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• Le moine marchand : ou, Traité contre le commerce des religieux (Chez Pierre Brunel, 1761), by Théophile Raynaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant's magazine, or, Trades-man's treasury containing vulgar arithmetick in whole numbers, with the reason and demonstration of each rule, adorn'd with curious copper cutts of the chief tables and titles : also vulgar and decimal fractions, after a new, easie and practical method : merchants accompts, or rules of practice : shewing how to cast up the value of merchandize, and to make allowance for tare and trett, ,,, with tables of foreign coin in sterling, and a large table for reducing the one to the other : also foreign weight and measure compar'd with the English, and the weight and value of the current gold of this kingdom : likewise, rules of barter, loss and gain, rules of fellowship, and equating time of payment : also how to find the simple or compound intrest of any summ for any time ... book-keeping, after a plain, easie and natural method : skewing how to enter, post, close, and ballance any accompt, &c. : and lastly, maxims to be abserved in drawing, and accepting bills of exchange, ... / by Edw. Hatton. (London : Printed for, and sold by Chr. Coningsby ..., 1695), by Edward Hatton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The marchants avizo Very necessarie for their sonnes and seruants, when they first send them beyond the seas, as to Spaine and Portingale or other countreyes. Made by their hartie wellwiller in Christ. I.B. marchant. (Imprinted at London : by Richard Field for William Norton, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Queenes armes, 1589), by J. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
• La banque rendue facile aux principales nations de l'Europe; suivie d'un nouveau traité de l'achat et de la vente des matieres d'or et d'argent; avec l'art de tenir les livres en parties doubles. (Impr. de Leroy, 1799), by Pierre Giraudeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• El contador moderno, ò sea practica moderna de contadores, en el modo de conocer los generos, diferiencias, y extracciones de la cantidad de la cantidad redituable, segun el sentido de sus contratos ... (por Antonio Sanz, 1734), by Valero Verbedel and Antonio Sanz (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the reader ([London : s.n., 1675]), by John Collins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Analysis or resolution of merchants accompts, by Ralph Handson. (London : Printed by W.G. for Robert Horne, 1669), by Raph Handson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sharḥ masʼalat al-ʻitq al-manhajīyah al-mukhrajah bi-al-ṭarīqah al-jabrīyah : manuscript, [1710]. (1710), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Mullawī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)

• The tradesmans kalendar of accounts, of excellent use for all sorts of people as well the buyers as sellers of any commodity. The use of the booke in briefe is this, it containes 24 columnes, over each columne a title from the first to the last, ... Take especiall notice that the first downright row of figures in each columne, is the number of ells, yards, or pounds, &c. to be bought: the second, third, fourth, and fifth, stand for pounds, shillings, pence, halfepence: as I.S.D. &c. at the heads of each columns signifies. Vale. (Oxford : [by H. Hall for I[ames] B[rowne], Printed in the yeare, 1647. for I.B) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The tradesman's directory; or, a short and easy method of keeping his books of accompts so as readily to know at any time the state of his affairs, upon any particular accompt, whether of men, money, or goods. Also how to bring his books to a ballance, and to know his profits or losses in the whole course of his trade. By Charles Snell, master of the free-writing-school, in Foster-Lane, near Cheap-side, London. (London : printed: and sold by Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick-Lane, MDCXCVII. [1697]), by Charles Snell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• La science des négocians et teneurs de livres, ou Instruction générale pour tout ce qui se pratique dans les comptoirs des négocians, tant pour les affaires de banque, que pour les marchandises, & chez les financiers pour les comptes ... (Chez les libraires associés, 1770), by de La Porte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laws, etc. (London : printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Parliament of England, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the sign of the Golden-Dragon, near the Inner-Temple, 1649), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Newes from Guild-Hall. Or, A premonition to the citizens of London.: ([London : s.n., 1650]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A briefe: cleere, and methodicall view of the severall particulars contained in the late instructions which passed both Houses, the 28th day of May, 1647. for determining the accompts of the souldiery. Wherein every person that claimes arreares, is directed what course to take, to make good the same, according to the said instructions. Ordered to be printed and published. Will: Freman, Will: Potter. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Laws, etc. (London : printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Parliament of England, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the sign of the Golden-Dragon, near the Inner-Temple, 1649), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• In Black-fryers, at the end of the paved alley, near Bridewel-Bridge, at the Green Ball and Half Moon, liveth R.C. enquire at the red lion, next the bottom of the steps. Who will give to all people a secret how they may utterly destroy buggs, without damage to their goods at reasonable rates, do as you are taught, and if any be doubtful of the truth of it, they may have full satisfaction of them that have experienced it ... ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by R. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• John Evans, his hummums is in Brownlow-Street in Drury-Lane, where persons may sweat to what degree they please, there being degrees of heat, and several appartments, fit and commodious for private sweating, bathing, and fine cupping ... ([London : s.n., after 1679]), by John Evans (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Any gentlemen or others, may be furuished [sic] with all sorts of cloaths made after the best manner yet notwithstanding the goodness of the work, the prices will be less than has been yet proposed, therefore if any one have occasion let them come to me, and make choise [sic] of a pattern, and I doubt not but to please the most nicest fancy: ... ([London,: s.n., 1700?]), by William Payne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pecunes cosmeticks for the face. ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Princesses Powder. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand. Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testify: its virtue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes: ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The universal scorbutick pills, and radical purifier of nature. Operating by purgation and urine, with the greatest ease and success in various diseases and infirmities ... (London, : Printed for the undertakers, 1675), by E. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• England's solar pill agains the scurvey. This noble solar pill, cures that inveterate disease the scurvey, with all its symptoms, which are pains in the head, inflamations of the brain, frensies, madness, megrim, convulsions, falling sickness, tremblings and weakness of the limbs, rheumatick and gouty swellings in the joynts, ... (London, : Printed for the author at the sun in Gutter-lane near Cheapside, by Tho. James., [1680?]), by R. Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A most safe and effectual cure for the rickets, and means to preserve children from the same. ([London : s.n., 1676?]), by Henry Care (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• They that have any friends distracted or melancholy are desired to accept this: and, they that have none, not to reject it but rather to lay it by them, that they may, when they hear of any that are so, inform their friends; who also may be desirous to hear of one that is faithful and expert in these distempers;... ([London : s.n., 1675?]), by James Newton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The antivenereal apozem. A pleasant liquor, which in thirty days (without any other assistance) perfectly cures the most inveterate pox in any age, sex or constitution, by an easie familiar operation that puts the patient to no manner of trouble or inconveniency, but an exact regulation of diet. ([London : s.n., 1675?]), by Arthur Noy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Panchimagogum Febrifugum. Quae ducere oportet quo maxim`e natura. Vergit. eo ducere. Hip. Lib. I. Aphor. 21. Inprimis, you must take all at once, that is one sealed paper, in the pap of a rosted [sic] apple, as big as an hasel [sic] nut, ... ([London : s.n., 1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the angel and crown in Basing-lane, being the second turning in Bread-street from Cheapside. Dwells a physician, a graduate in one of our own Universities, and a member of the Colledge of Physicians in London, who has a pill prepared with wholsom ingredients, ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]), by John Pechey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the angel and crown in Basing-lane, being the second turning in Bread-street from Cheapside, dwells a physician a graduate in the University of Oxford, and a member of the Colledge of Physicians in London, who has safe and sure medicines for curing the French Disease, and all the degrees of it, as heat in the Urine, ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]), by John Pechey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the angel and crown in Basing-lane, being the second turning in Bread-street from Cheapside, dwells J. Pechey, a member of the College of Physicians in London, who has a pill that he has found by many years experience ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]), by John Pechey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the angel and crown in Bazing-lane, being the second turning in Bread-street from Cheapside, on the left hand, lives J. Pechey, of the Colledge of Physicians in London. ([London : s.n., 1685]), by John Pechey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A perfect, safe and private cure for a clap, pain, heat, scalding in making water, running, &c. in a few days; and in 4 or 5 weeks time for the French disease ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Charles