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  • The Charlton price guide to Canadian clocks.

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    • Toronto, Ont. : Birmingham, MI : Charlton Press, 1995-
    • 1995-present
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 10-231 1995Offsite
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  • The Charlton price guide to Canadian clocks.

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    • Toronto, Ont. ; Birmingham, Mich. : Charlton Press, c1995-
    • 1995-present
  • The price guide to collectable clocks, 1840-1940 / Alan and Rita Shenton.

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    • Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 91-875Offsite
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  • Collectable clocks, 1840-1940 : reference and price guide / Alan & Rita Shenton.

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    • Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-ART NK7484 .S44 1994Schwarzman Building - Art Reference Room 300

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  • Vintage American & European wrist watch price guide / by Sherry Ehrhardt and Peter Planes.

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    • Kansas City, Mo. : Heart of America Pr., 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MOF 85-2802SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • American pocket watch identification and price guide / Roy Ehrhardt.

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    • Kansas City, Mo. : [Heart of America Press, 1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 76-256Offsite
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  • Clock manufactory. : Simon Willard, at his clock dial, in Roxbury Street, manufactures every kind of clock work ...

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    • [Worcester, Mass.] : Printed by I. Thomas, Jun.--Worcester, [between 1800 and 1802]
    • 1800-1802
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KVB (180-?) (Willard, S. Clock manufactory)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The American clock, 1725-1865 / [from] the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University. Essay and tecnical notes by Edwin A. Battison. Commentary by Patricia E. Kane. Forword by Charles F. Montgomery. Introd. by Derek de Solla Price.

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    • Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society, [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text AK7480 Y12Off-site
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  • The watch and jewelry trade of the United States for 1861---2. : Containing a full list of the manufacturers of and wholesale and retail dealers in watches, jewelry, &c. throughout the Union. Price one dollar. Sent free of postage on receipt of price.

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    • [New York, N.Y.] : Published by Wm. F. Bartlett, 122 Nassau Street, New York, [1861]
    • 1862
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQB 08-32Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • No. 22 : illustrated catalogue and wholesale price list : For the trade only / S. F. Myers & Co. manufacturing jewelers ... [1884].

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    • New York : S. F. Myers & Co., c1884, 1964.
    • 1964-1884
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 14-17305Offsite
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  • Fine English furniture, clocks and decorations.

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    • New York, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 16-12905Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Arthur Pequegnat clocks : with history and price guide [compiled and edited by Doris and Peter Unitt. 2d ed.

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    • Peterborough, Ont., Clock House Publications, 1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSE 79-1580Offsite
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  • Specifications governing purchase of torpedo-boat watches [microform]

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    • Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1904.
    • 1904
  • Mr. Williams reply to Mr. Boutell, about foreign and American prices of American-made watches and other protectionist iniquities [microform] :bextracts from speech of Hon. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, Friday, April 27, 1906.

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    • [Washington? : s.n., 1906?]
    • 1979-1906
  • The proletarian watch / Albin Schaeder.

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    • Umeå : Albin Schaeder, [2007]
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TS542 .S33 2007Off-site
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  • Montres de fantaisie = Watches of fantasy : 1790-1850 / Oswaldo Patrizzi, Fabienne Xavière Sturm.

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    • Genève : Tribune Éditions : Galerie d'horlogerie ancienne, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MOF 86-4536SASB M1 - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Methods of finding a true meridian line, [electronic resource] : useful in placing horizontal sun dials, setting clocks and watches, &c. By William Jones, mathematical instrument maker.

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    • London : printed for W. and S. Jones, No. 135, Holborn, 1795.
    • 1795
    • 1 Resource

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  • An explanation of the nature of equation of time, and use of the equation table for adjusting watches and clocks to the motion of the sun. Also the description of a time-keeper, for astronomical and other uses [electronic resource].

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    • London : printed for F. Clay, at the Bible, without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]
    • 1731
    • 1 Resource

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  • Il valore dei gioielli e degli orologi da collezione : l'analisi critica, storica ed economica / a cura di Diana Scarisbrick ; [traduzione italiana di Christine von Tannstein] = Antique jewellery and watch values : the critical, historical and economic analysis / edited by Diana Scarisbrick ; [Italian translation by Christine von Tannstein].

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    • Torino : U. Allemandi ; Milano : Distributore esclusivo alle librerie, Messaggerie libri, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MNR+ 86-2480Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The description of a sector, for giving the proportionable sizes of wheels and pinions [electronic resource] : and for determining the proper distance of their centers from each other. of Great Use to all Clock and Watch Makers. Made and considerably improved by R. Pennington.

