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A rhapsody on the present system of French politics; on the projected invasion, and the means to defeat it. Illustrated with plans, on three copper plates. By - , a Chelsea pensioner.
Lloyd, Henry, approximately 1720-1783.Date: M,DCC,LXX,IX. [1779]- Books
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Scholes's Manchester and Salford directory: or, alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers. And principal inhabitants: With the Numbers as affixed to their Houses. Also, An alphabetical List of Country Manufacturers, Bleachers &c. - An alphabetical List of the Streets, Squares, Lanes and Passages-A List of Carriers, by Land and Water; with the Days of their arrival and Return-An Account of Stage Coaches going out from the different Inns-The Situation of the Assurance Offices, with the Names of the Agents-The Situation of the Fire Plugs and Engine Houses, with the Names of the Conductors and Firemen-With other Matters of useful Information.
Scholes, John, active 1794.Date: 1797- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A catalogue of books. Including the libraries of William Young, Esq. of Dean Street, Soho; Richard Knight, Esq. of Greenwich, in Kent; and of many other collections; amongst which are Antichita D'ercolano, 8 vol. Russ. Piranesi's Works, complete, 17 v. Russ. Graevius, Gronovius, &c. 76 v. ch. max. Merian's Views, 11 vol. Museum Etruscum et Capitolinum, 7 v. Museum Clementinum, 2 vol. Picart's Ovid & Muses, 3 vol. Russ. Picart, Ceremon. Religeuses, 9 tom. Russ. Van Dyke's Portraits, Hearne's Ectypa Prints of the Society of Antiquaries, 2 v. Hill's Vegetable System, 26 v. Plenck Icones Plantarum, 2 v. col. Mad. Merian's Works, 2 vol. col. Knorr's Petrifactions, 4 vol. col. Miller's Plants, 2 vol. first edit. col. Barbut's Shells, orig. paintings on vellum Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 4 vol. col. Harris's Aurel. Edwards's Flowers, col. Salvianus de Piscibus, Physica Sacta, 8 t. Hortus Elthamenfis & Eystettensis Cowper, Albinus, Hunter, and Smellie Mabillon de Re Diplomatica Sadi Rosarum Politicum, Persice Euclid & Avicen, Arabice Erasmi Opera, Clerici, 11 vol. Aristophanis Comoediae, edit. princeps Herodoti Historia, edit. princeps Diogenes Laertius, edit. princeps Apollonius Rhodius, edit. princeps Theocritus et Hesiod. edit. princeps Plinio Hist. Naturale, edit. princeps Astronomia Veteres ap. Aldum Aesopi Fabulae, ibid. Oratorum vet. Orationes, 2 vol. ibid. Caesaris Comment. Clarkii, Russ. Platonis Opera Scrrani, 3 vol. morocco Ptolemaei Geographia, Bertii Homeri Opera, Glasg. 4 vol. ch. max. Prynne's Records, 3 v. l. paper, Russ. Sir W. Dugdale's Works, 12 vol. Holinshed, Fabian & Grafton Edmonson's Baronagium, 6 vol. State Trials, 11 vol. large paper, Russ. Domesday Book, 2 vol. Russia Carew on Elections, Russia Dart's Westminster Abbey, 2 v. l. p. Russ. King's Vale Royal, Drake's York Leycester's Cheshire, large paper, Russ. Harris's History of Kent, l. paper Russ. Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae Nisbet's System of Heraldry, 2 vol. Universal History, 25 vol. Religious Ceremomes, 7 v. large paper Churchill & Hackluyt's Voyages Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Wheeler's Travels in Greece, l, p. Russ. The Boke of St. Alban's, W. de Worde Boke of Faytes & Armes, Caxton Prouffytable Boke for Mans Sowle, ditto Montfaucon, L'antiq. Expliq. 15 t. gr. p. - Monarchic Francois, 5 t. do. Froissart & Monstrelet, Chroniques, 5 t. Chronique de Percesorest, 3 tom. Roman de la Rose, &c. MS. Ocuvres de Alain Chartier, MS. Voyages de le Brun, 3 tom. Encyclopedic, 28 tom. Moreri, 10 t. Bayle and Chausepie, 8 t. Hickes, Spelman, & Du Fresne, ch. max. Hesychius & Pitiscus, ch. max. Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 8 vol. Walpole's Pieces, 10 vol. Strawberry Hill Philosophical Transactions, 80 v. marocco Mercurio del Siri, complete, 28 vol. Prevost Recueil des Voyages, 26 tom. Edwards's & Albin's Birds, 12 v. col. mor. Which are now selling, 1790 (for Ready Money) By Thomas and John Egerton, (successors to Mr. Millan) at the Military Library, Whitehall. - The full Value given for Libraries.
