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Sir William Petty. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1696, after J. Closterman.

Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.

Sir William Petty, M.D.

The life of Sir William Petty, 1623-1687 : one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society, sometime secretary to Henry Cromwell, maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland, author of 'Political Arithmetic' &c. : chiefly derived from private documents hitherto unpublished / by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice.

Sir W.P. of Romsey / by P.G. Dale.

An anatomy professor builds a double-bottomed ship / [W. Naumann].

A bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the bills of mortality by John Graunt F.R.S / by Geoffrey Keynes.

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].

Two essays in political arithmetick, concerning the people, housing, hospitals, etc. of London and Paris / By Sir William Petty.

The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26 of November 1674. Concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / By Sir William Petty.

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] / [Sometimed ascribed to Sir W. Petty].

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By Capt. John Gravnt, fellow of the Royal society. With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, air, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].

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Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687

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The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26 of November 1674. Concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / By Sir William Petty.

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] / [Sometimed ascribed to Sir W. Petty].

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].

Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].