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Chronological tables of Europe; from the nativity of our Saviour to the year 1718. Engraven on 46 Copper-Plates, and Contriv'd in a small Compass for the Pocket; Being of Great Use for the Reading of History, and a Ready Help to Discourse. Digested into so very Easie and Exact a Method, that any one may Immediately find out either Pope, Emperour, or King. And thereby Know in what Time & Kingdom he Reign'd Who were his Predecessours, Contemprs, & Successrs; To what Virtues or Vices he was most Inclinable; The Good or Ill Success of his Fortune; The Manner & Time of his Death. By Colonel Parsons. Licensed (nov: 10th. 1689) Robt. Midgley.
Marcel, Guillaume, 1647-1708.Date: [1718]- Books
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The levellers almamack: for, the year of wonders, 1652 : Containing divers chronological notes, astrological predictions, and monethly observations, for the ensuing year. As also prognosticating, the ruine of monarchy throughout all Christendom; the time prefixed for an invasion; and the great and unparallel'd things that will happen thereupon. Likewise a description of the strange and dreadfull signes and apparitions that will be visible in the moneths of April and May next ensuing; as lighnings and thunder at Tower-hill, Westminster, and other places; sounding of trumpets, and beating of drums in the ayr: with the effect thereof: the change of governments, religion, and what it signifies[.] Together with Englands black calendar; shewing the year; moneth; and day, of the beheading of the late King, and the rest of that bed-roll.
Date: 1651- Books
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Wing's ephemeris for thirty years : Together with his computatio catholica, or, a general computation, furnished with variety of plain, easie, and most necessary rules, tables, and observations, as well ecclesiastical and oeconomical, as legal, mathematical, and meteorological. Fitted to the capacitie of all sorts of men, though more principally intended for the use and benefit of the plain and honest country-man. By Vin. Wing.
Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668Date: MDCLXIX. [1669]- Books
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Astronomia accurata; or the royal astronomer and navigator. Containing new improvements in astronomy, chronology, and navigation. Particularly New and correct Solar and Lunar Tables; With Precepts and Examples of their Use, according to Old or New Style. The Elements of the Radical Mean Places and Motions of the Planets and Satellites. A New and Correct Catalogue of Stars. With their Right Ascensions, Declinations, and Annual Variations, (supplying the Place of Uranographia Britannica.) And Answers to Fifty-Three Astronomical Questions. Chronological Rules and Tables. Reduction of the Dates of Aeras. With Universal and Perpelual Time-Tables; serving for any Year, past, present, or to come. And Answers to many Chronological Questions. The Seaman's Ready Computer, Or New and Easy Navigation: Shewing how to keep an exact Ship's Reckoning; with Examples, according to all the Methods of Sailing in Practice, by only summing up a few Figures, taken out of Tables. Tobular Answers to all the Cases in Plain and Spherical Triangles; and to all the Cases of Sailing. An alphobetical Tide-Table: An universal Sea-Coast Table, of the Latitudes and Longitudes from Greenwich, and also the Island of Ferro, of the most remarkable Sea-Coast Places, Ports, and Harbours, lying contiguous round the World. To which are added An explanatory Comment on the Moon's Theory: An easy Method, with Examples, of computing the Lunations, and of Solar and Lunar Eclipses. And how to determine the Difference of Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, by observing the Moon's Place, under any distant Meridian. With some useful Remarks and Improvements on the Motion and Theory of Comets. The whole interspersed with a Variety of necessary Tables, and Articles, subservient to the three principal Subjects. By Robert Heath, a military officer.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: M.DCC.LX [1760]- Books
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The sportsman, farrier and shoeing-smiths new guide. being the substance of the works of the late Charles Vial de St. Bell. ... to which is prefixed a short account of his life, ... Also, an appendix, containing valuable extracts, from the most approved veterinary writers. By John Lawrence. ...
Vial de Sainbel, Charles, 1753-1793.Date: [1796]- Books
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Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack for the year of human redemption, 1769. ... By Francis Moore, ...
Moore, Francis, 1657-1714.Date: [1769]- Books
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Series chronologica, Olympiadum, Pythiadum, Isthmiadum, Nemeadum, quibus veteres Græci tempora sua metiebantur : cum nominibus, quot quot inveniri potuerunt, Olympionicarum, & aliorum victorum in ludis, quibus hosce singulos insigniverunt; ad æras, Urbis conditæ, & Nabonassari, (annis regum ex Ptolemæi canone adjectis,) atque etiam ad æram Christianam vulgarem, accommodata; per Gulielmum Lloyd, A.M. Episcopi Wigorniensis filium.
Lloyd, William, 1674-1719Date: A.D. MDCC. [1700]- Books
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An universal history, from the beginning of the world, to the Empire of Charlemagne: by M. Bossuet, late Bishop of Meaux, formerly preceptor to the Dauphin. Translated from the thirteenth edition of the original. By Mr. Elphinston, in two volumes.
