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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue of ancient and modern books, prints, & books of prints, for the year 1791. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them the best Editions, and in various elegant Bindings' amongst many others equally scarce and curious are the following valuable Articles: -. s. d. Miller's Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol. col. - - 18 18 0 Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 60 No. in 5 vol. col. - - 14 0 0 Fifty Plans of Cities, by Faden and others, col. - - 10 0 0 De L'isle's Atlas, eighty-four Maps, 2 vol. col. - 8 0 0 Camden's Britannia, by Mr. Gough, 3 vol. - - 10 18 0 Chambers's Dict. of Arts and Sciences, by Rees, 5 vol. 12 12 0 Journals of the House of Commons, 40 vol - - 9 9 0 Herbarium. Blackwellianum cura Trew, 3 v. tab. depict. 15 15 0 Montfaucon L'antiquite Expliquee, 15 tom. - - - 14 14 0 Grosse's Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vol. Cook's Voyages round the Worls, 9 vol. - - - 18 6 0 Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 7 vol. col. - - - 8 18 6 Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, 16 Numbers - 10 13 0 -. s. d. Encyclopedic Methodique, 20 Livraisons in 66 tom. 25 0 0 Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, 11 vol. - - 13 13 0 Archaeologia, Tracts relating to Antiquity, 9 vol. - - 9 9 0 Bp. Warburton's Works 7 v. 6 6 0 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 11 vol. - - - - - 14 14 0 Dow's Hindostan, 3 vol. - 4 14 6 Schreber Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, 2 tom. col. 6 6 0 Annual Register, with a General Index, 31 vol. - - 10 10 0 Monthly Review, from 1749 to the End of 1739, 83 vol. 25 0 0 Gentleman's Magazine, from 1731 to 1789, 62 vol. - 18 18 0 Statutes at Large, by Picketing, 36 vol. - - - - 14 0 0 Oeuvres de Voltaire, 27 tom. 5 15 6 Johnson's Works of the English Poets, 75 vol. - - 13 15 0 Bell's Poets of Great Britain, 109 vol. in 51 - - - 10 10 0 Bell's Shakespeare, 20 vol. 5 10 0 Which will begin to be sold extremely Cheap, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Tuesday the 7th of December, 1790. By J. Todd, bookseller, stationer, and print-seller, In Stonegate, york. - The full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books: Also Books exchanged and Libraries catalogued. Catalogues, Price 6d. may be had of Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Paternoster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1790]- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and found Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The second edition, corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1776- Books
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Arithmetic made easy, in the first four fundamental rules, with an appendix of reduction and the single rule of three. Also a collection of all the useful tables. Submitted to the earliest and least informed Capacities, and principally designed to revive the neglected, but useful Exercises of that Science. To which are added for Illustration, Examples and Proofs under every rule; also For Exercise) many Examples and their Answers under every Case in Reduction and the Rule of Three. Upon an intire new plan. By J. Bettesworth, Mathematical Master to the Maritime School, Chelsea.
Bettesworth, John.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large; Frizes, Tablets, Ornaments for Pilasters, Bases, Sub-Bases and Cornices for Rooms, &c. With a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures, to rooms of any size: by N. Wallis, Architect.
Wallis, N.Date: [1772]- Books
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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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The very best round coals. At Walker's New Coal Repository, Bell-Wharf, near Joiners-Hall, Dowgate, Upper Thames-Street. A Real Advantage of 3 Shillings per Chaldron, is saved by the Purchasers of coals, (for Ready Money) as above With a Certainty of being faithfully Supply'd with Round Coal, of the very best quality, Measured under the Inspection of the Lord Mayor's Sworn Meters. Orders by the Penny-Post, &c. punctually attended to and executed with Dispatch. - One sack extra in every Chaldron, - Mr. Walker returns his most grateful thanks to the several Nobility, Gentry, &c. who are the kind Promoters and Encouragers of his new Plan, for reducing the extortioned price of so necessary an Article, in opposition to Combinators, forming to render this useful Commodity, dear and expensive to the Public. Large Scotch Coal upon the most reasonable Terms, 1775.
Walker's New Coal Repository (London, England)Date: 1775]- Books
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Model of London and Westminster. Signor Grimani, Professor of mathematicks, begs leave to acquaint the public, that he has now compleated, after three years labour, a model of London and Westminster, which he has endeavoured to render as perfect as possible. Every Object is represented in its natural Colours; so that any Person may, at first View, distinguish their own Street and House. The Model is eighty-eight Feet in Circumference; and the Squares, the Churches, the Public Buildings, and the circumjacent Country, form a most striking and agreeable Scene. Signor Grimani intends, in a short Time, to carry this curious Model into Foreign Parts; but first he proposes to exhibit it to public View, for a few Weeks at the Fantoccini Room, in Panton-Street, in the Hay-Market, which is elegantly fitted up for that Purpose. - The Hours of exhibiting are from Eleven in the Morning, 'till Three in the Afternoon; and from Six, 'till Nine in the Evening, every Day, 'till farther Notice.
