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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Archives and manuscripts
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The merchants miscellany, and travellers complete compendium; containing a mercantile state and public view of the county of Bedford for 1785. Being a short description of each market town, list of tradesmen, the conveyances, &c. by John Franklin Henington, auctioneer an printer, at Northampton. Price 6 d.
Henington, John Franklin.Date: [1785]- Books
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Memoir of a map of Ireland; illustrating the topography of that kingdom, and containing a short account of its present state, civil and ecclesiastical; with a complete index to the map. By Daniel Augustus Beaufort, L.L.D. Rector of Navan in the county of meath, and vicar of collon, in the county of Louth. - M. R. I. A.
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739-1821.Date: 1792- Books
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Memoir of a map of Ireland; illustrating the topography of that Kingdom, and containing a short account of its present state, civil and ecclesiastical; with a complete index to the map. By Daniel Augustus Beaufort, L.L.D. Rector of Navan, in the County of Meath, and Vicar of Collon, in the County of Louth. - M. R. I. A.
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739-1821.Date: 1792- Books
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Morse's Geography. This day is published, in one large volume octavo, illustrated with maps, a new edition, price 8s. in boards, or 9s. bound. The American geography; or a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - Geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their boundaries; mountains; lakes; bays and rivers; natural history; productions; population; goverment; agriculture; commerce; manufactures; and history.-A concise account of the war, and of the important events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory, and Vermont.-Of their extent; civil divisions; chief towns; climates; soils; trade; character; constitutions; courts of justice; colleges; academies; religion; islands; Indians; literary and humane societies; springs; curiosities; histories; &c. To which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West-Indies.-Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiaii Morse.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Date: 1792- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: ... And to render this - work universally usefull & agreeable, ... are added ... 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate ... By Ino. Owen ... 2. The arms of the peers of this realm ... 3. The arms of all ye bishopricks & deanaries, ... 4. The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, ... Lastly particular & correct maps of all ye counties of South Britain; with a - summary description of each county, ... By Eman: Bowen engraver
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: 1730- Books
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A description of South Carolina; containing, Many curious and interesting Particulars relating to the Civil, Natural and Commercial history of that colony, viz. The Succession of European Settlers there; Grants of English Charters; Boundaries; Constitution of the Government; Taxes; Number of Inhabitants, and of the neighbouring Indian Nations, &c. The Nature of the Climate; Tabular Accounts of the Altitudes of the Barometer Monthly for Four Years, of the Depths of Rain Monthly for Eleven Years, and of the Winds Direction Daily for One Year, &c. The Culture and Produce of Rice, Indian Corn, and Indigo; the Process of extracting Tar and Turpentine; the State of their Maritime Trade in the Years 1710, 1723, 1740 and 1748, with the Number or Tonnage of Shipping employed, and the Species, Quantities and Values of their Produce exported in One Year, &c. To which is added, A very particular Account of their Rice-Trade for Twenty Years, with their Exports of Raw Silk and Imports of British Silk Manufactures for Twenty - five Years.
Glen, James, 1701-1777.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A new description of all the counties in England and Wales: containing I. In what diocese; the circumference in miles; Number of Acres and Houses; the Air, Soil, Rivers, Commodities, and chief Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of each county. II. Market - Towns, Market - Days, and Distances from London. III. Members of Parliament. IV. Fairs, fixed, and moveable. V. Coaches, Carriers, and Water-Bound, to all Parts of the Kingdom; what Days they go out of Town, and from whence. VI. Roads from London to the chief Towns, and Cross-Roads; each County distinct by itself alphabetically. Vii. The rates of coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. The Whole very plain and easy, and more exact than in any other Work.
