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The pen's dexterity: or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates (curiously Engrav'd in the Author's Life-Time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters and Contractions us'd therein. With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruits, Vermin, &c. Approv'd by both Universities, practis'd by Honourable Persons, Reverend Divines, Eminent Lawyers and Gentlemen; and is of special Use for Travellers, &c. By Jeremiah Rich, To whom the Publick is so much oblig'd for the Psalms and New Testament done by him in the same Character.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1735?]- Books
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The pen's dexterity: or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates (curiously Engrav'd in the Author's Life time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters and Contractions us'd therein. With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruits, Vermin. &c. Approv'd by both Universities, practis'd by Honourable Persons, Reverend Divines, Eminent Lawyers and Gentlemen; and is of special Use for Travellers, &c. By Jeremiah Rich, To whom the Publick is so much oblig'd for the Psalms and New Testament done by him in the same Character.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1735?]- Books
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The most pleasing and delightful history of Reynard the fox and Reynardine his Son. In two parts. With Morals to each Chapter, explaining what appears Doubtful, or Allegorical: And every Chapter illustrated with a curious Device, or Picture, representing to the Eye all the material Passages. To which is added, The history of Cawood the rook: Or, The Assembly of Birds: With the several Speeches they made to the Eagle, in Hopes to have the Government in his Absence: How the Rook was banish'd; with the Reason why Crafty Fellows are called Rooks. Together with Morals and Expositions on every Chapter.
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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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Husbandry spiritualiz'd: or, the heavenly use of earthly things. Consisting Of many Pleasant Observations, pertinent Applications, and Serious Reflections; and each Chapter concluded with a divine and Suitable Poem. Directing Husbandmen to the most Excellent Improvements of their common Imployments. Whereunto are added, by way of Appendix, several Choice Occasional Meditations, upon Birds, beasts, Trees, Flowers, Rivers, and several other Objects; fitted for the help of such as desire to Walk with God in all their Solitudes and Recesses from the World. The seventh edition, corrected. By John Flavell, late Minister of the Gospel in Devon.
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.Date: 1705- Books
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The polite politician: or, entertaining correspondent. Being, a collection of original essays, on the most beautiful and entertaining subjects, in prose and verse, (viz.) On Virtue. On Death. An Account of a monstrous Ceyloneze-Serpent, call'd the Anocondo. An Abridgment of that Part of the History of England that relates to the Reformation. The Origin of Love. An Account of a burning Well, at Broseley, in Shropshire. Curious Political Extracts from various Authors, relating to the History of Europe. Mr. Dawke's Account of the Willingham Boy, that had all the Signatures of Manhood, before he was three Years old. A curious Treatise of Birds of Passage, taken from the late Mr. Catesby, F. R. S. Recipes for various Disorders, with some Account of Tar-Water. A remarkable Letter from a Country School-Master to his Mistress. An Abstract of the mechanical Practice of Physic. Cupid's Riddle. A Wish for a Wife. Extracts from Dean Swift, with other curious and entertaining Pieces, never before publish'd. ...
