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The bengal calendar & register, for the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety; containing complete and accurate lists of the Honorable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Upon a New and more Exte five Plan than any ever before published in India: comprehending complete views and details of the civil & military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Whole diligently Compiled and Arranged from proper and authentio Documents To which is added a list of the British European subjects, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country; also, the marine department - public banks - insurance companies -Houses Of Agency, and Merchants Of Different Nations, Established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the Pay, Batta, and other Allowances of the Army: &c. &c. &c.
Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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The bengal kalendar and register, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, containing Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Chronological Notes for the Year, Moon's Phases, Holidays, Moveable Feasts, &c. Daily Tables of Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, Moon's Southing, High Water at Calcutta, Equation of Time, Sun's Progress in the Ecliptic, Hindoo and Mahomedan Holidays, Terms in the Supreme Court, &c. &c. also full and accurate lists of the Honourable East India Company's servants, on the Bengal establishment, Comprehending complete Views and Details, of the Civil & Military establishments, &c. &c. &c. The Supreme Court of Judicature-Advocates, Attornies, &c. - establishment of Police-Commissioners of the court of requests-orphan, free school, and other societies-native hospital-marine department,-houses of agency-insurance companies,-tontines - merchants of different nations established in Calcutta-Tables shewing the pay, batta, and other allowances of the army-tables of post office rates, &c. &c. &c. The whole diligently compared and corrected by Official Documents. To which is added a list of the European inhabitants, resident in Calcutta, and the several Districts of the Country, not in the service corrected from the official lists.
Date: 1795- Journals
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Early music history
Date: 1981-- Books
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Tea warehouse, Henry Harris, No. 152, Oxford Street, Corner of Vere-Street, opposite Bond-Street; Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public in general, that in Consequence of Teas selling at the last East-India Company's sale, much cheaper than at any former Sale; he has Bought a large Assortment of the finest Rough Flavoured Teas, which he is now selling, Wholesale and Retail, at the following reduced Prices, viz. Black Teas. S. D. Best Bohea - - - 2 0 Good Congon - - - 3 6 Very good ditto - - 4 0 Good Souchong - - 5 0 Fine Souchong - - - 6 0 Very fine ditto - - 7 0 Superfine ditto - - 8 0 Green Teas S. D. Green Tea, 3s. 4d. and 3 6 Fine Singlo ditto - - 4 0 Fine Bloom - - - - 5 0 Hyson - - - - - 5 6 Good ditto - - - - 6 0 Very good ditto - - 7 0 Fine ditto - - - - 8 0 Superfine ditto - - 10 0 Fine Gunpowder - - 11 0 Superfine ditto - - 12 0 Coffee and Chocolate S. D. Coffee - - - - - 2 8 Good ditto - - - - 3 0 Fine ditto - - - - 4 0 Turkey Coffee from 5 to ... 0 Good Chocolate - - 3 0 Best plain ditto - - - 4 0 Sir Hans Sloan's 4s 6d to 5 6 White's neat unadulterated Cocoa (so justly recommended by most Gentlemen of the Faculty). Genuine Tapioca, so Beneficial for weak Constitutions. Likewise fine Fruit of all Sorts. N. B. A large Assortment of Sugars at reduced Prices.
Harris, Henry, active 18th century.Date: [1792?]- Books
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A candid state of affairs relative to East India shipping; with an appendix; containing, propositions to reconcile the several contending interests of those concerned in that Branch; and to promote future Harmony in Leadenhall Street. Addressed to the proprietors. The second edition. By Sir Richard Hotham.
