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Deed of mortification by Mr. Walter Stirling, merchant in Glasgow, of a fund for establishing a Public Library for the benefit of the inhabitants of Glasgow, dated the 3d day of February, 1785...

by Stirling, Walter
Published 1791

Printed by A. Dunvan and R. Chapman

Subjects: “...[Glasgow Public Library] / Early works to 1800...”

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London Library Society. The want of an extensive and well-chosen Public Library in the metropolis, has long been general and just matter of complaint

Published 1785

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The genuine remains in verse and prose : of Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. Published from the original manuscripts, formerly in the Possession of W. Longueville, Esq; with...

by Butler, Samuel
Published 1759

printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street

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An epistle humbly address'd to the right honourable the Earl of Oxford, &c : With a discourse on the Usefulness, and some Proposals, of a Supplement to Bishop Walton's Polyglot Bib...

by Mawer, John
Published 1732

printed by Tho. Gent; and sold by Mr. Hildyard in Stonegate, York; Mr. Prevost in the Strand; Mr. Gyles in Holborn, London; and by Mr. Ryles in Hull

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The curiosities of Paris : in nine letters. Containing The Manner of Travelling from Calais to Paris, and the Description of the Towns. &c. on the Road. Description of Paris, Cours...

by A. R
Published 1760

printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street

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Lunn's catalogue for 1792. Comprehending an assemblage of many thousand valuable and useful books, in every branch of learning; particularly a very large and excellent collection of the Greek and Roman classics; the whole forming a general collection in various languages, of several thousand pounds value: likewise books of prints, antiquities, and portraits, capital prints by Woollet, Bartolozzi, &c. framed and glazed. Manuscripts and Roman missals, finely illuminated. The books are in fine condition, and in a variety of plain, elegant, and magnificent bindings; the prices are printed in the catalogue, and as useful marked in the first leaf of every book, and are now on sale, for ready money only, by W. H. Lunn, (removed to the shop lately occupied by Miss Lord,) near the Public Library, Cambridge. Catalogues...

by Lunn, William Henry
Published 1792

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An Elegy to the infamous memory of Sr. F--- B----- : [Two lines of Latin quotation]

by Dickinson, John
Published 1769

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The charter granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the inhabitants of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England

Published 1775

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The Art of courting : displayed in eight different scenes; the principal of which are taken from actual life, and published for the amusement of the American youth. [Four lines of...

Published 1795

Printed by William Barrett. West corner of Market-Square

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The character and reward of a good and faithful servant of Jesus Christ : A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, A.M. Minister of the Presbyterian...

by Searl, John
Published 1778

Printed by John Mycall

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Epitaph. &c. To the memory of Alex. Wedderburne, Esq

Published 1774

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Early piety recommended and exemplify'd : A sermon occasioned by the death of Elisabeth Price, an eminently pious young woman, who departed this life, February 22, 1731/2. In the s...

by Chauncy, Charles
Published 1732

Printed by S. Kneeland & T. Green, for B. Gray, at the head of the town-dock

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An almanack for the year of our Lord Christ, 1730 : ... Fitted to the horizon of Boston, N.E. whose lat. north is 42 gr. & 25 min. and a meridian 4 hours and 44 min. west of London...

by Bowen, Nathan
Published 1729

Printed by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops

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An overture presented to the reverend synod of dissenting ministers, sitting in Philadelphia, in the month of September, 1728 : And is now under the consideration of the several me...

by Thomson, John
Published 1729

Printed [by Samuel Keimer] for the author

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By His Excellency George Clinton, Esq; governor of the state of New York ... proclamation : The appointment of delegates, to represent this state in the Congress of the United Stat...

by Clinton, George
Published 1781

Printed by John Holt?

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A Short account of the convincement of Edward Andrews

Published 1784

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Hymenŭs, a poem

Published 1707

Printed by Ben J. Motte, and sold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall

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A budget of scraps : By John Leland

by Leland, John
Published 1800

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The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Published 1756

printed by Adrian Watkins

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Nugæ canoræ: or, The taste of the town in poetry and musick

Published 1709

Printed and sold by J. Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall

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