Grimani, Sigr.Date: 1785?]- Books
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A complete treatise on practical mathematics: including the nature and use of mathematical instruments: logarithmic tables. Trigonometry. Mensuration of Heights and Distances. - of Surfacfs & Solids. Land-Surveying. Gunnery. Gauging. Artificer's Measuring. Miscellaneous Exercises. With an Appendix on Algebra. The whole Conducted on the Most Approved Plan, with Proper Rules, and a Variety of Suitable Examples to Each Rule. Principally designed for the use of Schools and Academies. By John Macgregor, Teacher of Mathematics, Edinburgh.
M'Gregor, John, teacher of Mathematics.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Plan of The Friend in Need, a society form'd for the relief of indigent persons, who are confined to their habitations by sickness or other afflictions. - As also for their spiritual instruction and comfort. Instituted at Tabernacle, Bristol, January 26, 1789.
Friend in Need Society (Bristol, England)Date: 1791- Books
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The biographical and martyrological dictionary: containing the lives, sufferings, and deaths, of the most eminent martyrs and confessors of Christ, From The Earliest Ages Of At The World To The Present Time. Extracted From The scriptures of the Old and New Test Aments, Acts and Monuments, and the Works of the most eminent Writers in several Languages, both ancient and modern, who have made this important Part of History their Study. Including the Life, Sufferings, and Martyrdom [of] our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, ... the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other Primitive Christians; The History of some of the most eminent Martyrs and confessions during The Ten Great Persecutions Under The Roman Emperors; Persecutions in Asia and Europe under the Arians. - ... of the Witnesses under Popery, ... the Persecutions in ... and Flanders; the Martyrdoms of Italy; and the ... Barbarities practised by the Inquisition of Spain and ... The History of the Spanish. Invasion,-of the Gun-Powder Plot,-of the Fire of London,-of the Conspiracy in 1668,-of the barbarous Murder of Sir Edmonbury Godirey, and the Design of Parkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery and the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion,-of the Cruelties committed by Judge Jefferies in the West of England,-And of the Persecution against the People called Quakers:-An accurate Account of the Martyrdoms of Scotland, especially under the inauspicious Reigns of Mary, Charles II. and James VI. - And a distinct Narrative of the bloody Massacre of Ireland with a particular Relation of the Cruelties exercised by the Papists in consequence of that detestable Tragedy. - With many other Articles too numerous to be particularized. Forming At Once Complete Biographical Dictionary of Martyrs and Confessors, Upon a more useful and methodical Plan than any that have hitherto appeared. To the whole is annexed, a general index, A General Index, By the Help of which the Reader may turn up any particular Article at Pleasure. By a clergyman and others.
Clergyman and others.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Abstracts from the companion to the grave; or, every man his own undertaker; lately published by the Rev. Augustus Carrion, L. L. D. Of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin;-F. S. A. Chaplain to the Earl of Cavan;-A Governor of the Protestant Charter Schools;-Author of a much truly and justly admired Book, called A Geographical Account of the Magdalens, with historical Notes, representing the Manner of their Seduction;-Also, of an Historical and Chronological Account of all the Archbishops and Bishops that have been for the three last Centuries;-And likewise, of an Historical, Chronological, Philosophical, Philological, Philomedical, and Philantical Account of the late terrible Flood and Overflowings of the river Poddle;-Late Spiritual Comforter to the Magdalens, &c. &c. Comprised in 42 vols. folio. Illustrated with copper plates designed by the author, and engraved by the most eminent Artists in Italy, France, England, and Ireland. With Notes, Historical, Chronological, Explanatory, and Observatory, by the following most ingenious, facetious, and learned Gentlemen:-The Rev. Thomas Carr, D. D. - John Gilbourne, M. D. - The Right Worshipful John Christian, L. L. B. and Deputy Judge of the Admiralty Court;-John Chamberlaine, M. D. late punning Surgeon to the Yacht;-And the Author himself.