Date: 1751- Books
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The family treasury: or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The Farrier's Guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases. A certain cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing cure for the Grease; and another for broken winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue. The best Directions for breaking a Colt, and managing a Race-Horse. Certain Method to prevent Chimneys from smoking. The valuable and useful Fire-Ball, managing Bees, Singing Birds, breeding, dieting, and matching Game-Cocks with a Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, by which ninety Battles have been won out of a hundred. Miscellaneous Articles consisting of the choisest Secrets of the Royal Society, in washing, staining, painting on glass, gilding, dyeing, cleaning, &c. &c. with the Gardiner's Legacy, containing all Directions necessary for Fruit, Flower, and Kitching-Garden. Certain Methods of destroying Buggs, Rats, Mice, &c. with the true way of making up the most valuable Family Medicines never before communicated to the public. Compiled after thirty years experience, by P. Montague, gent.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A catalogue of several valuable libraries, lately purchased; particularly those of John Wills, D. D. Prebendary of Sarum, and of a commissioner of the excise, Both lately Deceased. The Whole forming A fine Collection of Books in all Arts and Sciences, and in every Branch of Polite Literature. Among them are, in Folio, De Lisle's Atlas. Ruins of Palmyra, fine plates. Ruins of Balbec, fine Impression. Ruins of Greece, in Russia. Merian Insect. Surinamensia. Hortus Cliffortianus, in Russia. Hortus Amstelodamensis, 2 vol. ... Herodotus, Gronovii, chart. max. Herodotus, Wesselingii. Platarch, Rualdi, 2 vol. Paris. Plutarch, 2 vol. apud Aldum. Aristoteles, a Du Val. 2 vol. Dion Cassius, Reimari, 2 vol. Hoffmanni Lexicon, 4 vol. Vocabulario Potuguaz, pelo Bluteau, 6 vol. Dictionaire de Marteniere, Bayle, & Moreri. Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol. Journals of the House of Commons, 20 vol. Field's largest Bible, in Morocco. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby on the Bible, 6 vol. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vol. new edit. ... Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Rapin's History, and Continuation, 5 vol. sinely bound. Biographia Britannica. 7 vol. eccsieat. Horseley's Britannia Romana, large paper. Dugdale's Antiq of Warwickshire, 2 vol. large paper, Russia. Borlase's Antiq. & Nat. Hist. of Cornwall. Blomefield's History or Norfolk, 3 vol. ... Russia. Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. coloured. Edwards's Birds, 7 vol. coloured. Milton's Works, compleat, 5 vol royal 4to. Pope's Homer, 11 vol. royal 4to. Compleat Sett of Elzevir Classics, 45 vol. in Morocco. which will be sold, the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 9th of August 1767, and continue daily on Sale, by John Whiston, Bookseller, At No. 64, in Fleet-Street.
Whiston, John, 1711-1780.Date: 1767]- 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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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 natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing. To which are added, figures of the cock, hen, and egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. Also a particular account how to order the canary-birds in breeding; likewise their diseases and cure.
Albin, Eleazar, active 1713-1759.Date: 1741- 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 catalogue of books, in various languages, and almost all arts and sciences; chiefly imported from abroad; containing a great number of classic authors, of the best Editions. To which is added, the Library of the late Admiral Tyrrel, Including a large Collection of Astronomical, and Mathematical Books, all in good Condition. In this Collection are, Folio. Cateshy's Carolina, illum. 2 vol. Wenman's Herbal, coloured, l. p. 6. v. Seligman's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Huquier's Birds, &c. of China Kirby's Perspective, l. pap. Clarendon's Rebellion, 4 vol. l. p. Basket's Bible, 2 vol. imp. paper Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Postlethwayte's Dict. 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Chambers's Dictionary, 2 vol. System of Geography, 2 vol. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Universal History, 9 vol. Boyle's Works, 5 vol. Mariana's Spain Rycaut's Peru Dart's Westminster, 2 vol. Patrick, Lowth, Whitby, 6 vol. Coke on Littleton, best edit. Caxton's Vita Patrum Antiq. de Montfaucon, 15 v. gr. pap. Pierres Antiques de B. Stoch, Morocco Temple des Muses, Morocco Scheuchzer Phys. Sacra, 4 vol. Diction. de Commerce, 4 vol. Corps Diplomatique, 19 vol. Supplement du Corps Diplomat. 5 v. Diction. de Richlet, 3 vol. Erasmus Opera omnia, 10 vol. l. p. Sandrart Opera, 15 tom. Cabinet de Vandyke Teneirs Theat. Pictoria Dion. Cassius, edit. opt. 2 vol. Homer, Eustachius. Gr. 4 vol. Ammianus Mar. ed. op. Plutarch, Polybius, Gr. & Lat. Par. Strabo, 2 vol. Gr. & Lat. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vol. S. Hieronymi Op. 5 vol. ed. op. Walteri Lex Diplomat. Overbeke's Antiq. 3 vol. Bibliotheca Rabinica, Bartolocii, 5 v. Assermani Bib. Orient. 4 vol. Dict. della Ling. Castellana, 6 vol. Steph. Thesaur. Ling. Gr. 5 vol. Spanbemius Num. 2 vol. Hortus Elthamensis, 2 vol. -Clifortianus Leopold's Machinarum, 4 vol. Medicae Artis Principes Quarto. Inscript. des Belles Let. 30 vol. Orinthiologie de Brisson, 6 vol. Livii, Crevier, 6 vol. Moliere, 6 vol. Par. Polybe de Folard, 6 vol. l. pap. Cicero Olivet. 9 vol. Milton's Works, 5 vol. Gardnier's Logarithms. Which will begin to be sold this day (very cheap) the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, by Thomas Wilcox, At Virgil's-Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand. Of whom may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books, also Books exchanged.
Wilcox, Thomas, bookseller.Date: 1767]- 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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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 new, royal, and complete system of universal geography, antient and modern; Including All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in the different Hemispheres, From The Celebrated Columbus, the First Discoverer of America, to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook, &c. And containing a genuine history and description of the whole world, AS Consisting Of Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics, Provinces, Continents, Islands, Oceans, &c. With The Various Countries, Cities, Towns, Promontories, Capes, Bays, Peninsulas, Isthmusses, Gulphs, Rivers, Harbours, Lakes, Mountains, Volcanos, Deserts, &c. Throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, And America: Together With Their respective Situations, Extent, Latitude, Longitude, Boundaries, Climates, Soil, natural and artificial Curiosities, Mines, Metals, Minerals, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, Flowers, Herbs and vegetable Productions. With an Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, Manners, Genius, Habits, Amusements, and Ceremonies of the respective Inhabitants: Their Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, Military and Civil Governments, &c. Also exact Descriptions of The various Kinds of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, amphibious Creatures, Reptiles, Insects, &c: Together With A Complete History of every Empire, Kingdom, and State. Also An Account of the most remarkable Battles, Sieges, Sea-Fights, and various. Revolutions that have taken Place in different Parts of the World. The Whole Forming AN Authentic And Entertaining Account Of Every Thing Worthy Of Notice Throughout The Whole Face Of Nature, Both by Land And Water. To which is added, A complete Guide to Geography, Astronomy, the Use of the Globes, Maps, &c. With AN Account Of the Rise, Progress, and present State of Navigation throughout the Known World. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable Discovery throughout the Whole of Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World. Together with those of other Modern Circumnavigators, particularly Byron, Carteret, Wallis, Clerke, Gore, King, Forrest, and Willson. Also containing a particular Account of the Pelew Islands, &c. By the Rev. Thomas Bankes, Vicar of Dixton, in Monmouthshire, And Author of the Christian's Family Bible. Edward Warren Blake, Esq. Alexander Cook, Esq. and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near tw hundred beautiful engravings, consisting of Views, Antiquities, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Customs, Ceremonies, besides Whole Sheet Maps, Plans, Charts, &c. executed in a much superior Stile than any Thing that has ever appeared in this Kingdom.
Date: [1790?]- 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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Fables in verse, for the improvement of the young and the old; by Abraham Æsop, Esq. To which are added, Fables in verse and prose; with The conversation of birds and beasts, At their several Meetings, Routs, and Assemblies; by Woglog the great giant. Illustrated with a variety of curious cuts, By the best Masters. And with an account of the lives of the authors, by their old friend, Mr. Newbery.
Aesop, Abraham, Esq.Date: [1765]- Books
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Fables in verse for the improvement of the young and the old. By Abraham ¡sop, Esq; to which are added, fables in verse and prose. With the conversation of birds and beasts, at their several meetings, routs and assemblies. By Woglog the great giant: illustrated with a variety of curious cuts. By the best masters. And an account of the lives of the authors.
