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A copy of the poll for a knight of the shire for the county of Northampton. Taken at Northampton, On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 18th Days of April, 1748. Sir Thomas Drury, Bart. High Sheriff. Candidates. Valentine Knightley, Esq; 2228 William Hanbury, Esq; - 2082 Majority - - 146
Northamptonshire (England)Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the late Dr. Richard Bentley, rector of Nailstone, in the county of Leicester, and senior fellow of Trinity-College, in Cambridge. The whole of which will be sold by auction, by order of the executor, at the Exchange in Leicester, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th, of December, 1786, by Mr. Gregory. To begin precisely at half past ten o'clock each morning, and at half past two o'clock each afternoon. - Catalogues to be had, price 3d ... be allowed in any purchase of books] of Mr. Crowder, Bookseller, in Paternoster-Row; Mr. Merril, in Cambridge; Mr. Jackson, Oxford; Mr. Burnham, Northampton; Messrs. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham; Mr. Harrop, Manchester; Mr. Gregory, Leicester; Mr. Tupman, Nottingham; Mr. Drewry, Derby; or of the Executor, Mr. Ben ley Warren, Attorney at Law, in Uppingham.
Gregory, John, -1789.Date: [1786]- 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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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.
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A catalogue of the genuine and curious library; Of the late Reverend Mr. John Jackson, Master of Wigston's-Hospital in Leicester: consisting Of several Elegant, very Scarce, and Valuable Books, In Critical Literature, History, Divinity, &c. In Different Languages; Amongst which, are some of the Oldest and Extreme Scarce Editions of the Classicks: Also many Beautiful Copies of Books, Printed by Aldus Elzevir, Stephens, Colinaeus, and others, the best and most eminent Printers. Which will be Sold, by Order of the Executors, For Ready Money only. Commissions taken in from the Time of Delivering the Catalogues till the end of July, and will be executed in the Order they come to Hand: By John Gregory, Bookseller in Leicester. Catalogues to be had at the place of Sale, of Mr. Field, Bookseller in Paternoster-Row, and Mr. Blythe, Bookseller in Cornhill London. - The Books may be seen during the Month of June.
Gregory, John, -1789.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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City of Coventry, Thursday morning, 12th June, 1794. Victory crowns the British arms! In honor of the signal victory just gained by Lord Howe, ... over the French fleet; and the reduction of Bastia, by Lord Hood; - a general illumination will take place to-morrow evening, throughout this city. ...
Coventry (England)Date: 1794]- Books
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House of Lords. Appeal from a decretal order of the Court of Chancery in Ireland. Henry Pippard, Esquire, - - - - appellant. The Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses, and commons, of the town and county of the town of Drogheda, in the kingdom of Ireland, and Isaac Holroyde, Benjamin Woodward, and William Godley, the heirs of William Ellwood, deceased, formerly one of the trustees for the corporation, and the Survivor of the lessors in the original lease to the Appellant's father, - - - - - Respondents. The Appellant's case.
