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| 003 | $ UK-LoRAA | ||
| 005 | $ 20231212092905.4 | ||
| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | $a Tables Of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd In Several Dissertations. |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. $c MDCCXXVII. $c [1727] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [12], 327, [1] p., 18 pl. (1 fold.); $c 281 mm. (Quarto). |
| 500 | # | # | $a Page 327 carries an errata-slip pasted in. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [T.p., dedic.] - Preface - Contents - [Text] - Errata - [Plates]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a ESTC states that the author was John Arbuthnot. The plates (engraved tables) are not signed. The book is dedicated to the King (George I or George II), in a poem by Charles Arbuthnot (son of John Arbuthnot). |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T96634 |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a The text consists of four dissertations: 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. The plates are engraved tables. |
| 533 | # | # | $n Microfilm versions were published in 1997 (London: British Library) (Neg. PB.Mic.40262), and 1974 (New Haven, CT: Research Publications). |
| 561 | # | # | $a This book belongs to a group of about ten duplicates from the Royal Library that were evidently presented privately to the Academy, most probably through King George III's Librarian Richard Dalton early in 1769, during the period when expenditure on books for the Academy's fledgling Library was being met directly from the royal Privy Purse. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century red morocco, upper and lower covers having gilt borders and royal arms of Britain and 'GR' gilt-stamped in centre; rebacked in 20th century, spine decorated in gilt in 18th-century manner, lettered 'Arbuthnot's Tables Of Ancient Coins' and '1727'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Coins - Coins, Greek - Coins, Roman - Money - Weights and measures - Weights and measures, Greek - Weights and measures, Roman - Weights and measures, Jewish - Weights and measures, Arab - Prices - Navigation - Medicine - History |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Manuals - Tables - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Armorial bindings - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Arbuthnot, John |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Arbuthnot, Charles |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Tonson, Jacob $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a George III $e previous owner |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: E-4-05; 1821: D-4-06. |