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Obesity and Britain’s boys
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
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Tables of weights, for reducing English weight into factory and bazar weight, and the contrary. Most Respectfully Inscribed To The Merchants Of Calcutta, by Edward Gardner.
Gardner, Edward, of Calcutta.Date: 1794- Books
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Tables of the various weights and measures, and the different coins, both imaginary and real by which all accompts in Asia are kept; Together with the customs, exchanges, port charges, &c. and correct batty tables, made use of at the different ports in the East-Indies, to which Europeans trade. Also, an account of the names and touches of gold, weights and coins, emperor's and hoppo's duties on the measurage of European ships, with the respective duties on all goods exported and imported at Canton, in China. Likewise, tables for reducing Troy weights into canton weights, and canton weights into troy weights, for the more expeditious paying of silver to the Chinese merchants, calculated from one penny weight to 100,000 ounces, and from one mace to 100,000 tales, &c. &c. compiled with the greatest exactness, and which has been allowed to the the trust tables, and recommended by the American and Portugal merchants, who are continually trading from port to port in the East-Indies. The whole has been found to be very useful to all persons trading to those parts, and hath detected the many frequent frauds and impositions committed by the natives.
Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The whole works of Flavius Josephus: containing I. The Antiquities of the Jewish People, in Twenty Books. The Wars of the Jews with the Romans, from their Commencement to the final Destruction of Jerusalem, by Titus, in the Reign of Vespasian. In Seven Books. III. The Two Books of Josephus, in Defence of the Jewish Antiquities, against Apion. IV. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. V. Account of Philo's Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor Caius Caligula. VI. The Life of Flavius Josephus, as written by Himself. Vii. The Testimonies of Josephus, concerning Our Blessed Saviour, St. John the Baptist, &c. &c. &c. To which is added, a continuation of the history of the Jews, from the death of Josephus to the present time. Also, notes - explanatory, historical, Biographical, Classical, Critical, and Geographical, With Marginal References And Copious Indexes. Likewise Tables of the Jewish Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. The whole newly translated from the original Greek. By Ebenezer Thompson, D.D and Wm. Chas. Price, LL.D. A new edition, revised, corrected, and greatly improved. Embellished with copper-plates.
Josephus, Flavius.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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Tables of weights and prices, on a new plan; By which the value of any quantity of goods, sold by avoirdupois weight, from a single pound to five tuns, and from two shillings to ten pounds ten shillings per hundred, may be known without the labour of multiplying or dividing. Particularly useful to dealers in hops, wool, hay, cheese, grocery, and other commodities. By J. Elmer, of Farnham, Surry.
Elmer, J.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Commercial tables . Exhibiting a View of the Weights, Measures, Coins, and Monies of France, compared and equalized with those of Great Britain. Containing Tables of French and English Weights, - of English and French ditto, - of French and English Cloth Measure, - of English and French ditto, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Dry Measure, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Liquid Measure, - of Coins, - of Money. Exchanges; comprehending Eighty-One different Rates, being all the Variations which occur in the practice of Exchange, from 27 to 32 inclusive, from 1 Livre to 30 Thousand; And a General Table from 40 Thousand to 1 Million. A Ready Reckoner in French Money. A General Table of Duties payable on Goods and Merchandize Imported from France. Forms of Bills of Exchange-French and English. To which is added, an ample Extract from the Commercial Treaty concluded with France the 26th of September 1786, in the French and English Languages. By a British merchant, formerly resident in France.
British Merchant.Date: 1790