Hotham, Richard, Sir.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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New copper-plate magazine. Published by J. Walker, no.44, Paternoster-Row. This day is published, number C. To be continued monthly, price one shilling and sixpence only, of the Copper-Plate Magazine; or, Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Engravings. Intended to Comprise. All the most interesting, sublime, and beautiful Views of Principal Cities, Sea-Ports, Forests, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Royal Palaces, Seats of Nobility and Gentry, Curious Remains of Antiquity, Public Edifices, Parks, Gardens, &c. &c. in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Each Number contains Two exquisite Prints, engraved in a very superior Style, from Original Paintings and Drawings by the first Masters. with Letter-Press Descriptions. The Whole is printed in Quarto; and the Prints are all taken off after the Manner of Proofs, on Superfine Paper. London: Printed for J. Walker, No. 16, Rosoman's Street, Clerkenwell; and sold by J. Walker, No. 44, Paternoster Row; W. Clarke, New Bond Street; T. Knott, No. 47, Lombard Street; and all other Booksellers, Printsellers, Stationers, and Newsmen, in Great Britain and Ireland. *-* Correspondents are requested to address their favours, post paid, to Mr. Walker, Engraver, No. 16, Rosoman's Street. N. B. A few selected First Impressions, hot-pressed, may be had in Boards, price 71. 10s. the One Hundred Numbers already published. - Those Gentlemen who have Proofs of the former Part of the Work, are recommended to perfect them soon, as the Price will be raised.
Date: [1792?]- Books
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An Atlas to Walker's geography and gazetteer. World, - plate I. these plates are inserted in geography. Mechanical figures, &c. II. Astronomical ditto, III. Solar system, &c. IV. Optical figures, V. Botanical ditto, VI. General chart of the world, VII. United States of America, VIII. Europe, England and Wales, - X. Scotland, - XI. Ireland, - XII. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, - XIII. Northern part of Russia, XIV. Southern part of Russia, XV. Poland, as divided, - XVI. Germany, Plate XVII. Swisserland, - XVIII. Holland, or seven United Provinces, - XIX. Netherlands, - XX. France in Departments, XXI. Spain and Portugal, XXII. Italy, - XXIII. Turkey in Europe, and Hungary, - XXIV. Asia, - XXV. Hindoostan, or East Indies, - XXVI. Africa, - XXVII. West Indies, - XXVIII. North America in general, XXIX. South America, - XXX. Historical chart, XXXI.
Date: 1797- Books
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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]- Books
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The seasons. Considered as representing the different periods of man's life - as evidences of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God - and as Motives to incite to Piety and Devotion. By James Maxwell, Poet in Paisley.
Maxwell, James, 1720-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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An entire new magazine. On Friday, February 1, 1793, will be Published, (price only Sixpence) Elegantly Printed on a Superfine Paper, and Embellished with a most Beautiful Frontispiece, finely Engraved by a Capital Artist, The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of extraordinary productions and events In Nature and Art: Consisting Entirely of Matters which come under the Denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the way! and Unaccountable! Including Many surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers, strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, and a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious and surprizing. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Travellers, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. No. 1, for January, 1793. (to be continued Monthly.) Containing (among a great Variety of other Particulars equally marvellous and curious) the following most extraordinary Articles. A wonderful Deliverance-Instances of Persons who have changed their Sex-The Bloody Bell, an extraordinary Execution-The Gammon of Bacon-The Birth of a Devil-The English Irishman-The Female Sleep Walker-The Drumming Well-A Woman with Child 27 Years-A Camp set on Fire hy Sparrows-A surprising Discovery of Murder-The Original of Peeping Tom of Coventry-Surprizing Examples of Instinct in Animals-A monstrous Serpent-The Sea punished by Command of Xerxes, the Persian King-Remarkable Anecdote relating to Death-The Bearded Woman-The Stone Eater-An Unaccountable Transformation of a Cheshire Cheese-The Grateful Lion-The Law of Cuckoldom in Scotland-Extracts from Baron Munchausea's Romantic Travels-Whimsical Anecdote of a Drunken Man-A most Extraordinary Event-A Lady burnt to Ashes by a Fire kindled in her own Body. - &c. &c. &c. With many other astonishing Relations too numerous to be mentioned in this Hand-Bill.
