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    Bomber's moon /
    by Farson, Negley, 1890-1960
    Published 1941
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    Half Moon Street /
    by Perry, Anne
    Published 2000
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    The man from the moon /
    by Carmichael, Philip
    Published 1909
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    Moon over Soho /
    by Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-
    Published 2011
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    The strange voyage and adventures of domingo gonsales, to the world in the moon : Containing an account of the Island of St. Helenn, the place where he resided some years in, and where he planned this wonderful voyage; his entering on board one of the home-ward-bound East-India ships, for Spain; their running on the rocks near the pike of Teneiff, to avoid an English squadon of ships that were in pursuit of the Spanish fleet; Gonsales had just time to six his machine, which carried him in safety to the pike of Teneriff, having tested his ganzas on the mountain, whence he was pursued by the savages; when, giving the signal to his birds, they arose in the air with him for their journey to the moon: the wounderful apparitions and devils he met with in his progress; their temptations to him, which he avoided, and their supplying him with choice provisions; his leaving his hellish crew and proceeding on his voyage to the moon; his safe arrival there; the manners, customs, and languages of the emperors, kings, princes, and people; his short stay there, to the great grief of the lunars; the inestimable presents in jewels the author received at his departure; his repassing to our earthly globe again, and was set down in China, by his birds; his being taken for a magician by the country people, and preserved from their say by a Chinese mandarin; his going aboard to India ship bound to Europe; his safe arrival in his own country, where he made his discoveries to the King of Spain, who held several cabinet counsels to deliberate on a proper use to be made of these discoveries. With a description of the pike of Teneriff, as travelled up by some English merchants.
    “...Man in the moon...”
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    [The seamans kalender, or, An ephemerides of the sunne, moone, and certaine of the most notable fixed starres.].
    by Tapp, John, fl. 1596-1615
    Published 1632
    “...Ephemerides of the sunne, moone, and certaine of the most notable fixed starres...”
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    [The sea-mans kalender, or, An ephemerides of the sunne, moone, and certaine of the most notable fixed starres].
    by Tapp, John, fl. 1596-1615
    Published 1631
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    The [an]nual advertiser: or An [a]lmanack for the [yea]r of Our Lord 1740 : [Be]ing bissextile, or leap-year, [fr]om the creation of the world, according ... the account of scripture, 5662. Containing, [Ho]ly motion of the planets; the rising and setting [the] sun and moon; the moon's sign and southing; [six]th of day and break of day; new and full moons; ... ingresses and eclipses of the luminaries; aspects ... weather; an explanation of holy-days, and, a ...ription of the solar system, &c. The second impression. ... Edward Smith, philomath.
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    The celestial diary : Or, An ephemeris for the year of Our Blessed Saviour's incarnation, 1729. being the first after the bissextile, or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5678 years. Wherein is contain'd the motion, aspects, and operation of the planets, with observations on the eclipses and solar ingresses; with other remarkable passages, as the moon's southing, sun and moon's rising and setting, and monthly observations in a poerical manner, the like not extant, &c. Calculated according to art, and referr'd to the meridian of the midst of Great-Britain, sitting the whole monarchy without sensible error. .... By Salem Rea[rst] student in physick and the celestial science.
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    The celestial diary : Or, An ephemeris for the year of Our Blessed Saviour's incarnation, 1730. It being the first after the bissextile, or leap year, and from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5679 years. Wherein is contain'd the motion, aspect, and operation of the planets, with observations on the eclipses and solar ingresses with other remarkable passages, as the moon's southing, sun and moon's rising and setting, and monthly observations in a poerical manner, the like not extant, &c. Calculated according to art, and referr'd to the meridian of the midst of Great-Britain, sitting the whole monarchy without sensible error. The twelfth impression. By Salem Pearse, student in physick and the celestial science.
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    The celestial diary : Or, An [e]phemeris for the year of Our Blessed Saviour's incarnation,17 ...7 being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, according of the best of history, 5676 years. Wherein is contained, the motion, aspects, and operation of the pla[n]ets; with observations upon the eclipses, and solar ingresses; with other remarkable passages, as the moon's southing, sun and moon's rising and setting, and monthly observations, in a poetical manner, the like not extant, &c. Calculated according to art, and referred to the meridian of the midst of Great-Britain, sitting the whole monarchy without sensible error. The ninth impressing. By Salem Pearse; student in physick and the celestial science.
