Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery /

Publisher's advertisement: p. [1-18] at end.

A treatise on cattle : shewing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, horses, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders ; to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays on the natural history and origin of peat moss: the peculiar qualities of that substance; the means of improving it as a soil; the methods of converting it into a manure; and the other economical purposes to which it may be made subservient.

Pritzel 7544 (1810 edition)

Rural oeconomy: or, Essays on the practical parts of husbandry. : Designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds; including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers relative to the œconomical management of their business ... : To which is added, The rural Socrates: being memoirs of a country philosopher. /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 10638.8.

A treatise on the game of chess. Containing games of odds, various openings of even games, different methods of winning and drawing the game. Also, numerous critical situations on diagrams. To which are added, the art of playing without seeing the board, and an account of the most celebrated chess players of his time. First published in 1617, by D. Pietro Carrera. Tr. from the Italian, with additional notes and remarks by W. Lewis.

Mode of access: Internet.

A new treatise on chess, containing the rudiments of the game explained on scientific principles, with the best methods of playing the most brilliant openings and difficult ends of games, including numerous original positions, and a selection of fifty new chess problems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Chess for beginners. In a series of progressive lessons. Showing the most approved methods of beginning and ending the game. With various situations and checkmates, illustrated by numerous diagrams, printed in colours.

Mode of access: Internet.

A second series of lessons on the game of chess, containing several new methods of attack and defence for the use of the higher class of players; to which is added, Fifty games at chess actually played, many of which occurred between the author and some of the best players in France and Germany;

Mode of access: Internet.

A new treatise on chess, containing the rudiments of the science, with an analysis of the best methods of playing the different openings and ends of games, including many original positions, and a selection of fifty chess problems never before printed in this country.

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa : from the earliest ages to the present time with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy and zoology /

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The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea; illustrated by proper rules and examples ... dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea: : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ... /

Three pages at end contain a publishers' advertisement.

A new theoretical and practical treatise on navigation: in which the auxiliary branches of mathematics and astronomy, comprised of algebra, geometry ... etc., are treated of. Also, the theory and most simple methods of finding time, latitude and longitude ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa : from the earliest ages to the present time : with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy and zoology /

Includes bibliographical references.

The panorama of science and art; embracing the principal sciences and arts; the methods of working in wood and metal; and a miscellaneous selection of useful and interesting processes and experiments.

Mode of access: Internet.

An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical. Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting water, for the watering noblemens and gentlemens seats, buildings, gardens, &c., are carefully (and in a manner not yet publish'd in any language) laid down ... Illustrated and explain'd by sixty copper cuts, done by the best hands ... Collected from the best of the Italian and French designs (together with some new ones of the author's own invention) ...

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