Pippard, Henry.Date: 1759]- Books
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The 11th of February, 1799, The English Lottery begins Drawing. English Lottery, 1798. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -20,000 is -60,000 4 - 10,000 - 40,000 5 - 5,000 - 25,000 5 - 2,000 - 10,000 10 - 1,000 - 10,000 15 - 500 - 7,500 30 - 100 - 3,000 100 - 50 - 5,000 16,900 - 20 - 338,000 17,072 Prizes 498,500 First-Drawn Blank First Day 1,000 First-Drawn Blank Last Day 500 32,928 Blanks 50,000 Tickets -500,000 Not two Blanks to a Prize. The following Captial Prizes Have lately been sold and shared at T. Bish's office. No. 24,206 a Prize of 30,000 Pounds 279 -- 20,000 Pounds 7,108 -- 20,000 Pounds 10,296 -- 20,000 Pounds 17,256 -- 20,000 pounds 30,342 -- 20,000 Pounds 34,512 -- 20,000 Pounds 34,800 -- 20,000 Pounds 40,196 -- 20,000 Pounds 124 -- 10,000 Pounds 3,685 -- 10,000 Pounds 5,257 -- 10,000 Pounds 7,940 -- 10,000 Pounds 10,136 -- 10,000 Pounds 18,795 -- 10,000 Pounds 23,876 -- 10,000 Pounds 24,270 -- 10,000 Pounds 36,374 -- 10,000 Pounds 49,591 -- 10,000 Pounds Besides Prizes of -5,000, -2,000, -1,000, -500, &c. Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the old State Lottery Office of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at James Thomson's, Bookseller, Manchester.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue of ancient and modern books, prints, & books of prints, for the year 1791. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them the best Editions, and in various elegant Bindings' amongst many others equally scarce and curious are the following valuable Articles: -. s. d. Miller's Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol. col. - - 18 18 0 Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 60 No. in 5 vol. col. - - 14 0 0 Fifty Plans of Cities, by Faden and others, col. - - 10 0 0 De L'isle's Atlas, eighty-four Maps, 2 vol. col. - 8 0 0 Camden's Britannia, by Mr. Gough, 3 vol. - - 10 18 0 Chambers's Dict. of Arts and Sciences, by Rees, 5 vol. 12 12 0 Journals of the House of Commons, 40 vol - - 9 9 0 Herbarium. Blackwellianum cura Trew, 3 v. tab. depict. 15 15 0 Montfaucon L'antiquite Expliquee, 15 tom. - - - 14 14 0 Grosse's Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 vol. Cook's Voyages round the Worls, 9 vol. - - - 18 6 0 Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 7 vol. col. - - - 8 18 6 Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, 16 Numbers - 10 13 0 -. s. d. Encyclopedic Methodique, 20 Livraisons in 66 tom. 25 0 0 Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, 11 vol. - - 13 13 0 Archaeologia, Tracts relating to Antiquity, 9 vol. - - 9 9 0 Bp. Warburton's Works 7 v. 6 6 0 Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 11 vol. - - - - - 14 14 0 Dow's Hindostan, 3 vol. - 4 14 6 Schreber Histoire Naturelle des Animaux, 2 tom. col. 6 6 0 Annual Register, with a General Index, 31 vol. - - 10 10 0 Monthly Review, from 1749 to the End of 1739, 83 vol. 25 0 0 Gentleman's Magazine, from 1731 to 1789, 62 vol. - 18 18 0 Statutes at Large, by Picketing, 36 vol. - - - - 14 0 0 Oeuvres de Voltaire, 27 tom. 5 15 6 Johnson's Works of the English Poets, 75 vol. - - 13 15 0 Bell's Poets of Great Britain, 109 vol. in 51 - - - 10 10 0 Bell's Shakespeare, 20 vol. 5 10 0 Which will begin to be sold extremely Cheap, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Tuesday the 7th of December, 1790. By J. Todd, bookseller, stationer, and print-seller, In Stonegate, york. - The full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books: Also Books exchanged and Libraries catalogued. Catalogues, Price 6d. may be had of Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Paternoster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1790]- Books
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House of Lords. The Governor and Company of Undertakers for raising the Thames Water in York-Buildings, and their Creditors, - - - - Appellants. James Ferguson, of Pitfour, Esq; - - Respondent. Case of the Appellants.
York-Buildings Company.Date: 1780]- Books
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Appeal from Scotland. Messrs. Hodgson and Donaldson, - - Appellants. Thomas Bushby of Ardwell, - - - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Bushby, Thomas.Date: 1783]- Books
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To the freeholders of the county of Suffolk. Gentlemen! Sir - ------- at the last general election, ...
Consistent man.Date: 1790?]- Books
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A funeral sermon upon the death of Mrs. Urith Bunchley, Daughter to Sir Austin Palgrave, Bart. who Departed this Life May the 21st. Preached at Clavering in Essex, May the 24th, 1708. Published at the Request of several of Her Relations. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: 1708- Books
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The poll for a Member of Parliament for the city of Norwich, taken the 15th day of March, 1787. Candidates. The Hon. Henry Hobart, of Intwood - 1393 Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart. of Hethel - 1313 Majority 80 Wm. Herring, Esq. John Herring, Esq. Sheriffs and Returning Officers. Together with the voters in 1786, for the same candidates. By Permission of the Sheriffs.