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    The accomplish'd ship-wright and mariner : Containing, the principels of geometry, measuring of board and timber: with the moulds and way of shaping the body of any ship; and how they burthen, by geometrical demonstation, and arithmetical proof. Also how to equip and navigate them. With a table of squares and cubes; and the extraction of the square and cube root; with their use. Also rules for finding the length of the masts-yards, rigging, &c. How to make the sails, proportion the anchors and cables: with usefull tables therein. And rules in sea gunnery. Together, with rules to find the prime, epact, and dominical-letter, fixed and moveable feasts, moons age, the time of high-water, with tables shewing the same for ever; with an account of the exact way of finding the southing, rising and setting of the moon, with the eclipse of the sun and moon; also a table of the suns declination. Also making the plain-scale, and its use in navigation; problems of plain and mercator sailing, wrought by the same, proved by arithmetick; the table of logerithms, signs and tangents; with rules how to keep a reckoning of a ship at sea. The description and use of the fore-staff, sea-quadrant, and nocturnal, with the demonstration of the sphere, and 19 problems in astromomy; how to calculate an eclipse of the sun and moon; with necessary obervations on the practick part of navigation. Likewise, tables of the right ascension of the sun, semi-diurnal arch of the sun, moon and stars. A table of the amplitude of the sun from the Equator to 90 degrees; the longitude latitude, right assension, &c. of many of the most notable stars; the rising, setting, and southing of the Pleiades; the declination of the North Star, rectified to the present time; the time of the rising and setting of twenty one stars of note. An astronomical account, by the rules of the ancient and modern astronomers, to judge of the weather. By John Hardingham, of Great Yarmouth. To which is added, a correct table of the latitude and longitude of the most noteable capes, head-lands and islands in the world. By John Thornton.
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    An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1688 : being bissextile or leap year, and from the creation 5688 : calculated for the meridian of the centre, or middle of England, whose latitude is 54 deg. and therefore far more usefull for the kingdom in general, than any other extant /
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    The city-secret, or, Corruption at all ends of the town : containing a succinct history of an 100,000 £ jobb, &c. : being an examination of the conduct of several comptrollers of the city of London, in relation to the city's estate, call'd Conduit-Mead, now new Bond-Street, &c. : wherein the reasoning of those officers to induce the city to let new leases thereof now ... with a dedication to the half-moon club, and a proper preface.
    Published 1744
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    A Catalogue of vendible and useful English and Latin books on most subjects and in all volumns : will be sold by auction, on Monday next the 18th instant, 1688/9 at the Three Half Moons in St. Pauls Church-yard among the woollen drapers.
    Published 1689
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    A catalogue of very good English and Latin books : which will be sold by auction on Monday next the ninth of September, 1689, betwixt three and four of the clock in the afternoon, at the Three Half Moons in St. Paul's Church-yard among the woollen drapers.
    Published 1689
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    A catalogue of Mr. T. Bromley's library, consisting of excellent, Latin and English books, : on most subjects and in all volumes. Which will be sold by auction: the sale to begin on Wednesday next the 26th. of August, 1691: betwixt three and four a clock in the afternoon, and continue from day to day till all be sold, at Tom's Coffee-House adjoyning to Ludgate, where gentlemen may receive catalogues gratis. and at Mr. Bennets at the half Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard. Terms of sale ...
    Published 1691
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    A Catalogue of English & Latin books : consisting of divinity, history, physick [brace] law, travels, volumes of tracts, &c., will be sold by auction, on Monday next, being the 22d. of this instant January, 1688/9 at the Three Half-Moons in St. Paul's Church- Yard, among the woollen drapers ...
    Published 1689
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    Wryting tables, : with a necessarie calender for xxv. [yea]res, with all the principall fayres in Englande, with the beginning and the ending of the termes, with the festiuall holydayes for all the yeare: and the hie wayes from one notable towne in Englande to another: with a rule to knowe the change, full, and quarters of the moone for euer, with certaine prayers.
    Published 1577
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    The works of the late learned Dr. Richard Mead, in seven volumes : Containing I. A mechanical account of poisons, in several essays. II. A discourse on the plague. III. A differtation on the scurvy; with an appendix relative to the method of extracting the soul air out of ships, &c. &c. by Samuel Sutton. IV. A treatise on the small pox and measles; with an appendix by that celebrated Arabian physician, Abubeker Rhazes. V. A discourse on the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, and the diseases thereby produced. VI. Medical precepts and cautions. VII. And lastly, a commentary on the disease mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. By Dr. Richard STack, F.R.S.
    by Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
    Published 1756
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