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Tyronis thesaurus: or Entick's new Latin-English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. A new edition, revised and corrected throughout. By William Crakelt, A. M. Rector Of Nursted And Ifield, In Kent.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. A new edition, in twelve volumes. With an essay on his life and genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. ...
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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The new complete guide to all persons who have any Trade or Concern with the City of London. and parts adjacent. Containing I. The Names of all the Streets, Squares, &c. in the said City, and within the Bills of Mortality. II. The Names and Situation of the Companies Halls, &c. within the said Bills of Mortality. III. The new Rates for Carmen, as settled by the Lord Mayor, &c. and the Rates of Watermen, Hackney Coachmen, Chairmen, and Porters. IV. Rates of the General-Post, and Penny Post-Offices, where kept, and to what Places they send Letters and Parcels; and the Holidays kept at the Public Offices. V. An Account of the Coasting Vessels, &c. VI. An Account of all the Stage-Coaches, with the Fares of Passengers, Carriers, &c. where they inn, and when they go out. Vii. Of entering Goods at the Custom-House. Viii. The Names and Places of Abode of the most eminent Merchants and Traders in and about London. IX. List of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London, with their Wards, for the Year 1782. X. Directors of the Bank of England, South-Sea, and India Companies, with an Account of their respective Capitals, and Hours of Business, XI. Directors of the various Fire-Offices in London. XII. List of Bankers, and of the publick Law Offices, with the Hours of Attendance. XIII. Expence of sending a Letter or Packet by Express to any Part of Great Britain or Ireland. XIV. Table of Stamps. Being The exactest Piece of the Kind hitherto published: And designed for the Use of Persons of all Degrees, as well Natives as Foreigners. With large Additions and Alterations. And a new and accurate Plan of London, Westminster, Southwark; and Parts adjacent; also an exact Plan of the Royal-Exchange, showing the several Walks or Places for transacting Business by the different Merchants, Traders, &c.
Date: [1783]- Books
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A critical inquiry into the nature and treatment of the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and her infant son, with the probable causes of their deaths, and the subsequent appearances : The The whole fully discussed, and illustrated by comparative practice, pointing out the means of preventing such evils in the future ... / By Rees Price, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
Price, Rees.Date: 1817- Books
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Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics. To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun's disc, in the Year 1761. An Account of Mr. Horrox's Observation of the Transit of Venus in the Year 1639: and Of the distances of all the planets from the Sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the Year 1761. By James Ferguson, F. R. S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The twenty-first edition of the ready reckoner; or, Trader's sure guide. Containing tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail; exhibiting, at one view, the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ten thousand, at the various prices, from one farthing to one pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table, directing how to buy and sell by the hundred; and, II. Tables of the amount of expences, &c. by the day, week, month, and year. And at the end are added, I. Tables of interest, at five per cent. per annum, from one pound to five hundred pounds, and from one to three hundred and sixty-five days. II. Tables of commission, or brokerage, from one eighth to one pound per cent. on any sum, from one shilling to ten thousand pounds. III. A table, shewing the number of days, from any day in one month to the same day in any other. By William Leybourne.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1798- Books
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The seventeenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1862 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.Date: 1862- Books
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Under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, commander in chief, &c. &c. &c. The officer's manual in the field; or, a series of military plans, representing the principal operations of a campaign. Translated from the German.
Date: 1800- Books
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The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; Together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death: printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1787-1788]- Books
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The general gazetteer; Or, Compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, and capes, in the known world; with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural production of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished. Including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with maps. Originally written by R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The History of Jack and the Giants. In all its parts. Containing, I. Jack's birth and parentage, his dispute with a country vicar, &c. II. How he slew a monstrous Giant, on the mount of Cornwal, and got the name of Jack the giant-killer. III. How King Arthur's son met with Jack, and the wonderful things they performed in their travels. IV. How Jack saved his master's life; drove the evil spirits out of a lady, &c. V. With a full account of his victorious conquests over the north country giants; how he destroyed the enchanted castle kept by Galligantus; dispersed the fiery grissins; put the conjuror to flight; released many knights and ladies, likewise a duke's daughter, to whom he was afterwards married; with many more of his adventures.
Date: 1798- Books
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The fifteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1860 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.Date: 1860- Books
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The tales of the Genii; or, The delightful lessons of Horam, the son of Asmar, faithfully translated from the Persian manuscript. And compared with the French and Spanish editions, published at Paris and madrid. By Sir Charles Morell, formerly ambassador from the British settlement in India to the Great Mogul.
Morell, Charles, Sir, 1736-1765.Date: [1799?]- Ephemera
First aid in few words : with coloured anatomical diagrams : an invaluable pocket companion for all Red Cross and ambulance students, soldiers, sailors, policemen, railwaymen, &c. / by J.M. Carvell, M.R.C.S., L.S.A. Lond.
