Steel Spring Trial Promises Cure for Bursten Frailty
R Meares of the King's Arms Ludgate Hill proclaims a steel spring device as the only safe method for laborious exercise to aid ruptured or wounded persons. He claims expertise from Paris, warns against quack cures, and asserts surgeons and sadlers offer useless remedies. Addressed to all mankind, dated November 20, 1739.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nans
Paris
Sadlers Girls
D. King’s Arms
Ludgate-Hill
R. Meares
Directio Rock
Fesat
King’s Arms Court
Early Religious Treatises and Sermon Collections Advertised
An 18th century catalog page advertises The Eighth Edition Day book for country parishioners with guidance on Sabbath observance education and salvation. It lists prices and vendors including John Pemberton in Fleet Street and Newcastle bookseller Marcia Bryson, plus multiple sermon collections by Abraham Markland Samuel Clarke Basil Kennet and a Jesuit-Jesuitate comparison work with a Paris imprint and Parliament arrets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pemberton
St. Dinttan’s
Fleet-Street
Marcia Bryson
Winchester
Abraham Markland
Se. Cross
Bishop Moor
Samuel Clarke
Pee
Sc. James’s
Westminster
Basil Kennet
Corpus Christi College
Oxford
Clement XI
Paris
Treatise on the Fistula of the Anus by Astruc
This Day is publish’d a treatise on the fistula of the anus originally in Latin by Joan Astruc physician to the king of France Augustus the Second late king of Poland and the duke of Orleans. It adds pieces from Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Peter de Marcheris with a copper plate showing a new instrument for incomplete fistula operations by John Freke senior surgeon of St Bartholomew's Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Astruc
France
Augustus the Second
Poland
Orleans
Fabricius Ab Aquapendente
Peter de Marcherris
John Freke
F. R.S
Sc. Bartholomew’s Hospital
John Brotherton
Tom’s Coffze House
Cornhill
Life and Deathless Memory of Elizabeth Bury 1720
A 1720 publication compiling Elizabeth Bury’s life and death with sections on conversion virtues afflictions and duties, plus her self reflections and Sabbaths. Includes funeral sermon by William Tone and Watts elegy. Printed by Richard Hett at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry. Also a collection of Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs for private worship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Bury
Bristol
William Tone
Isaac Watts
Richard Hett
Bible and Crown
Samuel Bury
Works of Sir Philip Sidney and Related Volumes in Three Editions
A bibliographic notice listing The Fourteenth Edition in three volumes of The Works of Sir Philip Sidney with contents including The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia and The Defence of Poesy, plus additional works by St Evremond, Woodward, and Echard. Also cited are The Voyage to the South Sea and World by the Duke and Duchess of Bristol and a two volume atlas with Edward Rooke’s maps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Philip Sidney
Knr
Countess of Pembroke
Astrophel and Stella
Gosling
Fleet-Screet
Mons. de St. Evremiond
England
Wales
John Eon
John Woodward
Gresham College
College of Physicians
Royal Society
Orleans
Society of Jesus
Paris
Laurence Echard
Stowe
South-Sea
Duke and Dutchess
Bristol
Puna
Guayaquil
Acapulco
American
Tierra del Fuego
California
The Art of Negotiating and Civil Law Compendium
A catalog listing multiple historic works on diplomacy and law. It advertises The Art of Negotiating with sovereign princes and a major Civil Law compilation translated into English by William Strahan. Includes works on the Court of Rome, the Pope, and the College of Cardinals with prefatory remarks and editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Rome
College of Cardinals
Incé
Mont. Domat
Clermont
France
William Strawan
Doctors Commons
England
G. Strahan
Golden Ball Agaimst Dhe Royal Exchange
Lately publis'd Books and Editions Listed
A catalog of newly released works including Souths Sermons in six volumes with Shaftsbury heads and index, Burnet Sacred Theory of the Earth in two volumes, Keill Introduction to Astronomy, Trapp Pretexts, Welwood Merchants of England, Katharine Philips Letters, Horace in Latin and English with Bentley notes, Wylde Practical Surveyor, Clergyman and Gentleman's Recreation fruit garden, Aristenetus Love Letters, and a Genealogies of English Nobility with copper arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. South
Earl of Shaftsbury
Burnet
Keill
Trapp
Welwood
England
Laurence
Aristenetus
Stephen Lewis
Merton College
H. Linror
Also Mentioned on This Page
S M. Rollin
University of Paris
Royal College
Royal Academy of Inscriptions
Belisf Lettres
Charles Hitch
Red Lion
Paternoster
Price
Rice
Christian Wolfius
College of Magdeburgh
Germany
F.R
London Bridge
Anthony Daffy
Daffy
French
Hungary
Hill
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