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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- 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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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-physical 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 sit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, These seven things, viz. 1. The Way of making Plaistere Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts, or Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all times of the Year-2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. -5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times-6. The Way of making and keeping all kinds of Useful Compounds made of Herbs-7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper. Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1799- Books
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A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, Peter.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Archives and manuscripts
Tables and treatises on the computation of the calendar, astronomy and astrology
Date: c.1425Reference: MS.8515- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd