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Telliamed: or, discourses Between an Indian philosopher, and a French missionary, on the Diminution of the sea, the Formation of the Earth, the Origin of Men and Animals, And other Curious Subjects relating to Natural History and Philosophy. Being a Translation from the French Original of Mr. Maillet, Author of the Description of Egypt.
Maillet, Benoı̂t de, 1656-1738.Date: 1750- Books
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Philosophical essays on various subjects, viz. Space, substance, body, spirit, the Operations of the Soul in Union with the Body, Innate Ideas, perpetual Consciousness, Place and Motion of Spirits, the departing Soul, the Resurrection of the Body, the Production and Operations of Plants and Animals; with some remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is subjoined A brief scheme of ontology, or the Science of Being in general with its Affections. By I. W.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Philosophical essays on various subjects, viz. Space, substance, body, spirit, the Operations of the Soul in Union with the Body, Innate Ideas, perpetual Consciousness, Place and Motion of Spirits, the departing Soul, the Resurrection of the Body, the Production and Operations of Plants and Animals: with some remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is subjoined A brief scheme of ontology, or The Science of Being in general, with its Affections. By I. Watts, D.D.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The natural history of animals containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein The Construction, Fabrick and genuine Use of the Parts, are exactly and finely delineated in Copper Plates, and the whole Enriched with many Curious Physical and no less useful Anatomical Remarks, being one of the most Considerable Productions of that Academy. Done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, Published by the Members of the same Academy: English'd by R.W. Srs. With an alphabetical table of the Names of the several Animals mention'd in this Volume. And likewise an Alphabetical Index to make the Work Compleat. Publish'd by an Order of Council of the Royal Society
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: 1702- Books
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Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes. From the learned Raymond de St. Maur. Wherein The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the Names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, rendered easy and intelligible. Also The Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult Passages cleared of their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the Standard of the English Idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with a great number of copper-plates.
Dupré de Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François, 1695-1774.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A new and accurate system of natural history; containing I. The history of quadrupedes, including Amphibious Animals, Frogs, and Lizards, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. II. The History of Birds, with the Method of bringing up those of the singing Kind. III. The History of Fishes and Serpents, including Sea-Turtles, Crustaceous and Shell-Fishes; with their medicinal Uses. IV. The History of Insects, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. V. The History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils, and Minerals; with their Virtues, Properties, and Medicinal Uses: To which is added, the Method in which Linnaeus has treated these Subjects. VI. The history of vegetables, as well Foreign as Indigenous, including an Account of the Roots, Barks, Woods, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Resins, Gums, and concreted Juices; as also their Properties, Virtues, and Uses in Medicine; together with the Method of cultivating those planted in Gardens. By R. Brookes, M. D. Author of the General Practice of Physic. In six volumes.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The art of farriery both in theory and practice containing the causes, symptoms, and cure of all diseases incident to horses. With anatomical descriptions, illustrated with cuts, For the better Explaining The Structure, and accounting for the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out. By Mr. John Reeves, Farrier at Ringwood, Hants. The whole revised, corrected, and enlarged by a physician. To which is added, a new method of curing a strain in the Back Sinews, and the Anatomy of a Horse's Leg, with some Observations on Shoeing, by an eminent surgeon.
Reeves, John, farrier.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The longitude demonstrated, by the use of a silent pendulum; that keeps true time at sea. And made plain (by an Index Instrument) to the meanest Capacity. With a new observatory for finding the meridian altitude of sun or stars, and a great Improvement of the Sun-Quadrant; which are more exact than any heretofore known: With fair Copper Cuts of the Machine, and all the other Instruments. And a table of the acceleration of fixed stars, more exact than any heretofore extant; with the Sun's Declination, Right Ascension, and Equation of Time; and other useful Tables fitted to this Work. An Experiment of what Proportion a Pendulum lengthens in the greatest Heat, where Animals can live, or Vegetables grow; and at several other Degrees of Heat, to red-hot. With a Method to make a Pendulum to fit all Climates; with several other uncommon Experiments. By Jonah Crathorne.
