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Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary : designed as a body of physic and surgery both with regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. / By R. James, M.D.
James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776Date: [1741]
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Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ... Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...
Date: M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798] (Copy-right secured according to law)
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A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index; being a collection of a great variety of the most useful sea-terms in the above idioms. By Henry Newman, agent and translator of languages.
Neuman, Henry, active 1798-1799.Date: 1800
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The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1712
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An universal, historical, geographical, chronological and poetical dictionary, exactly describing the situation, extent, customs, laws, Manners, Commodities, &c. of all Kingdoms, Common-Wealths, Provinces, Islands and Cities, in the known world. Containing Likewise The Lives of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and Primitive Fathers; Emperors, Kings, Princes, Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, and other eminent Persons; with an Account of the Inventors and Improvers of Arts and Sciences, Philosophers, and all Celebrated Authors. Also The History of the Pagan Gods, very useful for the Understanding of Classick Authors; of the several Sects among the Jews, Christians, Heathens and Mahometans, with their principal Ceremonies, Games and Festivals; of General Councils and Synods, when, and where Assembled; of the Establishment and Progress of Religious and Military Orders; and of the Genealogies of the most Illustrious Families, especially our English, Scotch and Irish. The Whole consisting of a curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History, Extracted from Moreri, Baylc, Baudrand, Hoffman, Danet, and many more of the best and choicest Historians, Geographers, Chronologers and Lexicographers, Antient and Modern. In two volumes
Date: 1703
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Prospectus of a Supplement to the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. By George Gleig, ... editor of the last six volumes of that work.
Date: 1797]
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Miscellaneous selections: or the rudiments of useful knowledge, from the first authorities. Designed for Senior Scholars in Schools, and for Young Persons in General. Containing useful information on a variety of subjects not to be found in any book of general use, in schools: and yet by all persons, necessary to be known. Compiled by J. Guy, Master of the Literary and Commercial Seminary, Bristol: Author of an English Grammar-Epitome of Geography and Astronomy-Universal Chart of History, &c. ...
Guy, J. (John).Date: 1796
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The American oracle. Comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness. By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America. [Two lines in Latin]
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: [1791]
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The modern gazetteer: or Compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the ...pires, ...ngdoms, ...ates, ...publicks, ...ovinces, ...ties, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadles, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories. In the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants. The ...tent, bounds, and natural productions of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, beating and distances in English miles from remarkable places; as also ... sieges they have undergone, and the battles that have been fought near them, particularly those of the last war; attention has also been paid to the partition made by the late treaty of peace. In the articles of Ireland and America all advantages have been taken of whatever has been hitherto wrote, with many thousand additions, not to be found in any other geographical dictionary of gazetteer. The second edition, carefully corrected, with a collection of modern maps, those of Germany and America, will illustrate the theatre of the late war, (carefully attended to in this work the latter in particular points out, the now British Empire there, with the late conquests. R. Brookes, M.D. author of The new system of natural history.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]
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The gentlemans recreation : in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705Date: 1686
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Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; containing an explication of the terms, and an account of the things signified thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical; and the several sciences, human and divine: the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses of things natural and artificial: the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial: with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c. among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, critics, &c. The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning. Extracted from the best authors, dictionaries, journals, memoirs, transactions, ephemerides, &c. in several languages. By E. Chambers, F.R.S. The seventh edition, corrected and amended. In two volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: MDCCLI-MDCCLII [1751-1752]
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Lingua Britannica reformata: or, a new English dictionary, under the following titles, viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction, containing a physico-grammatical essay on the propriety and rationale of the English tongue, ... By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1749
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Youth's general director, or Hoey's new instructor; containing; compendious English grammar, with the defini[tions] and etymology of all the terms made use of [its] science.--The Hibernian penman, or a new and [] introduction to the art of writing.--Select familiar letters on several occasions.--Instructions for addressing persons of all distinctions.--Art's Glory, or ready accomptant; being a new and compendious system of practical arithmetick.--Questions for the exercise of arithmetick.--Price of any commodity, by the tun, hundred, pound, ounce, yard, &c.--Directions to merchants how to keep their accounts.--A perpetual almanack of daily use to all traders.--Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land.--Direction for the well managing trade.--Directions to young shop-keepers and other tradesemen.--Book-keeping after the Italian manner, &c.--A short system of book keeping for shop-keepers.--Bills of exchange, with variety of examples of inland and foreign bills; likewise useful remarks and observations on bills and promissary notes.--A method of book-keeping for gentlmen of landed estates, factors, or stewards.--A short, but comprehensive account of all arts and sciiences.--Variety of letters on business and mercantile affairs.-An account of the commodities of all countries. N.B. not one of the above particulars were ever publish'd before in this kingdom. Revised by W. Richards, Accomptant.
Date: 1751
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Proposals for publishing in weekly numbers, Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia ; or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences : ...In four volumes. ...
Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740.Date: 1777]
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A compleat key to Law is a bottomless pit, in all its parts: with above a hundred more explanations than in any former edition. And The story of the St. Alban's ghost. To which is added, A key to the History of P Ml. In three parts: as also one to the proceedings of the M-'s and P-'s.
Date: [1712]
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An universal etymological English dictionary; ... Seventeenth edition, with considerable improvements. By N. Bailey, ...
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1759
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The new royal encyclopædia; or, complete modern universal dictionary of arts and sciences. On a new and improved plan. ... Containing a copious digest and display of the whole theory and practice of the liberal and mechanical arts. ... Including ... information that is contained in Chambers's cyclopædia, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the French encyclopedie. ... In three volumes. ... By William Henry Hall, ... The second edition. Revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged, by Thomas Augustus Lloyd, ... Illustrated with ... copper-plates, ...
Hall, William Henry, -1807.Date: [1791?]
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Encyclopedie Françoise, Latine et Angloise, ou dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, Francois, Latin et Anglois, Contenant La signification et l'explication de tous les mots de ces trois Langues, & de tous les termes relatifs aux Arts & aux Sciences. Tome premier A-K
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]
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An easy introduction to the arts and sciences: being a short, but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning. Divided into lessons. Illustrated with cuts, and adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies. By R. Turner, Jun. of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford: Author of an Easy Introduction to Geography, &c.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
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The universal Library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1722
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A catalogue of books printed for Daniel Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar.
Browne, Daniel, -1762.Date: 1740?]
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Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary; Designed as a Body of Physic and Surgery Both with Regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. By R. James, M.D.
James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776.Date: [1741]
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The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. ...
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1712
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This day is published at W. Sleater's, No. 28, Dame-Street, Price Twelve Guineas bound, in five Volumes folio calf and lettered, the Index and Plates making a separate Volume. Chamber's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, improved and illustrated with a great number of Copper-Plates.
Sleater, William, -1801.Date: 1787?]
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The new Royal cyclopædia, and encyclopædia; or, complete, modern and universal dictionary of arts and sciences. ... Illustrated with ... copper-plates, ... In three ... volumes. ... By George Selby Howard, ... Assisted by many gentlemen ... John Bettesworth, ... Henry Boswell, ... Felix Stonehouse, D.D. and others.
Date: [1788?]