Carvell, J. M.Date: 1926- Books
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Memoirs for the history of Anne of Austria, wife to Lewis XIII. of France; and regent of that kingdom from his death to the accession of her son Lewis XIV. Containing all the remarkable events during the king's minority, and the administration of her favourite Cardinal Mazarin. Particularly, I. The various parties formed against that regency and ministry by the princes and princesses of the House of Bourbon, &c. II. The characters of those princes, and of all the chief nobility of both sexes as well in private life, as in publick. And, III. The secret history of their amours, and intrigues of gallantry. Translated from the original French of Madame de Motteville, who was the Queen Regent's chief companion and confident [sic], and who has likewise added an account of the troubles of King Charles I. not to be met with in Clarendon or any other English writer, being the substance of several conversations betwixt his queen, then in exile at the French court, and the author of the memoirs. In five volumes.
Motteville, Françoise de, -1689.Date: M DCC XXV-M DCC XXVI. [1725-1726]- Books
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Phædri Fabulæ: or, Phædrus's Fables, with the following improvements; in a method entirely new. Viz. the words of the author are placed according to their grammatical construction beneath every fable: the Rhetorical Figures also as they occur: And to make the Pronunciation easy, all Words of above two Syllables are marked with proper Accents. A Collection also of Idioms and Phrases in Phaedrus, and all the Proverbial Mottos to the Fables, with the English Phrases and Proverbs answerable, are set over against them. And lastly, an Alphabetical Vocabulary of all the Words in the Author, shewing their Parts of Speech and Signification; to which are added, the Themes of the Verbs, with their Government. For the use of schools. By John Stirling, D. D. Late Vicar of Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Gordon.
Phaedrus.Date: [1800]- Books
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The new English theatre Vol. VIII. Earl of Essex, Barbarossa, All for love, Mahomet, Jane Gray.
Date: 1776- Archives and manuscripts
Morson, Thomas Newborn Robert (1799-1874); Thomas Morson & Son Ltd
Morson, Thomas Newborn Robert, 1799-1874.Date: 1751-1991Reference: SA/MOR- Books
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The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook: Containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. also a copious and useful bill of fare, of all manner of provisions in season, for every month in the year. Together with directions for making all sorts of wine, mead, cyder, shrub, distilling strong-waters, &c. for brewing ale and small-beer in a cleanly, frugal manner: and for managing and breeding poultry to advantage. Likewise several useful family receipts for taking out stains, preserving furniture, cleaning plate, taking iron-moulds out of linen, &c. as also easy tables, of sums ready cast up, from one farthing to one pound, for the use of those not conversant in arithmetic: and tables shewing the interest of money from 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 per cent. from one day to a year. The whole is so contrived as to contain more than any book of double the price; and the excellency of the receipts renders it the most useful book of the kind. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. To which are now added several modern receipts, by very good judges. Also, every one their own pysician: a collection of the most approved receipts for the cure of the disorders incident to human bodies.
Harrison, Sarah, active 1733-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The new law list, being a list of judges, masters in Chancery, Serjeants, Counsel, Special Pleaders, Conveyancers, Commissioners Of Bankrupts, &c. To which is added a complete list of all the certificated attorneys, in England and Wales, As printed from the Stamp-Office Entries, by Permission of the Honorable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Stamp-Duties. Also A Table Of Sheriffs And Their Agents, and a list of bankers, public offices, mail coaches,
Date: 1799- Archives and manuscripts
Stanley's explorations in Africa: a new map, showing all Stanley's explorations in the dark continent from 1868 to 1889 (London: George Philip and Son, n.d.).
Date: c.1889Reference: MS.7856/23Part of: Roche, Eleazer Birch (1848-1930), general practitioner and homoeopath- Books
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Modern domestic medicine: : a popular treatise, illustrating the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, a domestic materia medica; a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c. The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen heads, [sic] of families, and invalids. / By Thomas J. Graham, M.D. &c.
Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.Date: 1835- Books
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A summary exposition of the internal sense of the prophets and the Psalms of David. With a two-fold index to the subjects of the work. Translated from the posthumous works of Emanuel Swedenborg. Servant of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.Date: 1799- Books
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The free Masons repository. Containing a selection of valuable discourses, charges, rules, orders, aphorisms, and letters: Particularly One from, Omdit Ul Omrah Bahauder, Son of the Nabob of Arcot. And other Pieces Belonging to the Fraternity; To which is added, a variety of anthems, odes, songs, poems, Prologues, Sentiments, Toasts, Mottos, &c. Also, the secret way of writing used among masons.
Sketchley, J.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The new law list, being a list of the judges, and officers of the courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchanquer, &c. &c. A list of Counsel, special pleaders, And Conveyancers; To Which IS Added a complete and accurate list of all the certificated attornies in England and Wales, As printed by Permission of the Commissioners of the Stamp Office: And To This Edition IS Added The London Agents to the Country Attornies; Table of Sheriffs and Agents, List of Bankers, Mail Coaches, Newspapers, Army and Navy Agents. Law and Public Offices, Circuits of the Judges, &c. And a Variety of other useful
Date: [1800]