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For one night only. At [blank] on [blank] evening, will be performed A dramatic medley; or, the feast of Thalia. Part I. The Humours of the Litchfield Landlord, A Comic Song, and The Impossibility of pleasing Everybody. Part II. Love in Village, a comic song, And an Epilogue, written by the late D. Garrick, Esq. Part III. The Adventures of a Player, a comic song, a Hint to Everybody, with a malicious Design against Nobody, to be sung by Somebody. Part IV. Dr. Last's Examination before the College. Part V. The Agreeable Surprize, & a French Song in Character. To conclude with the musical farce of The Hen-Peck'd Husband. An address of Thanks to the ladies and gentlemen. Admittance,-Front Seats, [blank] - Back Seats, - [blank] To begin at Half past Seven O'Clock. N. B. All Sorts of Musical Instruments, Tun'd and Repair'd, by G. George.
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An easy English grammar; for the use of schools. In three parts. I. A short and plain Explanation of all the Parts of Speech, and their Agreement and government reduced to Grammatical Rules; the whole illustrated with Notes, and parsing Examples in which every Word is resolved at Length. II. Additional Remarks and observations on the several Particulars of the first part; with Rules of Composition, or the proper Arrangement of Words in Sentences. III. Exercises of bad English in two Parts. The First suited to the particular Parts of Speech, and the Rules of Construction. - The Second contains a large Collection of promiscuous Exercises in Prose and Verse. By A Murray, Schoolmaster.
Murray, Alexander, schoolmaster.Date: 1787- Books
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An easy English grammar; for the use of schools. In three parts. I. A short and plain explanation of all the parts of speech, and their Agreement and government reduced to Grammatical Rules; the whole illustrated with Notes, and parsing Examples in which every Word is resolved at Length. II. Additional Remarks and observations on the several Particulars of the first part; with Rules of Composition, or the proper Arrangement of Words in Sentences. III. Exercises of bad English in two parts. The First suited to the particular Parts of Speech, and the Rules of Construction. - The Second contains a large Collection of promiscuous Exercises in Prose and Verse. By A Murray, Schoolmaster.
Murray, Alexander, schoolmaster.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- 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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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- Books
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Exeter-Change. The following is a catalogue of part of the capital collection of birds and beasts now exhibiting at the grand menagerie in the Great Room, as above: A Royal Bengal Striped Tyger and Tygress, being the First ever exhibited at the above Place, much superior to any of the Kind in this Kingdom. - The Tygress was landed from the Duckingfield-Hall Indiaman, on the 14th of September, 1796. A ravenous hunting Tyger, from Bengal. An Asiatic Panther, from ditto. A beautiful Spotted Leopard, from Africa. A ravenous Laughing Hyaena. A wonderful Polar or Sea Lion; an amphibious Animal, which cannot live without being washed with Water every Day. A Jackall, or Lion's Provider. A ravenous Wolf, from Siberia, in Russia. A beautiful Antelope, from Asia. A large Tyger Cat; and a Muscovy or Civet Cat. A large Wild Man of the Woods, that walks upright, and is so extremely sagacious as to understand every Word the Keeper says to him. A Long-Armed Baboon; and a curious Ape, from Ape's-Hill, in Barbary. A stupendous Ostrich, Nine Feet high, from the Coast of Barbary. A Pelican of the Wilderness,-a Bird so remarkable as to be mentioned in Sacred History, that feeds it's Young ones with it's own Blood. A Royal Crown Crane, or Bird of Paradise. Two Condor Minor Vultures very rare and scarce. An Imperial Vulture, the largest ever seen in this Kingdom. A Golden Eagle, from Santa Cruz; and a Horned Owl, from Bohemia. And a Variety of other Animals and Birds, too numerous to insert. Admittance 1s. each Person. In an adjoining Apartment, is A wonderful Maif Elephant, which, although the largest Animal in the Creation, is so sagacious and tractable, as to be obedient to every Command of it's Keeper; and is so exceedingly tame, that Children frequently ride on it's Back with the greatest Safety, as the Den is well constructed for that Purpose. - Admittance 1s. each Person. In an Apartment under the Greatroom, is to be Seen from Obscurity, by A curious Appartus, Variety of Pleasing Perspectives and Public Animation, far excelling any thing of the Kind yet invented. Admission One Shilling each Person, or the Three Exhibitions for Half-a-Crown. N. B. Foreign Birds and Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged, by G. Pidcock, as above.
