The plain dealer: being select essays on several curious subjects, : relating to friendship, ... poetry, and other branches of polite literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And now first collected into two volumes

You might also be interested in

• Image not available

  Questions in political economy, politics, morals, metaphysics, polite literature and other branches of knowledge : for discussion in literary societies, or for private study : with remarks under each question, original and selected

  Rare Books

  376854

• Image not available

  Hive, or, weekly entertaining register, comprising curious and valuable papers on interesting subjects, choice selections from rare and costly works, the curiosities of literature, anecdotes, facetiae, beautiful poetry, etc

  Rare Books

  267945

• Image not available

  A catalogue of Lansdown's Ciruculating-Library, St. John Street, Bristol : containing several hundred volumes of the most approved authors. To which will be constantly added books in the different branches of useful and polite literature

  Rare Books

  420738

• Image not available

  The History of the works of the learned, ... : containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great-Britain and foreign parts. Interspers'd with dissertations on several curious and entertaining subjects, critical reflections, and memoirs of the most eminent writers in all branches of polite literature

  Rare Books

  611723

• Image not available

  The exact dealer refined: : being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A description of the commodities, coins, weights and measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring countries. With useful directions about entring and taking up goods at the custom-house: instructions about bills of exchange, and the keeping of books of accompts. The way of recovering debts; likewise exact tables of accompts ready cast-up. II. Containing a plain institution of arithmetick in all its parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying foot-measure in feet and inches, ... Also the whole art of gauging, with several curious tables. And very necessary observations relating to the measuring of land. III. Containing the travellers guide through all the principal roads in England. An account of carriers inns, and days of going out. Also the rates of post-letters. With other matters not before made publick. The fourth edition, enlarged

  Rare Books

  230119

• Image not available

  Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. : Comprehending, under one general alphabetical arangement, all the works and substance of every kind of dictionary extant in the English language. In which the improved departments of the mechanical arts, the liberal sciences, the higher mathematics, and the several branches of polite literature, are selected from the acts, memoirs, and transactions, of the most eminent literary societies in Eurpoe, Asia, and America. ... Embellished by a most magnificent set of copper-plate engravings, ... together with a comprehensive system of heraldry, finely illuminated, and enriched with the armorial bearings of the Royal family

  Rare Books

  753460