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The description and use of the globes, and the orrery To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system. By Joseph Harris, Teacher of the Mathematics by
Edition: The ninth edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for B. Cole, at the Orrery, near the Globe Tavern in Fleet-Street, late the Shop of Mr. Thomas Wright, Instrument-Maker to His Majesty; and E. Cushee, near St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street MDCCLXIII. [1763]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: LAND OCTAVO 1763 HARRIS.
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1122.
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The complete court-keeper or, land-steward's assistant: containing, first, the nature of Courts Leet and Courts Baron; with a general Introduction to every Thing incident to them, according to Law and Custom. Secondly, The Manner of holding Courts Leet, Courts Baron, and Courts of Survey, with the Charge to the Juries; and the Forms of Entring those Courts in the Minute-Books and in the Court-Rolls; with Precedents of great Variety of Presentments, Amerciaments, Estreats, Copies of Court-Roll for Life, and in Fee; Grants, Surrenders, Admittances, Licences, Forfeitures, and all other Proceedings of that Nature. Thirdly, The Manner of keeping the Court Baron for trying of Actions; the Nature and Kinds of Actions, and of Pleadings; and Precedents of Declarations and Pleadings, and of Process, from the Precept or Original to the Distress or Execution; with Pleas and Recoveries concerning Copyhold Lands. Fourthly, Precedents of Contracts, Conditions, Covenants, Leases for Life, Leases for Years, Assignments, Mortgages, Surrenders of such Leases; and also of Copies of Court-Roll in special Cases, used by the Land-Steward. Fifthly, the power and authority of the lord, and of the Steward, and the Privilege of the Tenants, with Variety of Law-Cases and Resolutions concerning Copyholders, and the whole Business of Court-Keeping: And also Surveys of Manors, Rentals, Stewards Accounts, Fees, &c. By Giles Jacob, Gent. Author of The New Law-Dictionary by
Edition: The sixth edition, with large additions and amendments, .. Language: English
Publication details: London printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers; for J. Worrall; J. Rivington; L. Hawes and Co. W. Owen ; T. Longman; P. Uriel; A. Shuckburgh; and W. Flexney 1764
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1764 JACOB.
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1123.
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1124.
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The practical surveyor or the art of land-measuring made easy. Shewing, by plain and familiar Rules, how to Survey any Piece of Land whatsoever, by the Plain-Table, Theodolite, or Circumferentor: or, by the Chain only. And how to Protract, Cast up, Reduce and Divide the same. Likewise. An easy Method of Protracting Observations made with the Meridian; and how to cast up the Content of any Plot of Land, by Reducing any Multangular Figure to one Triangle. To which is added, an appendix. Shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in Perspective: Of Levelling; and also how to Measure standing Timber. By Samuel Wyld. by
Edition: The fifth edition. Corrected and enlarged by a careful hand: and illustrated with several copper-plates Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Johnston in Ludgate-Street MDCCLXIV. [1764]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: GENERAL OCTAVO 1764 WYLD, ...
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1125.
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A new and accurate history and survey of London Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent; containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state: In which are Described. Their Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Government, Original Constitution, Antiquities, Manufactories, Trade, Commerce, and Navigation; And The several Wards, Liberties, Precincts, Districts, Parishes, Churches, Religious and Charitable Foundations, and other Public Edifices: Particularly The Curiosities of the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, the Royal Exchange, Sir Hans Sloan's Museum, &c. and whatever is remarkable for Elegance, Grandeur, Use, Entertainment or Curiosity. With The Charters, Laws, Customs, Rights, Liberties and Privileges, Of This Great Metropolis. Illustrated With A Variety of Heads, Views, Plans, and Maps, neatly Engraved. ... . By the Rev. John Entick, M.A. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (4)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1766 ENTICK VOL. 1, ...
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1126.
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Three tracts on the corn-trade and corn-laws Viz. 1. A short Essay on the Corn-Trade and the Corn-Laws, containing, a general relation of the present method of carrying on the Corn-Trade, and the Purport of the Laws relating thereto in this Kingdom, first printed in 1758. 2. Considerations on the Laws relating to the Importation and Exportation of Corn, being an inquiry what alteration may be made in them for the benefit of the Public, wrote in the beginning of the year 1759. 3. A Collection of Papers relative to the Price, Exportation, and Importation of Corn, with some Observations and Calculations, shewing what the Nation may be supposed to have gained by giving the Bounty on the Exportation, what the quantity of each sort of Corn annually Consumed, Exported, Imported, and Grown may amount to, and the Proportions they severally bear each to the other. to which is added, a supplement. Containing several papers and calculations which tend to explain and confirm what is advanced in the foregoing tracts by
Edition: the second edition, corrected and enlarged Language: English
Publication details: London printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1766 SMITH.
