Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion. And An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest. Also New fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies. With five plates of machines.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 16657.1.

Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times.

Special t.-p. to each volume.

England's improvement by sea and land : to out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands : to prevent unnecessary suits in law, with the benefit of a voluntary register : directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships, with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable : rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities : with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink /

Vol. 2 has title: England's improvement by sea and land. The second part : Containing, I. An account of its scituation, and the growths, and manufactures thereof. II. The benefit and necessity of a voluntary-register. III. A method for improving the Royal-navy, lessening the growing power of France, and obtaining the fishery. IV. Advantageous proposals for the city of London, for the preventing of fires therein; and for lessening the great charge of the trained bands. V. The way to make New-Haven in Sussex, fit to receive ships of burthen. VI. Seasonable discourses of the tin, iron, linnen, and woollen trades; with advantageous proposals for improving them all : Illustrated with seven large copper-plates / By Andrew Yarranton, gent. London : Printed, to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst ..., 1698.

The English, Scotch and Irish historical libraries. Giving a short view and character of most of our historians, either in print or manuscript. With an account of our records, lawbooks, coins, and other matters, serviceable to the undertakers of a general history of England.

The letter to Kennet (an answer to Francis Atterbury's attack) is substantially the same as the preface to the Scottish historical library.

Social security revision : hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session, on H. R. 6000, an act to extend and improve the Federal old-age and survivors insurance system, to amend the public assistance and child welfare provisions of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

Pt. 1. has special subtitle: Testimony and recommendations by the Social Security Administration.

Report of the Special committee of the United States Senate on irrigation and reclamation of arid lands ...

Binder's numbering: v.1 and 2; v.3 and 4.

Letters of Henry Brevoort to Washington Irving, together with other unpublished Brevoort papers,

"Of this first edition of 'The letters of Henry Brevoort to Washington Irving' (limited to three hundred and ten sets printed on special Strathmore paper, and bound in two volumes), two hundred and ninety sets are offered for sale. No other edition will be issued in this form. This is no.

A bibliography of birds; with special reference to anatomy, behavior, biochemistry, embryology, pathology, physiology, genetics, ecology, aviculture, economic ornithology, poultry culture, evolution, and related subjects ...

Paged continuously.

Nazm-ı Dilârâ, [1231, i.e. 1815 or 1816].

Elegant autograph copy of the versified Persian-Turkish glossary of the müderris Osman Şakir (whose name appears in Īḍāḥ al-maknūn as ʻUthmān Shukrī, d.1818?). Apparently inspired by the popular Tuhfe-yi Vehbî (used for many years in Ottoman schools) of Sünbülzâde Vehbi Mehmet Efendi (d.1809), see opening matter on p.5-15.

Hāẕā Kitāb-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī, [1280, i.e. 1863 or 1864].

Richly elegant copy of the Dīvān of the masterful poet Ḥāfiẓ (Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, d.1390?).