Peter his famous head-pill. Which certainly cureth the scurvie, and dropsie, taketh away all pains of the head, cleanseth the stomach ... ([London : s.n., between 1670 and 1680]), by Charles Peter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An advertisement of concern to the city and nati[on]. These are to signifie, that the famous and most approved lozenges, made by John Piercy, Gent. whose ability and skill is so well known, for these 27. years and upwards ... ([London : s.n., 1665?]), by John Piercy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pilulae Antiscorbuticae. Pills against that epidemic disease the scurvy, with all its symptoms ... ([London : s.n., 1680]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pilulae Londinenses. or, the London pills, directed and prepared by a physician of many years standing in the College of Physicians in London, according to true rules of art, good for prevention, as well as the cure of all diseases, wherein purging is proper. ([London : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true symptoms of a clap or pox with its cure, by Dr. Rivers; at the Golden-Ball in Three-Kings-Court on Ludgate-Hill, entring between the Three Golden-Lions a [sic] Mercers, and Ludgate. ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Dr Rivers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the blew Ball in Heydon yard in the Little Minories, London, near the Tower, liveth one Mr. Elmy, operator, who prepareth that most excellent and successful arcana, Pilula Homogenea. ([London : s.n., between 1673 and 1680]), by Mr Elmy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The excellency and nature of the true spirit of wormwood: with its virtues and directions. ([London : s.n., 1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisements to avoid being deceived. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Richard Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An advertisement at the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by Doctors Commons Back-gate liveth a physician which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called, the French Pox and gonorrhea ... ([London? : s.n., 1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement of a powder which is a most safe and speedy help for the stone and gravel, and those miseries which attend them, as pain in the back, stoppage of urine, cholick, &c. of which, in short, take this impartial account. ([London : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gemelli Pulmonales. The two greatest remedies extant, for the restauration and preservation of the lungs, breast and organs of respiration, (viz.) ... ([London : s.n., 1690?]), by Edward Andrews (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Panoplia Medica, or A medicinal armour for the whole body. Proof against the invasion of sickness, and assault of destroying disease: being composed of the greatest arcana, and select medicines in the whole practical part of physick, whose vertues are not to be exceeded by any, of safe use, and easy purchase: always ready to give relief to persons of all conditions, in the greatest emergencies, and even extreams of sickness. Carefully and faithfully prepared, by Ed. Andrews, M.D. ([London : s.n., 1690]), by Edward Andrews (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the Blue-Ball, the upper-end of Cow-Lane, near the sheep-pens in west-Smithfield, are to be sold the following medicaments, viz. ([London : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the Golden-Ball in Princes-Street, near Stocks-Market, you may have a certain, safe and private cure for any venereal pox or clap, by a physician that design'd not to make this further publication after fifteen years successful practice. ... ([London : s.n., 1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the Crown in Ivey-Lane, going into Newgate Market, you may have these following medicines delivered to you by Mr. Peck or his wife in my absence. ([London : s.n., 1675]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the Pestle and Mortar, in Abchurch-Lane in Lombard-street, you may have these following medicines. ([London : s.n., 1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Olbion; or, the cordial antidote, ([London : s.n., between 1693 and 1696]), by John Badger (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true spirit of scurvey-grass with its vertues. Having taken notice of several distempers which have of late years been very epidemical as griping in the guts, consumptions, and aguish feavers, which may much be imputed to the unadvised drinking of scurvey-grass ale, beer, or juice,... ([London : s.n., 1680?]), by Robert Bateman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true spirits of scurvey-grass both plain and golden, with their respective vertues. Faithfully prepared only by the first author Rob. Bateman. ([London : s.n., 1680?]), by Robert Bateman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Blagrave's advertisement for his spirits of scurvey-grass. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Charles Blagrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief account, of the nature, vertues, use, and excellency of Indian cattee. ([London : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement. As there is hardly any thing of this world more deservingly welcome to mankinde, than health and long life ... ([London : s.n., 1680]), by M. Bromfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief account of some wonderful cures, lately performed by that well known and most highly approved medicine, called pilulæ in omnes morbos, or pills against all diseases. Together with a most useful discovery of the chief signs of the scurvey. ([London : s.n., 1680?]), by M. Bromfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Directions for taking the so much approved lozanges. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Edmund Buckworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A catalogue of medicines for several diseases, communicated for the good of the nation, to prevent people from hazarding their lives, and throwing away their money on those many ignorant pretenders to physic, by a very famous doctor and physician, who by his long study and constant practice, ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The famous and virtuous necklaces; one of them being of no greater weight than a small nutmeg, absolutely easing children in breeding teeth without pain; thereby preventing feavers, ruptures, convulsions, rickets, and such attendant distempers ... ([London : s.n., 1680?]), by John Choke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Those incomparable neck-laces, which were prepared by that great traveller, Major John Choke, one of his Majesties chymists, are most famous, and in a manner miraculous; one of them being of no greater weight then a small nutmeg; absolutely easing children in breeding teeth, and cutting, without pain ... ([London : s.n., between 1680 and 1690]), by John Choke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The great and wonderful success and vertues of Clark's compound spirits of scurvey-grass (both golden and plain) in curing many languishing and grievous distempers. Faithfully prepared (by his widow) according to his own directions. ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Mary Clark (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true friend to the publick. A pleasant cordial-drink at two shillings six pence the bottle, with my experienced and highly approved extract made up into pills, at three shillings the box. They will be delivered to any messenger with directions sealed up, how to use them, which cures perfectly and speedily the venereal pox. ([London : s.n., 1680?]), by T. Crane (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The great restorer of decay'd nature. Being an advertisment to all those who desire to make their lives happy and long. Of which a fuller account is given in a large sheet of paper printed, and done upon pastboard, in most of the eminent coffee-houses about the town. ([London : s.n., 1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Epilepsys, or convulsion-fits in children effectually cured; by an approved specifick powder, and balsamick spirit: as has been sundry years experienced with good success, before this publication. ([London : s.n., 1685]), by Thomas Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The catholick or universal pill. For the cure of the scurvy, dropsy, jaundice, leprosy, Kings-evil, green sickness, or any other chronick distemper whatsover ... ([London : s.n., 1678?]), by John Holney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The virtues and happy effects of Bateman's famous spirits of scurvy-grass, both plain and golden, and particular cures thereby performed. ([London : s.n., 1695?]), by John Hooker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• In Exeter-street, near Exeter-change in the Strand, next door to the Black-Moors-Head, liveth a gentlewoman. ([London : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement. At the Hand and Pen near the King's Bagnio in Long-Acre, liveth Mrs. Isabella Inglish, who alone is authorised by their Majesties to make and publish Dr. Anderson's Grana Angelica, or the famous true Scots Pills ... ([London : s.n., 1690]), by Isabella Inglish (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief account of the qualifications, vertues, and use of that incomparable extractum humorale, called also Panareton, from that universal operation it hath upon all humoral diseases, that is, proceeding from evil or corrupt humours. / Prepared by Edward [J]ewel Dr. of Physick, and known by the name of his pills. ([London : s.n., 1690?]), by Edward Jewel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Just at St. Andrews Wardrobe Church, between Doctors Commons and Puddle-dock at the Hat and Feathers at Mr. Mayhew. Liveth a physician which hath a pill far beyond any medicament ever yet known, or at least published, which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called, the French Pox, and Gonorrhoea ... ([London? : s.n., 1675?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Admirable snuff, of great use in most distempers of the head; and cure for the French disease, or any of its various symptoms, as running of the reins, or matter issuing from the privy parts, heat or scalding of urine, pricking pains in making water, &c. which if neglected, ... ([London : s.n., 1675?]), by William Langham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Male spiranti spes: or, Hope and help for the short-breath'd, consumptive, &c. By a precious lung balm, or balsamick syrup for the breast and lungs, and pectoral lozenges for the same, ... ([London : s.n., 1685?]), by Edwin Salter (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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