Carrion, Augustus.Date: 1778- Books
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Authentick memoirs of the life and conduct of the Reverend Dr. Codex: from his infancy to the present time: Containing, His Birth, Parentage and Education, his being designed for the Law, but all of a sudden turning Parson, and from a Jacobite to a profess'd Whig. Doctor Codex a noted Author, his Writing a voluminous Work, his Ingratitude to his Bookseller. Taken Notice of by Archbishop - and made his Librarian and Rector of L- The strange Rise of his Fortune, being made a B- and a vehement Opposer of the late Dr. Atterbury. Dr. Codex a consummate Courtier, and his intermeddling between the P- M- r and L- C-r about the B-k of Gl-r. His Rancour and Malice shewn to Dr. R- with many other curious Remarks about the Means he has taken to pave his Way to L-. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: [1735]- Books
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The gentleman's and trader's guide. Containing, the description and use of a new-invented instrument, for preventing frauds by counterfeit gold, which Gives the Weight, and shews the Alloy of that metal, as well in Coin as in Rings, Jewels, and all Kind of Utensils made thereof; with The Quantity of Adulteration (if any) The instrument Is neatly made in Brass, and very easily portable in the Pocket - Any Person, by sending to the authors, (post paid) may have an Instrument made to Weigh and prove any larger Coin or Utensils of Gold and Silver than This Instrument is design'd for, By W. Bradford, Teacher of the Mathematicks, R. Darby, and J. Hulls. All of Campden, in the County of Gloucester. Sold Wholesale and Retail by the Patentees at their Ware-House in Campden, and in most Towns in England.
Bradford, William, teacher of mathematicks.Date: 1756- Books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium and diary, for the year of our Lord 1756. Containing, (besides what is usual,) many new improvements in science, on a plan quite new: particularly, perpetual astronomical and chronological tables; by which the moon's age, and place, for any month and day in the year for ever, are known at sight; and likewise the sun's place, time of high water at London, and moon's rising and setting for the same time. The discovery of the longitude, reduced to practice, by observation of the moon; according to the method first pointed out by the late celebrated astronomer royal, Dr. Edmund Halley. The eighth number published. Aut disce aut discere. - Humbly inscribed to the Royal Society. By the late author of The ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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A catalogue of a valuable collection of books, in all branches of learning, and most languages: comprehending several libraries and parcels of books, lately purchased. The Books in general are in good Condition. Among which are Folio. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured, and bound in Morocco Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent, R. P. Ruins of Palmyra Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. R. P. Universal Hist. Ancient and Modern, 24 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Collection of Voyages, 8 vol. Russia Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. ... Locke's Works, 3 vol. Spence's Polymetis Holy Bible, bound in Turkey Patrick, Lowth & Whitby, 6 vol. Tillotson, Scot's, &c. Works Chamber's Dict. 2 vol. - Johnson's Dict. 2 vol. - Bayle's Dict. 5 vol. R. & S. P. - Ainsworth's Dict. 2 vol. Rymeri Foedera, 20 vol. Overbeke Reliquiae Urbis Romae, Russia Folio. Dion Cassius Reimarii, 2 vol. Polybius Casauboni Thuanus Buckleii, 7 vol. Plutarchi Opera, 4 vol. edit. opt. Hickesii Thesaurus, 2 vol. ch. max. Du Fresnes Glossarium, 6 vol. edit. opt. Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum S. Basilii Opera a Garnier, 3 vol. Hoffmanni Opera, 6 vol. Hortus Cliffortianus Gaulteri Index Conchiliorum Oeuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. Estampes de Crozat Desgodetz Edifices de Rome Overbeke Restes de L'ancienne Rome Dictionnaire de la Bible, par Calmet. 4 tom. Quarto. ... Oeuvres de Moliere, 6 vol. Ciceronis Opera Oliveti, 9 vol. Living a Crevier, 6 vol. Bacon's Works, 5 vol. Statures at Large, by Russhead, 9 vol. Philosophical Transactions, abridged, 11 vol. Which will begin to be sold cheap (the Prices printed in the Catalogue) on Monday, March 9, 1767, and continue on Sale every Day, by Charles Marsh, Bookseller, at Charing-Cross, Ten Doors below Northumberland House.
