Robbery at Biscuite-Baker's Shop in Wapping Stirs Thieves
Goods stolen from the House of Jos. Curtis at Wapping New-Stairs include a large silver waiter crested ram, pint mugs, a coffee pot, a porringer, salts, spoons, a wax candlestick, shirts, a green velvet cap, table linen, and a small silver snuff-box. Reward ten guineas for return in whole or part.
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Tolen
House of Jos
I. M
Mary Tennant
R. T
M.T
Mary Ten
J. H
Joseph Curtis
ALEOPATRA Weekly Novelist offering and price list
Yesterday was publis'd N XXXMI being the fourth number of Vol VI of ALEOPATRA a celebrated romance The edition includes a new edition of the New Atlantis in 12mo with a page key and lower prices for volumes The notice lists subscription details prices and delivery options from J Warfon in Wardrobe Court Great Carter Lane and notes other publications for 1735 including court books and wedding sermons
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Atalantis
J. Warfon
Wardrobe-Court
Great Carter-Lane
Short Hand master advertises new rapid writing method
J Weston announces a hand and pen system against Norfolk Street to teach an express method of short hand. The course promises instant writing in English moods and tenses with five to six words per stroke, learnable without Latin. Also offered are a Short Hand Grammar, a Common Prayer Book, and a subscription plan to engrave and print a New Testament in Short Hand. Prices range from one guinea to two guineas, with payment terms and explanations on dark passages.
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Uer Ihiy Gheeries
The Seven epitions and midwives guide abridged
A late edition claims to correct and augment the seventh edition of a French obstetrics work. It includes copperplate engravings, a description of generation in women, and remedies for childbirth and infant disorders. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen and printed in London at the Bible
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franneis Pam Eesau
Huch Chamberlen
J. Clarke
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Ten Volumes in Ottawa to Ancient History of the Egyptians
An advertisement notes volumes in Rollin's ancient history series translated from French. It details titles covering Egyptians Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes Persians Macedonians and Grecians, with publisher James John and Paul Krapton in Ludgate Street. Volume XX and XII will cover arts and sciences of the ancients and publish after Paris originals.
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Ottawa
M. Rollin
University of Paris
Royal College
Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres
James, John
Paul Krapton
the Crown
Ludgate-street
This Day is published Irish Statutes abridgment details
This Day is published an examination and abridgment of all the Irish statutes from the first session of Parliament in the 3d year of King Edward II to the end of the 8th year of King George II. With proper tables and approbation by the Lord Chancellor and judges of Ireland. By N Robbins, Esq. sold by Knapton at the Crown in Ludgate Street.
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Edward II
George II
Ireland
N. Robbins
Barritten
James, John and
Paul Knapton
Crown
Ludgate-street
General Magazine for October Debates and Proceeds
The October issue presents Parliament debates with pro and con arguments on gin, plus original pieces including critiques of the clergy, the ruin of young tradesmen, and a Cabal tale. It features poems births marriages deaths mortality prices of stock grain and more, printed by Anne Burton William Lloyd and town booksellers.
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St. Paul’s
Anne Burton
William Lloyd
St. John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
Town
Cauntry
Quack Advertisement Marketing a Humourous Patent Medicine
A period critique exposes the widespread quack ads in newspapers and presents a purported humoral remedy for a chronic distemper. It lists witnesses and authorities who endorse the medicine, detailing methods of administration and office hours for Dr Bennet, the author, at York Buildings and Tom’s Coffee-house.
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Solomon Ashley
St. James’s Park
William Sheldon
Gracechurch-street
Hale
the Temple
Henry Davi
Finchlane
Cornhill
D’'Albiac
Spittlefields
Peter Burton
Bishopsgate-street
Hinchliffe
William Hicks
Sheereness
Joan FreNcu
Wood-street
Cheapside
John Ashley
Cross
Genoa Arms
Catherine-street
Strand
Depemead
Tavistock-street
Covent-Garden
Porter
Hay-Market
Hornabl
Fountain-court
Suirton
Round-court
N. B
Bennet
Doke-street
York- Buildings
Tom
Unnery Tales Second Edition in Pocket Form
An early advertisement notes UNNERY TALES by a young nobleman translated from a French manuscript into English. It mentions a curious frontispiece and a price of two shillings, with sale through Fleet Street and town and country booksellers. The card hints at provocative content linked to priestly bodies and earth over souls, referencing Cesar Borgia and a nun motif.
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Unnery
Enelith
Earth
Heaven
Priett
Foy
Lee
Cesar Borgia
M. Lovemore
Fleet
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Mark
Middlesex
London
Thomas Martyn
Rainbow
Richard
Temple-Bar
Chancery-lane
Bream
P.S
James Morthersall
Golden Angel
Cranbone Alley
Leicester Fields
Powell
Turner
Charles Court
Hungerford Market
J. Weston
Norfolk-street
W. Reading
Sion
Oétavo
J. Watts
Sion College
Origen
Pine
Bath
Somerset
Joan Woep
Paris
J. Hazard
Stationers Hall
J. Leake
Fee
Fletcher Gyles
Gray’s Inn
Holbourn
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