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    • London : printed for Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal-Exchange, M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
    • 1780
    • 1 Resource

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  • French goldsmith's designs, ca. 1800.

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    • [n.p., n.d.]
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    • 1 Item

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    Text MOF+++ (French goldsmith's designs)Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Wristwatches : history of a century's development / Helmut Kahlert, Richard Mühe, Gisbert L. Brunner ; [translated from German by Edward Force].

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    • Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-ART TS542 .K3413 1999Schwarzman Building - Art Reference Room 300

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  • Methods, propositions and problems, for finding the latitude [electronic resource] : With the Degree and Minute of the Equator upon the Meridian. And The Longitude at Sea. By Caelestial Observations only. And also by Watches, Clocks, &c. and to correct them and know their Alterations. By Robert Browne.

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    • London : printed by R. Tookey, for the author, and are sold at his house at St. Catharine's Dock, and by J. Harrison, at the Corner of Castle-Alley, on the Royal Exchange, [1714]
    • 1714
    • 1 Resource

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  • English and continental silver, objects of vertu and watches : property of various owners : exhibition December 9, 1977 : public auction December 14 and 15, 1977 / Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.

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    • New York : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text AK7142 So77Off-site
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  • The American clock, 1725-1865; the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University. Essay and technical notes by Edwin A. Battison. Commentary by Patricia E. Kane. Foreword by Charles F. Montgomery. Introd. by Derek de Solla Price.

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    • Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 80-432Offsite
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  • The American clock, 1725-1865; the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University. Essay and technical notes by Edwin A. Battison. Commentary by Patricia E. Kane. Foreword by Charles F. Montgomery. Introd. by Derek de Solla Price.

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    • Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MOF 74-435Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Aux Épis d'Or.

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    • [Paris] : [Aux Épis d'Or], [approximately 1910?]
    • 1910
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JQC 23-113Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • The most accurate abstract of the Act of Parliament, [electronic resource] : Passed 12th January, 1798, In the Thirty-Eighth Year George III. On the assessed taxes, viz. male servants, horses, carriages, houses, windows, dogs, clocks or watches: with The Exemptions, Abatements, Penalties, &c.

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    • London : published and sold by Messrs. Kerby, King and Co. Stafford Street, Old Bond Street; J. Hatchard, 173, Piccadilly, R. Bickerstaff, Corner of Essex Street, Strand; and B. Crosby, Stationers Court, Paternoster Row, 1798.
    • 1798
    • 1 Resource

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  • Illustrated trade catalogue and price list : manufacturers, importers and jobbers of watchmakers', jewelers' and engravers' supplies of every description : optical goods, chains, charms, etc. : originators of the box matetial [sic] and makers of Swartchild's celebrated watchmakers' benches : 1897-1898 / Swartchild & Co.

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    • Chicago : Swartchild & Co., [1897?]
    • 1897
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433069455859
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    Text OYK (Swartchild & Company. Illustrated trade catalogue and price list.1897/98)Offsite
  • The watchmaker's and jeweler's hand-book : a concise yet comprehensive treatise on the secrets of the trade ... / by C. Hopkins.

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    • Louisville, Ky. : published for the author, 1866 (
    • 1866
    • 1 Item
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    Text OYM (Hopkins, C. Watchmaker's and jeweler's hand-book)Offsite
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  • The use of shooting flying [electronic resource] : familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue. Containing directions for the choice of guns for various occasions. An Account of divers Experiments, discovering the Execution of Barrels of different Lengths and Bores. With many useful hints for the Improvement of Young Practitioners, entirely new.

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    • Norwich : printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, T. Page, M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]
    • 1766
    • 1 Resource

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  • The English apollo: or, useful companion [electronic resource] : assisting all persons In the right Understanding the Science of Time, Past, Present, and to Come. Particularly applied to this Present Year 1773; Being the First after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing A Compleat English Kalendar; the Times of the Sun's Rising and Setting; the Rising and Setting of the Moon, Planets, and Fixed Stars; the Moon's Southing, and Time of Full Sea at all the principal Ports in England, and other Parts of Europe; the Increase and Decrease of Days; the Regulation of Clocks and Watches; and other Things necessary in a Work of this Nature. To which is added, An exact Account of the Eclipses, and various Seasons of the Year; a curious Chronology from the Beginning of Time; some necessary Tables; and other Particulars both Useful and Entertaining. By Richard Saunders, Gent.

