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The American oracle Comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness. By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America. [Two lines in Latin].
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: [1791]
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An easy introduction to the arts and sciences being a short, but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning. Divided into lessons. Illustrated with cuts, and adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies. By R. Turner, Jun. of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford: Author of an Easy Introduction to Geography, &c.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
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This day is published at W. Sleater's , No. 28, Dame-Street, Price Twelve Guineas bound, in five Volumes folio calf and lettered, the Index and Plates making a separate Volume. Chamber's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, improved and illustrated with a great number of Copper-Plates.
Sleater, William, d. 1801.Date: 1787?]
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Dedicated, by permission, to the King. This day is published in 410. By J. Moore, No. 45, College-Green, Dublin, vol. II. Price one guinea, in boards, (and with all possible expedition, the subsequent volumes,) of Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature, on a plan entirely new. ..
Date: 1791?]
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The universal Library or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1722