BOOK
Title:
Pensilvania, 1738; an almanack or ephemeris ... for the year 1738
Creator:
Taylor, Jacob, d. 1746
Publication:
Printed and sold by Andrew Bradford; sold also by John Taylor at Concord, & by several shopkeepers in town & country, Philadelphia, [1737]
Call #:
529.5 T21 1738 C.1
BOOK
Title:
Pensilvania, 1738; an almanack or ephemeris ... for the year 1738
Creator:
Taylor, Jacob, d. 1746
Publication:
Printed and sold by Andrew Bradford; sold also by John Taylor at Concord, & by several shopkeepers in town & country, Philadelphia, [1737]
Notes:
Title and first page, wanting.
Call #:
529.5 T21 1738 C.2
BOOK
Title:
Réponse de Monsieur D'Anville: au mémoire envoyé à l'Academie Royale des Sciences, contre la mesure conjecturale des degrez de l'Equateur, en conséquence de l'étendue de la Mer du Sud
Creators:
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 | Simonin, Yves.
Publication:
Paris], 1738.
Notes:
"Réponse au mémoire envoyé à l'Academie par M. Simonin".
Extent:
47, [1] p. ; 15 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Istoria dell' incendio del Vesuvio: accaduto nel mese di maggio dell' anno MDCCXXXVII
Creators:
Serao, Francesco, 1702-1783 | Accademia delle scienze (Naples, Italy)
Publication:
Nella Stamperia di Novello de Bonis, In Napoli, 1738.
Notes:
Authorship attributed to Francesco Serao. Cf. BM. NUC pre-1956. Running title: Dell'incendio del Vesuvio. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
[8], 122 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Caroli Linnæi ... classes plantarum seu systemata plantorum
Creator:
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Publication:
apud Conradum Wishoff, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], 1738.
Notes:
Omnia a fructificatione desumta, quorum XVI Universalia & XIII Partialia, compendiose proposita secundum classes, ordines et nomina generica cum clave cujusvis methodi et synonymis genericis. "Index universalis, secunda nomina authoris per omnes universales methodos": p. 607-656. Fundamentorum botanicorum Pars II. Includes index.
Extent:
[10], 6-656, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The history of the British plantations in America: with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : part I : containing the history of Virginia : with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony
Creator:
Keith, WilliamSir, 1680-1749
Publication:
Printed at the expense of the Society for the encouragement of learning by S. Richardson, London, 1738.
Notes:
Title vignette. No more published; relates almost wholly to Virginia.
Extent:
[8], 187 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Paradise lost: A poem, in twelve books
Creator:
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Publication:
Printed for J. and R. Tonson; and A. Ward, S. Birt, R. Chandler, J. Hutton, R. and B. Wellington, J. Bridley, J. Oswald, J. New, London, 1738.
Notes:
"The life of Mr. John Milton," by Elijah Fenton: p. [v]-xxviii.
Call #:
VGN 821.47 M64p.15
Extent:
xxviii, [8], 350, [45] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary: together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet : containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries : in two volumes
Alt. Title:
Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. English
Creators:
Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743 | Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Publication:
Printed by T. Gardner ... for Edward Cave, London, 1738-1741.
Notes:
Pagination: vol. 1: [4], xi, [1], xii, 124, 127-138, 141-678 p.; vol 2: [4], 52, 49-388. Originally issued to subscribers in fortnightly or monthly installments; cf. Cave's proposals, reprinted in Nichols, Literary anecdotes, vol. 5, p. 44-47. Vol. 2 has variant publisher statement: Printed by Edward Cave ... Errors in pagination: vol. 1: p. 32 mispaged 23; 113, 109; 116, 112; 165, 168; 168, 165; 290, 292; 291, 289; 362-363, 358-359; 585, 577; 588, 580; vol 2: 50-51, 46-47, 110, 111, 111, 110; 237-243, 229-235; 325, 235; 357, 349; 380, 376. Includes index to both vols. in vol. 2. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
2 v. in 1 ; 39 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A compleat system of opticks: in four books, viz. : a popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole
Creator:
Smith, Robert, 1689-1768
Publication:
Printed for the author, and sold there by Cornelius Crownfield, and at London by Stephen Austen ... and Robert Dodsley, Cambridge, 1738.
Notes:
Paged continuously; v. 1: 3 p.l., vi, [8], 280 p. ; v. 2: 1 p.l., [281]-455, 171, [13] p. Title-page of v. 2 is without imprint. Marginal notes. Includes index.
