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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Proposals humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons, for raising forty thousand pounds, or upwards, per annum, by laying additional duties on all foreign papers and pastboards imported, and on all sorts of papers, and pastboards, call'd mill'd-boards, made in Great-Britain.
Parker, Richard, paper manufacturer.Date: 1711?]- Books
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The rules and premiums of the Society for the encouragement of agriculture and industry, in the county of Cardigan, for the year 1799. To which are added the names of the subscribing members, with their annual subscriptions, and an account of the adjudged premiums, &c. for the last year.
Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry (Cardiganshire, Wales)Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
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Whites corn-measure tables, shewing the difference in price, per quarter, of corn, &c when sold by the standard Winchester bushel, of eight gallons, and Those Bushels that hold respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 Pints more than that Measure; Beginning at Ten Shillings and advancing (by Six-Pence per Quarter) to Seventy Shillings. By Thomas White, Master of the academy, Colchester.
White, Thomas, Master of the Academy, Colchester.Date: 1792- Books
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Minutes of evidence relating to the woollen manufactory. Ordered to be printed 1st May 1800.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1800]- Books
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Minutes of evidence relating to wool. (28th April 1800)
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1800]- Books
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A short answer to the first number of a late periodical paper, entitled The freeholder.
Date: 1784]- Books
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Minutes of evidence taken upon the further consideration of the report which was made from the committee to whom the bill to incorporate certain persons by the name of "the London Company for the manufacture of "Flour, meal, and bread," was committed. Ordered to be printed 9th July 1800.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1800]- Books
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Pet. - Henry Band, against Lord Glenlee's interlocutor. Tho. Grierson, W.S. agent. Mr Home, clerk. Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Henry Band, baker and corn-dealer in Edinburgh; ...
Band, Henry.Date: 1796]- Books
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Papers, collected, and seriously deliberated upon, by a number of Linen-Drapers in and near Lisburn and Belfast, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Honourable the trustees of the linen manufacture, as materials for a linen-bill; And humbly submitted to their Consideration, Preparatory to a New Act of Parliament for the better Order, Regulation, and Improvements of the said Manufacture. March 2, 1763.
Date: [1763]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Joseph Sexton of the city of Limerick merchant.
Sexton, Joseph.Date: 1749?]- Books
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A collection of papers, relating to a scheme, laid before the trustees of the linen manufacture. For the more effectual reformation of lappers. By Robert Ross, Junior, Esq;
Ross, Robert, Esq.Date: M,DCC,XXXIX, [1739]- Books
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Copy report by the Honourable the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland, to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury; dated 7th July 1796. With an appendix of original papers.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise.Date: M,DCC,XCVI. [1796]- Books
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Essays and observations on the following subjects. Viz. On trade. - Husbandry of flax. -Raising Banks against Tides and Floods. -Hops. Directions for making Roads. Instructions for making Syder. Observations on the Linen Manufactury. -on Dressing Flax. - on brewing. Published by a Society of Gentlemen in Dublin.
Royal Dublin Society.Date: M,DCC,XL. [1740]- Books
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The scots linnen manufacturers answer to two papers, entitled, The case of the woollen and silk manufactures of Great Britain; and The case of the printed Linnens in North Great-Britain. Dispersed in Behalf of the Weavers and Woollen Manufacturers.
Date: 1720?]- Books
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An apology for whisky: a paper given in to the Ratho Club, by one of its members, in answer to that society's question, if the distilling of spirits from malt be for the good of Scotland?
One of Its Members.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Archives and manuscripts
'Dartford Museum' - 10 x 8 Negatives, Exhibition text
Date: 1855-1989Reference: WF/M/I/DM/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The laboratory: or, school of arts. In which are faithfully exhibited, and fully explained, I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice secrets for jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying Precious Stones; of preparing Colours for Doublets; of Colouring Foyles for Jewels, together with other rare Secrets. III. Several uncommon experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals; Likewise in Wax, Plaister of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. IV. The Art of making Glass; Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass, and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Potters Work, or Delft Ware. V. A Collection of very valuable Secrets, for the Use of Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Bookbinders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. together with the Art of Marbling Books or Paper. VI. A Dissertation on the Nature and Growth of Saltpetre: Also, several other choice and uncommon Chymical Experiments. Vii. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-Globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire-Works. Viii. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cotton, &c. in various Colours. Compiled from German, and other foreign authors. Illustrated with copper-plates. By G. Smith. The fifth edition, with additions of a great number of valuable receipts, particularly, a short, plain, and easy introduction to the art of drawing in perspective.