Date: 1793- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Chinsurah, and its dependencies. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England, on behalf of Thomas Morton, Esq. The said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, - - - - - appellant, against Sir Edward Hughes, Knight of the Most Honourable order of the Bath, late commanders in chief of His Majesty's squadron in the East-Indies, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, one of the said squadron, and James Heseltine, Esq. His Majesty's procurator-general, - - - - - respondents appeal on the behalf of Sir Edward Hughes. The said Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, - appellants, against the said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the said United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East-Indies, - - - - respondent. Case on behalf of Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1792?]- Books
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Letters relating to the East India Company. Containing, I. A letter to Sir J- L-, on dividing annuities from the trading stock, and giving a benefit to the proprietors, instead of their hazard of loss and gain by trading. II. A letter to the people of Britain, on the importance of the East India trade; where the Company trades to, and where they do not; how the present trade may be extended; that the proprietors and the company ought not to be injur'd. III. A letter to Miss A- S-, one of the proprietors of the East India sock, mutiny and desertion bill, and the heroes of Leadenhall-Street. IV. A letter to the Hon. ***.***, Esq; one of the *** of ***, on the importance of the Indian trade, and of the commodities of the places where the company does not trade to. V. A letter to - B-. Esq; one of the Aldermen of the city of London; on the erecting Madarass and it dependencies into a colony, with a King's Governor, council and assembly; and St. Helena and Bombay, in like manner, if ever the East India Company should deliver them up to the government. VI. A letter to J. S. merchant in Edinburgh. In answer to a question, whether people from Edinburgh and Glasgow may send ships, and trade to the Philippian islands and Japan?
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Chinsurah and its dependencies. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. On appeal of Thomas Morton Esquire. The said Thomas Morton Esq. syndic of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, - - - - appellant. Against Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, Knight of the Bath, late commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the East Indies, the officers and crews of His Majesty's sloop Nymph, one of the said squadron, pretended captors of all and singular the treasure, goods, wares, merchandizes, and essects, taken and seized at Chinsurah, and James Heseltine Esq. procurator-general of Our Sovereign Lord the King, - respondents. Appeal of Sir Edward Hughes. The said Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of said sloop Nymph, and the said James Heseltine Esq. - - appellants. Against the said Thomas Morton Esq. syndic of the said East India Company, - - - respondent. Case on behalf Thomas Morton, Esq.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1792]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Chinsurah, and its dependencies. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England, on behalf of Thomas Morton, Esq.The said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, - - - - appellants; against Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, Knight of the Bath, late commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the East Indies; the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, one of the said squadron, pretended captors of all and singular the treasure, goods, wares, merchandizes, and effects, taken and seized at Chinsurah; and James Heseltine, Esq. Procurator-General for Our Sovereign Lord the King, - - - respondents. Appeal on behalf of Sir Edward Hughes, and others. The said Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's said sloop of war the Nymph, and the said James Heseltine, Esquire, - appellants, against the said Thomas Morton, Esquire, syndic of the said United Company, - - - respondents. Appendix to the case on behalf of Thomas Morton, Esq.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1792?]- Books
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Minutes of a general conference of the members of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation: held in Great East Cheap, London, from the 13th to the 17th of April, 1789. In Consequence of a general Invitation, by Circular Letters, to all the Readers of the Theological Works of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, who are desirous of rejecting, and separating themselves from the Old Church, or the present established Churches, together with all their Sectaries, throughout Christendom, and of fully embracing the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem.
New Jerusalem Church.Date: 1789- Books
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A short treatise on the all-cleansing, - all-healing, - and all-invigorating qualities of the simple earth, When long and repeatedly applied to the naked Human-Body and Lungs, for the safe, speedy, and radical Cure of all Diseases, internal as well as external, which are, in their Nature or Stage, susceptible of being cured;-for the preservation of the Health, Vigour, Bloom and Beauty of Body and of Mind;-For rejuvenating the aged and decaying Human-Body;-And for prolonging Life to the very longest possible Period. To which are added, a description of the best Kinds of Soil, or Mould, and Situations,-And of the best Methods of conducting this most essicacious, and most salutary Practice of Earth-Bathing; And a free Critique on the regular Professors or Teachers, and Practisers of Medicine, Surgery, &c. Being the first Book or Pamphlet that ever was published in the World on the Subject of Earth-Bathing. By James Graham, M. D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Chinsurah, and its dependencies. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England, on behalf of Thomas Morton, Esq. The said Thomas Morton, Esq. syndic of the United Company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies, - - - - appellants; against Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, Knight of the Bath, late commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the East Indies; the officers and crew of His Majesty's sloop of war the Nymph, one of the said squadron, pretended captors of all and singular the treasure, goods, wares, merchandizes, and effects, taken and seized at Chinsurah; and James Heseltine, Esq. procurator-general for Our Sovereign Lord the King, - - - respondents. Appeal on behalf of Sir Edward Hughes, and others. The said Sir Edward Hughes, and the officers and crew of His Majesty's said sloop of war the Nymph, and the said James Heseltine, Esquire, appellants, against the said Thomas Morton, Esquire, syndic of the said United Company, - - - respondents. Appendix to the case on behalf of Sir Edward Hughes, and others.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1792?]- Books
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The American coast pilot; containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes and headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulph of Florida, with directions for sailing into the same, describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. Together with the courses and distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the currents, with the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours on the coast. Together with a tide table. By Capt. Lawrence Furlong. Corrected and improved by the most experienced pilots in the United States - Also, information to masters of vessels, wherein the manner of transacting business at the custom-houses is fully elucidated. Published according to act of Congress.
Furlong, Lawrence, 1734-1806.Date: - 1798- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1769. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies; Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1769]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1768. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. With Emendations to the present Publication.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1768]- Books
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Kent's directory for the year 1771. Containing An Alphabetical list of the Names and Places of Abode of the directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. With the numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also separate lists of the Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange - Assurance, Sun - Fire, and London - Assurance Companies; Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and Commissioners of Excise and Customs. To which is added, a Correct list of all the Bankers.
Kent, Henry, active 1732-1771.Date: [1771]- Books
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Evening lounge. By Permission of the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor and the Worshipful the Mayor. When Messrs. Carey and Kean were last in Cambridge it happened to be at a time the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the University had not assembled so numerously as was expected; therefore they declined the idea of delivering their evening lounge any more than one night; but were positively requested by a great number of the University and many Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town, to return at this period, and were promised to be attended by both parties, who would also influence their friends in Messrs. Carey and Kean's behalf - therefore they propose opening their system with alterations and additions at the Town-Hall on Tuesday evening next the 23d inst; particulars will be expressed in the Hand-Bills without delay. There will be good Fires and the room lighted with Wax.
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Brigantine Triumph, Benjamin Northam, Master. James Graham, of London, Merchant, the Agent for, and Correspondent of, Thomas Ogden and Titus Ogden, and Messieurs John Wright Stanly, Wright Stanly, and James Green, Merchants, all of the Town of Newborn, in the State of North Carolina, one of the United States of America, and Subjects of the said United States, the sole Owners of the said Brigantine and her Cargo at the Time she was taken and seized as Prize, on the twenty-eighth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Degrees of Northern Latitude, twenty-five Days after the Cessation of Hostilities between his Majesty and the said United States of America, in the said Atlantic Ocean, and Claimant of the said Brigantine and her Cargo on Behalf of the said Owners, Appellant. William Swiney, Esquire, Commander of his Majesty's Ship of War the Assurance, the Captor, and James Heseltine, Esquire, his Majesty's Procurator General, - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of East Florida. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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A memento for Holland : or A true and exact history of the most villainous and barbarous cruelties used on the English merchants residing at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherland governor and conncel [sic] there. Wherein is shewed what tortures were used to make them confess a conspiracy they were never guilty of; by putting them on the rack, and by a water torture, to suffocate them; and by burning them under their arm pits, and soals of their feet, till their fat by dropping extinguished the candles.
Date: 1652