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Newbery, Elizabeth Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby even Children may in short time know the use of the terriestrial globe and geographical maps, and all the considerable countries in the world; their situation, boundaries, extent, divisions, islands, rivers, lakes, chief cities, government and religion. Divided into lessons, in the form of question and answer: with a new general map of the World, the Spheres, and also a list of maps necessary for children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The sixteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the use of such grown persons as have neglected this useful study in their youth. And a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this work.
Newbery, Elizabeth The Stories of Senex; or, Little Histories of Little People. By E. A. Kendall, author of Keeper's Travels, The Sparrow, The Wren, The Swallow, The Canary Bird, &c. &c.
Newbery, Elizabeth Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, Illustrated With Cuts, and a Chart, shewing the Tracts of the Ships employed in this Expedition. The second edition. Carefully revised, and compared with the original manuscript, the latitudes and longtitudes throughout the Northern Course added, and some errors in the former edition corrected.
Newbery, Elizabeth Hawney's complete measurer: or, the whole art of measuring. Being a plain and comprehensive treatise on practical geometry and mensuration. Preceded by Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic, and the Extraction of the Square and cube Root. Adapted to the use of Schools, and Persons Concerned in Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A New Edition. Corrected and Greatly Improved by Thomas Keith, Private Teacher of Mathematics, Author of the Complete Practical Arithmetician, &c.
Newbery, Elizabeth The history of Sir Charles Grandison, abridged from the works of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Author Of Pamela And Clarissa. A new edition, adorned with copper plates.
Newbery, Elizabeth The triumph of goodnature, exhibited in the history of master Harry Fairborn and master Trueworth. Interspersed with tales and fables and ornamented with cuts.
Newbery, Elizabeth The adventures of a silver penny. Including many secret anecdotes of little misses and masters both good and naughty. Embellished with cuts.
Newbery, Elizabeth Newbery's Familiar Letter Writer: Containing a Variety of Useful Letters, Calculated for the Most Common Occurrences, and Adapted to the Capacities of Young People, From an early age to the time of their engaging in the most material concerns of life.
Newbery, Elizabeth The friend of mothers: designed to assist them in their attempts to instil the rudiments of language and arithmetic, at an early age, and in a manner agreeable to their children.
Newbery, Elizabeth Hoyle's games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, Billiards, and Goff or Golf: In which are contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms; including the laws of each, as settled and agreed to, at Brookes's, White's, D'Aubigny's, the Scavoir Vivre, Miles's, Payne's, and other Fashionable Houses &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition enlarged.
Newbery, Elizabeth The History of Jacky Idle, and Dicky Diligent, Exhibiting a Striking Contrast between the Different Consequences Arising from Indolent Inattention, and Laudable Perseverance. Embellished with Cuts.
Newbery, Elizabeth The sparrow.
Newbery, Elizabeth Every man his own gardener. Being a new and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House, for every Month in the Year, but also ample practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Teberous - Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants; Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c. &c. And to which, in this Edition, are added, additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants (not in any former Edition) with general Explanations of their Nature and Culture.
Newbery, Elizabeth Aesop's Fables.
Newbery, Elizabeth Pleasant Tales, to improve the mind, and correct the morals of youth.
Newbery, Elizabeth The plays of William Shakspeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The fourth edition. Revised and augmented (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dodsley's collection of old plays.
Newbery, Elizabeth Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English. With instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D. Late Archdeacon of Hereford. The thirteenth edition, carefully revised, and improved.
Newbery, Elizabeth The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Abridged. Adorned with copper plates.
Newbery, Elizabeth A new biographical dictionary: containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation. By Stephen Jones.
Newbery, Elizabeth The youthful jester; or, Repository of wit and innocent amusement. Containing moral and humorous tales; merry jests, laughable anecdotes, and smart repartees. The whole being as innocent as it is entertaining. Embellished with cuts.
Newbery, Elizabeth Youthful recreations, containing many amusements of a day, as spent by Master Freelove and his companions. Interspersed with stories, suitable observations, verses, and other matters of instruction and entertainment.
Newbery, Elizabeth The Prettiest Book for Children; Being the History of the Enchanted Castle; situated in one of the Fortunate Isles, and goverend by the Giant Instruction. Written ... by Don Stephano Bunyano ...
Newbery, Elizabeth Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English. With instructive applications; and a print before each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D. Late Archdeacon of Hereford. The sixteenth edition, carefully revised, and improved.
Newbery, Elizabeth A treatise on the cure of ulcerated legs without rest, and ulcers of various parts, arising from scorbutic and other impurities in the blood, &c. By William Rowley, M. D. Member of the University of Oxford, Royal College of Physicians in London, &c.
Newbery, Elizabeth Paths of Virtue, Exemplified in the Lives of Eminent Men and Women.

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