R. R.Date: [1741]- Books
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The american geography; or, a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing Astronomical Geography - Geographical Definitions, Discovery, and General Description of America and the United States: - Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To which is added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with Two sheet Maps - One of the Southern, the other of the Northern states. - From the latest surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: M.DC.CXCII. [1792]- Books
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The American geography; or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A Concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With A Particular Description Of AtKentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To Which IS Added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with two sheet maps - One Of At The Southern, The Other Of At The Northern States. - From The Latest Surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The female pilgrim, or, the travels of Hephzibah, under the similitude of a dream: In which is given, An historical Account of the Pilgrim's Extract, and a Description of her native Country, with the State of the Inhabitants thereof. - The Reason why, and Manner how she left the Place of her Nativity, in Search of a better Country. - The kind Entertainment she met with on the Road-The Dangers she went thro', with her safe Arrival at the Country she travelled in Search of. Interspersed with Variety of Reflections, Dialogues, Songs, &c. The Whole calculated equally for Instruction and Entertainment, and suited to all Capacities. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is added, by the author of The spiritual magazine, a supplement to The female pilgrim, or the travels of Evangelistus: Containing, A succinct Narration of the Rise and Progress of that strong and unparallel'd Affection, which subsists between the Prince of Salem and the Princess Hephzibah, with a particular Account of their happy Marriage. To which is annexed, A Door to the Heart, or The Cabinet of Love opened, being a Key to the Allegory.
Mitchell, John, allegorist.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Archives and manuscripts
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Nicholas Munckley, Esq; of Hampstead, and several other gentlemen: Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following, Folio. Rapin and Tindal's Continuat. 5 vol. with all the cuts Sir James Ware's Works, 2 vol. Whitlock's Memorials, best edit. State Tryals, 6 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Journals H. Commons, with Indexes, 31 vol. Clarendon's Hist. and Continuat. 4 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. l. p. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. Mortan's Northamptonshire, l. pap. Thoresby's Leeds, l. pap. - small paper, in russia leather Religious Ceremonies. 6 vol. Antient and modern Hist. 23 vol. Le Brun's Voyages, 3 vol. Wheeler and Spon's Travels, Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Voyages de Norden, 2 tom. - de Thevenot, 2 tom. Locke, 3 vol. Bacon, 3 vol. Boyle, 5 vol. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts, large and sm. pap. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 vol. Bayle, 5 vol. General, 10 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Collier, 4 vol. Miller's Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Portuguese and English Dict. Bible, l pap. by Buck and Daniel - with fine cuts, in turkey leather, printed by Watson, - - Edinb. Patrick, Lowth and Whitby, 6 vol. Bp. Stillingfleet's Works, 6 vol. Dr. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Cases in the House of Lords, 18 vol. Coke's Institute, 2, 3, 4, last edit. Reports, by Croke, 3 vol. Raymond, 2 vol. Leonard, Bulstdoe, Shower, 2 vol. Siderfin, Hardress, Ventris, Vernon, &c. Bracton de Legibus Selden's Works, 6 vol. Le Grand Coustumier de Normandie Plinius Harduini, 3 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Herodotus Wesselingius Thucidides Duckeri Strabo, 2 tom. Thuanus, 7 tom. Gale Scriptores Ang. 3 tom. Twysden, Script. Ang. Anderson Diplomat. Scotiae Kircheri Oedip-Aegypt. 4 tom. Hill's Nat. Hist. 3 vol. coloured - Fossils, l. p. coloured Hortus Elthamens, 2 tom. Gualtieri Index Testac. Hippocrates & Galeni Opera a Chartatis, 9 tom. cum fig. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec Stuart's Athens Rossi's Statues Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 tom. l. pap. Vitruve, par Perrault L'ediffices de Rome, par Desgodeta With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on August 5th, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mr. Merrie, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale.
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The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters. Containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy; in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany, or France; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767; including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred. Extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch. To which are added, two catalogues; the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters; for the use of those, who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands, and manners, of the different schools. - The other, a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals. The whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method, than hath hitherto appeared; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of the admirers and professors of the art of painting. By the Rev. M. Pilkington, A.M. vicar of Donabate and Portraine, in the diocese of Dublin.
Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Bibliotheca elegans. A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Sir Robert Baylis, Knt. and Alderman, deceas'd. Containing a fine Collection of the best Editions of the Classics, printed by the most celebrated Printers; also the most approved Authors relating to the History and Antiquities of divers Nations, particularly Great-Britain and Ireland. And a curious Collection of Voyages and Travels. Which will be sold by auction, at the Rose Tavern near Temple-Bar, on Monday, November 20, 1749. and the Eleven following Evenings, (sunday excepted) beginning each Evening at Five O'Clock. N. B. The Books are very fine Copies, and most of them elegantly bound. Among many other valuable Articles are, Folio. De Bry's East and West Indies, 25 Parts, 12 vol. compleat Antiquite expliquee, par Montfaucon, 15 vol. 1st Impr. R. P. finely bound Dr. Clarke's Caesar, fine Prints Cicero, by Vascosan 70 vol. 410 - C. Steph. 2 v. beautiful Copy - Manutius, 4 vol. folio Dugdale Monasticon Angl. 3 vol. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. exemp. elegans Overbeeke's Antiq. of Rome Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. fine Copy Hakluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 4 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary Madox's History of the Exchequer Somner's Saxon Dictionary. Octavo. Classics, notis variorum, 34 vol. Elzevir Classics, 35 v. very fair and neat Hearne's Antiquities, 24 vol. Together with some curious single Prints, and eight handsome Book Cases with Glass Doors; which will be Sold in the 12th Days Sale at Noon. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Whiston in Fleetstreet, Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Millar in the Strand, Mr. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, Messrs. Thurlbourn and Merril at Cambridge, Mr. Fletcher in the Turl, Oxford, And at the Place of Sale. - The Books may be viewed on Thursday, November 16, Friday 17, and Saturday the 18th.
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711-1778.Date: 1749]- Books
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The life and extraordinary history of the Chevalier John Taylor. Member of the most celebrated academies, Universities, and Societies of the Learned-Chevalier in several of the first Courts in the World-Illustrious (by Patent) in the Apartments of many of the greatest Princes-Ophthalmiate-Pontifical, Imperial and Royal-to His late Majesty-to the Pontifical Court-to the Person of Her Imperial Majesty-to the Kings of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, &c. - to the several Electors of the Holy Empire-to the Royal Infant Duke of Parma-to the Prince of Saxe-Gotha, Serenissime. Brother to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales-to the Prince Royal of Poland-to the late Prince of Orange-to the present Princes of Bavaria, Modena, Lorrain, Brunswick, Anspack, Bareith, Leige, Salzbourg, Middlebourg, Hesse-Cassel, Holstein, Zerbst, Georgia, &c. - Citizen of Rome, by a public Act in the Name of the Senate and People-Fellow of that College of Physicians-Professor in Opticks-Doctor in Medicine and Doctor in Chirurgery in several Universities abroad. Who has been on his travels upwards of thirty years with little or no Interruption, during which, he has not only been several Times in every Town in these Kingdoms, but in every Kingdom, Province, State, and City of the least Consideration-in every Court-Presented to every Crowned Head and Sovereign Prince in all Europe, without Exception. Containing the greatest Variety of the most entertaining and interesting Adventures, that, 'tis presumed, has ever yet been published in any Country, or in any Language. Written from authentic materials, and published by his son, John Taylor Oculist. In two volumes.
