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  • The Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, a Native of Bordeaux, and Captain of a Ship. Translated from the French, by Mrs. Griffith. First American Edition.

    Jean Gaspard DuBois-Fontanelle

    Hardcover (Gale Ecco, Print Editions, April 18, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryW008165Attributed to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle by Evans. The shipwreck is supposed to have occurred on the coast of Florida in February, 1766. An earlier American edition was printed at Philadelphia in 1774, with title: The surprizing yet real and true voyDover, N.H.: Printed and sold by Samuel Bragg, Jun, 1799. viii,203, [1]p.; 12°
  • An Account of a Most Efficacious Medicine for Soreness, Weakness, and Several Other Distempers of the Eyes. by Sir Hans Sloane, Bart.

    Hans Sloane

    Hardcover (Gale Ecco, Print Editions, April 22, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT018947Half-title: 'An account of a most efficacious medicine for sore eyes'. The half-title reads "price six-pence." Variant: half-title unpriced.London: printed for Dan. Browne, 1745. vi,17, [1]p.; 8°
  • A sermon preached before the Trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America; at their anniversary meeting in the parish-church of St. ... London: on Thursday, March 18. 1735

    George Watts

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, June 16, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T009617<Notes><imprintFull>London : printed by M. Downing, 1736. <collation>27,[1]p. ; 4°
  • New principles of gunnery: containing, the determination of the force of gun-powder, and an investigation of the difference in the resisting power of ... and slow motions. By Benjamin Robins, ...

    Benjamin Robins

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, May 28, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T155198<Notes><imprintFull>London : printed for J. Nourse, 1742. <collation>lvii,[1],95,[1]p.,plate : ill. ; 8°
  • The excellency and advantage of doing good: represented in a sermon preached before the honourable trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America

    Ralph Thoresby

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, Sept. 13, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T033678<Notes><imprintFull>London : printed for W. Meadows, 1748. <collation>[3],6-21,[1]p. ; 4°
  • The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses. Abridged from the French of the Archbishop of Cambray

    Francois De Salignac Fenelon

    Hardcover (Gale Ecco, Print Editions, April 23, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)T219459The Archbishop of Cambray = François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon. The titlepage is engraved.London: printed for T. Carnan, 1770. [4], x, viii,315, [1]p.: ill.; 18°
  • The history of the civil war.

    Samuel Daniel

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, June 10, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>Bodleian Library (Oxford)<ESTCID>T189931<Notes>Anonymous. By Samuel Daniel. The preface is by his brother John Daniel. Originally published in 1595 in two books, the first entitled 'The first fowre bookes of the civile wars' and the second 'The fyft booke of the civill warres'.<imprintFull>London : printed in the year, 1717. <collation>428p. ; 12°
  • A journal of the plague year: being observations or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665

    Daniel Defoe

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, June 16, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T070342<Notes>Signed at the end: H.F., i.e. Daniel Defoe. With a half-title.<imprintFull>London : printed for E. Nutt; J. Roberts; A. Dodd; and J. Graves, 1722. <collation>[4],287,[1]p. ; 8°
  • Aesop's Fables

    Aesop

    Print on Demand (Hardcover) (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, April 19, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T021086<Notes><imprintFull>[London?, 1780?]. <collation>24p. ; 12°
  • All's Well, That Ends Well. a Comedy. as It Is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. by Shakespeare

    Anonymous

    Hardcover (Gale Ecco, Print Editions, April 23, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Trinity College Library Watkinson CollectionT021272Possibly issued with 'King Pepin's campaign' By William Shirley.London: printed for J. Harrison; and sold, likewise, by J. Wenman, and all other booksellers, 1778. 17, [1]p., plate; 8°
  • Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World. a New Edition. of 3; Volume 3

    Fanny Burney

    Hardcover (Gale Ecco, Print Editions, April 18, 2018)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT130270Anonymous. By Fanny Burney.London: printed for T. and W. Lowndes, 1783. 3v., plates; 12°
  • Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it in the shade and at night. ... By John Ingen-Housz, ...

    Jan Ingenhousz

    Paperback (Gale ECCO, Print Editions, May 27, 2010)
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>British Library<ESTCID>T081031<Notes>With eighteen pages of index.<imprintFull>London : printed for P. Elmsly; and H. Payne, 1779. <collation>lxviii,302,[18]p.plate ; 8°