Rare Books: Encountering English: Irony

Containing his choice and select recipe's, ... as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chirurgery. The Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's interpos'd in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy. Compleated with above six hundred chymical processes; and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process. To which are added, Dr. Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder, Rabell's styptick pouder, tinctura de sulphure metallorum; and the emplastrum febrifugum. The second edition, with emendations, and enlarged with several extraordinary preparations not in the former impression, and above a thousand other additions interspersed thro' the body of th work.

John Seller was the royal hydrographer in Restoration England, and he was highly esteemed as a maker of instruments and maps. His star atlas was first published in 1680, and is most notable for its "handiness"; it is truly portable, and it was in fact the first pocket atlas of the stars.

With three hundred sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this : being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation containing a compleat method of physick whereby a man may preserve his body in health or cure himself being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies.

1. Cérémonies des juifs & des chrétiens catholiques. 1739. -- t. 2. Des catholiques (cont.) 1739. -- t. 3. Cérémonies des grecs & des protestans. 1733. -- t. 4. Les anglicans, les quaquers, les anabaptistes, &c. 1736. -- t. 5. Cérémonies des mahométans, &c. 1737. -- t. [6] Cérémonies religieuses des peuples des Indes occidentales. Des Indiens orientaux. 1735. -- t. [7] Des Indiens orientaux (cont.) Lettre du père Bouchet sur la metempsychose. Cérémonies religieuses des peuples de la Chine & du Japon. Des Perses. Des Africains. 1728. -- t. [8] Dissertations de Mess. les abbés Banier et Le Mascrier sur des matière qui ont quelque raport aux cérémonies religieuses, &c. 1743. -- t. [9] Une parallèle historique des cérémonies religieuses ... & la description de divers usages singuliers, pretendus religieux.

I. Of the Form and Manner of a Court Life. II. Of the Qualifications of a Courtier. III. Of the Accomplishments of a Court Lady. And, IV. Of the Duty of a Prince.

Containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires