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A treatise on building in water In two parts. Part I. Particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin, and Bridge-Building in general, with Plans properly suited to the Re-Building of Ormond-Bridge. Part II. Concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods, for erecting substantial Stone-Buildings and other Works, in fresh and salt Water, quaking Bogs or Morasses, for various Purposes; fully laid down and clearly demonstrated, by Twelve Practical Propositions, but not in any Case exceeding ten Fathom deep: Together, with a Plan for a spacious and a commodious Harbour for the Downs in England, projecting to 20 Feet deep at low Water. Principally addressed and peculiarly adapted to young and unexperienced Readers. Illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates. By George Semple by Language: English
Publication details: Dublin printed for the author, by J. A. Husband, (no. 28.) Abbey-Street M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1776 SEMPLE.
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A new system of husbandry From experiments never before made public. With tables shewing the expence and profit of each crop. How to stock Farms to the best Advantage. How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation. Of Trench-Plowing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure. On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle. Of a new discovered cheap Food for Cattle. A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground. Of Cabbage Husbandry. Of the Naked Wheat, &c. Of all Sorts of Manures, Marles, Clays, Sands, &c. With many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all Sorts of Cattle. All which are calculated both for the Profit and Amusement of the Country Gentleman and Farmer. To which are Annexed a few Hints particularly and humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature. By C. Varlo, Esq. In three volumes. ... by
Edition: The fourth edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for the author [1774]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (3)Collection, call number: HUSBANDRY OCTAVO 1774 VARLO VOL. 1, ...
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Geodaesia improved or, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding easy. In two parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the chain only, whose Dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to map elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superficies; and teacheth the invaluable Method of casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the pen several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. With a most useful appendix Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in Tarporley, Cheshire. by Language: English
Publication details: Chester printed for the author, and sold by J. Poole in Chester; and by all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland MDCCLXXI. [1771]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1771 BURNS.
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A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice By Charles Hutton by Language: English
Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne Printed by T. Saint for the author, and for John Wilkie in St Paul's Church Yard, and Richard Baldwin in Pater-noster Row, London 1770
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1770 HUTTON.
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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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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great Variety of Chairs, Sofas, Beds, and Couches; China-Tables, Dressing-Tables, Shaving-Tables, Bason-Stands, and Teakettle-Stands; Frames for Marble-Slabs, Bureau-Dressing-Tables, and Commodes; Writing-Tables, and Library-Tables; Library-Book-Cases, Organ-Cases for private Rooms, or Churches, Desks, and Book-Cases; Dressing and Writing-Tables with Book-Cases, Toilets, Cabinets, and Cloaths-Presses; China-Cases, China-Shelves, and Book-Shelves; Candle-Stands, Terms for Busts, Stands for China Jars, and Pedestals; Cisterns for Water, Lanthorns, and Chandeliers; Fire-Screens, Brackets, and Clock-Cases; Pier-Glasses, and Table-Frames; Girandoles, Chimney-Pieces, and Picture-Frames; Stove-Grates, Boarders, Frets, Chinese-Railing, and Brass-Work, for Furniture. And Other Ornaments. To which is Prefixed. A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture; with Proper Directions for executing the most difficult Pieces, the Mouldings being exhibited at large, and the Dimensions of each Design specified. The Whole comprehended in Two Hundred Copper-Plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present Taste, and suited to the Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in all Degrees of Life. By Thomas Chippendale, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London. by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London printed for the author, and sold at his House, in St. Martin's Lane; also by T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, in the Strand MDCCLXII. [1762]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1762 CHIPPENDALE.
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The natural history of Cornwall The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the manner of mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: of the inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of Cornwall by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford printed for the author; by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1758 BORLASE.
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The British architect or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The Whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best Hands on Sixty Folio Copper-Plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for and sold by the author, near the George in Portland Street, Cavendish Square; by Mr. Meadows, over-against the Royal-Exchange; Messrs Hitch and Hawes, in Pater-Noster Row; and H. Piers and Partner at the Bible and Crown, in High Holborn M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1758 SWAN.
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The practical husbandman Being a collection of miscellaneous papers on husbandry, &c. By Robert Maxwell, Esq; of Arkland by Language: English
Publication details: Edinburgh Printed by C. Wright and Company, for the author: sold by him; J. Paton, Hamilton and Balfour, Kincaid and Donaldson, W. Sands, W. Miller, G. Crawfurd, W. Gordon, Yair and Fleming J. Brown, C. Wright, L. Hunter, Gray and Peters, Booksellers, Edinburgh: A. Stalker, D. Baxter, J. Gilmour, Booksellers, Glasgow: F. Douglas, Aberdeen: J. More, Dundee; and E. Wilson, Dumsries M.DCC.LVII. [1757]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1757 MAXWELL.
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An history of the church of St. Peter, Westminster, commonly called Westminster Abbey. Chiefly from manuscript authorities. By Richard Widmore, M. A. Librarian to the Dean and Chapter, and author of An enquiry into the time of the first foundation of the Abbey by Language: English
Publication details: London printed, and sold by Jos. Fox, and C. Tovey, in Westminster-Hall; and by the author, at his house in the Cloysters, Westminster-Abbey MDCCLI. [1751]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1754 WIDMORE.
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Eboracum or the history and antiquities of the city of York, from its original to the present times. Together with the history of the cathedral church, and the lives of the archbishops of that see, from the first introduction of Christianity into the northern parts of this island, to the present state and condition of that magnificent fabrick. Collected from authentick manuscripts, publick records, ancient chronicles, and modern historians. And illustrated with copper plates. In two books. By Francis Drake, of the City of York, Gent. F. R. S. and member of the Society of Antiquaries in London by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by William Bowyer for the author MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1736 DRAKE.
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Duodecimal arithmetick viz. Notation. Addition. Subtraction. Multiplication. Division. Reduction. Extraction of the-square, and cube roots. Rule of proportion-direct, and reverse. Duodecimally performed, and very practically applied to the measuring of all sorts of superficies, and solids, as board, glass, &c. timber, stone, &c. But chiefly to the gauging of all sorts of brewers tuns and casks, to find the whole content, or the vacuity or remaining liquor of either, and that with more ease and expedition, than by vulgar or decimal arithmetick. Very useful fo all sorts of men, aswel gentlemen as others, but especially for merchants, writing masters, and all measuring artificers. And all the rules made plain, and easie for the meanest capacity. By Joshua Jordaine of Exon, Philo-Accomptant. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by John Richardson for the author, and are to be sold by John Taylor at the Ship in Paul's Church Yard 1687
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1687 JORDAINE.
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The marrow of the mathematicks contracted into a small compass, and made plain and easie to the understanding of any ordinary capacity. Containing the doctrines of arethmetick, geometry, astronomy, gauging, the use of the sector, surveying, dyalling, and the art of navigation, &c. Illustrated with several cuts for the better explanation of the whole matter. After a new, compendious, easie method, by W. Pickering, merchant-adventurer. Licensed Octob. 9th 1685. Rob. Midgley by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by John Richardson for the author, and are to be sold by Tho. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, and Tho. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain 1686
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: MATHS & SCIENCE OCTAVO 1686 PICKERING.
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