The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...

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The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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London :: Printed by James Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave,
1685.
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Erotic literature.
English language -- Rhyme.
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"The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54745.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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Admirable and Learned Treatises in Occulpt Scien∣ces, Philosophy, Astronomy, Physick, Astrology, Navigation and Military Discipline.

THe admired piece of Physiognomy and Chyromancy, Ma∣taposcopacy, the Symmetrical proportions and Signal Moles of the Body fully and accurately explained, with their Natural predictive significations both to Men and Women, be∣ing

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delightful and profitable; with the Subject of Dreams made plain: Whereunto is added the Art of Memory, by Richard Saunders; in folio: Illustrated with Cuts and Figures

The Sphere of Marcus Manelius made an English Poem; with Learned Annotations, and a long Appendix: reciting the Names of Ancient and Modern Astronomers; with some∣thing memorable of them: Illustrated with Copper-Cuts. By Edward Sherborne Esquire; in Folio.

Observations upon Military and Political Affairs: Writ∣ten by the most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle; in Folio: Published by Authority.

A General Treatise of Artillery or Great Ordnance: Writ in Italian by Tomaso Morety of Brescia, Ingenier; first to the Em∣peror, and now to the most serene Republick of Venice, tran∣slated into English, with Notes thereupon; and some addition out of French for Sea-Gunners, By Sir Jonas Moore Knight: With an Appendix of Artificial Fire-works of War and De∣light; by Sir Abraham Dager Knight, Ingenier: Illustrated with divers Cuts.

A Mathematical Compendium, Useful or Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry and Astronomy, Geography and Navigation, Embatteling and Quartering of Armies, Fortifi∣cations and Gunnery, Gauging and Dialling; explaining the Loyerthius with new Judices, Napers, Rhodes or Bones, mak∣ing of Movements, and the Application of Pendulums: With the projection of the Sphere for an Universal Dial. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight.

The Works of that most excellent Philosopher and Astro∣nomer Sir George Wharton Baronet: giving an account of all Fasts and Festivals, Observations in keeping Easter; Apote∣lesma, or the Nativity of the World of the Epochae and Erae used by Chronologers: A Discourse of Years, Months, and days of years; of Eclipses and Effects of the Crises in Diseases: With an excellent discourse of the names Genus Species, effici∣ent and final causes of all Comets; how Astrology may be re∣stored from Morinus; in 8o large, cum multis aliis.

The Practical Gauger, being a plain and easie method of Gauging all sorts of Brewing Vessels: whereunto is added a short Synopsis of the Laws of Excise: The third Edition, with Additions: By John Mayne.

A Table for purchasers of Estates, either Lands or Houses; by William Leybourne.

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Blagrave's Introduction to Astrology, in Three parts; con taining the use of an Ephemerides, and how to erect a Figure of Heaven to any time proposed; also the signification of the Houses, Planets, Signs and Aspects; the explanation of all useful terms of Art: With plain and familiar Instructions for the Resolution of all manner of Questions, and exemplifi∣ed in every particular thereof by Figures set and judged. The Second treateth of Elections, shewing their Use and Application as they are constituted on the Twelve Celestial Houses, whereby you are enabled to choose such times as are proper and conducible to the perfection of any matter or business whatsoever. The third comprehendeth an absolute remedy for rectifying and judging Nativities; the significa∣tion and portance of Directions: with new and experienced Rules touching Revolutions and Transits, by Jo. Blagrave of Reading Gent. Student in Astrology and Physick; in 8o large.

Blagrave's Astrological Practice of Physick; discovering the true way to Cure all kinds of Diseases and Infirmities which are naturally incident to the Body of Man; in 8o large.

Gadbury's Ephemerides for thirty years, twenty whereof is yet to come and unexpired; in 4o.

Philosophy delineated, consisting of divers Answers upon several Heads in Philosophy, first drawn up for the satisfacti∣on of some Friends, now exposed to publick View and Exa∣mination; by William Marshall Merch. London; in 8o large.

The Natural History of Nitre, or a Philosophical Discourse of the Nature, Generation, place and Artificial Extraction of Nitre, with its Virtues and Uses, by William Clerke M. Do∣ctorum Londinensis.

The Sea-mans Tutor, explaining Geometry, Cosmogra∣phy and Trigonometry, with requisite Tables of Longitude and Latitude of Sea-ports, Travers Tables, Tables of Easting and Westing, meridian miles, Declinations, Amplitudes, refra∣ctions, use of the Compass, Kalender, measure of the Earth Globe, use of Instruments, Charts, differences of Sailing, estimation of a Ship-way by the Log, and Log-Line Currents. Composed for the use of the Mathematical School in Christs Hospital London, his Majesties Charles II. his Royal Foun∣dation. By Peter Perkins Master of that School.

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