Octavo

Name Octavo
Abbreviation 8vo
Description

Each sheet is folded to make eight leaves and sixteen pages. 

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25318 The adventures, and surprizing deliverances, of James Dubourdieu, and his wife: who were taken by pyrates, and carried to the uninhabited-part of the Isle of Paradise. Containing a Description of that Country, its Laws, Religion, and Customs: Of Their being at last released; and how they came to Paris, where they are still living. Also the adventures of Alexander Vendchurch, whose Ship's Chew Rebelled against him, and set him on Shore on an Island in the South-Sea, where he liv'd five Years, five Months, and seven Days; and was at last providentially releas'd by a Jamaica Ship. Written by himself. Unknown ,
Arthur Bettesworth (London)
Thomas Warner (London)
Charles Rivington I (London)
John Brotherton and William Meadows (Cornhill)
Anne Dodd I (London)
William Rufus Chetwood (London)
1719
22067 The agreeable Caledonian: or, memoirs of Signiora di Morella, a Roman lady, who made her escape from a monastery at Viterbo, for the love of a Scots nobleman. Intermix'd with many other entertaining little histories and Adventures which presented themselves to her in the Course of her Travels. Richard King (London)
1728
22124 The agreeable caledonian: Or, Memoirs of Signiora di Morella, a Roman lady. Who made her escape from a monastery at Viterbo, for the love of a Scots nobleman. Intermix'd with many other entertaining histories and adventures which presented themselves to her in the course of her travels. Part II. Haywood , Eliza
 Richard King (London)
1729
24591 The American almanack for the year of Christian account, 1744. Unto which is numbered, from the Creation By the Oriental and Greek Christians, 7252 By the Jews, Hebrews and Rabbins, 7954 By the late computation of W. W. 5753 Being the bissextile or leap-year. Wherein is contained, the lunations, eclipses, judgement of the weather, and mutual aspects, time of sun's and moon's rising and setting, length of days, seven stars rising, southing and setting, high-water, fairs, courts and observable days, &c. Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may, without sensible error, serve all adjacent places, from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Titan Leeds, philomat. Leeds , Titan
 1744
21409 The American almanack for the year of Christian account, 1746. Unto which is numbered, from the Creation, by the Oriental and Greek Christians, 7254 By the Jews, Hebrews and Rabbins, 7956 By the late Computation of W. W, 5755 Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein is contained, the lunations, eclipses, judgement of the weather, and mutual aspects, time of sun's and moon's rising and setting, length of days, seven stars rising, southing and setting, high-water, fairs, courts and observable days, &c. Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of 5 hours west from London, but may, without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Titan Leeds, philomat. Leeds , Titan
 1745
24590 The American almanack, for the year of Christian account 1745, being the next after leap-year. Wherein is contained, the lunations, eclipses, planets-motions and aspects, judgements of the weather, the time of the sun and moon's rising and setting, seven stars rising, southing, and setting, high-water, spring-tides, fairs, courts, meeting and other observable days. Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees north, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without much error serve from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By John Jerman, philomath. Jerman , John
 1744
6922 The amorous merchant: or, intriguing husband. Being a curious and uncommon process of love and law. Wherein The Inconveniencies of an Old Sickly Wife, and the alluring Charms of Youth and Beauty, are pleasantly contrasted. A Case, founded on incontestible Facts, often litigated in our High Courts of Justice; and, for some Years past, the Subject of Conversation among the Gay and Polite. Written by Mrs. Graham, now Barry, in the manner of Constantia Phillips. Graham , Mrs. Melinda
 Mrs. Barry (London)
1753
11670 The Amusing Moralist, containing a Collection of Fables from Aesop. By a lady Unknown , [Woman]
 1806
26108 The analysis of Stretham waters: with experiments that lead to a new theory of the composition and decomposition of mineral waters in general. Unknown ,
Mary Kingman (London)
1760
25951 The analysis of the law: being a scheme, or, abstract, of the several titles and partitions of the law of England, digested into method. By Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. The second edition corrected: with the addition of an alphabetical table. Hale , Matthew
 1716 The second edition corrected: with the addition of an alphabetical table.
25530 The ancient history of the Egyptians; Containing I. A description of the several parts of Egypt, with the most remarkable curiosities, as the obelisks, pyramids, Lake of Mr̆is, Nile, &c. II. The customs, laws, religion and manners of the Egyptians. III. The history of the Kings of Egypt. Herein you have all that is curious or useful in Herodotas, Diodorus Siculas, Pliny, Pompoius Mela, Strabo, &c. Intended chiefly for the use of young students in the universities, and such gentlemen as design not to make antiquity their principal study. Written originally in French by M. Rollin, late rector of the University of Paris, professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, &c. Done into English with additional notes. Rollin , Charles
