Vintage - Before 1800 Quick View An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets. The Fourth Edition, To which are now first added Three Dialogues of the Dead by Mrs. Montagu - Quick View An Act of Parliament - April 26, 1796 Quick View An Act of Parliament, dated 1739. Quick View Observations on the Roman Colonies and Stations in Cheshire and Lancashire, by Thomas Percival, Esq. - 1753 Quick View An Account of that Part of America, which is nearest to the Land of Kamtchatka - 1761 Quick View Extracts of Two Letters to Thomas Hollis, Esq; concerning the late Discoveries at Herculaneum - 1757 Quick View Additional Observations upon some Plates of white Glass found at Herculaneum - 1763 Quick View An Account of the late Discoveries of Antiquities at Herculaneum, &c. in Two Letters from Camillo Paderni - 1757 Quick View Remarks on the Principal Paintings found in the subterranean city of Herculaneum Quick View “Cogitata de Cometis”, by Johannes (John) Winthrop, Communicated by Benjamin Franklin 1768 Quick View Description of an improved Apparatus for performing Electrical Experiments Quick View An Account of a Treatise presented to the Royal Society, intitled “Lettres sur l’Electricite by the Abbe Nollet" By William Watson - 1763 Quick View Letters relating to Electrical Experiments & Observations by Edward Delaval - 1761 Quick View A Letter to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. concerning Electricity; from Mr. Thorbern Bergman 1761 Quick View An Account of several Experiments in Electricity: In a Letter to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. By Edward Delaval, F.R.S. 1763 Quick View A Letter concerning some new electrical Experiments, by John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. - 1754 Quick View Observations upon the Electricity of the Air, by the Abbe Mazeas - 1754 Quick View Farther Experiments in Electricity; by Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. - 1761 Quick View An Account of a Treatise, presented to the Royal Society, intitled “Letters concerning Electricity; in which the latest Discoveries upon this Subject, and the Consequences which may be deduced Quick View A Letter from Mr. Henry Eeles, to the Royal Society, concerning the Cause of Thunder - 1753 Quick View Some Suggestions concerning the preventing the Mischiefs, which happen to Ships and their Masts by Lightning Quick View Observations upon Lightning, and the Method of securing Buildings from its Effects: In a Letter to Sir Charles Frederick, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's Ordinance, By Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. Quick View An Engine for raising Water by Fire; being an Improvement of Savery’s Construction, to render it capable of working itself Quick View A Letter from Mr. J. Smeaton to Mr. John Ellicott, F.R.S. concerning some Improvements made by himself in the Air-Pump Quick View A Description of a metalline Thermometer, by Keane Fitzgerald Quick View A Description of a new Thermometer and Barometer, by Keane Fitzgerald, Esq; F.R.S. Quick View Proposal of some new Methods of improving the Theory of Jupiter's Satellites, by Jean-Sylvain Bailly Quick View Experiments on the Distillation of Acids, volatile Alkalies, &c. showing how they may be condensed without Loss, by Peter Woulfe Quick View An Attempt to point out, in a concise manner, the Advantages which will accrue from a periodic Review of the Variation of the magnetic Needle Quick View The Supposed Effect of boiling upon Water, in disposing it to freeze more rapidly, ascertained by Experiments, by Joseph Black Quick View Cause of the Ascent of Vapour and Exhalation, and those of Winds; and of the general Phenomena of the Weather and Barometer, by Henry Eeles Quick View Extracts of Several Letters of Mordach Mackenzie, M.D., Concerning the Plague in Constantinople Quick View A Letter from Mr. William Sharp, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to James Parsons, M. D. F. R. S. containing an Account of a new-invented Instrument for fractured Legs Quick View An Account of a Visitation of the Leprous Persons in the Isle of Guadeloupe Quick View A Discourse on the Usefulness of Inoculation of the horned Cattle to Prevent the Contagious Distemper among them - 1758 Quick View An Account of some extraordinary Tumors upon the Head of a Labouring Man - 1758 Quick View A Remarkable Case of an Aneurism, or Disease of the Principal Artery of the Thigh - 1758 Quick View Determining England's Population - In the 1750s Quick View Account of the Case of the late Right Honourable Horace Lord Walpole (Urinary Bladder Stones) Quick View "Thermometers for Particular Uses" by Lord Charles Cavendish - 1758 Quick View "An Account of the Earthquake felt in New England on the 18th of November, 1755", by John Winthrop Quick View “An Account of Several Persons Seized With the Goal-Fever, Working in Newgate; and of the Manner, in which the Infection was Communicated to One Intire Family”; by John Pringle, M.D. F.R.S. - 1753 Quick View A Second Account of the New Method of Opening the Cornea, for Taking Away the Cataract; by Samuel Sharp, Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, and F. R. S. - 1753