Spectacular Musical Machine Offered by Clay at Cornhill
C Clay displays a grand musical machine claimed to surpass all others and raffles shares at to be seen at Jane Wayes Coffee House in Cornhill. Ten shares cost a guinea each, with a total value of 1600 guineas, and access grants viewing rights for ten people. A specimen musical clock is shown upstairs as pattern, and tickets include admission to both exhibits.
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C. Clay’s
Strand
Clay
Janeway
Cornhill
Fersons
The Compleat Housewife and Chemistry Lectures Published
An 18th century fashioning of culinary and domestic arts. The Compleat Housewife presents six hundred receipts for cookery cakes and preserves with new frontispiece and copper plates. Also included are three hundred family medicines and cures including Dr Mead’s mad dog remedy. Published by J. and J. Pemberton and Martin Bryson in Fleet Street and Newcastle. The Chemistry Lectures of Boerhaave translated by Timothy Dalton arrive in an illustrated English edition.
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Mead
J. Pemberton
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleettreer
Martin Bryson
Newcastle
Herman Boerwaave
University of Leyden
Timothy DaLtowek
Fragmented OCR List of Terms and Misspellings
The readable portions show a list of terms with misspellings and capitalization quirks such as iits warts Vontaiming MI LOGARITHMETICAL VILLINEAL VHT InstRuMENTAL IX ALGEBRAICAL. It appears as a garbled inventory or glossary like fragment from a historical page.
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Vontaiming
History of London book with plates and city plans
This item advertises a historical volume on the origin and state of London including parishes government economy charities and learning. It notes parallels with ancient and foreign cities, details inhabitants ages and gender balances, and lists 134 large engravings including the 1642 and 1643 city plans and London ruins after the 1666 fire. William Maitland is named as author and subscribers are offered copies at the Dial in the Poultry.
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London
Nineveh
Babylon
Jerusalem
Rome
Grand Gairo
Pekin
Constantinople
Paris
Moscow
Walliam Maitland
John Fortescue
Henry VI
Mr. Selden
England
Bale
Pits
du Fresne
Ralph de Hengham
Edward
Oll Hengham
Magna
Hentham
Parva
Selden
Tortescue
R. Gosling
Ferter-lane End
Fleet-treer
Bakonia Anglica
Capite
Thomas Mappox
Thomas Mappox, Esq; Late His Majesty’s Historiographer
Historical Register 1738 Yearly Transactions Chronology
Newly publis d in 1738 complete with a chronological diary of remarkable occurrences births marriages deaths renewals and promotions. It notes persons of eminence their parentage and ranks with a Latin motto. Printed by J Merges and sold at the Old Bailey and Globe in Water-nofster Row.
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Pertons
J. Merges
Baily
Ludgate
T. Cooper
New Treatises on English Spelling and Language Learning
The sixth edition offers an Introduction to Spelling and Reading English with monotyllable, dif syllable, and trisyllable tables for children, plus 160 lessons. It includes a compendious Way of reaching ancient and modern languages with notes by notable men and an account of education of royal offspring. Printed for W Meadows, Angel in Cornhill.
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PoLiticaLyn
Edward Hatton
G. Strahan
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Wm. Markham
TaNaquil Fazer
London
Roger Ascam
Richard ‘Carew
Mr. Milton
Mr. Lock
Burgundy
Anjou
Berry
Lambert
J. T. Paterres
Prince Willian Duke of Cumberland
W. Meadows
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Wwich
Robin’s Almanack
Norfolk
Robin
Rich Robin
C. Overagain
Devereux-Court
Temple-Bar
Mr. Bradshaw
Daffy’s
Stoughton
Firma Burnet
Exchequer
Sime
Henry the Eighth
Haydon-Yard
Minories
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