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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 28, 1736
Page
4
A published abstract describes the Act to build a bridge from New Palace Yard in Westminster to the Surrey shore. It includes insurance terms for adventurers, detailing prizes and refunds of premiums through the Bank of England. Printed by John Baskett and sold by multiple London booksellers.
An 18th century measuring guide promotes a new method to quickly determine solid and superficial contents of timber stone and other building materials. It includes feet inches and twelfths of an inch, with a preface urging caution against obsolete tables. Ep Hoppus declares the book false unless his name is signed on the title page back.
Public sale listing by E Curll at Pope's Head Covent Garden offers a two volume collection of celebrated novels with many titles including The Mistr Punish'd The Amorous Priest The Artful Lover and The Virgin Seducer plus additional volumes and curiosities. Prices range from 6d to 1s 6d per volume and individual titles may be purchased separately with various authors and nested tales provided.
A 72 page pocket volume offers ready tables to compute grain value from one quarter to five hundred, with prices from five shillings to four pounds per quarter, plus a table converting quantities for farmers and trades. John Hewitt rechecks from the press. Published by Bettesworth Hitch Clarke Royal Exchange.
The Day is published with information for his Majesty's Advocate and Porteous's supporters. It includes pleadings on both sides and a petition for a pardon, plus a detailed mob action account from the Grass Market execution. The trial is set to reveal the full events before the Justiciary Court in Scotland.
Advertises a map of Lesser Tartary and progress of Russian armies illustrated by the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburg. Sold by John Senex at the Globe in Fleet Street alongside other works on the annular solar eclipse in February. Includes a drawing of the eclipse passage across England Scotland and Ireland and a general construction plan of the eclipse, priced accordingly.
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