Taylor, John, 1724-1787.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The life and extraordinary history of the Chevalier John Taylor. Member of the most celebrated academies, universities, and societies of the learned---Chevalier in several of the first courts in the world---Illustrious (by patent) in the apartments of many of the greatest princes---Ophthalminter Pontifical, Imperial and Royal---to His late Majesty---to the Pontifical Court---to the person of Her Imperial Majesty---to the Kings of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, &c. - --to the several Electors of the Holy Empire---to the Royal Infant Duke of Parma---to the Prince of Saxe-Gotha, serenissime brother to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales---to the Prince Royal of Poland---to the late Prince of Orange---to the present Princes of Bavaria, Modena, Lorrain, Brunswick, Anspach, Bareith, Leige, Salsbourg, Middlebourg, Hesse-Cassel, Holstein, Zerbst, Georgia, &c. - --Citizen of Rome, by a public act in the name of the Senate and people---Fellow of that College of Physicians---Professor in Opticks-Doctor in Medicine and Doctor in Chirurgery in several universities abroad. Who has been on his travels upwards of thirty years, with little or no interruption, during which, he has not only been several times in every town in these kingdoms, but in every kingdom, province, state, and city of the least consideration---in every court---presented to every crowned head and sovereign prince in all Europe, without exception. Containing the greatest variety of the most entertaining and interesting adventures, that, 'tis presumed, has ever yet been published in any country, or in any language. Written from authentic materials, and published by his son, John Taylor, oculist. In two volumes. ...
Taylor, John, 1724-1787.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- Books
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Edwards's catalogue of a select collection of ancient and modern books, in every branch of science, valuable drawings and prints, painted from the antique; Including the choicest Part of the Libraries of Monsignor Salichetti of Rome, late Physician to the Pope; of Cav. Zanetti of Venice; and an Assortment of the rarest and most esteemed Articles, collected in various Parts of Europe. Zanetti's Orig. Drawings of Ant. Stat. 2 v. Books of finely colour'd Drawings from Herculaneum, the Baths of Titus, and the Vatican, &c. Capital Drawings of Birds by G. di Udino, a scholar of Raphael Lewin's Paintings of English Birds, on vel. Albert Durer's Engravings complete Vernet's Prints, first impressions Piranesi's Works complete, 16 vol. russia Gallerie de Dresde Luxemburg Gallery, first impression Museum Florentinum, 13 vol. russia Museum Clementinum, 3 vol. russia Sir W. Hamilton's Views of Naples, col. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiq. col. Antiquities of Herculancum, royal edition Worlidge's Gems, fine impressions Houbraken's Heads, large paper, 1st impr. Hogarth's Works, old impressions, morocco The Old French School of Engravers, 14 v. Tewrdancks, 1517, printed on vel. & illum. Telemaque, grand papier, 1734 Voyages Pittoresq. D'italie, Grece, France, Sicile & Suisse, 21 vol. Superb Manuscripts of the Classics on vel. Alcoran, folio MS. with rich illuminations Decamerone di Boccacio, 1527, pr. on vel. Campbell's Vitruvins Britannicus, 5 vol. Sir W. Dugdale's Works Chronicles by Froissart, Holinshed, &c. Rapin & Tindal, russia Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores, edit. ptima Rymeri Foedera Dc Bry Navigationes in Indias Gesneri Numismata Montfaucon Mon. Francoise, 5 tom. gr. p. - Antiq. & Sup. 15 tom. gr. pa. Lancelot du Lac, Cirongilio di Francia, Primaleon y Polendos, Olivante de Macedonia, Amadis di Gaula, Guerino il Meschino, &c. Edmondson's Baronagium Anglicanum, 6 v Physique Sacre, 8 vol. morocco Winkelman Monumenta Inedita, 2 vol. Ariosto Orlando Furioso, carta mass. Biblia Sacra Mogunt. 