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Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary : designed as a body of physic and surgery both with regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. / By R. James, M.D.

Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ... Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...

A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index; being a collection of a great variety of the most useful sea-terms in the above idioms. By Henry Newman, agent and translator of languages.

Prospectus of a Supplement to the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. By George Gleig, ... editor of the last six volumes of that work.

Lingua Britannica reformata: or, a new English dictionary, under the following titles, viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction, containing a physico-grammatical essay on the propriety and rationale of the English tongue, ... By Benj. Martin.

Proposals for publishing in weekly numbers, Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia ; or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences : ...In four volumes. ...

A compleat key to Law is a bottomless pit, in all its parts: with above a hundred more explanations than in any former edition. And The story of the St. Alban's ghost. To which is added, A key to the History of P Ml. In three parts: as also one to the proceedings of the M-'s and P-'s.

An universal etymological English dictionary; ... Seventeenth edition, with considerable improvements. By N. Bailey, ...

Encyclopedie Françoise, Latine et Angloise, ou dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, Francois, Latin et Anglois, Contenant La signification et l'explication de tous les mots de ces trois Langues, & de tous les termes relatifs aux Arts & aux Sciences. Tome premier A-K

A catalogue of books printed for Daniel Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar.

Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary; Designed as a Body of Physic and Surgery Both with Regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. By R. James, M.D.

The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. ...

This day is published at W. Sleater's, No. 28, Dame-Street, Price Twelve Guineas bound, in five Volumes folio calf and lettered, the Index and Plates making a separate Volume. Chamber's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, improved and illustrated with a great number of Copper-Plates.

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Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary : designed as a body of physic and surgery both with regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. / By R. James, M.D.

Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature ... Compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages ... Illustrated with five hundred and forty-two copperplates. ...

A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index; being a collection of a great variety of the most useful sea-terms in the above idioms. By Henry Newman, agent and translator of languages.

Prospectus of a Supplement to the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. By George Gleig, ... editor of the last six volumes of that work.

Lingua Britannica reformata: or, a new English dictionary, under the following titles, viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction, containing a physico-grammatical essay on the propriety and rationale of the English tongue, ... By Benj. Martin.

Proposals for publishing in weekly numbers, Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia ; or, universal dictionary of arts and sciences : ...In four volumes. ...

A compleat key to Law is a bottomless pit, in all its parts: with above a hundred more explanations than in any former edition. And The story of the St. Alban's ghost. To which is added, A key to the History of P Ml. In three parts: as also one to the proceedings of the M-'s and P-'s.

An universal etymological English dictionary; ... Seventeenth edition, with considerable improvements. By N. Bailey, ...

Encyclopedie Françoise, Latine et Angloise, ou dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, Francois, Latin et Anglois, Contenant La signification et l'explication de tous les mots de ces trois Langues, & de tous les termes relatifs aux Arts & aux Sciences. Tome premier A-K

A catalogue of books printed for Daniel Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar.

Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary; Designed as a Body of Physic and Surgery Both with Regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. By R. James, M.D.

The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. ...

This day is published at W. Sleater's, No. 28, Dame-Street, Price Twelve Guineas bound, in five Volumes folio calf and lettered, the Index and Plates making a separate Volume. Chamber's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, improved and illustrated with a great number of Copper-Plates.