The booke of pretty conceites, : taken out of Latine, French, Dutch and English. : Very merry, pleasant and good, to be read of all such as doe delight in new and merry conceites..

A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes : whereof some are wonderfull, some straunge, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious.
by: Lupton, Thomas
Published: (1590)

The purchasers pattern : in two parts : the first shewing the true value of the purchase of any parcel of land or houses, by lease or otherwise : also new tables of interest and rebate at 6 per cent : the second part shewing the measuring of land, board and timber, and the false rules and deceits of many therein : also the gauging of all vessels, with many other rules about weights and measures, and several tables of accounts, with many other rules and tables of daily use for most men /
by: Phillippes, Henry, -1677?

The purchasers pattern : in two parts : the first shewing the true value of the purchase of any parcel of land or houses, by lease or otherwise : also new tables of interest and rebate at 6 per cent : the second part shewing the measuring of land, board and timber, and the false rules and deceits of many therein : also the gauging of all vessels, with many other rules about weights and measures, and several tables of accounts, with many other rules and tables of daily use for most men /
by: Phillippes, Henry, d. 1677?
Published: (1663)

A thousand notable things of sundrie sorts : whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, diuers necessarie, a great sort profitable, and many very precious.
by: Lupton, Thomas

A thousand notable things of sundry sorts : whereof some are wonderful, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious.
by: Lupton, Thomas

A book of knowledge : in three parts : the first containing a brief introduction to astrology : the second, a treatise of physick ... : the third, the countrey-mans guide to good husbandry ... /
by: Strangehopes, Samuel

A book of knowledge : in three parts : the first containing a brief introduction to astrology : the second, a treatise of physick ... : the third, the countrey-mans guide to good husbandry ... /
by: Strangehopes, Samuel
Published: (1675)

A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits. : being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. /
by: White, John, d. 1671
Published: (1684)

A book of knowledge. : In four parts. : Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the cælestial signs and planets. Measures of time movable terms, for 20 years, &c. Divers things necessary in trade and dealing, &c. To know the weather in all seasons of the year. Good and bad fortune as born under the several signs. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification; dreams, their interpretation. : Part second, The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. Fortunate and unfortunate days throughout the year. To know the changing of the moon by the prime observations on New years day. : Part third. A treatise of physick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. Receipts for curing all diseases in men, women, and children. The art of cookery. The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetic in all its parts. Remedies for diseases in horses, cows, oxen, hogs, sheep, &c. : A perpetual almanack for ever. A complete tide table. An account of all the market days, roads and fairs in England and Wales. : Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, or the country-mans guide to good husbandry /
by: Strangehopes, Samuel
Published: (1700)

A book of knowledge. : In three parts. : The first containing a brief introduction to astrology, shewing the nature, quality and effects of the twelve signs, and seven planets, their dominion over bodies, with the fortunes of those calculated, who are born under them, also a delightful wheel of fortune. : The second, a treatise of physick, the anatomy of mans body, the diseases incident to the body of man:, rules and receipts for the curing of them; : also rules for sweating, bathing, conserving, and preserving, and the way to make cordial-waters. : Also the principal rules of arithmetick, very plain and easie. : The third, the countrey-mans guide to good husbandry : rules for setting and planting of orchards, gardens, and woods : also rare receipts for curing diseases in horses, sheep, cows, and oxen; : also an almanack for ever and other variety of inventions, very profitable and advantageous. /
by: Strangehopes, Samuel
Published: (1679)

A Rich treasure : the knowledge whereof is useful, profitable, pleasant and delightful : treating, 1. Of the four complexions, 2. Notable and approved medicines ... 21. Names of market-towns, with divers other notable things /
Published: (1698)

A Rich treasure : the knowledge whereof is useful, profitable, pleasant and delightful : treating, 1. Of the four complexions, 2. Notable and approved medicines ... 21. Names of market-towns, with divers other notable things /

The American instructor : or, Young man's best companion : containing spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic... /
by: Fisher, George, accomptant
Published: (1760)

The booke of pretty conceits: taken out of Latine, French, Dutch, and English. Very merry, and very pleasant and good to be read of all such as doe delight in new and merry conceits
Published: (1650)

A rich cabinet with variety of inventions unlocked and opened for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of all severall natures and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water /
by: White, John, d. 1671
Published: (1653)

