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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 20, 1739
Page
2
To-morrow’s publication by John Oswald offers two works. A sermon by GeorgE Whitefield argues the Spirit’s indwelling is a privilege for all believers now as in the past, and an abstract of the life and death of Rev. Mr. H lyburton with a Wesley and Whitefield preface.
A 18th century financial guide by Richard Hayes covers adding 33 percent interest, rates for 2 to 12 months, methods to compute interest, salaries, wages and money handling. It includes a table comparing gold and silver with Amsterdam London exchange and references related manuals on ships accounts and purchaser’s pocket companion.
Edward Horton presents an expanded arithmetic compendium with vulgar and decimal parts, logarithms to 1020 and tables for interest and leases. The volume promises plain algebra, rules for solving equations, and an appendix on mensuration and solids, printed by G Strahan in Cornhill.
The fragment lists printed notices for books and authors from the early press scene. It mentions The Stage Monitor and various publishing houses and coffee houses in London. It cites London addresses such as Charing-Cross Fleet-Street Covent-Garden and Pall-Mall for selling or distributing literary works and taking letters post paid to authors.
This Day is publishd in four volumes the second edition of Tacitus translated into English corrected by Thomas Gordon with discourses on Julius Caesar Government and public life. Also The Independent Whig six edition in three volumes with additions and amendments. Cato's Letters four volumes 12mo in the fourth edition.
An 18th century advertisement offers The Compleat Housewife Or Accomplish’d Gentlewoman’s Companion with six hundred recipes covering cookery pastry preserving and medicines plus copper plates and monthly bills of fare. Also Elements of Chemistry by Herman Boehrhavae with seventeen copper plates translated by Timothy Dalton. Both works are priced and available from J Pemberton in Fleet Street and Mr Martin Bryson in Newcastle.
This Day is published adorned with a frontispiece The First Edition of A Dissertation upon Parties in several Letters to Caleb D Anvers Esq dedicated to the Right Hon Sir Robert Walpole. Price bound in Roffel-street Covent Garden NB The Frontispiece may be had separate Pr 6d.
Advertisement catalog for 4th edition controversial works by Luke Ogle and William Beckett. Includes accounts on Stew-Houses and venereal disease antiquity, with prices and a list of additional titles by Burnett Locke and Johnson.
An advertisement promotes a "transcendant BansamMick Restrective Electro Rx" as a sure cure for greets and seminal weaknesses caused by fevers purging venereal injuries or other causes. It claims rapid, trouble free results in days, with one pot priced at 6s and sold at Radford's Toyshop near St Clement's Churchyard, Strand, with a book of illustrations.
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