Norwich (England)Date: [1787]- Books
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The common prayer-book, the best companion to prepare communicants for a worthy receiving the Lord's Supper: being a preparatory office, collected out of the liturgy of the Church of England. Containing Every Thing necessary to be known or done on this solemn Occasion: To which are prefixed, three Discourses on the following Subjects: Discourse I. On the dignity of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. - The method of receiving it in St. Paul's time. - The reason why so many in the present age neglect the Lord's Supper. - The great danger that those are in, who never come to the Holy Sacrament. Discourse II. Of the mercifulness of God to penitent sinners, evinced from the words of our Saviour. - The qualifications of such as are to receive this mercy and pardon. - The end for which God proposes to give us his pardon. Discourse III. Of the necessity of a due preparation for the Lord's Supper. - The scruple concerning Unworthiness removed. - How a man may be satisfied that he is prepared, according to what God requires of him. Revised and corrected by a clergyman of the Church of England. To the whole of which is added, the Book of Psalms, digested into prayers and Meditations, very useful in conducting us to those best adapted to our present Occasions; and necessary to be added to our other Devotions.
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An estimate relating to gleaning. Co. Camb. Par. G-r. 1787 880 acres of all sorts of grain, produced to 40 families, gleaning fairly and unexceptionably, viz. half a Bushel per acre 400 Bushels 400 bushels, at the Average of 4s. a Bushel-is - 80l. Perhaps, with the Straw and chaff, and a little higher Average, as a very Sensible Miller and Farmer there said; the whole of the Gleanings might be worth 100l.
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Military reflections on the attack and defence of the city of London; Proved by the Author to have been the most vulnerable Part of Consequence in the whole Island, in the Situation it was left in the Year 1794. to which is added, reflections on the loss of Plymouth or Harwich, and on the greater safety of Portsmouth. -Desultory Invasions in various Parts. - District where 3000 men may land, occupy, and maintain for a considerable Time against the whole Force of Britain. - That celebrated Officer, General Lloyd's Abilities and System used in the Defence of the Capital, and his general System on the Defence of Rivers applied to the Thames. - Treatise on Floating Batteries and Gallies. - Treatise on Riflemen, Sharp Shooters, Jaegers, and Chasseurs; the Utility of them in all Countries, and the particular Want of them in this Country and the British Army. - Remarks on Landguard and Tilbury Forts, and other Fortifications. - --Reflections on the Dearness of Bread. - --Proposals how the laborious and industrious Poor might be supplied with Bread at a moderate Price in Times of Scarcity. - --Improper Application of His Majesty's generous Donation of one Pound and a Half of Bread per Day to the Soldier, and how it ought to be applied. - --Including general Remarks on the whole Island. By Lieut. Col. George Hanger. Most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. Thomas Skinner, Lord Mayor of London.
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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The poll at the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne: Taken before John Simpson, Esq; Sheriff, The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th of May, 1734. Candidates, Walter Blacket Esq; - 1354 Nicholas Fenwick, Esq; - 1083 William Carr, Esq; - 716
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)Date: 1734- Books
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The Reformer of England, a new song. Tune - The roast beef of Old England.
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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The reformer of England. A new song. Tune - "the roast beef of old England."
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The very best round coals. At Walker's New Coal Repository, Bell-Wharf, near Joiners-Hall, Dowgate, Upper Thames-Street. A Real Advantage of 3 Shillings per Chaldron, is saved by the Purchasers of coals, (for Ready Money) as above With a Certainty of being faithfully Supply'd with Round Coal, of the very best quality, Measured under the Inspection of the Lord Mayor's Sworn Meters. Orders by the Penny-Post, &c. punctually attended to and executed with Dispatch. - One sack extra in every Chaldron, - Mr. Walker returns his most grateful thanks to the several Nobility, Gentry, &c. who are the kind Promoters and Encouragers of his new Plan, for reducing the extortioned price of so necessary an Article, in opposition to Combinators, forming to render this useful Commodity, dear and expensive to the Public. Large Scotch Coal upon the most reasonable Terms, 1775.