A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service, for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks /
by: White, John, d. 1671
Published: (1668)

A rich cabinet with variety of inventions unlocked and opened for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of all severall natures and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water /
by: White, John, -1671

Modern curiosities of art & nature : extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France /
by: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715
Published: (1685)

The way to get wealth : I. directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine ... II. a help to discourse, giving an account of the commodities of all countries ... III. a book of knowledge for all persons ...
by: Lupton, Thomas

Art's treasury of rareties and curious inventions : in two parts, Part I containing the mystery of dying cloths, silks, stuffs ... tanning leather, &c. : Part II containing the quality, generation, and product of metals ... weighing ships, brewing fine ale, making wines, legerdemain, and divers other curiosities.
by: White, John, -1671

A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service, for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks /
by: White, John, -1671

Modern curiosities of art & nature : extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France /
by: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715

A thousand notable things of sundry sorts, enlarged. : Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious. Whereunto is now added one hundred excellent conceits never before printed, very witty, usefull, and delightfull.
by: Lupton, Thomas
Published: (1660)

The instructor: or, Young man's best companion : Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse. How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Also merchants accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties and market-towns in England and Wales. Together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule: shewing how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glasiers and painters work. How to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen; with gunter's line; and coggeshall's description of the sliding-rule. Likewise the practical gauger made easy; the art of dialling, and how to erect and fix and dial; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which is added, the family's best companion: with instructions for marking on linnen; how to pickle and preserve; to make divers sorts of wine; and many excellent plasters, and medicines, necessary in all families: and a compleat treatise of farriery; or, good advice to gentlemen and farmers; with a choice collection of remedies, very fit for all farriers and grooms. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accomptant.
by: Fisher, George (Accomptant)
Published: (1755)

The instructor: or, Young man's best companion : Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. Instructions to write variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse. How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indentures, bonds, bills of sale, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Also merchants accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the product, counties and market-towns in England and Wales; with a list of fairs according to the new stile. Together with the method of measuring carpenters, jointers, sawyers, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glasiers, and painters work. How to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen; with the description of G[a]nter's line, and Coggershall's sliding-rule. Likewise the practical gauger made easy; the art of dialling, and how to erect and fix dials; with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours; and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. To which is added, the family's best companion: with instructions for marking on linen; how to pickle and preserve; to make divers sorts of wine; and many excellent plasters, and medicines, necessary in all families: and a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy; containing a brief description of the different parts of the Earth, and the survey of the celestial bodies. Also some useful interest-tables. By George Fisher, accomptant.
by: Fisher, George (Accomptant)
Published: (1765)

The book of pretty conceits. Or, The green forest of youthful delights : Being merry and pleasant to all such as delight in slights, tricks, stratagems, devises, and fancies. Natural and artifical inventions and conclusions. Experimented as well to profit and delight.
Published: (1685)

The young man's companion, or a very useful manuel for youth : Containing plain and full directions for spelling, and reading English and Latine, and the Englishing the Latin Bible without a teacher; with easie rules for writing and arithmetick. Likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, ... Of surveying astronomy, dialing, and glazing; also some secrets in navigation, geography, and colouring of globes; with a map of England; and a brief history of the King thereof, remarques on the late great frost, and other prodigious accidents. ... An account of time, days and months, under the various denominations: hard words in law and chyrurgery explained. With all the fairs, highways and roads in England, and, many more useful things; together with an alphabetical table for the ready finding any matter herein contained. The second edition, with very large additions. By William Mather.
by: Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695
Published: (1685)

The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented to the Queen /
Published: (1696)

The Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented unto the queen /
Published: (1659)

A moral and Christian manual, vade mecum, or Pocket-book : Of several religious thoughts, and considerations; to beget, quicken, nourish, strengthen, and confirm the heart in true devotion, and all heavenly mindedness. By J.L. a presbyter of the Church of Ireland.
by: J. L., Presbyter of the Church of Ireland

Vade mecum; or, Astronomical pocket-book: explaining the division of time, and construction of kalendars interspersed with many necessary and common tables : To which is added the geographic situation of remarkable places, as to latitude, longitude and country. And likewise a brief chronology of memorable events the whole forming a more useful compend than any other work of the kind hitherto extant.
Published: (1794)