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1127.
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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted Language: English
Publication details: London printed for C. Bathurst, at the Cross Keys, over-against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street; and J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1767 CERTAIN.
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1128.
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The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule Shewing how to measure Round, Square, or other Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, and Wainscot. Also Gauging; with Instructions in Decimals, Mr Townley's Method of the Logarithms, and the Use of the Diagonal Scale applied to Gunter's Chain. By Henry Coggeshall, gent. Whereto is added, in a short method, the use of Scamozzi's lines for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rafters, &c. at any pitch, in Square, Bevelling, or Tapering Frames. By John Ham by
Edition: The seventh edition, carefully corrected Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1767 COGGESHALL.
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1129.
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A general treatise of mensuration: containing many useful and necessary improvements Composed for the benefit of artificers, builders, measurers, surveyors, gaugers, farmers, gentlemen, young students, &c. The whole being intended as an easy introduction to several parts of the mathematicks. By J. Robertson, F.R.S. by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for J. Nourse, and J. Wilcox, in the Strand MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1767 ROBERTSON.
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1130.
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Geodaesia: or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy Shewing by plain and practical rules, to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever; with new tables for the ease of the surveyor in reducing the measures of land. Moreover a more facile and sure way of surveying by the chain, than has hitherto been taught. As also to lay out new lands in America, or elsewhere: and how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour; with several other things never yet published in our language. By John Love by
Edition: The eighth edition. Corrected and improved by Samuel Clark Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street; and Robinson and Roberts, in Paternoster-Row MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1768 LOVE.
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1131.
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The london and Westminster guide Through the Cities and Suburbs. Containing, An Account of the Government, Manners of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Arts, and Sciences, with some necessary Cautions to Foreigners and Strangers visiting this great Metropolis; of which a Description of every Thing worthy Observation is given in the following Order, I. Of the stately Dwelling-Houses, Public Buildings, Palaces, Gardens, Squares, &c. II. Of all the Parish Churches. III. Of Westminster-Abbey, the Tower, Monument, and St. Paul's Cathedral. IV. Of the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and Infirmaries. V. Of the Halls of all the City Companies. VI. Of the Inns of Court, Westminster-Hall, Houses of Parliament, &c. Vii. Of the Bridges, Gates, Markets, &c. To which is added, An alphabetical List of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, and Alleys, &c. within the Bills of Mortality, very useful to every Inhabitant as well as Stranger Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Nicoll, Bookseller in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1768 LONDON.
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1132.
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The farmer's letters to the people of England containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms. The present State of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great Britain, &c. &c. To which are added, Sylvae: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oconomics. by
Edition: The second edition, corrected and enlarged Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, No. 51, in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1768 YOUNG.
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1133.
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Surveying improved or, the whole art, both in theory and practice, fully demonstrated. In four parts. I. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal. II. All Definitions, Theorems, and Problems; with Plain Trigonometry, and whatsoever else is useful in the Theory of Surveying. III. The Description and Use of Instruments, necessary in the Practice of Surveying; particularly Gunter's Chain, the Surveying-Wheel, the Theodolite, the Sector, the Circumferentor, the Protractor, the Semicircle, and the Plain-Table; which last, of all others, is esteemed universally useful in every Part of this Art. IV. How to Measure, Cast up, Plot, and Divide Parcels of Land, of what Denomination soever, viz. Meadows, Pastures, Fields, Forests, Woods, Commons, Lordships, Manors, &c. by any one or more of the abovesaid Instruments. Also, to take inaccessible Heights and Distances, with surveying Counties, Roads, Rivers, &c. Likewise to reduce a Plan to a Prospect, and to correct any Survey by Astronomical Calculation: With Directions for making transparent Colours for Maps, &c. With an Appendix concerning Levelling and Conveying of Water to any possible Place assigned. The sixth edition, with additions, illustrated with cuts, &c. and also accurately revised, improved, and augmented. By Henry Wilson, Mathematician. To which is now added, Geodoesia accurata: or, Surveying made Easy by the Chain only. Shewing, How to Measure, Plot, Divide, and Delineate any Parcel of Land, without the Trouble and Charge of any other Instrument but the Chain; with proper Directions for Reducing, Mapping, Colouring, and finding the Content, after an accurate and expeditious Manner. Also, a new essay upon Solids. Shewing how the Dimensions of Timber-Trees, &c. both standing and lying, may be exactly taken, and readily measured various Ways, viz. Vulgarly, Decimally, Duodecimally, Instrumentally, and Tabularly. By William Hume, Philomath. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for J. and F. Rivington, L. Hawes and Co. W. Johnston, T. Longman, S. Crowder, B. Law, and Robinson and Roberts MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1769 WILSON.
