The man of pleasure’s pocket-book

With an engraved frontispiece showing two fashionably dressed couples walking in a park: The most elegant desses upon the Ton / Dighton del. ; Cook sculp.

  • TitleThe man of pleasure’s pocket-book, or, The bon vivant’s vdde mecum, for the year 1780 … containing fifty-two double ruled pages … and … original articles, viz. I. An account of all public diversions … VIII. A dictionary for the polite world … / by a member of the Club of Savoir-Vivres.
  • PublishedLondon : Printed for S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster Row, [1779]

Catalog Record

145 M266 1779

Acquired January 2017

Remarkable news from the stars

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Ephemeris for the year 1764

  • AuthorAndrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.
  • TitleRemarkable news from the stars, or, An ephemeris for the year 1764 : with observations upon the eclipses, solar ingresses and configurations of the heavens happening therein. Being the bissextile, or leap-year, and from the creation of the world according to the best of history, 5714 years. Wherein you have an account of many things concerning the heavenly bodies and their portents in the same year. With some other very considerable matters / by William Andrews, student in astrology.
  • PublishedLondon : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1764.

Catalog Record

145 R22 1764

Acquired October 2015