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Market-GardeningDate: c. 1815-c. 1835Reference: MS.3444- Books
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For 1792. A catalogue, of a fine and useful collection of ancient and modern books, (lately purchased), in all languages and sciences, The whole forming an Assemblage, of more then Twenty Thousand Volumes, in Maps Books of Prints History Antiquities Voyages Travels Philosophy Arts and Sciences Mathematicks Natural History Gardening Husbandry Trade Poetry Miscellanies Divinity Latin French, Italian, &c. Which are now selling remarkably Cheap, By Shepperson and Reynolds, booksellers, No. 137, Oxford Street. Who give the utmost Value for Libraries or Parcels of Books, and Exchange Books on the most Liberal Plan. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale, and of the following Booksellers: - Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; Meffieurs Robinson, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Brown, Corner of Essex-Street, Strand; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly, London: Mess. Merrill, Cambridge; and Mess. Cook and Fletcher, Oxford.
Shepperson and Reynolds.Date: 1792]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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C. Parker's new catalogue, of a fine collection of books, particularly of the history and antiquities, of this and foreign countries; Among others, are Folio. Crozat's Prints, 2 vol. Rossi's Statues Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vol. Luxembourg Gallery De Lisle's Atlas Prynne's Constitution of Eng. 3 vol. Monasticon, per Dugdale, 3 vol. - Ditto English & Origines Jurid. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Hist. of Eng. 5 vol. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. best edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum Maitland's London, 2 vol. Stow's London, 2 vol. Philpot's Kent Morant's Essex, 2 vol. lar. and sm. pap. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, lar. and sm. pap. Morton's Northamptonshire Dugdale's Warwickshire Coker's Dorsetshire Leicester's Cheshire Drake's York Prince's Worthies of Devon Peck's Hist. of Stamford Thorpe's Hist. of Rochester Parkyns's Kings Lynn Dart's Canterbury and York Higden's Polychronicon Fructus Temporum Carew of Elections-Wood's Athaenae Bacon's Abridgment of the Law, 5 vol. Thurloe's, Burleigh's, Sydney's, Strafford's, Roe's, Ormond's, &c. State Papers Fox's Martyrs, best edit. 3 vol. Blair's Chronology Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 2 vol. Churchill's, Harris's, Pococke's, Harleian, Hackluyt's, Frier's, Tavernier's, Wheler's, Drummond's, Chishull's, &c. Voyages and Travels Royal Commentaries of Peru Mariana's Hist. of Spain Ducarel's Ang. Norman Antiquities System of Geography, 2 vol. Hist. Romanae Scriptores, 3 vol. Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, &c. Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vol. Johnson's, Postlethwayte's, &c. Dictionary Scapulae Lexicon, edit. opt. Anderson of Commerce, 2 vol. Holland's Pliny-Uiry's Chaucer Hanbury's Gardening, 2 v. - Gerard's Herbal Guillim's Heraldry, best edit. Gibbs's Designs, lar. pap. Porcell's Orpheus Britain. Locke, Hobbes, &c. Quarto. Magna Britannia, II vol. Dr. Campbell's Survey of Britain, 2 vol. Grose's Antiquities, 2 vol. Hume and Macaulay's Hist. Lyttelton's Hen II. and Works, 5 vol. Robertson's Cha. V. and Scotland, 5 vol. Blackstone's Comment. and Tracts, 5 vol. Walpole's Painters, 4 vol. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vol. Hawkesworth's, Parkynson's, Bougainville's, Anson's, Phipps's, Ives's, &c. Voyages Hist. of Jamaica, 3 vol. Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. Albin's Birds and Infects, 4 vol. Ames on Printing-Dale's Harwich Milton, Pope, Locke, Bacon, Swift. Addison, Boyle, Bolingbroke, Middleton, Spenser, &c. Parl. Hist. and Debates, 65 vol. Svo. Universal History, 65 vol. 8vo. Which will be selling the 25th instant, and continue daily, At the Prices printed in the Catalogue; by C. Parker, Bookseller, The Upper Part of New Bond-Street. Where the atmost Value is given for any Library or Parcel of Books; Also Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Owen, within Temple-Bar; Mr. E. Johnson, in Ave-Maria Lane; Mess. Woodfall and Co. at Charing-Cross; Mr. Davenhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; Mr. Fletcher, at Oxford; and Mess. Merrill's, at Cambridge. 1775.
Parker, Charles, bookseller.Date: 1775]- Books
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The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... / edited by Alfred H. Miles ; assisted by a staff of specialists.
Date: [1897?]