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    • London : printed for the Company of Stationers, 1773.
    • 1773
    • 1 Resource

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  • The english apollo [electronic resource] : or, useful companion: Assisting all persons In the right Understanding the Science of Time, Past, Present, and to Come. Particularly applied to this Present Year 1781; being The First after Bissextile or Leap-Year, containing A Compleat English Kalendar; the Times of the Sun's Rising and Setting; the Rising and Setting of the Moon, Planets, and the Fixed Stars; the Moon's Southing, and Time of Full Sea at all the principal Ports in England, and other Parts of Europe; the Increase and Decrease of Days; the Regulation of Clocks and Watches; and other Things necessary in a Work of this Nature. To which is added, An exact Account of the Eclipses, with an astrological Judgment thereof, and various Seasons of the Year; a curious Chronology from the Beginning of Time; some necessary Tables; and other Particulars both Useful and Entertaining. By Richard Saunders, Gent.

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    • London : printed for the Company of Stationers: and sold by J. Wilkie, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street, 1781.
    • 1781
    • 1 Resource

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  • The english apollo [electronic resource] : or, Useful Companion: Assisting All Persons in the Right Understanding the Science of Time, Past, Present, and to Come. Particularly applied to this Present Year 1765. Being the First after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing a Compleat English Kalendar, the Times of the Sun's Rising and Setting, the Rising and Setting of the Moon, Planets, and Fixed Stars; the Moon's Southing, and Time of Full Sea at all the Principal Ports in England; and other Parts of Europe. The Increase and Decrease of Days: The Regulation of Clocks and Watches: And other Things Necessary in a Work of this Nature. To which is added, An exact Account of the Eclipses, and various Seasons of the Year: A curious Chronology from the Beginning of Time: Some necessary Tables, and other Particulars both Useful and Entertaining. By Richard Saunders, Gent.

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    • London : printed for the Company of Stationers 1765.
    • 1765
    • 1 Resource

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  • The english apollo [electronic resource] : or, useful companion: assisting all persons In the right Understanding the Science of Time, Past, Present, and to Come. Particularly applied to this Present Year 1776; Being the Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing A Compleat English Kalendar; the Times of the Sun's Rising and Setting; the Rising and Setting of the Moon, Planets, and Fixed Stars; the Moon's Southing, and Time of Full Sea at all the principal Ports in England, and other Parts of Europe; the Increase and Decrease of Days; the Regulation of Clocks and Watches; and other Things necessary in a Work of this Nature. To which is added, An exact Account of the Eclipses, more particularly the Judgment of the total Lunar Eclipse; and various Seasons of the Year; a curious Chronology from the Beginning of Time; some necessary Tables; and other Particulars both Useful and Entertaining. With An astrological Judgment of the Mock Suns seen on April 27, 1775. By Richard Saunders, Gent.

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    • London : printed for the Company of Stationers: and sold by George Hawkins, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street, 1776.
    • 1776
    • 1 Resource

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  • A royal almanack and meteorological diary for the year of our Lord 1778, [electronic resource] : and of the Julian period 6491, the second after bissextile or Leap-Year, and the eighteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George III. Containing, The Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; The Times of the Lunations; The Rising and Setting of the Sun; The Equation of Time for the Regulating of Clocks and Watches; The Moon's Rising and Setting; The Times of High Water at London-Bridge, Morning and Afternoon; The Aspects of the Planets and Weather; Also, for every Sixth Day, The Increase and Decrease of Days; The Beginning and End of Daylight; The Nightly Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Planets and Seven Stars; Adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of London. Likewise, An exact Meteorological Journal for the preceding Year; or the State of the Barometer and Thermometer, with the Winds, Weather, &c. as they were registered every Day. Also, The Depth of Rain which sell, and the Observations made every Month. To which are added, The Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and other remarkable Phaenomena that will happen this Year; The Middlesex Commencement of the Sessions of the Peace; A Table of the Terms and their Returns; And for finding the Times of High Water at most of the Seaports in this Kingdom. By Henry Andrews, Teacher of the Mathematics, at Royston, Herts.

