An oration delivered at the request of the PBK society, at Cambridge. By Thomas W. Hooper, 1790

This small paper notebook contains a sixteen-page handwritten copy of an oration on "amiable and useful virtues" delivered by Phi Beta Kappa member Thomas W. Hooper on September 1, 1790. Title transcribed from the first page of text. Item bound in blue-and-white floral wallpaper covers.

An oration delivered at the request of the PBK society, at Cambridge. 1790

This small paper notebook contains a sixteen-page handwritten copy of an oration on "amiable and useful virtues" delivered by Phi Beta Kappa member Thomas W. Hooper (1771-1816; Harvard AB 1789) during the anniversary meeting of the Alpha Chapter at Harvard University on September 1, 1790.

Library of useful knowledge. Mathematics ...

Another ed. of v. 1, containing only the articles of De Morgan and Parker, was issued in 1836.

Useful work versus useless toil /

Cover title.

The Repertory of arts, manufactures, and agriculture.

"Consisting of original communications, specifications of patent inventions, practical and interesting papers, selected from the philosophical transactions and scientific journals of all nations, monthly intelligence relating to the useful arts, proceedings of learned societies, and notices of all patents granted for inventions."

The Repertory of arts and manufactures.

"Consisting of original communications, specifications of patent inventions, and selections of useful practical papers from the transactions of the philosophical societies of all nations, etc."

Useful and ornamental planting : with an index/

Includes index.

The incorporation of Ohio Yearly Meeting, for the purpose of establishing a boarding school defended : or, an explanation of the application made by Friends, to the legislature of Ohio /

Mode of access: Internet.

A memorial and remonstrance, on the religious rights of man; written in 1784-5, at the request of the religious society of Baptists in Virginia. ...

Published in 1819 under title: Religious freedom. A memorial and remonstrance ...

An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With an historical preface relative to the parts of philosophy therein examined, and to the several arts and manufactures dependent upon them.

The last section, p. [95]-138, is entitled: "A letter to the right honorable the Earl of Morton, president of the Royal Society, containing experiments and observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several metals, and their colours when united to glass, as well as those of their other preparations. With additions. By Edward Delaval, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, Jan. 24, 1765."

Museum rusticum et commerciale; or, Select papers on agriculture, commerce, arts, and manufactures.

Mode of access: Internet.

Library of useful knowledge. Natural philosophy...

On t.-p. of v.4: Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge.

A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages /

Frontispiece, v. 1, by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

City directory and history of Montgomery, Alabama : with a summary of events in that history, calendarically arranged, besides other valuable and useful information /

Reprint of 1878 ed. published by T. C. Bingham, Montgomery, Ala.

A cyclopaedia of six thousand practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy. Designed as a compendious book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families.

English 2d ed. published 1845 with title: A cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information.