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A new prognostication, for the year of our redemption, 1678, being the second after bissextile, or leap year : Most curiously and artificially calculated, for all north-Brittain, but more especially (and even according to every typographer's very bound duty) for the latitude and meridian of our most famous city of Bon-Accord. Which stands upon a pleasant lone, whose gallant dykes, are Dee and Done. / by A. R. A.M. an expert mathematician.
A. R. (Mathematician), active 1678.Date: 1678
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Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
Loggon, T.Date: [1824?]Reference: 23495i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.Date: 1743Reference: 20496i
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A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Pears, Charles, 1873-1958.Date: 1912Reference: 15398i- Books
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The Chapmans and travellers almanack for the year of Christ 1694 : wherein all the post roads, with their several branches and distances, the marts, fairs, and markets in England and Wales, and alphabetically disposed in every month ... : to which is added a table of accounts ready cast up ... and other tables and things, useful for all travellers, traders, or chapmen whatsoever : also, the rising and setting of the sun and motions of the tides, and whatsoever else is necessary for an annual almanack.
Date: 1694