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16921.
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The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed Containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. With an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates in fields or houses, or both, are charged with, or liable to; and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation. Wherein the errors and absurdities of all the common methods of valuation, and the disadvantages thence accruing, sometimes to the landlord and sometimes to the tenant, are justly expos'd. The tables for valuing estares on lives being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Mr. Abr. De Moivre, to 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per cent. To which is added, an appendix: containing the description and use of an instrument for discovering the number of feet contained in any timber-trees before they are cut down, by inspection only. By John Richards of Exon. by Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for John Stxex, at the Globe against St. Danstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and William Innys, at the west end of St. Paul's MDCCXXX. [1730]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: LANDOWNING & ESTATE MANAGEMENT OCTAVO 1730 RICHARDS.
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16923.
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The duty and office of a land steward represented under several plain and distinct articles; wherein may be seen the Indirect Practices of several Stewards, tending to Lessen, and the several Methods likely to Improve their Lords Estates. To which is added an appendix, Shewing The Way to Plenty; Proposed to the Farmers: Wherein are laid down General Rules and Directions for the Management and Improvement of a Farm. The second edition, with alterations and additions. By Edward Laurence, Land Surveyor. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for J. and J. Knapton, at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Pemberton, at the Buck, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street; J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship, in Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun, near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: LANDOWNING & ESTATE MANAGEMENT OCTAVO 1731 LAURENCE.
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16924.
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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, 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, rasters, &c. at any pitch, in square, bevelling or tapering frames. By John Ham. And to render the book more compleat, in this edition is added, a compendium of practical geometry and the principles of plain trigonometry, with the application thereof, by G. Thomson, A.M. by
Edition: The fifth edition, carefully revised Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and Crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-Market MDCCXXXII. [1732]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1732 COGGESHALL.
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16925.
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The antiquities of London and Westminster Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious, or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools, and other Magnificent Buildings, as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Gaols, and all Publick Edifices. Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. And many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. Bailey, Author of the Universal, Etymological, English Dictionary by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch 1734
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1734 BAILEY.
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16926.
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The builder's dictionary or, Gentleman and Architect's companion. Explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice Of the Various Branches thereof, requisite to be known by Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glaziers, Smiths, Turners, Carvers, Statuaries, Plumbers, &c. Also Necessary Problems in Arithmetic, Geometry, Mechanics, Perspective, Hydraulics, and other Mathematical Sciences. Together with The Quantities, Proportions, and Prices of all Kinds of Materials used in Building; with Directions for Chusing, Preparing, and Using them: The several Proportions of the Five Orders of Architecture, and all their Members, according to Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Vignola, M. Le Clerc, &c. With Rules for the Valuation of Houses, and the Expence calculated of Erecting any Fabrick, Great or Small. The Whole Illustrated with more than Two Hundred Figures, many of them curiously Engraven on Copper-Plates: Being a Work of great Use, not only to Artificers, but likewise to Gentlemen, and others, concerned in building, &c. Faithfully digested from the most Approved Writers on these Subjects. In two volumes. Language: English
Publication details: London printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1734 BUILDERS VOL. 1, ...
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16927.
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The compleat English copyholder or, a guide to lords of manors, Justices of the Peace, Tenants, Stewards, Attornies, Bailiffs, Constables, Gamekeepers, Haywards, Reeves, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. being the Common and Statute Law of England, together with the adjudged Cases relating to Manors, Copyhold Estates, Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron, Common Placed; Containing the whole practice of the Court-Leet, Court of ancient Demesne, Court-Baron, and Musick-Court of the Honour of Tutbury, and the Business of a Manor in all its Branches. And Also The Tenures, Customs, and Usages of several Manors in England and Wales, shewing who has Right to attend the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain, or to perform other Scrvices to them, or the Lords of the several Manors, collected from Records, Manuscripts, and printed Books; with Directions for distraining for rent; by the late Sir Bartholomew Shower. ... . By a gentleman of the Inner Temple. by Language: English
Publication details: [London] In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for Innys and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Churchyard; Batley and Wood at the Dove in Pater-Noster-Row; Ward and Chandler, at the Ship, between the Temple Gates, in Fleet-Street, and sold at their shop in Scarborough MDCCXXXV. [1735]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1735 GENTLEMAN VOL. 1, ...
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16928.
