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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1736
Page
3
Hampstead invites sportsmen to an upcoming meeting with multiple purses. July 12 offers a silver cup for horses never winning above 20 guineas. July 13 features ten guinea purses for fourteens hands. July 14 a five guinea pony purse. July 15 a twelve guinea gentlemen’s purse. Measures include entry fees, weights, and subscriber rules with attendance restricted to paying supporters.
Fat Imported by Joan Fippes at the Wheat Sheaf Covent Garden sells German spa waters from Pouhon Geron and Seveneer Springs kept in seal’d flasks with Liege and Hay marks. Freth Pyrmont Scarborough Batu and Bristol Waters offered when filling and carriage allow. Scarborough salts prepared by Dr Shaw and Mr Cockeril sold only by Joan Fippys in London.
Racing notes describe two forthcoming events at Warwick July meeting. A Gentlemen’s Subscription of thirty Guineas with a six stone weight. entries at Markcross from noon to six on July 13. Subscribers pay one guinea, nonsubscribers three guineas or double if entered at the post. A Give and Take Plate worth twelve guineas for horses up to any size, 14 hands, weights as specified, entries with the other plate at the same time and place, one guinea entrance or double if entered at the post.
In July at Basingstoke the races offer multiple days of purses from ten to twenty Guineas for horses of specific heights and weights. Entries require stakes and entrance fees. special events include a Maidenhead hunt and a cock-match event at the George Inn with Hampshire versus Berkshire gentlemen.
A fragmentary catalog entry lists Daniel Waterland works and a comic drama by Colley Cibber, with details of publication and a long notice of subscriptions. It records printers, booksellers, and addresses in London such as the Rising-Sun, Pater-noster-Row, Temple-Bar, Ludgate Street, and Covent Garden, reflecting 18th century publishing practices and solicitations.
A lengthy 1730s polemic by John Grundy defends his canal and surveying methods against Badeblade. It attacks claims on Spalding River, Perry's Proceedings, and river cutting, asserting eight equals two, and includes propositions and corollaries on water descent and level-taking. Also advertised are two books by Grundy and a religious series by the Gentleman Instructed.
An old advertisement for the third edition of Spectacle de la Nature translated by Samuel Humphreys. It highlights three volumes bound at 18s, with nearly one hundred copper plates of birds beasts fish plants and more. Prefatory remarks praise the work, noting sales prospects and pricing for second and third volumes or the first bound at six shillings.
An 18th century notice advertising Vertus headed plates for Rapin’s History of England. The offer lists Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, James II, Henry Duke of Gloucester, and other royal heads with accompanying engravings and epitaphs. Copies of Rapin’s History in 2 folio volumes with heads and monuments are available, bound in pasteboard. A note mentions extra head sets bound on specimen paper for buyers and collectors.
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