Crathorne, Jonah.Date: 1718- Books
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A treatise concerning the husbandry and natural history of England, in twenty two chapters, viz. 1. On Saint Foin. 2. Of Ploughs and Carriages. 3. Of digging of Land, setting and howing of Corn. 4. Of Gardening. 5. Of Smut and Mildew. 6. Of planting Fruits. 7. Of the Defect of Fruits. 8. Of Vines. 9. Of Hemp and Flax. 10. Of Dunging and Manuring Land. 11. Of the Improvement of Meadows. 12. Of Waste-Land. 13. Of Woods. 14. Of Bees. 15. Of Silk-Worms. 16. Of the Husbandry of other Countries. 17. Of our Ignorance of the Metals, Minerals, &c. produced in England. 18. Of our Ignorance of the Virtues and Uses of the Vegetables of England. 19. Of Animals, Fishes, Insects, &c. 20. Of divers Things necessary for the Good of Cattle. 21. Of many Necessaries wanting in Agriculture. 22. Of God's Blessing on the Husband-Man's Labour. Useful for all persons, especially those who have any Concern in Rural Affairs. By Sir Richard Weston, Late of Sutton in the County of Surrey, and left by him, as a Legacy, to his Sons; with an Introduction addressed to them, written by himself. And a preface by Mr. Sam. Hartlib.
Hartlib, Samuel, -1662.Date: [1742]- Books
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Calmet's great dictionary of the Holy Bible: historical, critical, geographical, and etymological: Wherein are Explained, all the proper names in the Old and New Testament, of men, women, Cities, Countries, Rivers, Mountains, &c. Also Most of the significant and remarkable appellatives: with accounts of the Natural Productions, Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Stones, Gems, &c. The Antiquities, Habits, Buildings, and Other Curiosities of the Jews. with an ample chronological table of the History of the Rible, Jewish Calendar, Tables of the Hebrew coins, weights and measures, Reduced to our own, &c. &c. Revised, corrected, and augmented, with an entirely new set of plates, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Ornamental, under the direction of C. Taylor.
Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757.Date: 1797-1801- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The art of farriery both in theory and practice, containing the causes, symptoms, and cure of all diseases incident to horses. With anatomical descriptions, illustrated with cuts, For the better Explaining The Structure, and accounting for the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out. By Mr. John Reeves, Farrier at Ringwood, Hants. The whole revised, corrected, and enlarged by a physician. To which is added, a new method of curing a strain in the back sinews, and the Anatomy of a Horse's Leg. With some Observations on Shoeing, Also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure. By an eminent surgeon.
Reeves, John, farrier.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
On some animals mentioned in the Bible / I. Aharoni.
Aharoni, A.Date: 1938- Books
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The grand gazetteer, or topographic dictionary, both general and special, and antient as well as modern, &c. Being A succinct but comprehensive Geographical Description of the various Countries of the habitable known World, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of Great-Britain and Ireland, and all the British Settlements abroad, or where we have Trade, Commerce, or Correspondence. Shewing The situation, Extent, and Boundaries, of all the Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, Provinces, Cities, Chief Towns, &c. with their several Climates, Soils, Produces, Animals, Plants, Minerals, &c. the Government, Traffick, Arts, Manufactures, Customs, Manners, and Religion, of the divers Nations; and the vast many admirable (some of them stupendous) Curiosities both Natural and Artificial; the most remarkable Events, Accidents, and Revolutions, in all past Ages; &c. &c. Aptly and requisitely interspers'd with many Thousands of uncommon Passages, strange Occurrences, critical Observations (as well sacred as prophane), and proper Relations; which most agreeably surprize, and delightfully inform. Diligently extracted, and as accurately as possible compiled, from the most esteemed Voyagers, Travellers, Geographers, Historians, Criticks, &c. extant. A Work in its Form entirely New, very necessary for Numbers, and serviceable to all Degrees of Readers. - (not excepting the most Learned, and with Libraries best Furnish'd)-Readers not only of News-Papers, Magazines, &c. &c. &c. but of Histories of former Ages or the present, the Classicks, and even the Sacred Writ itself; the Antique Articles being collected either from Original Authors or the best Translators, and divers Learned Commentators on the Bible, &c. &c. By Andrew Brice, of Exeter.