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1134.
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1135.
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The compleat arbitrator or the law of awards; containing, I. Plain and easy directions to all kinds of arbitrators; what Matters may be submitted to Arbitration, and in what Manner. II. The nature and different kinds of submissions, the Parties to the Submission, and the Office and Duty of Arbitrators and Umpires. III. Of the right manner of making and delivering up awards; and how Awards have been construed in Equity. IV. The manner of making and enforcing the performance of awards, when the Submission has been made a Rule of Court; and the right Method of setting forth and pleading Awards. By Matthew Bacon, Esq; of the Middle Temple, (author of the New Abridgment of the Law, in 5 vols.) The third edition, with precedents of submissions, awards and pleadings in English; to which is added a large table of the principal matters. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by his Majesty's law-printers; for J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn MDCCLXX. [1770]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: PRICE OCTAVO 1770 BACON.
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1136.
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1137.
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The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant Or, The whole art of measuring and estimating, made easy. In three parts. Part I. Contains, the names and exact prices of all artificers work in general, relating to building, viz. such as bricklakers, carpenters, joiners, carvers, plaisterers, painters, masons, plumbers, glaziers, slaters, paviours, smiths, &c. Part II. Contains, the method of squaring dimensions, or measuring the said artificers works at large, thro' all their various branches, both by cross multiplication and inspectionary tables, to the extent of an hundred feet square, including tables, which shew the number of squares, square yards, and also the square root of any number of feet, &c. whatsoever required. Part III. Contains geometrical definitions of lines, angles, &c. with the most useful and necessary problems, or the rudiments of practical geometry, mensuration of superficies, &c. To which is added, an appendix, containing a plan and elevation of a house, with the dimensions accurately figured of the true proportioning the several stories, and the members thereto belonging; with a sketch of some very good mouldings, together with several useful tables, viz. The scantling of timber, annuities upon lives, and the purchasing and valuing of freehold and leasehold estates. Likewise, a table shewing how much in length of any board, plank, pane of glass, pavement, or the like, makes a foot square; the breadth thereof being given. The whole made perfectly easy and intelligible to the meanest capacity. Illustrated with copper-plates. By J. Leadbeater, and assistants. by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for A. Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane; and W. Todd, in Adam and Eve Court, near Wells-Street, Oxford Road 1770
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1770 LEADBEATER.
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1138.
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The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a Farm; and to a gentlemen on taking the Whole or Part of his Estate into his own Hands. Particularly, The Signs whereby to judge of Land. The Points to be attended to in hiring a Farm. The Quantity of Land of every Sort proportioned to a given Sum of Money. The most advantageous Method of disposing of any Sum from 50 l. to 20,000 l. in Husbandry on cultivated or uncultivated Soils. The Means of rendering Agriculture as profitable to Gentlemen, as to common Farmers; and as beneficial a Profession as any other. Hints to those Gentlemen who farm for Pleasure alone. Also, plans of farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings. In two volumes. By the author of the Farmer's letters. ... by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No 51. in St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh M,DCC,LXX. [1770]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1770 YOUNG, ...
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1139.
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A six months tour through the North of England Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ... by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No 11. in St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh MDCCLXX. [1770]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (4)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1770 YOUNG VOL. 1, ...
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The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest capacity in which not only the theory, but the practical part of architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney-pieces, &c. with their bases, capitals, and entablatures, at large for practice; architrave frontispieces, cornices, and mouldings for the inside of rooms, &c. the construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails; framing of floors, roofs, and partitions; with the method of finding the lengths and backing of hips streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of groins, angle-brackets, splay'd or circular soffits; with plans and elevations of a dwelling house, hot-house, garden temple, seat and bridge; and a table of scantlings for cutting timber for building. The whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates, with printed explanations to face each plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor. A new edition, with an appendix of eleven copper plates, with explanations. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1771 PAIN.
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