Hazard Office Lottery Notices and Bookshop Auction Fragments
An 18th century notice from Hazard's Lottery Office describes ticket registration, share endorsements, and prize payment procedures. It highlights prize No. 53764, a 5000 pound second prize, and promotes prompt notice of winners. The text also lists bookshop advertisements near Gray's Inn Holborn, with catalogues and forthcoming cheap libraries from Fletcher Gyles and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hazard
London
Stationers Hall
Fletcher Gyles
Gray’s Inn
Holbourn
Henry Earl of
Radnor
Richard Brydges
Lincoln’s-Inn
Great Britain and Ireland
Voyage into the Levant and notable political abstracts
The advertisement announces Touarnefort’s Levant voyage complete with plates and plates on ancient and modern islands, Constantinople, Black Sea shores, Armenia, Georgia, Persia and Asia Minor with plans, inscriptions and manners. Also noted are the author’s life, elogium, and a map, with publication details and prices for the new members and merchants. The page includes a summary view of the House of Commons proceedings 1739–1741 and an abstract of the national debt as of January 1740.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Levant
Constantinople
Black Sea
Armenia
Georgia
Persia
Asia Minor
M. Tournefort
Royal Academy of Sciences
Academy of Sciences
Mr. Sessex
R. Ware
C. Rivington
A. Ward
J. and
P. Knapton
T. Longman
R. Herr
C. Hitch
Austen
J. Wood
H. Pemberton
House of Commons
Great Britain
T. Cosper
Globe
Paternofter Row
Benefit of Young Students: Numbered Folio Dictionary Sale
Announcement for delivering the late English dictionary by Robert Stephens in four volumes. Subscriptions priced per sheet with weekly Saturday deliveries. First number half a guinea, remaining money credited toward second issue. Final number includes dedication prefaces and lengthy catalogue. Delivery through Sam Harding and B. Dod. Bonus seventh copy offered for six subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Stephens
Tal
Sam. Harding
Parmene
Se. Martin’es Lane
B. Dod
Bible and Key
Avy-Mary-lane
Sationers Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hazard
Ludgate
Polkco
England
House of Lords
Alendar
Lords
Commons
Petiver
Buttachii
Cl. Salmam
Rome du
Francorum
Dugdale
Paris
Hich
Hist
Byzanting Scriptares
Charra Maxima
E Typographia Regia
Opera Omnia
Prima & Rariffma
Corio Ruffico
Mediolani
Iblia Polyglotea & Castelli Lexicon
Lister. Hift
Conchyliorum
Charta Max
Min
Cil
Opera Om
Latcora Fabretti
Parishworeth
Hawkins
oHetk
Lord Bacon
Sir Hans Bloan
Jamaica
Diodorus Siculus
Rhodomanni
Demosthenis
Archinis
Lac’ Edic
Dion. Halicarn
Opera
Per Hudson
Oxon
Fletcher
Clements
Oxford
Tharlbourne
Cambridg
Leake
Bath
Monterioy
Knight
West
Cory
Eyri
Bae
I. Wright
the Bible
Exeteracer
J. Duncan
Martia
Gourt
St.Myris's Lane
Ofavo
G. Vandersucht
China
Chinese Tartary
Corea
Thibet
Peng Pu Hales
Lewis de Comte
R. Brookes
Afbney
Northadgtonyier
J. Watts
Ave-mary-lane
Scationers Hall
Price
H. Moll
Admiral Vernon
Sir Francis Drake
West Indies
Mr. Tharpas
Jak Slater
Clement’s Inn
J. Weight
Exeter
F. Noble
Royal Exchange
Temple
Charing
High Court of Chancery
Thomas Baknardiston
Henry Linror
W. Chinery
lineae-Temple-lane
Joan Barcay
Micar
North Allerton
Sarum
John Pemberton
Golden Buck
Fleet Street
Newcastle Upon Pyne
Prnion
M. Peris de la Croix
King’s Incerpreters
Royal Callepe
Dr. King
Mad-gascar
Siam
Richard Ware
Elizabeth Haywood
Anc
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