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The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory, or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children ... with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art.
Date: 1663- Books
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Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy. From a ms. of the late Dr. Lucas.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, guilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming : In four books. Exemplified in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the ancients; washing of maps, globes, or pictures; the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones, and metals; the varnishing, colouring, and guilding thereof, according to any purpose or intent; the painting, colouring, and beautifying of the face, skin, and hair; the whole doctrine of perfumes, together with the original, advancement, and perfection of the art of painting; the like never published till now ; To which is added, a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1680- Books
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The Biographical magazine. Containing portraits and characters of eminent and ingenious persons of every age and nation.
Date: [1794- ]- Books
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Magazin des Estamps, 1778. A catalogue of a very large and capital collection of prints, drawings, and books of prints, comprehending the works of the most celebrated masters, both ancient and modern, viz. Albert Durer Parmegiano Rubens Rembrandt Sal. Rosa Hollar Woollet Mic. Angelo Marc Antonio Van Dyck Visscher Claud Lorrain Brughel Bartolozzi Raphael Julio Romano Poussin Carrache Guido Hogarth, &c. &c. &c. Likewise a curious and valuable collection of scarce and fine English portraits, by Faithorne, Pass, Vertue Hollar White Houbracken Loggan Payne &c. &c. &c. Also fine Metzotinto portraits, by Gascar Becket Macardel Loggan Smith Watson Faithorne Faber &c. &c. &c. The whole (of this fine collection) now selling, at the Magazin des Estamps, in Cockspur-Street, facing the Haymarket; where may be had catalogues at 2s. 6d. each; as also at Mr. Pinchbeck's Repository.
Magazin des Estampes (London, England)Date: 1778]- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681- Books
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Musical relicks of the Welsh bards: preserved, by tradition and authentic manuscripts, from very remote antiquity; and never before published. To the bardic tunes are added variations for the harp, harpsichord, violin, or flute. dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by Edward Jones, (teacher of the Harp,) and Bard to the Prince. Native of Henblas, Llanddervel, Merionethshire. Part the second, containing the music of the first volume.
Jones, Edward, 1752-1824.Date: 1800- 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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An Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer. World, - plate I. These plates are inserted in geography. Mechanical figures, &c. II. Astronomical ditto, III. Solar system, &c. IV. Optical figures, V. Botanical ditto, VI. General chart of the world, VII. United States of America, VIII. Europe, - - IX. England and Wales, - X. Scotland, - - XI. Ireland, - - XII. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, - XIII. Northern part of Russia, XIV. Souther part of Russia, XV. Poland, as divided, XVI. Germany, Plate XVII. Swisserland, - XVIII. Holland, or seven united provinces, - XIX. Netherlands, - XX. France in departments, XXI. Spain and Portugal, XXII. Italy, - - XXIII. Turkey in Europe, and Hungary, - - XXIV. Asia, - - XXVII. West Indies, - XXVIII. North America in general, XXIV. South America, - XXX. Historical chart, XXXI.
Date: 1798- Books
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A key to The tutor and scholar's assistant. By Joseph Saul.
Saul, Joseph, active 1797.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The politick wife: or, the devil outwitted by a woman.
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The instructive miscellany; or, Pleasing Companion: containing Order and disorder - Discontented squirrel - Rat with a bell - Dog and his relations, and other choice stories.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Clavis astrologiæ, or, A key to the whole art of astrologie : in two parts: containing I. A brief, methodical, plain introduction thereunto enabling the meanest capacity fully to understand the fundamental grounds thereof and to give a rational judgment upon any astrological figure, nativity or question whatever: also how to make a proper election upon any occasion: unto which is annexed a small book of scheams ready set. II. The Genethliacal part of astrology, briefly comprehending the whole doctrine of directions, revolutions and projections; wherein is shewn by an easie and familiar method, how to rectifie and calculate nativities several ways, and according to any author, as Regiomontanus, Argol, or Kepler: also how to set a scheam the most exact way: with all requisits belonging unto the art of directions perfomed onely by a small artificial canon of sines and tangents; also many brief useful tables covenient for such work; with other varieties not here to fore published / By Henry Coley philomat.
Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?Date: 1669- Books
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The anatomy of human bodies : comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art : to which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles : together with several practical observations and experienc'd cures / written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... ; translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same by William Salmon.
Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674Date: 1689- Books
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The Oxfordshire garland. In four parts
Date: [1736 - 1763]- Books
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The hidden life of a Christian exemplified in the diary, meditations, and letters of a young minister. Published from authentic manuscripts. By Thomas Gibbons.
Thomas, Timothy, -1720.Date: 1756- Books
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Recreation for youth: a useful and entertaining epitome of geography and biography. The first part comprising a general view of the several empires, Kingdoms, Republics, States, remarkable Islands, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, and Lakes; with their Situation, Extent, Capitals, Population, Produce, Arts, Religion, and Commerce: Including the Discoveries of Capt. Cook, and others. The second part including the lives of the most eminent men who have flourished in Great-Britain, and its dependencies. By Joh Paterson Service.
Service, John Paterson.Date: [1787]- Books
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New experiments on electricity, wherein the causes of thunder and lightning as well as the constant state of positive or negative electricity in the air or clouds, are explained; with Experiments on Clouds of Powders and Vapours Artificially Diffused in the Air. Also a Description of a Doubler of Electricity, and of the Most Sensible Electrometer Yet Constructed. With Other New Experiments and Discoveries in the Science. illustrated by explanatory plates. By the Rev. A. Bennet, F. R. S. Curate of Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Bennet, Abraham, F.R.S., Curate of Wirksworth.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Manchester al mondo : Contemplatio mortis, & immortalitatis. Much enlarged.
Manchester, Henry Montagu, Earl of, 1563?-1642Date: 1677- Books
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Portraits of human characters with occasional reflections. Extracted from a late author, and addressed to all orders of men. By the Revd. David Simpson, M.A.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- 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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Church harmony: or, psalm-tunes, in four parts. Compiled and adapted for the use of the meeting in Swallow-Street. To which are prefixed instructions for singing them, by R. Bremner.
Bremner, Robert, -1789.Date: 1772- Books
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An Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer. World, - plate I. these plates are inserted in geography. Mechanical figures, &c. II. Astronomical ditto, III. Solar system, &c. IV. Optical figures, V. Botanical ditto, VI. General chart of the world, VII. United States of America, VIII. Europe, England and Wales, - X. Scotland, - XI. Ireland, - XII. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, - XIII. Northern part of Russia, XIV. Southern part of Russia, XV. Poland, as divided, - XVI. Germany, Plate XVII. Swisserland, - XVIII. Holland, or seven United Provinces, - XIX. Netherlands, - XX. France in Departments, XXI. Spain and Portugal, XXII. Italy, - XXIII. Turkey in Europe, and Hungary, - XXIV. Asia, - XXV. Hindoostan, or East Indies, - XXVI. Africa, - XXVII. West Indies, - XXVIII. North America in general, XXIX. South America, - XXX. Historical chart, XXXI.
Date: 1797- Books
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The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children, from the experience of our English authors, viz. Sir Theodore Mayerne, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of foreign nations : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art ... the whole illustrated with copper plates.
Date: 1698