia State Trials, 11 vol. large paper, Russ. Froissart and Hollinshed's Chronicles, ib. Drake's York, and Harris's Kent. l. paper Stukeley's Stonehenge and Abury, 2 vol. Edmondson's Peerage, 6 vol. Nisbet's System of Heraldry, 2 vol. Various Heraldical Manuscripts Purchas and Hackluyt's Voyages Montfaucon in English, 7 vol. large paper Shakspeare, 1st, 2d and 3d edit. Caxton's History of Troy Boke of Faytes and Armes, Caxton The Book of St. Albons, MS. Spectator, Tatler and Guardian, 6 vol. orig. edit. Prevost, Recueil des Voyages, 26 tom. Harding's Bandello, 3 vol. large paper Tacitus, Brotier, 4 vol. cb. max. Aristides, a Jebb, 2 vol. ditto Silius Italicus, Drakenborch, ditto Ovidius Burmanni, 4 vol. ditto Horatius Bentleii, ditto Elziver Classics, 93-vol. Morocco Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 2 vol. Political State of Great Britain, 60 vol. Parliamentary Debates, &c. 136 vol. which are now selling, 1791 (for ready Money) By Thomas and John Egerton, (successors to Mr. Millan) at the Military Library, Whitehall. - The full Value given for Libraries.
Thomas and John Egerton.Date: 1791]- Books
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Logica Genevensis continued. Or the second part of the fifth check to antinomianism: containing a defence of "jack o'lanthorn," and "the Paper-Kite," i. e. Sincere Obedience; of the "cobweb," i. e. The evangelical law of liberty; - and of the "valiant Sergeant I. F." i. e. The conditionality of Perseverance, attacked by the Rev. Mr. Berridge, M. A. Vicar of Everton, and late Fellow of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, in his book called The Christian world unmasked.
Fletcher, John, 1729-1785.Date: [1774]- Books
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Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
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