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    • London : printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers of the Privilege of Printing Almanacks, which they had unjustly Monopolized 170 Years, [1778]
    • 1778
    • 1 Resource

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  • The gentleman and citizen's almanack [electronic resource] : for the year of our Lord, 1729. Being the First after Bissertile or Leap-Year. Containing A Table of the Terms and their Returns; A Table of Eclipses; The Days of the Year, very necessary for finding the Number of Days, or Weeks between any two Days in the Year; The Days of the Month; The Week Days, set down in their Names at large, which they commonly go by; The Rising and Setting of the Sun; The Moon's Age; The New Stile, or Gregorian Kalendar; A Table of Equation, shewing how much faster or slower than the Sun-Dial, a good Clock or Watch will go every Day this Year; A Tide-Table; A Table of the Price of Goods, at 112l. to the Hundred; The Post-Towns in Ireland; A Table of the Beginning, Ending and Length of Morning and Evening Twilight, for every 10th Day of the Year; The Swearing Days of the Masters of the Corporations of Dublin: The 4 Quarterly Assemblies of the City of Dublin; A Table of Coin. A Table of Simple Interest at 7 per Cent. A Table of Purchase at 6, 7, 8, and 10l. per Cent, Compound Interest: A Catalogue of the Principal Kings and Princes in Europe, with the Time of their Births and Ages; And a Regal Table from K. Henry 7. With an Explanation of the Whole prefixed. Also, the Roads and Fairs.

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    • Dublin : printed for John Watson Bookseller on the Merchant's-Key, near the Old-Bridge, by J. Gowan in Back Lane, [1729]
    • 1729
    • 1 Resource

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  • The gentleman and citizen's almanack [electronic resource] : for the year of our Lord, 1730. Being the Second after Bissertile or Leap-Year. Containing A Table of Terms, and Returns. A Table of Eclipses. The Days of the Year, necessary for finding the Number of Days or Weeks between any two Days. The Days of the Month. The Week-Days, named at large. The Holidays. The Moon's Age, Change, Full, and Quarters. The New Stile, or Gregorian Kalendar. A Table of Equation, for a Clock or Watch, for every Day this Year. A Tide Table. A Table of the Price of Goods at 112l. to the Hundred. The Post-Towns of Ireland, newly corrected. A Table of Twilight, for every 5th Day of the Year. A Table of Coin. A Table of Interest at 7 per Cent. A Table of Purchase, at 6, 7, 8 and 10 per Cent, Compound Interest, from 1 Year to 31, &c. A Table of the Weight of Houshold Bread. The Swearing Days of the Masters of the Corporations of Dublin, with the present Masters Names: The Names of the Lord Lieutenant, the Judges of His Majesty's Courts, Commissioners of the Revenue, &c. The Names of the present Lord-Mayor, Sherriffs, and Aldermen of the City of Dublin. The Marriages and Issues of the present Princes of Europe. The Deaths of the late Kings and Princes of Europe. With an Explanation of the whole prefixed. Also the Roads and Fairs of Ireland, in which all those Mistakes and Omissions in former Almanacks, which Gentlemen have been pleased to send Information of since the last Year, are carefully set right this Year.

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    • Dublin : printed for John Watson, Bookseller on the Merchant's-Key, near the Old-Bridge, by John Gowan, in Back-Lane, [1730]
    • 1730
    • 1 Resource

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  • The new London spy; or, A modern twenty-four hours ramble through the great British metropolis. : Being an universal disclosure of the secret, nocturnal and diurnal transactions in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : and including a full and entertaining view of the various scenes at this time to be met with in the metropolis, and its environs, from Hyde-park Corner to Wapping, taking in (besides those of Marybone, May Fair, St. James's, St. Giles's, and the other suburbs) the nocturnal transactions of all the adjacent streets, lanes, courts, alleys, squares, public buildings, and other avenues, worthy of notice, on both sides of the River Thames. The whole exhibiting a striking picture of London, as it appears in the present year, displaying a great variety of scenes of midnight entertainment and curious adventures in high, low, and middling life, which are at this period performed and carried on by the various inhabitants of London, &c. and by many persons of both sexes, whose portraits are so stringly coloured, as to be immediately known by the generality of readers in both town and country. Comprising also all the various humours, and whimsical fancies of bucks, bloods, choice spirits, fellows of high fun, abbesses, nuns, courtezans, demireps, landlords, landladies, waiters, mock milliners, pimps, parasites, ministerialists, antiministerialists, mock patriots, orators, actors, gentlemen, lords, dukes, tradesmen, apprentices, journeymen, married men, single men, constables, beadles, watchmen, resurrection men, and other characters, constantly exhibited within the bills of mortality. Likewise, a great variety of original anecdotes, private intrigues of well known persons, and other pleasing and agreeable articles never published before / Written by Sir John Fielding, Junior, Richard King, Esq. and others.

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    • London : Printed for H. Lemoine, Parliament-Street; and sold by all booksellers and venders in town and country, [ca. 1807].
    • 1807

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