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The Instructor, or, American 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 deeds, bonds, bills of sale, powers of attorney, indentures, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Also merchants account, and a short and easy method of shop and bookkeeping with a description of the product, counties and market towns in England and Wales, &c. Together with the method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glaziers, and painters work. ... Likewise, the practical gauger, made easy the art of dialling, ... with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours and some general observations for gardening every month of 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 a survey of the celestial bodies. Also several very useful tables. By George Fisher, accomptant
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Date Produced: 1794
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Dimensions: 18 cm
Physical Description: 384 pages, 5 leaves of plates (1 folded): illustrated
LC Call Number: AG104.F48 1794
OCLC: 13632490
Accession Number: SM-1794-10
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The Instructor, or, American 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 deeds, bonds, bills of sale, powers of attorney, indentures, receipts, wills, leases, releases, &c. Also merchants account, and a short and easy method of shop and bookkeeping with a description of the product, counties and market towns in England and Wales, &c. Together with the method of measuring carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers, masons, glaziers, and painters work. ... Likewise, the practical gauger, made easy the art of dialling, ... with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours and some general observations for gardening every month of 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 a survey of the celestial bodies. Also several very useful tables. By George Fisher, accomptant

A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot with a review of the history of maritime discovery illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first published
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Date Produced: 1831
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Dimensions: Height: 22
Physical Description: 1 book: 327 pages
LC Call Number: E129.C1 B45 1831
OCLC: 5290070
Accession Number: SM-1831-7
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A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot  with a review of the history of maritime discovery illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first published

Old Decorative Maps and Charts, by Arthur L. Humphreys, with illustrations from engravings in the Macpherson collection, and a catalogue of the atlases, etc., in the collection, by Henry Stevens
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Date Produced: 1926
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Dimensions: Height: 29
Physical Description: 1 atlas: 79 plates: (part colored and mounted including maps, 1 double)
LC Call Number: G1025 .H8 1926
OCLC: 3592930
Accession Number: SM-1926-39
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Old Decorative Maps and Charts, by Arthur L. Humphreys, with illustrations from engravings in the Macpherson collection, and a catalogue of the atlases, etc., in the collection, by Henry Stevens

Histoire des moulins à papier du sud-ouest de la France, 1300-1800 : Périgord, Agenais, Angoumois, Soule, Béarn. Préface de m. Henri Alibaux
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Date Produced: 1935
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Dimensions: Height: 33
Physical Description: Vol 1 of 2 volumes
LC Call Number: TS1095 .F8 N5 1935 v.1
OCLC: 1362092
Accession Number: SM-1935-17
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Histoire des moulins à papier du sud-ouest de la France, 1300-1800 : Périgord, Agenais, Angoumois, Soule, Béarn. Préface de m. Henri Alibaux

Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini Poluistora enarrationes. Additus eiusdem Camertis index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu copia percomodus studiosis. Cum gratia, & priuilegio imperiali
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Date Produced: 1520
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Dimensions: Height: 31
Physical Description: 1 book: 336 pages 1 folded leaf of plates
LC Call Number: G113 .S69 1520
OCLC: 8321504
Accession Number: SM-1520-3
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Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, et sacrae theologiae doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini Poluistora enarrationes. Additus eiusdem Camertis index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu copia percomodus studiosis. Cum gratia, & priuilegio imperiali

Lucae de Linda Descriptio orbis & omnius ejus rerumpublicarum : in qua praecipua omnium regnorum & rerumpublicarum orinde & methodice pertractantur quorum seriem versa ostendit pagina
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Date Produced: 1655
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Dimensions: Height: 19
Physical Description: 1156 pages, 8 volumes
LC Call Number: G114 .L74 1655
OCLC: 29106553
Accession Number: SM-1655-9
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Lucae de Linda Descriptio orbis & omnius ejus rerumpublicarum : in qua praecipua omnium regnorum & rerumpublicarum orinde & methodice pertractantur quorum seriem versa ostendit pagina

Geographica et historica Herodoti : quae Latinè Mela exscripsit parallēlōs concinnata ab And. Schotto Antverpiano Graecarum literarum in Academia Toletana doctore
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Date Produced: 1582
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Dimensions: Height: 21
Physical Description: 28 pages
LC Call Number: G87 .M5 1582
OCLC: 18918647
Accession Number: SM-1582-2.2
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Geographica et historica Herodoti : quae Latinè Mela exscripsit parallēlōs concinnata ab And. Schotto Antverpiano Graecarum literarum in Academia Toletana doctore

Explanation for the new map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain with adjacent parts of New England and Canada
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Date Produced: 1755
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Dimensions: Height: 27
Physical Description: 22 pages: folded, colored map
LC Call Number: GA475.N68 J4 1755
OCLC: 20983668
Accession Number: SM-1755-24
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Explanation for the new map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain  with adjacent parts of New England and Canada