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Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5
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Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters : addressed by way of letter to a friend

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

1684/5

Heading-title (p.1) reads: Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of particular mineral waters, address'd to his learned friend, Dr. S.L. H3 unsigned (not noted by Fulton). With 11 pp....

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Golden remains, of the ever memorable, Mr. John Hales, of Eaton College

Hales, John (1584-1656); Gunning, Peter (1614-1684)

1673

Added t.-p., engr. Title in red and black; head pieces, initials. Errors in paging: (1st group) 158-159, 259, 271, 278 numbered 159, 158, 159, 171, 288 respectively; 271-272 repeated, 279-280 omit...

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Golden remains, of the ever memorable, Mr. John Hales, of Eaton College

Hales, John (1584-1656); Gunning, Peter (1614-1684)

1673

Added t.-p., engr. Title in red and black; head pieces, initials. Errors in paging: (1st group) 158-159, 259, 271, 278 numbered 159, 158, 159, 171, 288 respectively; 271-272 repeated, 279-280 omit...

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Parrhasiana: or, Thoughts upon several subjects; as, criticism, history, morality, and politics. By Monsieur Le Clerk, under the feigned name of Theodorus Parrhasi. Done into English by ****

Le Clerc, Jean (1657-1736)

1700

P.195 misnumbered 159. Chapter 10 is "Of Mr. Le Clerc's works", and concludes the book. Pages 281-288 repeated in pagination.

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Golden remains, of the ever memorable, Mr. John Hales, of Eaton College

Hales, John (1584-1656); Gunning, Peter (1614-1684)

1673

Added t.-p., engr. Title in red and black; head pieces, initials. Errors in paging: (1st group) 158-159, 259, 271, 278 numbered 159, 158, 159, 171, 288 respectively; 271-272 repeated, 279-280 omit...

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The reports of Sir Edward Coke, kt., in verse : Wherein the name of each case and the principal points, are contained in two lines

Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634); Worrall, John (1771); Great Britain. Courts

1742

Edited by John Worrall, from an old manuscript. cf. Pref. "Law books lately publish'd, sold by J. Worrall" p. [84].

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The young-students-library : containing, extracts and abridgments of the most valuable books printed in England, and in the forreign journals, from the year sixty five, to this time. To which is added, a new essay upon all sorts of learning; wherein the use of the sciences is distinctly treated on

Dunton, John (1659-1733); Athenian Society (London, England)

1692

First edition. Errors in paging: p. 70, 7l, 153 incorrectly numbered 66, 67, 159; no. 288-289 repeated, no. 317-320 omitted in numbering. "... A discourse concerning ... the points, vowels, and ac...

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Carolina: or, Loyal poems

Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680); Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

1683

Pages 158-159 misnumbered 156-157; page numbers 223 and 224 repeat. Title within double line border. 'To the reader' signed: Tho. Flatman. Includes 'Prologue to Henry the third of France, at the...

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Helvetiorum respublica. Diversorum autorum quorum nonnulli nunc primum in lucem prodeunt

Simmler, Josias (1530-1576); L'Ermite, Daniel (1584?-1613)

1627

Engraved t.-p. First edition: the 2d edition of same date and with same number of pages is distinguished by tail-pieces at p. 4, 535, and last page of index; the 3d edition of same date has 508 p. a...

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Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis regiae in lucem editum: et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Collins, John (1625-1683); Keill, John (1671-1721); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1722

For this second edition, "Ad lectorem"(p.l. [2-4]) and "Recensio libri" (p.[1]-59) were written by Sir Isaac Newton (both formerly ascribed to J. Keill). Newton was also responsible for the changes in...

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Miscellanies in verse and prose

Pack, Richardson (1682-1728)

M.DCC.XIX. [1719]

Title page vignette. Regular paper copy; cf. Foxon. Apparently a re-issue of the sheets of the first edition, with the addition of "Translations" and "Some memoirs of William Wycherley, Esq;" (pp....

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