A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.

Date

[1880]

The adventures of an air balloon wherein are delineated many distinguished characters, male and female; particularly Dr. M-; G- H-, Esq; with his poem of the Rape of the smock, &c. &c.

Date

[1780?]

Saratoga, queen of spas : a history of the Saratoga Spa and the mineral springs of the Saratoga and Ballston areas / by Grace Maguire Swanner.

Date

[1988], ©1988

Caring for unemployed people : a study of the impact of unemployment on demand for personal social services / prepared for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities by Susan Balloch [and others].

Date

1985

State of world population, 2003 : making 1 billion count : investing in adolescents' health and rights.

Date

2003

New fire-works, at the Prospect Hotel, Hooper's Hill, Margate. Signior Hengler & Co. Artists in fire-works, of Vauxhall, inform the Nobility and Gentry of Margate, Ramsgate, and their environs, that they will exhibit a grand and brilliant display of fire-works, on Thursday evening next, the 7th August, 1800, In a far superior style to any yet displayed in this Place. order of firing. 1. Three Signal Rockets 2. Battery of Maroons 3. A Bengal Fire 4. The Grand Wheel of Boreas, in Blue, White, Green, and Brilliant Fires, surrounded with Brilliant Stars 5. A Grand Battery of Sofison Volland 6. A Horizontal Girandole Wheel, with Roman Candles and Mines 7 A Vertical Wheel in Brilliant Fire, in which will appear a Contact between the Sun and Moon 8. A Flight of Rockets 9. The Grand Star of Malta, in Four Mutations, in Radiant and Brilliant Angelic Pires 10. A Battery of Sofison Volland 11. A Grand Air Balloon 12. A Brilliant Sun, will change six times into at Brilliant Star, and finishes with a Brilliant Glory 13. Les Drous Ballanciers illuminated 14. A Flight of Rockets 15. A Grand Piece of Four Mutations; a Brilliant Sun; a double Etclioger, which forms more than a 100 Circles, and finishes in a fix'd Star 15. The whole to conclude with a Grand Piece of Mechanical Fire-Works, picturesquely displaying the Daemons of Envy in two Snakes opposed to two Butterflies, in their natural and variegated Colours, as drawn by a natural Historic Painter. This Piece is really moveable, and the Snakes will appear as if alive Admission One Shilling each Person. doors to be opened at six o'clock, and the fire-works to begin at nine. Tickets may be had at the Printing Office, Parade, Margate; and at the Bar of the Prospect Hotel. Letters or Orders directed for Signior Hengler, at his Office, facing the Free-Mason's Charity School, near the Obelisk, St. George's Fields, will be duly honored. In case of Bad Weather the Exhibition will be on the next Fine Evening following.

Date

[1800]

The mercantile manual second book: Concerning decimal arithmetick containing a copious series of tables & tariffes, for universal mercantile computations: fit for use in all countries of the world, which do exhibit and show. The amount product and quotient, for any quantity and infinit[i]m: at all rates and prices, of merchandizes & publick stocks &c. Moneys and exchanges. Sums &c with so much ..... pbt. advance. Sums &c by so much........pbt discount. Net interest, commssion &c at....pbt. net discount & robate at....pbt. compound interest for sums annuities & yours purchase billion of gold and silver and most of all other objects of trade and comerce. The whole engravd on copper plates & exactly corrected, By Mr. James Lostau. merchant in London. Publd according to act of Parliament July 1739.

Date

1735

Britannicus estimator: or, The trader's complete guide. In two parts. Part I. Contains, a correct, full, and useful table, shewing the value or price of any quantity of goods or merchandizes, from one pound, yard, &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000, at all the various prices, increasing progressively from a farthing to a pound sterling.-With a practical table of all the cases in the rule of practice prefixed to it, in order to prove the same. Part II. Consists of sundry mercantile tables, viz. I. A table of the value of Portugal pieces in English money. II.-How to buy and sell by the [hand]. Weight to advantage. III.-Simple interest at 3 per cent. for days, months, &c. IV.-Commission or brokage. V.-The number of days from any day in one month to the same day in any other month. VI.-Of annuities for lives. VII.-The dominical letters ot the year 1800. VIII. A perpetual diary, shewing the day of the week corresponding to the day of the month in any year: and the day of the week that begins any month for ever. IX. Table of the gold and silver coins assayed in the Mint, and rated as [billion]. X.-Value of gold and silver. XII.-The agreement which the court measures, and other weights and measures have with each other, in all the principal places in Europe. XIII.-The weights and measures used in England. XIV.-English money equated in Irish, and Irish in English. XV. Tide table for all the sea[ports] in Great-Britain and the channel, &c. &c. By Thomas, merchant. Author of the British negociator, or Foreign exchange made easy.

Date

M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]

Oversize ephemera. EPH+55.