1462, pr on vel. with il. Boccacio II Decamerone, ediz. prima Petrarca, 1472 Decor Puellarum, 1461 Psalterium, Gr. & Lat. 1481. edit. primae Juvenal, 1470, edit. princeps Florus, edit. princeps Manilius, 1474, edit. princeps Sallustius, edit. princeps Terentius, edit. princeps C. Nepos, 1471, edit. princeps Hist. Augustae Scriptores, 1475, edit. prin. Plautus, 1472, edit. princeps Rei Rusticae Scriptores, 1472, edit. prin. Solinus, 1473, edit. princeps V. Flaccus, 1474, edit. princeps Celsus, 1478, edit. princeps Astronomi Veteres, edit. princeps Lascaris Grammatica Graeca, 1480 Anthologia Graeca, 1494, edit. princeps Apoll. Rhodius, 1496, edit princeps Caefar a Clark, morocco Lucretius, charta max. 1712 Lactantius, 1468, morocco Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Delphin Classics complete Catullus, &c. Vulpii, charta max. 6 vol. Periera Antoniana Margarita Eustatius in Homerum, 4 vol. russ. Marchi Architettura Militare Atlas de D'anville Jacquin's Drawings of American Plants, Hortus Vindobonensis, &c. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 10 vol. Merian's Surinam, coloured Petiver's Works Lister's Shells Sloane's Jamaica Various Bibles, with fine cuts Cook's Voyages complete, first edition Voyages de Chardin, Nieburh, Sonderat, de la Valle, &c. Booke called Caton, Caxton, 1483 Pylgremage of the Soule, Caxton, 1483 Parliamentary Debates complete, 120 vol. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. complete Monthly Review, complete The whole are in fine Condition, and many of them in elegant Bindings. They are now on Sale, 1790, (at the Prices printed in the Catologue, and marked in the First Leaf of every Book) At Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall, London. - The full Value for Libraries. - Books exchanged and Libraries valued.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1790]- Books
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For one night only. At the theatre, Wisbech: Mr. Scriven presents his most respectful Compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wisbech-Begs Leave to inform them he has at a great Expence purchased a Correct Copy of that truly admirable and entertaining Poetic and Prosaic Composition, called Collins's Evening Brush, Exhibited by the Author, in London and several of the Principal Cities and Towns in this Kingdom, to the most elegant and crowded Audiences-A Piece, allowed by all who have honoured it by their Attention to be replete with Wit, Humour, Satire, and Food for Laughter. On Friday Evening August 27th. 1790, will be presented a pasticcio, call'd Collins's Evening Brush. For Rubbing off the Rust of Care: Divided into four parts. Part I. An Exordium to the Audience, wherein the Author shews his wish to please, with a particular Attention to avoid giving Offence to any Individual, by a Sacrifice to the Shrine of Ill Nature, or the slightest Stab to moral Virtue Then follows as an Introduction to the Piece itself. The Brush Song. After which A Dissertation on Actors and Acting. The humorous contrast between Jack Sly and John Bull, the late David Garrick and Snip the Taylor. Hamlet and the Scot's Pedlar. The Tragedy Belwether, and Tragedy Bantam Cock. Concluding with a Comic Song, called Shakespear's seven Ages, In which will be Introduced The Infant, The Schoolboy, The Lover, The Soldier, The Justice, The Old Man, And Second Childhood. Part II. A Humorous Description of Parish Clerks. A critical dispute, Whether a Hedge Hog is an Animal, or a Vegetable; an Artifical or a Natural Curiosity. The Political Barber. The Learned Irish School-Master, teaching the Little Puny Whipsters their Cris-Cross-Row. Darby Logan, the Irish Bull-Maker. Concluding with an Irish Song. in which he gives a humorous Description of his Voyage from Dublin to London. End of Act II. - The Lass of Richmond Hill, by Mrs. Scriven: Part III. The Imperfect Norwich Actor, Dryden's Pegasus, The English Aristophanes The One armed Tragedian. And the Raw-Boned Actresses. Concluding with the Comic Song of, Ancient Rome contrasted with Modern London. A Hunting Song, by Mrs. Scriven. Part IV. A song, called the disgraced Roman General Bellisarius. The Puny Richard the Third. Concluding with a new comic song. During the evening The New Four & Twenty Fidlers. The Whole to Conclude with A Hornpipe by Mr. Sriven. Doors to be open'd at Six, and begin precisely at Seven O'Clock. - Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had at the Inns, Printing-Office, and of Mr. Scriven at Mr. Friend's in Deadman's-Lane.
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