Smith, Godfrey, active 18th century.Date: MDCCIXX. [1770]- Books
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Art's treasury of rarities: and curious inventions. In two parts. Art I. Containing the Mystery of Dying Cloth, Silk, Stuffs, Hair, Feathers, Bone, Horn work, Leather, &c. and to prepare and use them. To prepare and colour Skins of Leather, or Gild them with Gold, Silver or Lacquering, &c. To Dye Bristles, Hair, Marble Paper; to recover faded Colours in Cloth or Silk, and to take out Spots or Stains of Tar, Rosin, Grease, Oyl, &c. and preserve them from Moth and Worms. To scower Silver and Gold Lace and Plate. To Cement broken Glass and China, and to make Perfumes, &c. The Art of Drawing, Limning, Painting in Oyl and Japanning, and Tanning Leather, Eching, Graving, Writing, Gilding, Enamelling. To make sundry Colours, prepare Gums and Allom-Water; to thicken Linen, colour Maps and Pictures. Art II. Containing the Generation of Metals, Natura and Artificial, and to Solder, Gild, and to harden and soften them. To Cleanse and Perfume Gloves, Washing and Starching Lawns, Sarsenets, Tiffany, and Lutestrings. With divers other curiosities.
White, John, -1671.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An impartial enquiry into the importance and present state of the woollen manufactories of Great-Britain: as likewise the improvements they are capable of receiving. In several letters to a member of Parliament. In which are contain'd, The Rise and Progreis of the Woollen Manufactories in England. The most material Laws now extant to encourage the Woollen Manufactories in this Kingdom, and prevent the Illicit Exportation of Wool. A Scheme propos'd, that will effectually answer that Purpose, and save Millions of Money Yearly to the Nation. Remarks on Webber's Scheme, and One offer'd by another Hand, - The Impropriety of granting a Registry in Charter. The Number of Sheep slaughter'd Yearly in London, - of Inhabitants within the Bills of Mortality; as likewise the Number of Both in all England and Wales, and the Quantity of Wool grown Yearly in the Kingdom: The Case of the Irish Consider'd, the Expedrency of granting further Encouragement to their Linnen Manufactories, &c. The fourth edition. To which are added, by way of appendix, three letters never publish'd before. First, Remarks on an Essay upon the Woollen Manufacture in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1741. Secondly, The Graslers Advocate Examin'd, and his Calculations Corrected. Thirdly, A Scheme to prevent the Exportation of Unmanufactur'd Wool, most humbly Submitted to the Right Honourable the Two Houses of Parliament, by Henry Laybourne, M. A. most humbly Shewn to be Good for Nothing, By J. Gee.
Gee, J. (Joseph).Date: [1744]- Books
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The laboratory; or, school of arts: in which are faithfully exhibited, and fully explain'd, I. A variety of curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting, assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice secrets for jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying precious Stones; of preparing Colours for Doublets; of Colouring Foyles for Jewels, together with other rare Secrets. III. Several uncommon experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals: Likewise in Wax, Plaister of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. IV. The Art of making Glass: Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass, and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Potters Work, or Delf-Ware. V. A Collection of very valuable Secrets, for the Use of Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. together with the Art of Marbling Books or Paper. VI. A Dissertation on the Nature and Growth of Salt-Petre: Also, Several other choice and uncommon Chymical Experiments. Vii. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-Globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire-Works. Viii. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cottons, &c. in various Colours. Compiled from German, and other foreign authors. Illustrated with copper plates. By G. Smith. The third edition, with additions of a great number of valuable receipts; particularly, a short, plain, and easy introduction to the art of drawing in perspective.
Smith, Godfrey, active 18th century.Date: 1750- Books
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Answers to the treasury paper, on the iron trade of England and Ireland. By an Englishman.
Englishman.Date: 1784]- Books
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The report, with the appendix, from the Committee of the House of Commons Appointed to Enquire into the Frauds and Abuses in the Customs, to the prejudice of trade, and diminution of the revenue. Published by order of the House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]