Brice, Andrew, 1690-1773.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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A catalogue of a large and elegant collection of books, including the libraries of the late learned and Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, Editor of Xenophon; the Rev. Mr. Mudge, of Plymouth; and several other curious libraries, lately purchased. Among them are Sebae Museum, 4 vol. many cuts. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured. Mrs. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. coloured. Knorr Deliciae Naturae, 2 vol. coloured. Meyer's Animals, 2 vol. coloured. Schefferi Fungi, 2 vol. coloured. Roesel's Frogs and Insects, coloured. Gleichen Nouvelles Decouvertes, coloured. Parkinson's Herbal, 2 vol. L. P. Turkey. Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Miller's Figures of Plants, 2 vol. coloured. British Zoology, compleat, coloured. Gerrarde's Herbal, by Johnson, coloured. Rumphii Herbarium Amboinense, 7 vol. Edward's Birds & Gleanings, 7 v. 4to, col. Oederi Flora Danica, 8 Fasciculi. Raii & Bauhini Hist. Plant. 6 vol. Plukenetii Opera omnia, 4 vol. 4to. ... Poetae Graeci, H. Stephani, 2 vol. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. Aristophanes, Ammianus, Dionys. Halicarn. Diodorus Siculus, Dion Cassius, Josephus, Pindar, Polybius, Plutarch, Pausanias, Ptolemaei Geog. Strabo, Thucydides, Vitruvius, & alii, edit. opt. Ld. Burlington's Palladio. Edmondson's Baronagium, 5 vol. L. P. Desgodetz Edifices Antiques de Rome. Galleria Giustiniana, 2 vol. edit opt. ... Voyage par Norden, 2 tom. Saurin sur la Bible, 6 tom. fig. Calmet, Comment. sur la Bible, 9 tom. Calmet, Diction. de la Bible, 4 tom. G. P. Biblia Polyglotta, &c. Waltoni, 8 v. ruled. Critici Sacri, &c. 13 vol. edit. op. Sixti V. Septuaginta Gr. Romae. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. edit. bened. S. Hieronymi Opera; 5 vol. edit. bened. Field's Bible, 2 vol. cuts, Russia. Bartoloccii Bibliotheca Rabbin. 5 vol. ... R. Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vol. Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Bacon's Abridgment, 5 vol. new edit. Coke on Littleton, last edit. And a great Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Learning. The lowest Prices are printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book: And the sale will begin on Tuesday, the 13th of February, 1770, and continue till all the Books are sold, by Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1770]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpe[nt]s, [an]d in[sec]ts. With a particular account of the manner of their catching of whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, adapted to the Use of all Capacities. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously engraven every Beast-Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Memoirs for a natural history of animals, containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein the constructive fabrick and genuine use of the parts, are exactly and finely delineated in copper plates, and the whole enriched with many curious physical and no less usefull anatomical remarks, being one of the most considerable productions of that academy. Done into English by a fellow of the R.S. To which is added, an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the Earth, publish'd by the members of the same academy: English'd by R.W. SRS. With an alphabetical table of the names of the several animals mention'd in this volume. And likewise an alphabetical index to make the work compleat. Publish'd by an order of council of the Royal Society.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: 1701- Books
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Just publish'd, A description Of Three Hundred animals; viz. birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and insects. With A Particular Account of the Whale-Fishery. Extracted out of the Best Authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities; especially to allure Children to Read. Illustrated with Xcix Copper Plates, whereon is curiously Engraved every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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A description of three hundred animals; viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the whale-fishery. Extracted out of the best authors, and adapted to the Use of all Capacities; especially to allure Children to Read. Illustrated with copper plates, whereon is curiously Engraved every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, describ'd in the whole Book.
Boreman, Thomas, active 1730-1743.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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A new and accurate system of natural history; Containing, I. The history of quadrupedes, including amphibious animals, frogs, and lizards, with their propertics and uses in medicine. II. The history of birds, with the method of bringing up those of the singing kind. III. The history of fishes and serpents, including sea-turtles, crustaceous and shell-fishes; with their medicinal uses. IV. The history of insects, with their properties and uses in medicine. V. The history of waters, earths, stones, fossils, and minerals; with their virtues, properties, and medicinal uses: to which is added, the method in which linnŭs has treated these subjects VI. The history of vegetables, as well foreign as indigenous, including an account of the roots, barks, woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, resins, gums, and concreted juices; as also their properties, virtues, and uses in medicine; together with the method of cultivating those planted in gardens. By R. Brookes, M.D. author of The general practice of physic. In six volumes.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Pictures
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Noah and his companions follow the animals into the Ark. Etching.
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A treatise on the virtues and efficacy of a crust of bread, eat early in a morning fasting, To which are added some particular remarks concerning the great cures accomplished by the saliva or fasting spittle, as well when externally applied, as when internally given, in the scurvy, gravel, stone, rheumatism; and divers other diseases, arising from obstructions. With some critical observations concerning the recrements of the blood; demonstrating, that when regularly secreted, they both contribute to preserve the life of animals and keep them in health. By a Physician.
Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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A voyage round the world, in His Majesty's ship the Dolphin, commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron. In which is contained, a faithful account of the several places, people, plants, animals, &c. seen on the voyage: and, among other particulars, a minute and exact description of the streights of Magellan, and of the gigantic people called Patagonians. Together with an accurate account of seven islands lately discovered in the South Seas. By an officer on board the said ship.
Officer on board the said ship (the Dolphin).Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]