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Chronology; or, the historian's vade-mecum. Wherein every remarkable occurrence in English history, with the Principal Events of other Histories, both Ancient and Modern, are alphabetically recorded, and the dates affixed; Together with A Chronological List of the most Eminent Men in all Ages of the World. By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler. This Work gives more enlarged View of English History than can be comprized in the smaller Edition; exhibits the Dates of Creation of all the Peerages; the Invention and Progress of the several Arts; and also a List of the Kings of every Country, &c. and the State-Officers, Bishops, &c. for many Years back. In two volumes. Vol. I. For the Library and the Use of Schools.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: [1782]- Books
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Miscellaneous reflexions arising from a perusal of two essays, lately published by Mr. Squire. To which are added, Remarks on the historical account of the life of King David.
Hodges, Walter, 1695-1757.Date: 1743- Books
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Tabulæ chronologicæ continentes tum sacra, tum profana maxime notatu digna à creatione mundi, usque ad Christi nativitatem. Quod ad sacra attinet, ea nobis suppeditarunt SS. Scripturæ, & Josephus. ... In omnibus autem ad sacram historiam spectantibus plurimum debemus Rev. in Christo Patri Gulielmo episcopo Vigorniensi, præsertim vero appendicem, ... Hasce tabulas in ordinem redegit, & hic unà exhibuit Ben. Marshall ...
Marshall, Benjamin, 1682 or 1683-Date: 1712] [1713]- Books
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Chronica juridicialia: or, An abridgment and continuation of Dugdale's Origines juridiciales. Containing a calendar of the years of our Lord God, and of the reigns of the Kings of England and Great-Britain, from William the conqueror, to the present year 1739. With chronological tables of the names of all the lord chancellors and lord keepers of the great seal; judges of the King's Bench and Commonpleas; barons of the Exchequer; serjeants at law, &c. shewing the times of their several promotions, &c. opposite to the years in the said calendar.
Dugdale, William, 1605-1686.Date: 1739- Books
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An introduction to geography, astronomy, and dialling. Containing the most useful elements of the said sciences, adapted to the meanest capacity, by the description and uses of the terrestrial and celestial globes. With an introduction to chronology, by George Gordon.
Gordon, George, active 1719-1726.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Introductio ad chronologiam: sive ars chronologica in epitomen redacta.
Holder, William, 1616-1698.Date: M.DCC.IV. [1704]- Books
Censorinus De die natali / Henric. Lindenbrogius recensuit et notis, iterata hac editione passim adauctis, illustravit.
Censorinus.Date: 1642- Books
Censorinus De die natali / Henricus Lindenbrogius recensuit et notis illustravit. Quibus etiam accedunt nunnesii in fragmentum notæ, cum spicilegio annotationum doctissimorum virorum Salmasii, Scaligeri, & c. ; opus hactenus diù desideratum, ex optimorum exemplarium collatione, jam denuò recognitum atque auctum.
Censorinus.Date: 1695- Books
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Time's telescope universal and perpetual, fitted for all countries and capacities. Containing perpetual tables, fitted to the old and new stile; shewing the Moveable and Fixed Feasts, the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon; and how to find the Moon's Place at any time proposed: Also the Changes and Eclipses calculated for Thirty Years; with Rules to find them for ever, according to the middle Motion of the Sun and Moon. Also the magnitudes and distances of the planets; and a brief discourse of all kinds of meteors, or Appearances in the Heavens; Natural Prognosticks of the Weather: With a General. View of the Four Parts of the World. To the whole is added, short description of time, and how it ought to be redeem'd. By Duncan Campbell.
Campbell, Duncan.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Time's telescope universal and perpetual, fitted for all countries and capacities. Containing perpetual tables, fitted to the old and new stile; shewing the Moveable and Fixed Feasts, the Rising the Setting of the Sun and Moon; and how to find the Moon's Place at any time proposed: Also the Changes and Eclipses calculated for Thirty Years; with Rules to find them for ever, according to the middle Motion of the Sun and Moon. Also the magnitudes and distances of the planets; and a brief discourse of all kinds of meteors, or Appearances in the Heavens; Natural Prognosticks of the Weather: With a General View of the Four Parts of the World. To the whole is added, short description of time, and how it ought to be redeem'd. Duncan Campbell.
Campbell, Duncan.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The student's pocket dictionary; or, compendium of universal history, chronology, and biography. From the earliest accounts to the present time. With authorities. In two parts. Part I. Containing a compendium of universal history. Part II. Containing a compendium of biography. By Thomas Mortimer, Esq.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Miscellaneous tracts; or, select passages, historical, chronological, moral, &c. extracted from eminent authors, ancient and modern. Containing an abstract of Mr Locke's Conduct of the understanding. For the benefit of younger scholars. By Mr Alexander Simm, late School-Master at Bathgate.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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Observations on the present war, the projected invasion, and a decree of the national convention, for the emancipation of the slaves in the French Colonies.
Hampson, John, 1760-1817.Date: [1793]- Books
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A practical essay on the venereal disease. To which are subjoined observations on the causes and cure of tabes dorsalis. By J. Smyth, M.D.
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton).Date: 1798- Books
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Religious advices; or, an address to the young generation In general: and particularly, to young people, in these seven parishes, viz. Dunnipace, Cumbernauld, Monkland, Kirkintilloch, Campsie, Kilsyth, And Denny. In seven letters, On Different subjects.
Russell, James, active 1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Friderici Spanhemii f. Introductio ad historiam et antiquitates sacras. Cum appendice chorographica & critica. Majoris operis epitome, in usus academica juventutis.
Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]