Octavo

Name Octavo
Abbreviation 8vo
Description

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

Titles

Displaying 1876–1900 of 4268

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
23335 Memoirs; or, spiritual exercises of Elisabeth Wast, written by her own hand. Wast [also West] , Elisabeth
 1733
2893 Memorandums of the face of the country in Switzerland. Cavendish , Georgiana
 1799
25338 Mendico-hymen: Or, The beggar's match. A poem. Translated from the Latin. Unknown ,
1724
11768 Mental Amusement: In Original Poems, Adapted for Youth of Both Sexes; Calculated to Repress Idleness, and Excite Industry Lovechild , Louisa
 S. E. Howe (London)
1820
7404 Mental improvement for a young lady, on her entrance into the world; addressed to a favourite niece. Green , Sarah
 Minerva Press, William Lane (London)
Elizabeth Harlow [Pall Mall] (London)
1793
18870 Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor: in familiar conversations, on industry, orthography, politeness, civility and gratitude, elocution and geography, derivation of words, history, with the life of Romulus and Remus : on church service, spartan form of government, sciences, relative duties of life, complacency and cheerfulness, adversity and prosperity. Calculated to improve young minds in the essential as well as ornamental parts of female education. By Mrs. Murray. From the Eighth London Edition. Murry , Ann
 Robert Moore (New York)
1812 From the Eighth London Edition.
15323 Mentorial tales, for the instruction of young ladies just leaving school and entering upon the theatre of life. By Mrs. Pilkington. Pilkington , Mary
 Jacob Johnson (Philadelphia)
1803
19050 Mentorial tales, for the instruction of young ladies just leaving school and entering upon theatre of life. By Mrs. Pilkington. Pilkington , Mary
 Johnson & Warner (Philadelphia)
1811
25913 Méphiboseth: ou le caractère d'un bon sujet. Sermon sur le II. Livre de Sam. Ch. XIX. v. 30. Prononcé le 5me Janvier 1723/4 sur le retour du Roy de la Grande Brétagne dans son roı̈aume @ dans son Palais. Dédié au Duc de ***. Par J. Armand Dubourdieu, Ministre de la Savoy. Dubourdieu , Jean-Armand
 A. Rocairol (London)
John Stagg (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
Veuve la Tour [Widow Tower] (London)
1724
26242 Merlin Anglicus Junior: or, the Starry Messenger, for the Year of our Redemption, 1763. Being the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year: Wherein is contained, I. Astronomical, Astrological, and Meteorological Observations. II. The state of the Year deduced according to Art, from Solar Ingresses, Eclipses, various Configurations, Aspects and Conjunctions of the Seven Planets. III. The Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon and Planets, and High-Water at London-Bridge. IV. Tables of the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars, and other Fixed Stars of Note. A perpetual of the Rising and Setting of the Sun, Beginning and Ending of Twilight, and Length of the Day and Night, to every fifth Day throughout the Year; with many other Tables pertinent for such a Work. All accommodated to the Meridian of London, whose Latitude is 51 Degrees, 32 Minutes North, but will serve for any Part of Great Britain or Ireland. The like not Extant. By Henry Coley, Student in the Mathematicks and the Celestial Science. Coley , Henry
 1763
26245 Merlin Liberatus. Being an Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1762. Being the second after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. And from the Creation of the World, according to the best History, 5711. And the 70th of our Deliverance by K. William from Popery, and Arbitrary Government. But the 66th from the Horrid, Popish, High-Church, Jacobite Plot. Wherein is contained all Things fitting and useful for such a Work, as an Ephemeris of the Daily Motions of the Planets, with their various Configurations, Aspects, Conjunctions, Lunations, Eclipses, Astronomical, Astrological, Meteorological Observations, the Rising and Setting of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and fixed Stars, illustrated with Tables of the Tides, Terms, and Daily Equation of Clocks, Length and Break, Increase and Decrease, of Days, Semidiurnal and Seminocturnal Arches for several Latitudes, a Chronology, Remarks on the Divisions of the Heavens, a Nativity, &c. &c. The like not extant. To which is prefixed, The Protestant Remembrancer. Calculated for the Meridian of London, Whose Longitude / Latitude is 24 / 51 Degrees 20 / 32 Minutes. By John Partridge. Partridge , John
 1762