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Botanicum medicinale; an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list. Describing their Places of Growth, Roots, Bark, Leaves, Buds, Time of Flowering, Blossoms, Flowers, Stiles, Chives, Embrio's, Fruits, Farina, Colours, Seeds, Kernels, Seed-Vessels, Parts used in Medicine, Preparations in the Shops, Medicinal Virtues, Names in Nine Languages. Most beautifully engraved on 120 large folio copper-plates, from the exquisite drawings of the late ingenious T. Sheldrake. English Plants are drawn from Nature to the greatest Accuracy, Flowers, or Parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified. Nothing in any Language exceeds this Thirty Years laborious Work, of which may truly be said that Nature only equals it, every Thing of the Kind, hitherto attempted, being trivial, compared to this inimitable Performance. Designed to promote Botanical Knowledge, prevent Mistakes in the Use of Simples in compounding and preparing Medicines, to illustrate, and render such Herbals as want the just Representations in their proper Figures and Colours more useful. Necessary to such as practise Physic, Pharmacy, Chemistry, &c. entertaining to the Curious, the Divine and Philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful Productions, - Useful to Painters, Heralds, Carvers, Designers, Gardeners, &c. The Colours of every Part are minutely described; for Utility it must be esteemed preferable to any Hortus Siccus extant. The Means to preserve Fruits, and dry Flowers, in their Native Form and Colour, are not yet discovered; Plants cannot be preserved to Persection. The Flowers, when coloured, are represented in their original Bloom, and Fruits in the inviting Charms of Maturity. To which now is added, his tables for finding the heat and cold in all climates, That Exotic Plants may be raised in Summer, and preserved in Winter.
Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770.Date: [1759?]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of Alexander Thistlethwayte, Esq; Late Knight of the Shire for the County of Hants; and of Various other valuable Collections of Books. Among which are the following Articles: Aristoteles & Theophrastus, 6 vol. Aldi Eustathius in Homerum, 4 vol. Romae Pindar, Oxon. - Euripides Barnesii-Dionysius Halicarn. Hudsoni, 2 vol. Ciceronis Opera, Victorii, 4 vol. ap Juntas Romanae Historiae Scriptores, 3 vol. Graevius, Gronovius, Sallengre, Polenus, &c. &c. 74 vol. velom Assemanni Biblioth. Orientalis, 4 vol. Critici Sacri, & Thes. Philolog. 13 vol. Majemonidis Manus Fortis, 4 vol. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. Edit. Bened. Biblia Polyglotta & Castelli Lex. 8 vol. Churchill's Voyages and Suppl. 8 vol. Ancient and Mod. Hist. 24 vol. elegant Le Bruyn's Travels, 3 vol. compleat Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. - Monasticon, Engl. 3 vol. L. P. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. best edit. Bp. Nicolson's Historical Libraries Bp. Tanner's Notitia Monastica Horseley's Britannia Romana Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 1st edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Moreri, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Martiniere, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Calmet's Dictionary, 3 vol. Ditto - French, 4 tom. Bayle, Dictionnaire, 5 tom. Les Habits du Levant, colorees Blair's Chronol. Tables and Maps, L. P. Atlas de M. Robert, Gr. & petit. pap. Le Cabinet du Roy de France, 26 tom. Ridinger's Works, compleat, 3 vol. Regenfuss's Book of Shells, coloured Clerck's Book of Insects, coloured Harris's Book of Insects, coloured Wilkes's Moths and Butterflies, coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. cuts, coloured Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. col. British Zoology, 132 plates, coloured Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. coloured Miller's 300 Plates of Plants, 2 v. coloured Works of Nat. Hist. by the Nuremberg Artists, 38 vol. coloured Sebae Thes. Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Rumphii Herbarium Amboin. 7 vol. Gualtieri Index Conchyliorum Morison's Hist. Plantarum, 2 vol. Commelini Hortus Amstelodam. 2 vol. Scheuchzer's Nat. Hist. of Bible, 8 vol. Aldrovandi Opera, 12 vol. cor. Russ. Willoughby on Birds, by Ray Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, 15 tom. 4to. Statue Venezianze, 2 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 vol. L. P. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Major's Book of Prints and Poestum, 2 v. Opere di Piranesi, 8 vol. Smith's Metzotintos, 3 large vol. Antichita D'ercolano, 6 vol. Rossi, Statue Antichi e Moderni Adam's Ruins at Spalatro Le Roy, Ruines de la Grece, 2 tom. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent Chambers's Works of Architect. 2 vol. Montfaucon, Antiquite, 15 tom. gr. pap. Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of each Book; and the Sale begins in August, 1772. By Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1772]- Books
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The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master.
