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Unknown Moral amusement; or, a selection of tales, histories, and interesting anecdotes; intended to amuse and instruct young minds.
Unknown The brother's gift, or the naughty girl reformed. Published for the advantage of the rising generation.
Unknown The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1793. Being the first after leap year. Embellished with a beautiful representation of Lord Cornwallis's receiving as hostages the two sons of Tippoo Sultaun; and the dresses of the year 1792. Containing, amongst a great variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive articles, the following: ... Compiled at the request of several ladies of quality.
Unknown The History of little King Pippin, with an account of the melancholy death of four naughty boys, who were devoured by wild beasts. And the wonderful delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.
Unknown The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1794. ...
Unknown The toy-shop; or, sentimental preceptor. Containing some choice trifles, for the instruction and amusement of every little miss and master. Embellished with cuts.
Unknown A New collection of voyages and travels, dedicated to His Majesty, to be completed in twenty pocket volumes, printed on a very superior paper, and a new and elegant type; each volume to be embellished with three beautiful plates, designed and engraved by the first artists. On the 1st of November, 1796, will be published, and to be continued every Saturday fortnight. Price two shillings and sixpence, neatly done up in coloured paper and labelled on the back, volume the first, (ornamented with a portrait of the author, and two beautiful engravings from the most striking events,) of an historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the earliest period to the present time, including, among many others, those of voyages. Columbus, Drake, Cavendish, Ellis, Dampier, Cowley, Woodes rogers, Clipperton, Roggewein, Anson, Don ulloa, Cook, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Portlock, Wilson, Phillip, Bougainville, &c. Travels. Brydone, Carver, Johnson, Swinburne, Bruce, Moore, Addison, Dillon, Irwin, Hanway, Townsend, Vaillant, Savary, Coxe, Pocock, Brissot, Sparrman, Volney, Wraxhall, Anderson, &c. &c. By William Mavor, LL.D.
Unknown A short introduction to geography. Containing a description of the several parts of the known world; Their Situation and Chief Towns. For the use of schools.
Unknown A short history of bees. In two parts. I. The natural history of bees, with directions for the management of them, an account of their enemies, &c. from Reaumur, &c. II. An ænigmatical account of a neighbouring nation - their queen, her palaces, attendants, &c.
Unknown The holiday spy; being the observations of Little Tommy Thoughtful, on the different tempers, genius, and manners, of the young masters and misses in the several families which he visited, ... To be continued occasionally for the entertainment of his school fellows.
Unknown The toy-shop; or, sentimental preceptor. Containing some choice trifles, for the instruction and amusement of every little miss and master. Embellished with cuts.
Unknown The adventures of a silver penny. Including many secret anecdotes of little misses and masters both good and naughty. Embellished with cuts.
Unknown A short account of the infectious malignant fever, as it appeared at Uxbridge, and its vicinity, in the summer and autumn of the year 1799; with a detail of the good effects of yeast, and vital air, in the different stages of that disorder. By a medical practitioner.
Unknown The history of Sindbad the sailor; containing an account of his several surprising voyages and miraculous escapes.
Unknown The father's gift: Or the Way to be wise and happy.
Unknown Jachin and Boaz; or, An authentic key to the door of free-masonry, both ancient and modern. Calculated not only for the instruction of every newmade mason, but also for the information of all who intend to become brethren. Containing, I. A circumstantial account of all the proceedings in making a mason, with the several obligations of an entered apprentice, fellow-craft, and master; the prayers, and also the sign, grip, and password of each degree, with the ceremony of the mop and pail. II. The manner of opening a lodge, and setting the craft to work. ... VII. A safe and easy method proposed, by which a man may obtain admittance into any lodge, without passing through the form required, and thereby save a guinea or two in his pocket. VIII. Anthems, odes, songs, &c. illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece of the regalia, jewels, and emblematical ornaments belonging to masonry, and an accurate plan of the drawing on the floor of a lodge. Interspersed with variety of notes and remarks, necessary to explain and sender the whole clear to the meanest capacity. To which is now added, a new and accurate list of all the English regular lodges in the world, according to their seniority, with the dates of each constitution, and days of meeting. By a gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem Lodge; a frequent visitor at the Queen's Arms, St. Paul's Church-Yard; the Horn, in Fleet-street; Crown and Anchor, Strand; and the Salutation, Newgate-street.
Unknown Holiday entertainment; or the good child's fairing: containing the plays and sports of Charles and Billy Welldon, ... With the fancies of the old man that lived under the hill.
Unknown A new book for the improvement of young gentlemen and ladies. Filial duty, recommended and enforc'd, by a variety of instructive and entertaining stories, of children who have been remarkable for affection to their parents; also an account of some striking instances of Children, who have behaved in an undutiful, and unnatural manner to their parents. The whole founded on historical facts.
Unknown A museum for young gentlemen and ladies; or a private tutor for little masters and misses. Containing a variety of useful subjects; ...
Unknown The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this antient city. Giving an account of the first discovery of its medicinal waters by King Bladud; Saron and Roman Antiquities, Nature and Efficacy of the Warm Baths and Sudatories. With the Rules and Prices of Bathing and Pumping. The Virtues of the Bath Waters used internally and externally. Lists of the Body Corporate, Attornies, Medical Faculty, Artists, Inns and Taverns, Lodging-Houses, Boarding ditto, Price of Lodgings, Mail and other Coaches, Chairmen's Fares, Waggons, Carriers and Post, Barges to and from Bristol, &c. Institution and present State of the General Hospital; Description of the Assembly-Rooms, Publick Charities, Churches, Chapels, and other Edifices. The Principal Roads to different Parts of the Kingdom; with a Description of the City of Bristol, and the Hotwells; Monuments of Antiquity, and Gentlemen's Seats, in the Environs of Bath. Directions for Passing the Severn into Wales; And many other Particulars worthy Observation. (embellished with six Copper-Plate Engravings, viz. Portraits of both Masters of the Ceremonies, Plan of the City, Elevation of the Town-Hall, View of the Crescent, and Portrait of Richard Nash, Esq.) To which is added, the life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, esq; who presided over the Amusements of this City upwards of Fifty Years.
Unknown The first book for children. Being an attempt to make the art of reading English both easy and pleasant; by adapting the matter and manner of expression to the capacities of young chldren. ...
Unknown A new history of the Holy Bible ; containing everything memorable in the Old and New Testament, as well as the Apocrypha. The Whole related in a regular and connected Manner; interspersed with many suitable and instructive Reflections, tending to illustrate the Holy Scripture, and to render it more plain and easy to the Young and Uninstructed, as well as those of a more advanced Age. By a clergyman of the Church of England.
Unknown The new Bath guide; or, useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this ancient city. ... The whole embellished with six copper-plate engravings, ... To which is added the life, character, &c. of Richard Nash, ...
Unknown The Oxford sausage: or, Select poetical pieces, Written by the most celebrated wits of the University of Oxford.
Unknown Jachin and Boaz; or, an authentic key to the door of Free-masonry, ... Calculated not only for the instruction of every new-made mason; but also for the information of all who intend to become brethren. ... To which is now added, a new and accurate list of all the English regular lodges in the world, ... By a gentleman belonging to the Jerusalem lodge; ...

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