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Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures : explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Other Authors: Arbuthnot, Charles, -1731
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, MDCCXXVII. [1727]
Subjects:
Weights and measures > Early works to 1800.
Weights and measures > History.
Money > Tables > Early works to 1800.
Prices > Early works to 1800.
Navigation > Early works to 1800.
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800.
Weights and Measures > history
Poids et mesures > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Taux de change > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Prix > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Navigation > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Medicine
Money
Navigation
Prices
Weights and measures
Tables (Systematic lists)
Tables
tables (documents)
Tables (Data)
Early works
Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
Annotations.
Color printing (Printing)
Annotations (Provenance)
Tables (Données)
Description
Item Description:Dedicatory verses "To the King" by the author's son, Charles Arbuthnot, to whom the Latin edition is wrongly ascribed.
"A dissertation concerning the doses of medicines given by ancient physicians": pages 282-327.
Anonymous: by John Arbuthnot.
Author's name appears in the earlier edition (London, 1705?) published under title: Tables of the Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins; reduced to the English standard.
Title page printed in red and black, with ornament.
Head- and tailpieces, initials.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books Collection copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:6 unnumbered leaves, 327 pages, 18 plates : engr. tables ; 29 x 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.