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The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary or, the complete builder's guide. Containing An Explanation of all the Terms of Art used by Workmen; as also what is necessary to be known in the Art of Building, as well by Gentlemen, as Artificers of Every Denomination. In the following Useful Particulars, viz. The Qualities, Quantities, Proportions, and Value of all Materials used in Building. The best Method of preparing those Materials. The Methods of Measuring most Sorts of Artificers Work. The City and Country Prices of Workmanship. Aphorisms, or Rules necessary to be observed in Building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, Form, &c. Estimates of the Expence of Building any Fabrick, great or small. Rules for the Valuation of Houses. Rules to be observed in Repairs, &c. The Propagation and Culture of such Trees, as are used in Building, and planted as well for Ornament as Profit, with the Soils and Management proper for each Species; and Rules for their Measuring, Felling, Sawing, &c. A brief and clear Description of the various Parts of Painting and Sculpture, and the several Arts depending on them. Including briefly the Theory and Practice of Architecture, in its different Branches. Very useful to Gentlemen, to Work-Masters and Work-Men, in the making of Bargains, Contracts or Computations, relating to any Part of Building, &c. Originally written and compiled by Richard Neve, Philomath. by
Edition: The third edition, corrected and improved throughout. .. Language: English
Publication details: London printed for B. Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. Birt, H. Lintot, and A. Wilde M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1736 NEVE.
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16929.
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Geodesia catenea: or, Surveying by the chain only (A method entirely new.) Shewing how to measure, plot, and divide any parcel of land, without any other instrument but the chain: with directions for mapping and finding the content of it, and tables ready calculated for more expeditious performance thereof, as also for measuring timber, &c. By Henry Wilson, author of several mathematical treatises by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1736 WILSON.
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16930.
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Practical surveying improved or, land-measuring, according to the present most correct methods. With the several Instruments of Modern Practice: Wherein are shewn The Construction, Uses, and Excellency of Mr. Sisson's latest improved Theodolite, New-Invented Protractor, Scale of equal Parts, and Spirit-Level. With the Method of adjusting the latter, tho' just put together, at any single Station. By William Gardiner, Land-Surveyor. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Jonathan Sisson, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the Corner of Beaufort Buildings in the Strand; and Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-Noster Row M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1737 GARDINER.
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16931.
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The surveiors dialogue very profitable for all men to peruse, especially lords of mannors, Stewards of Mannor-Courts, Tenants, farmers and husbandmen. Divided into three books, carefully revised and corrected; together with an exact index. by
Edition: The fourth edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for R. Montagu, at the Book Ware-House, the General Post-Office, in Great Wilde-Street, near that End of Great Queen-Street, next Drury-Lane 1738
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1738 NORDEN.
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16932.
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16933.
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16934.
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16935.
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Sir Isaac Newton's tables for renewing and purchasing the leases of cathedral-churches and colleges, according to the several rates of interest: With their Construction and Use explained. Also Tables for Renewing and Purchasing the Leases of Land or Houses, Very necessary and useful for all Purchasers, but especially those who are any way concerned in Church or College Leases. To which is added, the value of church and college leases consider'd, and the Advantage to the Lessees made very apparent. By a late Bishop of Chichester. To which are also added, Tables of Interest exactly computed at 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5 per Cent. With other useful Tables. by
Edition: The sixth edition. To which are also added, tables of interest .. at 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5 per cent. .. Language: English
Publication details: London printed only for Tho. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1742
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1742 MABBUT.
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16936.
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16937.
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Surveying improv'd or, the whole art, both in theory and practice, fully demonstrated. In four parts. ... The third edition, with additions ; ... By Henry Wilson, ... To which is now added, Geodoesia accurata: ... Also A new essay upon solids. ... By William Hume, ... by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for T. Longman, J. Osborn, S. Birt, C. Hitch and J. Rivington 1743
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1743 WILSON.
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16938.
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The law of tithes shewing their nature, kinds, properties and incidents; by whom, to whom, when, and in what manner payable; ... Wherein all the statutes and adjudged cases relative to the subject are introduced and considered. The third edition corrected, with the addition of an alphabetical table at the end. By W. Bohun ... by Language: English
Publication details: [London] In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, (assignee of E. Sayer, Esq;) for J. Brotherton, W. Meadows, R. Ware, A. Ward, S. Birt [and 4 others in London] 1744
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1744 BOHUN.
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16939.
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The compleat parish-officer containing I. The authority and proceedings of high constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens, how chosen, their Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of the Act for building Fifty new Churches in London and Westminster. Also of Sidesmen, and their Duty; and Vestrymen, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. of surveyors of the highways, and Scavengers, how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. Together with the statutes relating to Hackney coaches and Chairs, Watermen, &c. The tenth edition, corrected, with large additions. To which is added The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. in the Year 1610. declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office. by Language: English
Publication details: [London] In the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot, (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for S. Birt, at the Bible and Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane, and H. Lintot MDCCXLIV. [1744]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1744 JACOB.
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