 1730
14797 The Annals of Europe, or Regal register; Shewing the succession of the sovereigns, of Rome, Constantinople, Adrianople, Trebizond, Turkey, Russia, Germany, Lombardy, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Prussia, England, Scotalnd, and Ireland. Together with the bishops and Popes of Rome; from the foundations of their states to the present time: with the principal events in each of their reigns, and the time when they happened. To which are added tables of the cotemporary princes from the year 800. And an alphabetical arrangement of all their names, shewing the time of their accession and death; which concise characters of all, as handed down by the best historians. Unknown ,
George Robinson [ii] (London)
Elizabeth Newbery (London)
1779
25623 The anti-Craftsman: being an answer to The Craftsman extraordinary; wherein the clamours of a certain party are fully detected and exposed. Unknown ,
John Brindley (London)
1729
2330 The antidote; or an enquiry into the merits of a book, entitled A journey into Siberia, made in MDCCLXI in Obedience to an Order of the French King, and published, with Approbation, by the Abbé Chappe D'Auteroche, of the Royal Academy of Sciences: In which many essential Errors and Misrepresentations are pointed out and confuted; and many interesting Anecdotes added, for the better Elucidation of the several Matters necessarily discussed: By a lover of truth. Translated into English by a Lady, and Dedicated, with Permission, to her Imperial Majesty the Czarina. Romanova , Yekaterina Alekseyevna (Catherine II)
 Samuel Leacroft (London)
1772
14206 The antient and present state of the county and city of Cork, in four books. I. Containing, the antient names of the territories and inhabitants, with the civil and ecclesiastical division thereof, II. The topography of the county and city of Cork, III. The civil history of the county, IV. The natural history of the same. The whole illustrated by remarks on the baronies, parishes, towns, villages, seats, mountains, rivers, medicinal waters, fossils, animals and vegetables ; together with a new hydrographical description of the sea coasts. To which are added, curious notes and observations, relating to the erecting and improvement of several arts and manufactures, either neglected or ill prosecuted in this county. Embellished with new and correct maps of the county and city; perspective views of the chief towns, and other copper-plates. Published with the approbation of the Physico-Historical Society. By Charles Smith. Smith , Charles
 1750
14207 The antient and present state of the county and city of Waterford: Being a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Illustrated by remarks made on the baronies, parishes, towns, villages, mountains, rivers, medicinal waters, fossils, animals and vegetables; with some hints relating to agriculture and other useful improvements. With several notes and observations. Together with new and correct maps of the city and county; and embellished with perspective views of the city of Waterford, and of the towns of Lismore and Dungarvan. Published with the approbation of the Physico-Historical Society. By Charles Smith. Smith , Charles
 1746
14208 The antient and present state of the county of Down. Containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same. Illustrated by observations made on the baronies, parishes, towns, villages, churches, abbeys, charter schools, mountains, rivers, lakes, medicinal and other springs, &c. With a survey of the new canal; as also, a new and correct map of the county. Smith , Charles
 Edward Exshaw (Dublin)
1744
6122 The appeal of an injured wife against a cruel husband. Written by Mrs. Farrer. Dedicated To Lady Strathmore. Farrer , Mrs.
 1788
4395 The apprentice turned master; or, the second part of the two shoemakers. Shewing How James Stock from a Parish Apprentice became a creditable Tradesman. More , Hannah
 1796
4416 The apprentice turned master; or, the second part of the two shoemakers. Shewing How James Stock from a Parish Apprentice became a creditable Tradesman. More , Hannah
 1796
25324 The arbitrary punishments and cruel tortures inflicted on prisoners for debt represented and described, In several figures of the Uncommon and Dangerous Instruments used for that Purpose, Engraved from the Originals laid before the House of Commons, with their Explanations. Also a True state of all the other Miseries and Oppressions of Goals, Related in many Surprizing Cases; And shewing how they are now terminating in the Overthrow of the barbarous Goalers, and the Triumph of the suffering Prisoners. To which is added, copies of all the necessary Forms to be used for the Discharge of Insolvent Debtors. By W. R. a Sufferer in the Fleet, and other Goals. Enter'd according to Act of Parliament. R. , W.
 1729
63 The Arctic Expeditions. A Poem. By Miss Porden. Porden , Eleanor Anne
 John Murray II [Albemarle] (London)
1818
1653 The arguments of counsel in the Ecclesiastical Court, in the cause of Inglefield. With the speech of Doctor Calvert; on the twenty-second of July, 1786, at giving judgment. Printed from an Authentic Copy of Mr. Gurney's Short Hand Notes. Inglefield , Ann
 John Murray I [Fleet Street] (London)
1787
22131 The Arragonian queen: a secret history. Haywood , Eliza
 James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
1724
22136 The Arragonian queen: a secret history. Haywood , Eliza
 James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
1724

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