Thomas and John Egerton.Date: 1790]- Books
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The gentleman's and citizen's almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, bookseller, for the year of our Lord, 1781. The First after Leap - Year, And the Twenty-First Year of K. George III. Reign. till 25 Oct. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month: Week-Days: Sun's Rising and Setting: Moon's Age and Changes: a Table of Equation: The Times of High Water, at Dublin-Bar. Several Tables, Altered, Renewed, or Continued. The Marriages and Deaths of the Princes of Europe. The Names of The Lord Lieutenant; of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and of The Lords and Commons of Parliament, (printed by Authority:) Also, The Judges, and several other Persons in Places of High Trust, and Office in Ireland, both Civil and Military: The Dublin Society: The Hospitals: The Roads and Fairs: The Post-Towns: Noted Places referring to them, and Foreign Postages. N. B. The Names of the several Officers of the Four Courts are printed here by the Leave of the Lord Chancellor, and Judges.
Watson, Samuel, active 1761-1802.Date: 1781- Books
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The military engineer: or, a treatise on the attack and defence of all kinds of fortified places. In which are explained the construction of the necessary works, with the method of designing them on paper, and transferring the plan to the ground; the attacks of large towns, with their different outworks most in use; and also of smaller places, forts and other posts, which occur in the course of a war; the manner of escalades and surprizes; and all other matters relating either to the works or operations, necessary to convey a full knowledge of the art of engineering. Composed by M. Le Blond, Professor Of Mathematics, For the use of the French Noblesse. To which is added, a succinct account of three remarkable sieges at different periods, by which the progress of the Art is pointed out. In two parts. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.
Le Blond, Guillaume, 1704-1781.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. Hoogskarpel, - Hermeyer, master. George Johnsione, Esq. commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels employed on a certain expedition against the Cape of Good Hope, and its dependencies, and the several commanders, officers, and mariners on board of, and belonging to His Majesty's ships and vessels composing the said squadron, appellants, against Major-General William Medows, and the officers, soldiers, and others of His Majesty's land forces, and the officers, privates,and others of His Majesty's Royal Artillery, with the engineers serving under his command, at the time of the capture and seizure of the said ship Hoogskarpel and her cargo, - - - - respondents. Appendix to the appellants' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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The bengal kalendar and register, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, containing Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Chronological Notes for the Year, Moon's Phases, Holidays, Moveable Feasts, &c. Daily Tables of Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, Moon's Southing, High Water at Calcutta, Equation of Time, Sun's Progress in the Ecliptic, Hindoo and Mahomedan Holidays, Terms in the Supreme Court, &c. &c. also full and accurate lists of the Honourable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Comprehending complete Views and Details, of the Civil & Military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Supreme Court of Judicature-Advocates, Attornies, &c. - establishment of Police-Commissioners of the court of requests-orphan, free school, and other societies-native hospital-marine department,-houses of agency-insurance companies,-tontines - merchants of different nations established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the pay, batta, and other allowances of the army-tables of post office rates, &c. &c. &c. The whole diligently compared and corrected by Official Documents. To which is added a list of the European inhabitants, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country, not in the service corrected from the official lists.
Date: 1795- 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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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Hoogskarpel, Gerrit Hermeyer, master. George Johnstone, Esquire, commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels, lately employed on a certain expedition against the cape of good hope and its dependencies, and the several commanders, officers, seamen, and mariners, on board of and belonging to the said ships and vessels composing the said squadron, the captors of the said ship and her cargo, - - - - appellants. Major-General William Medows, and the officers, soldiers, and others, of His Majesty's land forces, and the officers, privates, and others, of His Majesty's Royal Artillery, with the engineers serving under his command at the time of the capture and seizure of the said ship and her cargo, - respondents. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. The respondent's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890- Archives and manuscripts
Memoirs of John Soar, 1927-1949
Soar, John (b.1927)Date: 1927-1949Reference: MS.9224- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAS-HAY
Date: 1766-1884Reference: MS.8913- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
The men who made us fat. Part 1.
Date: 2012- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023