Walker's New Coal Repository (London, England)Date: 1775]- Books
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The preaching-Weathercock: a paradox, proving Mr. W- R-Dson (lately a dissenting minister, and now a presbiter of the Church of England) will cant, recant, and re-recant, till (to prove he is no Schismatick) he has set his religion and conscience to all the points of the compass: Fairly argued from - The Secret History of his Life, Conversation and Doctrines - Whilst (tho' a Presbyterian) he stickled hard to be chose Pastor to an Independent Congregation in Moorfields; - Or, a Letter to that Universal Turncoat, concerning his so often changing his Religion. The whole Compleating the Weathercock-Paradox in III Parts. Written by John Dunton, a true and constant Son of the Church of England, without Respect to Parties, and Author of those Two Answers to Dean Kennet, and Dr. Sacheverel, intituled - The Bull-Baiting, - and Hazard of a Death-Bed-Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1712]- Books
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Sael's catalogue for 1792, consisting of twenty thousand volumes; including two libraries lately purchased; and many rare and curious books, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom; with a choice Collection of the most esteemed modern Publications: The whole forming an extensive Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature; many of which are in elegant Bindings. Among others equally valuable are Speculum Ecclesiae, Liber Edwardi Confessoris, MS. Biographia Britannica, 4 vol. Blair's Chronology, best edit. Borlase's Cornwell. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, a Gibson, 2 tom. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vols. large paper. Camden's Britannia, by Gough, 3 vols. Nash's Worcestershire, 2 vols. Dee, Bramhall, Saunders, Agrippa, Hopkins, &c. on Witchcraft. King's Vale Royal, eleg. MS. notes. Dictionaries, by Chambers, Johnson, Ainsworth, Baretti, Motherby, Miller, &c. Leicester's Cheshire. Earl of Oxford's Col. of Voyages, 2 vols. Holy Bible, by Field, Wilson, Gill, Brown, Doway, Coll, &c. Morant's Essex, 2 vols. large paper. Peck's Stamford, large paper. Tanner's Notitia, by Nasmith. Scriptores Historiae Romanae, 3 tom. Plukenetti Opera, 4 tom. Homerus Gr. Hodierna, cum multis fig. Newton's Milton, 3 vols. eleg. Ferguson's and Gibbon's Rome, 9 vols. Pennant's Wales, London, and Scotland, 6 vols. New Test. by Tyndale, first edit. Vaughan's Antiquities. Fenn's Letters, 4 vols. Horae ad Usum Sarum, cum fig. MS. on vellum - 1498 Mountenay's Emblems, in seven languages. Gentleman's Magazine, 68 vols. Bell's Poets, 109 vols. Dodsley's Register, 31 vols. Gibbon's and Hook's Rome, 23 vols. eleg. Shakspeare, by Johnson, Stevens, Bell, Capel, and Malone, 51 vols. Ancient and Modern Universal History, 60 vols. Johnson's Poets, 75 vols. Hume's and Smollet's England, 13 vols. portraits. Voltaire's Works, 36 vols. Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, 14 vols. British Classics, 40 vols. Which are now selling, for ready Money only, at the exceeding low Prices printed in the Catalogue. by G. Sael, Bookseller, at the English Library, Newcastle Street, Strand, London, Who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books, or Books exchanged. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; Messrs. Merrills, Cambridge; Prince and Co. Oxford; Mr. Poole, Chester; and of the principal Book sellers in every County Town in England. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of G. Sael's future Catalogue, in either Town or Country, may depend on receiving it, by favouring him with their Address before the Publication. Country Dealers, and all Public Schools, &c. supplied with all Publications whatever, on the lowest Terms, and with the utmost Dispatch. Orders for Exportation punctually executed.
Sael, George, 1760 or 1761-1799.Date: 1792]- Books
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Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, With The Methods Of Discovering And Working Of Tin, Copper, And Lead Mines, And Of Cleansing And Metalizing Their Products, Shewing Each Particular Process For Dressing, Assaying, And Smelting Of Ores. To Which IS Added, An Explanation of the Terms and Idioms of Miners. By W. Pryce, of Redruth in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]