Aesop, Abraham, Esq.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- 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]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of Alexander Thistlethwayte, Esq; Late Knight of the Shire for the County of Hants; and of Various other valuable Collections of Books. Among which are the following Articles: Aristoteles & Theophrastus, 6 vol. Aldi Eustathius in Homerum, 4 vol. Romae Pindar, Oxon. - Euripides Barnesii-Dionysius Halicarn. Hudsoni, 2 vol. Ciceronis Opera, Victorii, 4 vol. ap Juntas Romanae Historiae Scriptores, 3 vol. Graevius, Gronovius, Sallengre, Polenus, &c. &c. 74 vol. velom Assemanni Biblioth. Orientalis, 4 vol. Critici Sacri, & Thes. Philolog. 13 vol. Majemonidis Manus Fortis, 4 vol. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. Edit. Bened. Biblia Polyglotta & Castelli Lex. 8 vol. Churchill's Voyages and Suppl. 8 vol. Ancient and Mod. Hist. 24 vol. elegant Le Bruyn's Travels, 3 vol. compleat Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. - Monasticon, Engl. 3 vol. L. P. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. best edit. Bp. Nicolson's Historical Libraries Bp. Tanner's Notitia Monastica Horseley's Britannia Romana Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 1st edit. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Moreri, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Martiniere, Dictionnaire, 10 tom. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Calmet's Dictionary, 3 vol. Ditto - French, 4 tom. Bayle, Dictionnaire, 5 tom. Les Habits du Levant, colorees Blair's Chronol. Tables and Maps, L. P. Atlas de M. Robert, Gr. & petit. pap. Le Cabinet du Roy de France, 26 tom. Ridinger's Works, compleat, 3 vol. Regenfuss's Book of Shells, coloured Clerck's Book of Insects, coloured Harris's Book of Insects, coloured Wilkes's Moths and Butterflies, coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. cuts, coloured Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol. col. British Zoology, 132 plates, coloured Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. coloured Miller's 300 Plates of Plants, 2 v. coloured Works of Nat. Hist. by the Nuremberg Artists, 38 vol. coloured Sebae Thes. Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Rumphii Herbarium Amboin. 7 vol. Gualtieri Index Conchyliorum Morison's Hist. Plantarum, 2 vol. Commelini Hortus Amstelodam. 2 vol. Scheuchzer's Nat. Hist. of Bible, 8 vol. Aldrovandi Opera, 12 vol. cor. Russ. Willoughby on Birds, by Ray Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, 15 tom. 4to. Statue Venezianze, 2 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 vol. L. P. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Major's Book of Prints and Poestum, 2 v. Opere di Piranesi, 8 vol. Smith's Metzotintos, 3 large vol. Antichita D'ercolano, 6 vol. Rossi, Statue Antichi e Moderni Adam's Ruins at Spalatro Le Roy, Ruines de la Grece, 2 tom. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent Chambers's Works of Architect. 2 vol. Montfaucon, Antiquite, 15 tom. gr. pap. Anderson's Diplomata Scotiae The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of each Book; and the Sale begins in August, 1772. By Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1772]- Books
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A catalogue of a very choice and curious collection of books in all arts, sciences, and languages: consisting of Several valuable Libraries, lately purchased. The Books are in general in exceeding good Condition, and a great many of them bound in the most elegant Bindings. Among them are the following: Overbeke Reliquiae Romae antiquae. Atlos universel, par Mess. Robert. Voyage D'egypte, par Norden, 2 tom. Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, 2 vol. Conquestes de Louis le Grand, 4 tom. Ceremonies Relig. 11 tom. sig. de Picart. Antiquitez de Montfaucon, 15 tom. gr. pap. Dictionaire de Martiniere, 10 tom. Dictionaire de Moreri, 8 tom ... Diodotus Siculus, Wesselingii, 2 vol. Dion Cassius, Reimanni, 2 vol. Thucydides, Dukeri. Herodotus, Gronov. Thuani Hist. Buckleii, 7 vol. Plato, Aldi, Serrani, & Ficini. Chambers's Dict. and Suppl. 