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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 11, 1738
Page
2
A notice announces a public sale at the Candle of various goods including fabrics linen cambrics camblets handkerchiefs silks draperies hats and textiles. Items hail from goods brought from abroad and from two deceased merchants. Viewable at Caprall Court Throgmorton Street from today until the sale tomorrow at four in the afternoon.
To be sold by auction on Tuesday next the 16th instant a large parcel of fine old china ware lately belonging to William Betts Esquire deceased brought from his lodgings and warehouse to the Crown Tavern in Leadenhall street. Catalogues available at the sale venue and goods may be viewed on Monday and Tuesday till the time of sale which begins precisely at two o clock.
May 1c 1738 a fresh parcel of German-A Spa Water from Pouhouit Spring is imported by Joan FipDEs at the Wheat Sheaf Tavistock Street Covent Garden. Mr Alexander Hay, known to nobility and gentry frequenting spas, seals the Water with the Prince of Liege arms. Fiddes sells other mineral waters and prepares Pyrmont, rough salts, and Hungary lavender water per Dr Shaw.
A public sale opens Wednesday next the 19th instant for a vast library from various sources. The catalog lists thousands of volumes across arts and sciences, including notable authors and histories, with prices marked. Catalogues available for one shilling at the sale location and from booksellers in London and other cities.
An artisan in London offers a magical musical machine after five years of study and operation. It is priced at 2 shillings 6d to hear and view, with 7s 6d securing a portion of the piece which uses mathematical wheels to perform a four minute display, promising extraordinary effects beyond common conception.
A detailed public sale notice for a two volume quarto history defending Popery. It covers the Papists doctrines and practices from early Christianity to the Council of Trent, with additions on papal authority, clerical celibacy, indulgences, and persecutions. Printed for John Oswald at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry near Stocks Market.
A notice advertises a register at Rainbow Coffee-house near Gray's Inn Walks for buyers and sellers of lands, advowsons, annuities, and rents. It lists two perpetual advowsons, an annuity of 1200 priced for the seller's life, several freehold and leasehold London Middlesex properties, a young attorney's business entry, and requests free or copyhold estates at Chigwell and Woodford Bridge with ground rents.
A late 18th century medical treatise by William Gockburn detailing the nature causes and cures of gonorrhea with engravings. Also an essay on bleeding in fevers showing quantities of blood to let. Includes A new Method of treating Consumptions by N Robinson with modern discoveries. Published for G Strahan at the Golden Ball Cornhill.
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