26244 Merlin Liberatus. Being an Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1767. Being the third year after Bissextile, or Leap-Year and from the Creation of the World, according to the best History, 5716. And the 75th of our Deliverance by K. William from Popery, and Arbitrary Government. But the 71st from the Horrid, Popish, High-Church, Jacobite Plot. Wherein is contained all Things fitting and useful for such a Work, as an Ephemeris of the Daily Motions of the Planets, with their various Configurations, Aspects, Conjunctions, Lunations, Eclipses, Astronomical, Astrological, Meteorological Observations, the Rising and Setting of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and fixed Stars, illustrated with Tables of the Tides, Terms, and Daily Equation of Clocks, Length and Break, Increase and Decrease, of Days, Semidiurnal and Seminocturnal Arches for several Latitudes, a Chronology, Remarks on the Divisions of the Heavens, with an Essay to find out the Giver of Life, in the Genethliacal part of Astrology, &c. &c. The like not extant. With a Nativity exactly rectified, and an Essay on Comets, with a particular judgment of a Comet seen in the Year 1766. To which is prefixed, The Protestant Remembrancer. Calculated for the Meridian of London, whose Longitude / Latitude is 24 / 51 Degrees 20 / 32 Minutes. By John Partridge. Partridge , John
 1767
26243 Merlinus Liberatus. Being an Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1766. Being the second year after Bissextile, or Leap-Year and from the Creation of the World, according to the best History, 5715. And the 74th of our Deliverance by K. William from Popery, and Arbitrary Government. But the 70th from the Horrid, Popish, High-Church, Jacobite Plot. Wherein is contained all Things fitting and useful for such a Work, as an Ephemeris of the Daily Motions of the Planets, wich their various Configurations, Aspects, Conjunctions, Lunacions, Eclipses, Astronomical, Astrological, Meterorological Observations, the Rising and Setting of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Fixed Stars, illustrated with Tables of the Tides, Terms, and Daily Equation of Clocks, Length and Break, Increase and Decrease, of Days, Semidiurnal and Seminocturnal Arches for several Latitudes, a Chronology, Remarks on the Divisions of the Heavens, with an Essay to find out the Giver of Life, in the Genethliacal part of Astrology, &c. &c. The like not extant. With a particular Judgment of the Images of two Parlii or Mock Suns, seen on the 1st Day of April last. To which is prefixed, The Protestant Remembrancer. Calculated for the Meridian of London, Whose Longitude / Latitude is 24 / 51 Degrees 20 / 32 Minutes. By John Partridge. Partridge , John
 1766
25971 Merope. A tragedy. By the Marquis Scipio Maffei. Translated from the original Italian, by Mr. Ayre. Scipione , Francesco
 1740
25977 Merope. A tragedy. In the original Italian of the Marquis Scipio Maffei, and translated into English, by Mr. Ayre. Scipione , Francesco
 1740
23702 Merry-Andrew's epistle to his old master Benjamin, a mountebank at Bangor-Bridge, on the river Dee, near Wales. Unknown , [Man]
 Elizabeth Smith (London)
1719
11232 Metrical Exercises upon Scriptural Texts, and Miscellaneous Poems. Second edition. King , Harriet Rebecca
 George Smith, Alexander Elder and Co. (London)
1834 Second edition.
11231 Metrical Exercises upon Scripture Texts, and Miscellaneous Poems. By Harriet Rebecca King. King , Harriet Rebecca
 John Turrill (London)
1834
438 Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. By Joanna Baillie, author of Plays on the Passions, &c. &c. Baillie , Joanna
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
1821
11458 Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. By Joanna Baillie, author of Plays on the Passions, &c. &c. The Second Edition. Baillie , Joanna
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
1821 The Second Edition
15164 Mexico in 1827. By H.G. Ward, ESQ. His Majesty's Charge D'Affaires in that Country During the Years 1825, 1826, and part of 1827. Ward , Henry George
 Henry Colburn [New Burlington Street] (London)
1828
12617 Midnight Reflections, and Other Poems Vasey , Mrs. G.
 1827
26456 Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes. From the learned Raymond de St. Maur. Wherein the Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, render'd easy and intelligible. Also the mythological fables of the heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult passages cleared of their obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the standard English idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with a great number of copper-plates. Milton , John
 Mary Cooper [The Globe] (London)
William Reeve (London)
Charles Sympson [Simpson] (London)
1754
24571 Ministers of the Gospel workers together with Christ. A sermon preached at Tiverton October. 1, 1746. By the Reverend Mr. Othniel Campbell, at his instalment to the pastoral office in the church of Christ lately gathered there. Campbell , Othniel
 1747
8295 Miriam; or, the power of truth. A Jewish tale. By the author of "Influence." Anley , Charlotte
 John Hatchard and Son [187 Piccadilly] (London)
1826

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