4 vol. Russia. Postlethwayt's. Johnson's, James's. Miller's, and Ainsworth's Dictionaries. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Russia. Tillotson's Works, 3 vol. Russia. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Russia. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. R. P. Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 2 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquities, 6 v. R. P. Spence's Polymetis, Russia, elegant. General Dictionary, 10 vol. The same, 10 vol. The same, 10 vol. Russia, elegant. Universal and Modern Histories, 20 vol. Bayle's Dict. and Biog. Britain. 10 vol. Heads of Illustrious Men. Rushworth's Collections, 8 v. R.P. & S.P. Stevens's Dugdale, 2 vol. R. P. Horseley's Britannia Rom. R. P. & S. P. Stukeley's Itinerary, Russia. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. Russia. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vol. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vol. new Edit. Guthrie's and Ralph's Histories. Bible, by Field, large print. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vol. Philosoph. Transact. 44 vol. compleat Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 6 v. col. Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. coloured. Oeuvres de Moliere, 6 tom. 4to, Paris. Set of Elzivir Classics, 41 vol. Vellum, Academie des Sciences, 100 tom. 12mo. Which will be sold very cheap (the Prices printed in the Catalogue) on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1762, and continue on Sale to Midsummer, By John Whiston and Benj. White, Booksellers, in Fleetstreet.
John Whiston and Benjamin White (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1762]- Books
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A catalogue of very curious and valuable books, containing, among many others equally good, in folio. Roberts's Atlas Racolta di Statue da Rossi Beaumiester Architectura Pseffel Templi Columna Trajana & Ant. 2 vol Atlas, par Le Fer Perelle's Views Schenk's Views Ruins of Balbec, Russia Vaillainti Numismata Sandrarti Sculpturae Vet. cum Arte Pictoriae, edit. opt. - rar. Machini del Ramelli Atlas, par De Lisle Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. ... Russia The Bishop's Bible, 1568 Patrick, Lowth, Whitby, and Arnold, 7 vol Chambers's Dictionary, 2 vol Iohnson's Dictionary, 2 vol Martland's London, 2 vol. best edit. Rapin, with Heads and Monuments, 2 vol Biograph. Britannica, 7 vol ... Fabricii Biblioth. Graeca, 14 vol Livius Crevier, 6 vol Diogenes Laertius, 2 vol Homerus Barnesii, 2 vol Harleian Miscellany, 8 vol Pope's Homer's Odyssey, 5 vol Philos. Transactions abridged, 11 vol Knyghtes of the Table rounde, bl. letter Edwards's Birds and Gleanings, 7 vol Coryat's Crudities Pope's Works and Life, 5 vol -Shakespear, 6 vol Swift's Works and Letters, 12 vol Milton, by Baskerville, 2 vol ... Smollet's Hist. and Contin. 6 vol Robertson's Charles V. 6 vol. &c. &c. Also A Large Collection of Scarce and Curious Pamphlets. Catalogues of which may be had separately. The whole will be daily selling till the 25th of March, 1770, for Ready Money only, at the Prices mentioned in the Catalogue, by Thomas Davies, Bookseller, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden.
Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785.Date: 1770]- Books
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Husbandry spiritualized: or, The heavenly use of earthly things. Consisting of many pleasant observations, pertinent applications, and serious reflections, and each chapter concluded with a divine and suitable poem. Directing husband-men to the most excellent improvements of their common imployments. Whereunto are added, by way of appendix, several choice occasional meditations, upon birds, beasts, trees, flowers, rivers, and several other objects; fitted for the help of such as desire to walk with God in all their solitudes and recesses from the world. [Eight line of quotations] By John Flavell, late Minister of the Gospel in Devon.
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.Date: 1709