Keys, John.Date: [1780]- Books
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The seaman's complete daily assistant, being an easy and correct method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing Rules for working the Cases in Plain, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailing, by the Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure. - And for finding the Latitude, Longitude, Amplitude, and Azimuth, by Observation, Illustrated by a sufficient Number of Examples. Likewise, Rules shewing how the Allowances are to be made for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Setting of the Currents, &c. - And to correct the Dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The New Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun, To which are added, The Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure to 300 Miles Distance; the New Solar Tables and Tables of Natural Sines; with a larger and more correct Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places, than any hitherto published; together with all the Tables necessary for the Seaman's Use in working a Day's Work at Sea. The whole constructed upon a new plan. The third edition. By John Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator, And formerly of the Royal Navy.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Mr. Poole begs to acquaint the nobility, gentry, and others, that from the liberal and extensive encouragement which he has experienced in the present undertaking, and from the promise of future patronage and support, he designs publishing a Second number of views of the principal seats in the vicinity of Reading; which he trusts will be found not unworthy the attention of all those who may be in possession of this, his first number. Of the merits of the present work, it does not become him to say any thing. It is before the public:-let it speak for itself. But it is his wish; nay-he conceives it his duty, to offer some apology for the protracted delays which this work has unavoidably experienced. He has been the victim of ill-health during the greater part of the time he has been engaged in this work; which, together with other trivial circumstances, has impeded its publication thus long. He can only say, it is not probable that the like causes can ever again occur; and he hopes, upon consideration, this will be admitted as a sufficient apology. Mr. P. likewise begs to acquaint the subscribers to the present work, and the public in general, that he is now engaged in engraving an extensive and picturesque view of the town of Reading, taken from Red-Lane Hill, from a drawing by Mr. Robinson, whose abilities as an artist are too well known to need the recommendation of encomium. - The Drawing may be inspected at Messrs. Snare and Co's. Minster-Street, Reading; where books are opened for the reception of subscribers' names. The size of the Drawing is 21 inches by 151/2 inches. Price 10s. 6d. No money is required till the Print is ready for delivery. Reading, Dec. 8, 1798.
Poole, Mr.Date: 1798]- 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 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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Hume's History of England, with Portraits. On Saturday, May 2, will be Published, Price one shilling, (to be continued Weekly till the whole is completed) No I. Containing Six Sheets of Letter-Press, and a Head of the Author engraved by Collyer, of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. By David Hume, Esq; With the Author's last Corrections and Improvements. Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and sold by T. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row. Conditions. I. The Work will make Eight Volumes in Octavo, handsomely printed on a large Letter and on a Medium Paper. II. Each Number will contain Five or more Sheets, so that the whole may not exceed Forty-Eight Numbers, at One Shilling each. III. In the course of the Work will be given a series of Portraits of the different Sovereigns of England from the Conquest to the Revolution, engraved from original Pictures by Hall, Sherwin, Heath, Collyer, &c. &c. and ornamented with new emblematical Designs by Stothard. IV. In the course of publication will be given an Account of the Life of the Author written by Himself, and a copious Index. V. Most of the Plates are already finished, and Specimens of the Print, Paper, and Engravings, may be seen at the Publisher's. - In order to form a complete History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Second, the Proprietors intend to publish, immediately after Mr. Hume's History is completed, in Weekly Numbers, Dr. Smollett's History from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second; and that the Paper, Print, and Portraits shall in every respect correspond with the above Work.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: 1782]- Books
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Illustration of British zoology. On May 1, 1799, will be published, The first number of an entirely new, complete, and elegant work, designed as a companion to the Natural Histories of British Birds and Insects: the Natural History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions Of all the Species hitherto discovered in Great Britain; systematically arranged in the Linnean Manner, with Scientific and General observations on each. By E. Donovan, F. L. S. Author of the Natural Histories of British Birds, Insects, &c. &c. London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard. Conditions: I. This Work shall be elegantly printed in Octavo, on a fine Wove Royal Paper, and Hot-Pressed. II. Three Plates shall be given in each Number, with Descriptions: they will be printed on Whatman's Drawing Paper, and correctly finished in Colours from perfect Specimens of the Shells - Price 2s. 6d. each Number. III. This Work shall be completed in Sixty Monthly Numbers. An Index for the systematic Arrangement will be given at the End of each Volume, containing Twelve Numbers.
Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.Date: 1799]- Books
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of print being the libraries of the Late Rev. Doctor Usher, F.T.C.D. Mr. Clarendon, and another gentleman which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1796, by James Vallance, at his Sale-Room, No. 6, Eustace-Street, the collection consists of a number of excellent books in various branches of literature; among which are the following: folio. Montsaucon's Grecian and Roman antiquities, with the supplement, 15 vol. first impressions of the plates. - Antiquities of France, 5 vol. with plates, Boydel's Shakespeare, with large and small plates, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Hodges's views in India fine impressions, bound in Russia. Miller's illustration of the sexual system of linnŭs, 3 vol. with plates coloured and plain, Rubens's landscapes, engraved by Bolswert. Kirby's perspective, fine plates, large paper. Overbeke's antiquities of Rome, 3 vol. impressions, large paper. Trajan and antonine columns, fine impressions, Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. with plates best edition. Ancient and modern universal history 12 vol. Cooke's voyages, 10 vol. compleat, fine plates pressions of the plates, bound in green tu Pope's works and translations, 14 vol. copy. Spenser's fairie queene, 3 vol. with many designs, elegant. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vol. elegant. Doddridge's family expositor, 6 vol. plates, fine copy. With many others equally good. Most of the prints are fine impressions.
Vallance, James.Date: 1796]- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: in which, Every Thing essentially necessary to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain'd, and clearly demonstrated; particularly, those Operations which are conformable to the Principles of mechanical Motion. Of the Form, Structure and constituent Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation, and the Doctrine of Conception;-The Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero, and its gradual Increase from its Rudiments to the Time of Birth. The Pathology, Treatment and Cure of the various Diseases incident to Child-Bearing Women and Infants, with the Regimen necessary to be observed, respecting the Non-Naturals, viz. Air, Diet, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, Retention, Excretion and the Passions of the Mind. The Antient and Modern Manner of delivering Women in laborious and preternatural Cases compared; with a View of the Advantages and Defects of the Means proposed for that End. - For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwisry (whether simply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting both in natural and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn, by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines for that Purpose; constructed upon new Principles, and made to the most exact Imitation of real Women and Children. The Whole will be illustrated by such anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; together with various practical Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, And Physician Man-Midwife to the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1767- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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C. Parker's new catalogue, of a fine collection of books, particularly of the history and antiquities, of this and foreign countries; Among others, are Folio. Crozat's Prints, 2 vol. Rossi's Statues Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vol. Luxembourg Gallery De Lisle's Atlas Prynne's Constitution of Eng. 3 vol. Monasticon, per Dugdale, 3 vol. - Ditto English & Origines Jurid. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Hist. of Eng. 5 vol. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. best edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum Maitland's London, 2 vol. Stow's London, 2 vol. Philpot's Kent Morant's Essex, 2 vol. lar. and sm. pap. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, lar. and sm. pap. Morton's Northamptonshire Dugdale's Warwickshire Coker's Dorsetshire Leicester's Cheshire Drake's York Prince's Worthies of Devon Peck's Hist. of Stamford Thorpe's Hist. of Rochester Parkyns's Kings Lynn Dart's Canterbury and York Higden's Polychronicon Fructus Temporum Carew of Elections-Wood's Athaenae Bacon's Abridgment of the Law, 5 vol. Thurloe's, Burleigh's, Sydney's, Strafford's, Roe's, Ormond's, &c. State Papers Fox's Martyrs, best edit. 3 vol. Blair's Chronology Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 2 vol. Churchill's, Harris's, Pococke's, Harleian, Hackluyt's, Frier's, Tavernier's, Wheler's, Drummond's, Chishull's, &c. Voyages and Travels Royal Commentaries of Peru Mariana's Hist. of Spain Ducarel's Ang. Norman Antiquities System of Geography, 2 vol. Hist. Romanae Scriptores, 3 vol. Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, &c. Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vol. Johnson's, Postlethwayte's, &c. Dictionary Scapulae Lexicon, edit. opt. Anderson of Commerce, 2 vol. Holland's Pliny-Uiry's Chaucer Hanbury's Gardening, 2 v. - Gerard's Herbal Guillim's Heraldry, best edit. Gibbs's Designs, lar. pap. Porcell's Orpheus Britain. Locke, Hobbes, &c. Quarto. Magna Britannia, II vol. Dr. Campbell's Survey of Britain, 2 vol. Grose's Antiquities, 2 vol. Hume and Macaulay's Hist. Lyttelton's Hen II. and Works, 5 vol. Robertson's Cha. V. and Scotland, 5 vol. Blackstone's Comment. and Tracts, 5 vol. Walpole's Painters, 4 vol. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vol. Hawkesworth's, Parkynson's, Bougainville's, Anson's, Phipps's, Ives's, &c. Voyages Hist. of Jamaica, 3 vol. Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. Albin's Birds and Infects, 4 vol. Ames on Printing-Dale's Harwich Milton, Pope, Locke, Bacon, Swift. Addison, Boyle, Bolingbroke, Middleton, Spenser, &c. Parl. Hist. and Debates, 65 vol. Svo. Universal History, 65 vol. 8vo. Which will be selling the 25th instant, and continue daily, At the Prices printed in the Catalogue; by C. Parker, Bookseller, The Upper Part of New Bond-Street. Where the atmost Value is given for any Library or Parcel of Books; Also Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Owen, within Temple-Bar; Mr. E. Johnson, in Ave-Maria Lane; Mess. Woodfall and Co. at Charing-Cross; Mr. Davenhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; Mr. Fletcher, at Oxford; and Mess. Merrill's, at Cambridge. 1775.
Parker, Charles, bookseller.Date: 1775]- Archives and manuscripts
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Books
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The handmaid to the arts, ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Dossie, Robert, -1777.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The new and complete life of our blessed Lord and saviour, Jesus Christ: that great example, as well as saviour of mankind. Containing a More Complete, Authentic, Ample, Accurate, Instructive, Universal, and Full Account (freed from Popish Superstition, and other Errors) than was ever before Published, of all the Real Facts, relating to the Exemplary Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Triumphant Death of Our Glorious Redeemer, Who took upon himself our Sinful Nature, Was Crucified for our Sins, Rose Again for our Justification, Ascended into Heaven, and now Sitteth at the Right-Hand of God, making Intercession for Us; Particularly his Incarnation, Nativity, Genealogy, Baptism, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Early Transactions, Divine Mission, Fasting, Ministry, Temptation, Doctrines, Calling and Appointment of the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Humility, Charity, Patience, Meekness, Sufferings, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacraments; Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension, &c. &c. &c. To which is Added, A New, Complete, and Authentic History of the Lives, Transactions, Sufferings, and Deaths, of his Holy Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, And other Eminent Persons and Primitive Christians, who first Propagated the Christian Religion, and to cruel Persecutors laid down their Lives in the Glorious Cause of Jesus Christ; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. James the Great, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, Timothy, Silas, Mary Magdalene, Mary Sister of Lazarus, Mary of Cleophas, Mary of Salome, Trophimus, Tychicus, Tertius, Linus, Onesiphorus, Stephanus, Phebe, Sosipater, Clement, Ananias, Nicolas, Nicodemus, Joseph, Philemon, Priscilla, Titus, &c. Also, A New, Useful, and Interesting Account of the Life of the Messiah's great Forerunner John the Baptist; And likewise the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Together with A Faithful Account of the Successors of the Apostles, for Three Hundred Years after the Crucifixion, in the five great Apostolical Churches. Comprehending, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences fairly stated upon which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. - Including a Complete Defence of Christianity, containing Plain and Satisfactory Answers to all the Objections made against our Holy Religion, by Jews, Turks, Atheists, Deists, Infidels, and Free-Thinkers of the present Age, who are a Disgrace to Human Nature, and strive to level Mankind with the Brute Creation; whereby the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind is proved to be Genuine and truly Divine. The Whole Interspersed with Practical Improvements, and Useful Remarks, Familiarly Adapted to every Capacity, and designed to Promote, in every Christian, the necessary Practice of Faith and Repentance, as the only appointed Means whereby God can be Reconciled with Man. This Complete Work being the Result of long Study and Experience, and not a hasty Performance, has been regularly digested and collected, not only from the Evangelists, Epistles, &c. but also from Josephus, the most judicious Ecclesiastical Historians, and other Books as well as Manuscripts (ancient and modern) of Undoubted Authority. It will therefore comprise a great Variety of the most Important, Valuable, and Curious Matter relating to the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles, &c. not to be found in any other Work of the Kind whatever. By Paul Wright, D. D. Vicar of Oakley, &c. in Essex, late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; And Author of the Christian's New and Complete British Family Bible;-of the New and Complete Edition of Fox's Original Book of Martyrs;-And of The New Edition of the Whole Book of Common Prayer, with Notes, and other necessary Illustrations;-All of which respective Works are universally approved of in every Respect, by the Public in general, who have perused the Numbers already published. Embellished with the most elegant, valuable, and numerous set of large copper-plate prints ever published in a work of this kind; finely engraved from the original Drawings of Hamilton, Chalmers, West, Samuel Wale, Esq. &c. by those ingenious and celebrated Artists, Messrs. Pollard, Rennoldson, Taylor, Tookey, Smith, Page, Granger, Morris, Royce, Golder, Collier, Parker, and Other Eminent Masters.