Extent:
2 v., [83] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The Antiquities of the town of Halifax in Yorkshire: Wherein is given an account of the town, church, and twelve chapels
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1707-1754
Publication:
Printed by J. Lister, for J. Hodgson, Leedes, 1738.
Extent:
1 p.l., vi, 207 p. ; 17 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The doctrine of chances; or, A method of calculating the probabilities of events in play
Creator:
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754
Publication:
Printed for the author, by H. Woodfall, London, 1738.
Notes:
On title page, edition statement comes before author's name.
Extent:
[4], xiv, [2], 256, [3] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The figure of the earth: determined from observations made by order of the French king, at the polar circle
Alt. Title:
Figure de la terre. English
Creator:
Maupertuis, 1698-1759
Publication:
Printed for T. Cox, C. Davis, J. and P. Knapton, and A. Millam, London, 1738.
Extent:
vii, 232 p., [10] folded leaves of plates : ill., map, tables ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
La figure de la terre: déterminée par les observations de Messieurs de Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier ... & de M. l'Abbé Outhier ... accompagnes de M. Celsius ... faites par ordre du roy au cercle polaire
Creator:
Maupertuis, 1698-1759
Publication:
Imprimerie royale, A Paris, 1738.
Notes:
Map by Delahaye. Not in Sabin.
Extent:
xxiv, [4], 184 p., [10] folded leaves of plates : ill., map, tables ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Exposition de la doctrine de l'église catholique sur les matieres de controverse
Creator:
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704
Publication:
Guillaume Desprez, Jean Desessartz, A Paris, 1738.
BOOK
Title:
De attractione et electricitate
Creator:
Bose, Georg Matthias, 1710-1761
Publication:
Typis Ephraim Gottlob Eichsdeldii, Vitembergae, [1738]
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
[12], 5-38 p. ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton: mis à la portée de tout le monde
Creator:
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, 1694-1778
Publication:
Chez Jacques Desbordes, Amsterdam, 1738.
Notes:
First edition, Desbordes imprint; a Ledet imprint was also printed in Amsterdam in 1738. Title in red and black; title vignette. Errata on last page.
Extent:
2 p.l., [3]-399, [1] p. : front., diagrs., tab. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement, ou Voyage curieux et nouveau, parmi les sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale: Dans le quel on trouvera une description du Canada, avec une relation très particulière des anciennes coutumes, moeurs & facons de vivre des barbares qui l'habitent & de la manière donts ils ne comportent aujourd'hui
Publication:
Chez Herman Uytwerf, A Amsterdam, 1738.
Notes:
Vol. 1: [14], 370, [6] p., [4] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 430, [6] p., [3] folded leaves of plates. Volume 2: p. 425 misnumb.: "421". Plates unnumbered.
Extent:
2 v. in 1 : ill., map. ; 16 cm.
BOOK
Title:
La mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire
Creator:
Banier, (Antoine)M. l'abbé, 1673-1741
Publication:
Chez Briasson, libraire, rue S. Jacques; à la science, A Paris, M. DCC. XXXVIII.[-M. DCC. XL]. [1738-1740].
Notes:
Duodecimo edition; also issued by Briasson (1738-40) as 3 v. set in quarto. Vols. 1-4 and 7-8 with half titlepages. "Table generale des matieres": p. 179-379 (v.8)
Call #:
VGN 881 B22M V.1-8
Extent:
8 v. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
BOOK
Title:
Programme, ou, Idée générale d'un cours de physique expérimentale, avec un catalogue raisonné des instrumens qui servent aux expériences
Creator:
Nollet, (Jean Antoine)abbé, 1700-1770
Publication:
Chez P.G. Le Mercier, A Paris, 1738.
Notes:
Signatures: a (-a6) * (-*4) b c A-Q/ R.
Extent:
xxxix, [1], 190, [8] p. ; 17 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Travels: or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant
Creator:
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751
Publication:
Printed at the Theatre, Oxford, 1738.
Notes:
Half title: Travels, or geographical, physical and miscellaneous observations, etc. Includes index. Title in red and black, with engraved vignette. Head and tail pieces. "A collection of such papers as serve to illustrate the foregoing observations" and index: 60, [8] p.
Extent:
4 p.l., xv, [2], 442, [2], 60, [8] p. : ill., plates, maps (part. fold.), plans, facsims. ; 35 cm.
