The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon/Books Printed for J. Lever
i.The wonderful, surprizing and uncommon Voyages and Adventures of Captain Jones to Patagonia, relating his Adventures to Sea, his first Landing, and strange Combat with a mighty Bear, his furious Battle with his six and thirty Men, against an Army of eleven Kings, with their Overthrow and Deaths; his relieving Kemper Castle, his strange and admirable Sea-Fight, with six huge Gallies of Spain, and nine thousand Soldiers; his being taken a Prisoner and hard Usage; his being set at Liberty by the King's Command in Exchange for twenty-four Spanish Captains, and Return for England. A comical Description of Captain Jones's ruby Nose. Part the Second. His incredible Adventures by Sea and Land, particularly his miraculous Deliverance from a Wreck at Sea by the Support of a Dolphin; his several desperate Duels, his Combat with Baadercham, a Giant of the Race of Og, his overcoming the Giant Neerapenny, his Loves with the Queen of Noland, his basely leaving her, his deep Employments and happy Success in Business of State; all which, and more, is but the Title of his own Relation until he grew speechless and died, with his Elegy and Epitaph, the second Edition, adorned with a curious Cut of Captain Jones in Combat with the King of the Giants, &c. &c. Price only 1s.
2. Low Life, or one half of the World knows not how the other half live, being a critical Account of what is transacted by People of almost all Religions, Nations, Circumstances, and Sizes of Understanding, in the twenty-four Hours, between Saturday Night and Monday Morning; in a true Description of a Sunday, as it is usually spent within the Bills of Mortality, calculated for the 21st of June, with an Address to Mr. Hogarth, “let Fancy guess the rest,” Buckingham. The third Edition, adorned with a droll humorous Print of St. Monday. Price only 1s. 6d.
3. The secret History of Betty Ireland, who was trepanned into Marriage at the Age of fourteen, and debauched by Beau M—te, &c. &c. A Book full of surprizing Incidents in the gay Life she passed through, her Misfortunes, with her Penitence and sudden Death. This Book is a proper Present to young People, to deter them from such Scenes of Life, that too many of the Young and Gay of both Sexes run into. The seventh Edition, with a beautiful Frontispiece of a Scene in gay Life, Price only 6d.
4. Tabes Dorsalis, or the Cause of a Consumption in young Men and Women, with an Explication of its Symptoms, Precautions, and the Method of Cure, &c. &c. By a Physician of Bristol. The fourth Edition. Embellished with a curious Frontispiece of a Gentleman and Lady in a deep Consumption. This Book is very proper for all Persons to read in these sickly Times. ∵ Be careful to ask for Lever’s Book against Consumptions. 1s.
5. The Art of Swimming, illustrated with forty Copper Plate Cuts, which represent the different Postures necessary to be used in that Art, with Advice for Bathing, by Monsieur Thevenot; to which is prefixed a prefatory Discourse, concerning Artificial Swimming, or keeping oneself above Water, by several small portable Engines in Cases of Danger. The second Edition. Price 1s. 6d. sewed, or 2s. bound. N. B. The Cramp is here provided against, by a Method in Swimming that will bring the Person in safety to Shore, for the want of knowing which Secret, thousands of Lives have been lost, as well as the expertest Swimmers, which will now be saved by reading this excellent Book.
6. The Husband forced to be jealous, or the good Fortune of those Women that have jealous Husbands: Being the secret History of several noble Persons, translated from the French. The second Edition, with a handsome Frontispiece of Gentlemen and Ladies. Price only 1s. N. B. This Book is on the Plan of Pamela, Clarissa and Grandison.
7. Pteryplegia, or the Art of Shooting Flying, a Poem, by the ingenious Mr. Markland, A. B. late Fellow of St. John’s College in Oxford. The third Edition, with a very rural Frontispiece of a sporting Gentleman going out early in the Morning with his Dog and Gun; shewing the right position of holding the Gun in shooting flying. Price 1s. ∵ Be very careful to ask for Lever’s Book, by Markland, for fear of having the wrong Sort[1].
8. Le Jardinier Solataire. The solitary or Carthusian Gardener, being Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Gardener, containing the Method to make and cultivate all Sorts of Gardens, with many new Experiments therein, and Reflexions on the Culture of Trees. Written in French by Francis Gentil, Lay Brother of the Order of Carthusians, and above thirty Years Gardener to the Charter-house at Paris, in two Parts. Also the compleat Fforist, for the universal Culture of Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs, proper to embellish Gardens; with the Way of raising all Sorts of Pastures, Greens, Knots, Porticoes, Columns, and other Ornaments; the whole illustrated by many Cuts, and with the Fable and Moral of each Plant. By the Sieur Lovis Liger D’ Auxerre, in three Parts. Price 5s. bound.
9. A Parallel of the ancient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of ten principal Authors, who have written upon the five Orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Sertio and Vignola, De Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme; the Greek Orders, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, compose the first Part of this Treatise, and the two Latin, Tuscan and Compoite, the latter. Written in French by Roland Freart Sieur de Chambray, made English for the Benefit of Builders. To which is added an Account of Architects and Architecture, by an historical and etymological Explanation of certain Terms, particularly affected by Architects; with Leon Baptista Alberti’s Treatise of Statues. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. The fourth Edition, with the Addition of the Elements of Architecture, collected by Sir Henry Wootten, Knt. from the best Authors and Examples, and also other large Editions. Folio. Price 12 s.
10. The pious Youths Recreation; or Travels through Godliness, containing a pleasant historical Relation of the Families of Riches and Poverty, Godliness and Labour, wherein the Family Neglects, and Vices of Husbands and Wives, Children and Parents, Matters and Servants, are laid open in familiar Verse, &c. Illustrated with Diversity of Pictures, suited to their several Occasions. Price only 6d. bound in gilt Covers.
11. Theophilus Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; with Dissertations on theatrical Subjects. Octavo. Adorned with droll humorous Cuts. Price 4s. bound.
12. Sermons on eleven very important Subjects. To which is added a celebrated Latin Oration spoken at Cambridge, by the pious Dr. Crowe of Bishopsgate Church London, and Chaplain to his late Majesty King George the Second. Octavo, 4s. bound.
13. A Latin Grammer, by John Read of Bottom In New England. Price 3d. stitched in blue Covers.
14. The Bloody Tribunal, or an Antidote against Popery, being a Review of the Cruelties of the Inquisition, as practised in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the East and West-Indies, on all those whom the Church of Rome brands with the Name of Hereticks. Extracted from Authors of undoubted Credit, and embellished with Copper Plate Cuts. Octavo. Price 4s. bound.
15. A plain Address to the Followers and Favouers of the Methodists, by the late Rev. Mr. Anguish of Deptford in Kent. Price 4d.
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