Fleetwood, John.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A catalogue of upwards of twenty thousand volumes of books including the remaining part of the valuable library of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle; and the entire Collection of a Person of Distinction, lately deceased: With some very capital Books of Prints, just imported from France and Italy, and many large Parcels, lately purchased. The whole forming a Curious Variety of the best Books inall Languages, Arts and Sciences, in fine Condition, and many upon Royal Paper, in elegant Russia and Morocco Bindings. Amongst which are, Seba Thesaurus eorum nat. 4 tom. Rus. Deliciae nat. selectae, 2 tom. fig. col. Mor. Merian de Insectis Surinam, fig. col. M. Hill's Nat. Hist. Gard. & Herb. roy-pap. 5 vol. coloured, Russia Weinmani Phytantheza Iconograp. 4 tom. coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 tom. Rus. col. Edward's Nat. Hist. 7 vol. Mor. col. Trew Hortus Nitidissimus, fig. colorat Physica Sacra, 8 tom. Ornithologie par Martinet, 3 v. fig. illu. Wilkes and Harris's Moths and Butterfl. coloured Pitture D'ercolano, 5 tom. Estampes de la Gallerie de Dresda, 2 tom. Vandermulen's capital Works, Mor. Oeuvres de Basan, 3 tom. - complet de Vernet, gr. pap. Statute Grece & Romane di S. Mar. R. Illustrious Heads, first Impressions, 1. pap. Fables, & Contes de Fontaine, bel. fig. Pitture di Pelligrino Works of Salvator Rosa - of Ostade. Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, Mor. fine. Halleri Icones Anatomicae, 2 tom. Voyages de Le Brun, 3 tom. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Vocabolario della Crusea, 6 tom. Flor. Dictionaries by Johnston, Chambers, Ainsworth, Bayle, James, Postlethwayte, Richlet, &c. &c. L'antique explique par Montfaucon, 15 tom. gr. pap. Views of the Palace and Gardens at Versailles, Mor. Teniers's Gallery, fine Impressions Stoch, Pierres Antiques par Picart, g. p. Ruins of Balbeck Palmyra-Dioclefian's Palace, de la Grece par le Roy, &c. &c. D. of Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. Imp. paper; Morocco. Clarke's Caesar, Russia leather. Rymer's Foedera, 21 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Pembrochiae Numismata, ch. max. Robert and De L'isles Atlas, gr. pap. Piranesi Antichita Romane, 4 tom. Guichiardini & Davilla Istoria, ch. max. Clarendon's Rebellion, 4 vol. roy. pap. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent. Rapin's History, 2 vol. large pap. Mor. Norden and Pocock's travels, large pap. Strafford's Letters, by Knowler, 2 vol. large paper, Morocco. Diodorus Siculus Wesselingii, 2 vol. Demosthenis Wolfii. Homeyns, 4 tom. ch. max. Glasgow. Dionysius Halicarnasseus Hudson, 2 v. Euripides Barnesii. Pindarus, per West. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts. Missals, finely illuminated. Voyage en Siberie, 2 tom, Mor. With many Hundreds more, equally valuable. Which will begin to be Sold very reasonable, this Day, 1770, (for ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, to continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller at the Feathers in New-Bond-Street. Who gives the utmost Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues (price 6d. to be allowed in the Purchase) to be had of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Blamire, corner of Craven-Street, Strand; Mr. Cater, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Law, Ave-Mary-Lane; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal-Exchange; also of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and all the great Towns in England.
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