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Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures : explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection Folio HC31 .A8 1727
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weights and measures--History.
- Weights and measures.
- History.
- Money--Tables.
- Money.
- Prices--History.
- Prices.
- Navigation--History.
- Navigation.
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Tables (Data)
- Penn Provenance:
- Disney, John (ex libris) (copy 1)
- Great Britain. Quartermaster's General Department. Military Depot (ex libris) (copy 1)
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Fullerton, John, Esq. (autograph) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Elphistone (bookplate, Carberry Tower, Scotland) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Carberry Tower Library (label, Scotland) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 327 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 18 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; 29 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Tonson ..., MDCCXXVII [1727]
- Contents:
- A dissertation containing the principles and authorities upon which the tables are founded
- A dissertation of Roman money affairs
- A dissertation concerning the navigation of the ancients
- A dissertation concerning the doses of medicines given by ancient physicians.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. By John Arbuthnot.
- Title page printed in red and black.
- Dedicatory poem to the king by the author's son, Charles Arbuthnot.
- Signatures: pi1 *A² A⁴(-A1) B-2T⁴.
- Woodcuts: device; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- Errata slip pasted at foot of p. 327.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy wanting errata slip.
- Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy with the armorial bookplate of the Elphistone family and the Carberry Tower Library's label pasted on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N65572
- Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 75
- OCLC:
- 14329651
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