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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 12, 1739
Page
2
Public notice touts Barston and Turner’s newly patented universal astronomical quadrant praised for land surveying and celestial observations. It announces the instrument’s advantages over prior tools and records the Royal patent. Also advertised are Mrs Rowe’s Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse ongoing publication, with Life and Writings accounts, Letters, and Poems in multi-volume sets.
A verbose advertisement promises a remarkable musical piece valued by collectors, with shares sold for a Guinea each entitling ten people to view a grand mechanism. It notes a musical clock at Jane Way's Coffee-House as a pattern and promises elaborate silver and brass ornamentation, while detailing the price and viewing arrangements.
A sale at Hamiltons Coffee-House in Swithin’s Alley near the Royal Exchange lists numerous volumes from renowned authors. Catalogues available at multiple coffee-houses and shops, with an appendix including the library of a learned physician deceased and notes from professors Borehaave and Frank.
This Day is published bound with her other works. The Second Edition of The History of Joseph, a poem in ten books with a frontispiece by Elizabeth Rowe. Printed for S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, price sixpence. Also available are Her Works in two volumes or separately, including Friendship in Death and Letters Moral and Entertaining, fifth edition with a new table of contents.
A published plea advocating sovereignty over British seas and rights to fishing. It details Nymph Bank off Ireland, certificates, a map, and French encroachment, proposing two companies to supply cod and other fish cheaply to major ports including London Bristol Liverpool and Dublin. Names of booksellers and sale locations are listed.
This Day is publish edition corrected by Hane of Introduction to Afronomy or Astronomical Lectures by John Keill. It includes 29 plates engraved on copper and is printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross Keys in Fleet Street. Also advertised The Practical Surveyor by Samuel Wyld.
A catalog entry presents Du Cerceau's English translation of The History of Persia and the Revolutions of Persia, with a map and remarks on Tavernier and Carrdin, plus a second edition of The History of the Roman Republic by Vertot. It lists two volumes offered by J. and J. Pemberton in Fleet Street and notes prices for related works and a Memoirs of Count de For sir in French.
An 18th century medicine claims to cure greeds, seminal and genital imbecilities, back pains, urinary disorders, and more. Endorsed by Dr Ratcliffe for a noble lord, the remedies are sold by Mr. Johnson at the Seven Stars in Vere Street near Covent Garden for 5 shillings 6 pence per bottle with directions.
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