Marsh, Charles, -1782.Date: 1767]- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries and parcels of books, lately purchased; containing upwards of ten thousand volumes, in all arts and sciences, and in most languages; Among many other valuable Articles are the following, in Folio. Gronovii Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecarum, corio turcico, 13 vol. Graevii Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 12 vol. Theatrum Sabaudiae, 2 vol. Dillenii Hortus Elthamensis, 2 vol. Andersoni Diplomata Scotiae Dugdale Monasticon Angl. 3 vol. Gruteri Inscriptiones, 4 vol. Hoffmanni Lexicon, edit. opt. 4 vol. Historiae Romanae Scriptores, 3 vol. Mariana Hist. Hispaniae, 2 vol. Passerii Thesaurus Gemmarum, 3 vol. Rymeri Foedera, edit. opt. 20 vol. Caesaris Commentaria, corio turcico, a Sam. Clarke, Dionysius Halicarnasseus, ab Hudsono, 2 vol. Eustathius in Homerum, 3 vol. Josephus Havercampi, 2 vol. Dion Cassius, 2 vol. Polybius Casauboni Strabo, edit. opt. 2 vol. Virgilius Ambrogii, 3 vol. Gesneri Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, 4 vol. Hesychii Lexicon, 2 vol. Vertue'a and Houbraken's Heads, l. p. Inigo Jones's Designs, large and small pep Ruins of Balbec - of Palmyra State Tryals, 10 vol. Madox's Exchequer Morant's Essex, large and small paper, 2 vol. Rapin, large paper, 2 vol. With many others equally good. Which will be sold very reasonable, by S. Baker and G. Leigh, Booksellers, At their House in York Street, Covent-Garden. This month, February 1770, And to continue till all are sold.
S. Baker and G. Leigh (London, England)Date: 1770]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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The British palladium: or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1775. The twenty-seventh number published. In two parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects: With an Alphabetical Chronicle (number IV.) of original Customs, useful Discoveries, Arts, and Inventions. Another (number V.) of the first Discovery of Countries. Another (number VI.) of the Beginning of States, Cities, Towns, &c. Also an Alphabetical List of the States of Europe, and of the Religions of each State. For the Information of young Historians and Youth at School. - This historical Chronology to be continued yearly in a Variety of different Classes; with the Geography, Produce, Customs, and Curiosities, of each Country. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of the Improved Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: [1775]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions both Theoretical and Practical; with a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety, and Beauty. Also, A strict Enquiry into the present Manner of Building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and sound Reason: with a new criterion, or universal estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate for the Execution of any Building; their exact Value wheresoever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Jobb; with practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved Methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Sorts of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of measuring all the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added, a treatise of arithmetic, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. By Thomas Skaife, P. A. Carpenter and Joiner.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The particulars, and conditions of sale, of a valuable and most desirable freehold estate, in the county of Essex, Situate One Mile from Romford, and Thirteen from London, consisting of the manor or reputed manor of Gidea Hall; A Very Elegant and Capital Mansion, called Cidea-Hall. With all Convenient Attached and detached offices, Beautiful lawns, Plantations, Pleasure-Grounds, Gardens, and Fish-Ponds, and several surrounding rich meadows; containing, in the whole, one hundred and seventy-nine acres of rich land, All lying perfectly compact, in a Ring Fence, And forming one of the Most Complete Residences in the Vicinity of London; which will be sold by auction, by Mr Young, at Garraway's Coffee-House, 'change-Alley, Cornhill, London, on Wednesday the 2d day of August, 1797, at Twelve O'Clock, in one lot. May be viewed with Tickets from Mr. Young, No 58. Chancery-Lane; of whom printed Particulars may be had, and where a Plan may be seen: Also at the Unicorn, Hare-Street; Cock, Romford; Crown, Brentwood; Black Boy, Chelmsford; and at Garraway's. - Mr. Loxley, at Hare-Street, will shew the Estate.
Young, John (Auctioneer)Date: 1797]- Books
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The British palladium: or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the leap-year 1776. The twenty-eighth number published. In Two Parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects. The Rudiments of Geography: With the Situation, Extent, Produce, Customs, Curiosities, &c. of Countries; to be hereafter continued: Being a natural and bistorical Account of our terraqueous Globe. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of The improved royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: [1776]- Books
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A key to civil architecture; or, the universal British builder. Containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions, both Theoretical and Practical; and a Dissertation on the Sciences appertaining thereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Convenience, Propriety and Beauty. Also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and Mode of Finishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry and sound Reason: Likewise A New Criterion, or Universal Estimator; In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate to the Execution of any Building; their exact value wherever appropriated; the real and universal Price assigned, proved by the Labour which is required to every Job; and practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building, especially on Joiners Works; where the most irksome and difficult Parts are considered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approved methods. The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, both with respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up all Kinds of Hand-Rails. The Manner and Method of Measuring the different Artificers Works, as practised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work. - Also, the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Task-Masters. To which is added A treatise of arithmetick, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber, &c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules. The third edition corrected; with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases. By Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Skaife, Thomas.Date: 1788