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Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A Review of the Works of the Royal Society of London: Containing Animadversions on Such of the Papers as Deserve Particular Observation (London: Printed for R. Griffiths, 1751) (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

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Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The actor : a treatise on the art of playing, interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences. (Printed for R. Griffiths, 1750) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The adventures of Mr. George Edwards, a creole. (Printed for T. Osborne, 1751) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Botanical tracts (Printed for R. Baldwin, 1762), also by Thomas Perfect and Thomas Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The British herbal : an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty (Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn; J. Hodges, near London-Bridge; J. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-yard; B. Collins; and S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, in Pater-noster-Row., 1756), also by B. Collins, John Newbery, Charles Grignion, John Smith, Adam Smith, Thomas Burgess, Samuel Boyce, R. Benning, Henry Roberts, S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm), and Darly & Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Collection of essays and letters. (Printed for W. Shropshire [etc.], 1751), also by John Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A complete history of drugs (Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, W. Parker, C. Hitch, and E. Wicksteed, 1748), also by Pierre Pomet, Edward Wicksteed, Charles Hitch, William Parker, Samuel Birt, Nicolas Lémery, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and J. and J. Bonwicke (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Construct of timber (Printed for the author; and sold by R. Baldwin, in Pater-Nother Row; J. Ridley, in St. James's-Street; J. Nourse, T. Becket, P. Elmsly, J. Campbell, in the Strand; and T. Davies, in Ruffel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1770) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds: in five books. On the parts of trees; their vessels; and their encrease by growth: and on the different disposition of those parts in various kinds; and the particularities in their vessels. With figures of their various appearances; of the instrument for cutting them; and of the microscope thro' which they were viewed. (The author, 1770) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The construction of timber, from its early growth; explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds. In five books ... (Printed for the author, 1774) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Decade di alberi curiosi ed eleganti piante delle Indie orientali e dell'America ultimamente fatte gia'note. (Rome., 1786) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A decade of curious insects: some of them not describ'd before: shewn in their natural size; and as they appear enlarg'd before the lucernal microscope; in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated. With their history, characters, manners and places of abode; on ten quarto plates, and their explanations ... (Printed for the author, 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life (Reprinted for W.A. Williamson, Brampton, 1914), also by R. Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life (Re-published by direction of the will of the late S. Hughes, 1866), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life ... (Printed and sold by R. Armstrong, 1814), also by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life, complete in two parts. (R. Scott, 1806), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript (P. Potter, 1816), also by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China to the Earl of *******. (Jacob Johnson, 1807), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Exotic botany illustrated, in thirty-five figures of elegant Chinese and American shrubs and plants, many of them new. : Explaining the sexual system; and tending to give some new lights into the vegetable philosophy. (Printed for the author, 1772) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Family herbal. (C. Brightly :, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The family herbal; or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience ... (C. Brightly and co. [etc.], 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The family herbal, or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience. (C. Brightly, and T. Kinnersley, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Fossils arranged according to their obvious characters (R. Baldwin [etc.], 1771) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Fossils arranged according to their obvious characters : with their history and description under the articles of form, hardness, weight, surface, colour, and qualities, the place of their production, their uses and distinctive English and classical Latin names (printed for R. Baldwin and P. Elmsly, 1771) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The gardener's new Kalendar, divided according to the twelve months of the year, and under each month into the separate weeks ... containing the whole practice of gardening under the four general heads, 1. The pleasure garden, 2. The kitchen ground, 3. The seminary, 4. The fruit garden and orchard ... The system of Linnæus is also explained in this work ... (Printed for T. Osborne, T. Trye and S. Crowder, 1758) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A general natural history : or, New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world; with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics...including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages... With a great number of figures, elegantly engraved (T. Osborne, 1748) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Génération solitaire (Frédéric Henry, 1865), also by Etienne Guillaume Colombe and J. Assézat (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Hortus Kewensis : Sistens herbas exoticas, indigenasque rariores, in area botanica, Hortorum Augustissimae Principissae Cambriae Dotissae, apud Kew, in comitatu Surreiano, cultas; methodo florali nova dispositas (Prostant apud Ricardum Baldwin, 1769) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By Sir John Hill: (London : printed for T. Trueman, 1775) (HTML at ECCO TCP)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: An idea of a botanical garden in England: with lectures on the science. Without expence to the public, or to the students. (Printed for R. Baldwin, 1758) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly addressed to the Royal Society, in which it is proved, by most incontestable evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed, without any commerce with man ([s.n.], 1885), also by Howard B. Adelmann and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Manuel de tous les ages, ou Economie de la vie humaine traduit d'un ancien manuscrit indien en anglois, & de l'anglois en françois, sur la dernière édition. (Imprimé par T. A. Pearson, 1799), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The œconomy of human life, (Printed for W. Gardiner ..., 1806), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The oeconomy of human life, complete, in two parts: / translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. ; To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered; in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China, to the Earl of *******. (New-York: : Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square., M,DCC,XC. [1790]), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (HTML at Evans TCP)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, An account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discover'd in a letter from an English gentleman now residing in China, to the Earl of **** (Printed for M. Cooper, 1751), also by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physic; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one. / By J. Hill, M.D. Member of the Imperial Academy. ([Philadelphia] : London, printed; Philadelphia: re-printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street., M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; ... (London : printed for M. Cooper. And J. Jolliffe, [1750?]) (HTML at ECCO TCP)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The power of water-dock against the scurvy: whether in the plain root or essence. With marks to know that disease in all its states; instances of its being mistaken for other disorders; and rules of life for those afflicted with it. By J. Hill, ... (London : printed for R. Baldwin, and J. Ridley, 1765) (HTML at ECCO TCP)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A review of the works of the Royal society of London; containing animadversions on such of the papers as deserve particular observation. (Printed for R. Griffiths, 1751) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: A review of the works of the Royal Society of London : containing animadversions on such of the papers as deserve particular observation. In eight parts : under the several heads of Arts, Antiquities, Medicine, Miracles, Zoophytes, Animals, Vegetables, Minerals (Printed for Lady Hill and sold by J Dodsley, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Theophrastus's history of stones. (Printed for the author, 1774), also by Theophrastus (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Traité des pierres (A Paris : Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, libraire, rue S. Jacques, à S. Paul & à S. Hilaire, MDCCLIV [1754], 1754), also by Theophrastus, Marie-Marguerite Lottin, and Jean-Thomas Hérissant (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Traité des pierres de Théophraste, traduit du Grec (A Paris : Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, Libraire, M.DCC.LIV [1754], 1754), also by Theophrastus, Martin Folkes, and James Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: Urania: or, a compleat view of the heavens; containing the antient and modern astronomy, in form of a dictionary: illustrated with a great number of figures ... A work intended for general use, intelligible to all capacities, and calculated for entertainment as well as instruction. (Printed for T. Gardner, 1754) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The useful family herbal; or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues: and of the drugs, which are produced by vegetables of other countries. With their descriptions, and their uses ... And an appendix, containing, a proposal for the farther seeking into the virtues of English herbs ... The whole intended for the use of families and ... those who are desirous of relieving the distressed sick. (W. Johnston [etc.], 1754) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The vegetable system; or, a series of experiments, and observations tending to explain the internal structure, and the life of plants; their growth, and propagation; the number, proportion, and desposition of their constituent parts; with the true course of their juices; the formation of the embryo, the construction of the seed, and the encrease from that state to perfection. (Printed at the expence of the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1759) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The vegetable system : or, a series of experiments, and observations tending to explain the internal structure, and the life of plants; their growth, and propagation; the number, proportion, and desposition of their constituent parts; with the true course of their juices; the formation of the embryo, the construction of the seed, and the encrease from that state to perfection (Printed at the expence of the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1759) (page images at HathiTrust)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders : and in the certain cure of several others : particularly the gravel, asthmas, coughs, hoarse-ness, and a tough morning phlegm : with a particular direction of the manner of taking it for the cure of consumptions ; to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them ; also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it : with the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated aristaean confection. (Printed for J. Davis, M. Cooper , 1760), also by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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