The young mans companion: or, arithmetick made easie : With plain directions for a young man to attain to read, and write true English, and short hand, or characters. And also, very easie rules for measuring land, globes, steeples ... both by arithmetick and Gunter's line: the use of the carpenters rule, with tables for the more ready measuring by those, who have not learned arithmetic; ... The use of Gunter's quadrant, dialling, ... choice monthly observations in gardning, ... inditing letters upon many necessary occasions: ... the seven arts explain'd ... a map of England and Wales, the ancient inhabitants, ... also many choice and approved experiments in physick, with the making of English wines. A brief discription of the globe of the earth: ... the prophesies of Christ in the Old Testament, fulfilled in the New: ... the education of children: the duties of families: ... The fifth edition; by, William Mather.
by: Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695
Published: (1699)

Englands golden treasury: or, The true vade mecum : Being the most necessary and useful pocket-companion ever published; for the use and advantage of gentlemen, tradesmen, and others: furnished with variety of tables of accompt, trade, merchandize, merchants goods, weights and measures of all kinds, measuring timber, stone, building, acres of land miles, &c. in all their circumstances. A table of constant tide in the havens of England, Scotland, Ireland, and adjacent parts. An exact table of the moveable terms and feasts for twelve years to come. Tables of interest, annuity, wages and expences: reducing pounds into pence, shillings, farthings, &c. With many rarities of divers natures. An exact catalogue of the fairs of England and Wales, more perfect than ever: also the market-towns and market-days, with the roads and post-miles; prises of post-letters and post-days: choice precedents of bills, bonds, and all manner of useful writings, with many other things very useful, profitable and necessary.
Published: (1700)

The queens closet opened: : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c. Which were presented unto the queen by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem, when she pleased to descend to provate recreations.
by: W. M.
Published: (1663)

Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1791 : Containing One hundred and four ruled pages for receipts and payments; with spaces for memorandums for every day in the year. Term table. Holidays in 1791, bankers of London. Hours of transfer of stock and receiving interest thereon. Tables of wages, rent, annuities, expences, interest, buying and selling, &c. &c. An alphabetical list of public offices, inns of court, and other remarkable places, with the hours of doing business. Table shewing what day of the week begins any month for ever. Table of the reduction of French money into English. A concise digest of the game laws. Abstract of the hawkers and pedlars act. An accurate account of French coins and measures. Observations and directions respecting bonds, bank, and promissory notes, &c. Tables of the duties on male and female servants, horses, carriags, waggons, and carts. Daily pay of the officers of the army and navy. Account of the Amasterdam Fank. Useful cautions against fire. Cautions to strangers in walking the streets of London. Useful hints to persons going from the country to London. Instructions for improving fire wood. Hackney-coach fares. Rates of watermen. Table of weights allowed on Turnnpike roads. List of mail coaches. Abstracts of the most interesting acts of Parliament passed in the 30th year of Geo. III. Receipts for curing the diseases of sheep and lambs. An alphabetical list of the House of Peers, clerks and officers of ditto. An alphabetical lift of the House of Commons, clerks and officers of ditto. And many other articles equally useful, for which the reader is referred to the table of contents.
by: Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813
Published: (1791)

Vade mecum: or, the necessary pocket companion : I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual Almanack, readily shewing the day of the month, the moveable feasts and terms, for any year past, present, or to come; with many useful tables proper thereto, and rules to find them out for ever. II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land. III. Remarkable fairs in England, a tide-table, and a table of expence. IV. The years of each King's reign from the Norman Conquest to this time. V. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchen, and flower-gardens. VI. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins, wherein is a table of that assize of bread. VII. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, or shillings, are ready cast up; of great use to all traders. VIII. The interest and rebate of money; the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. IX. The rates of post-letters, both in-land and out-land, according to the new establishment. X. An account of the penny-post. XI. The principal roads in England. XII. The names of the counties, cities, and borough towns in Great-Britain, with the number of knights, commissioners of shires, citizens, and burgesses, chosen therein to serve in parliament. XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen. XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, and guines. The seventeenth edition carefully corrected with additions and improvements. To which is added, interest in epitome; or, tables in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 millions, at 3,4,5 and 6 per cent.
by: Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686
Published: (1749)