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The Kentish Cricketers, Bath, Coffee, Longitude and Navigation etc. COLLECTION OF 14 WORKS IN ONE VOLUME: [Burnby, John.] The Kentish Cricketers: a Poem...being a reply to a late publication of a parody on the Ballad of Chevy Chace; intituled, Surry Triumphant: or, the Kentish Men's Defeat. Canterbury: T. Smith and Son, 1773, VERY RARE, ESTC RECORDING ONLY THREE COPIES, with half-title [Allen 5; Padwick 2061]--[Hippesley, R.] Bath and it’s environs, a descriptive poem, In three cantos. Wherein The Reality, Life, and great Qualities of it’s first Founder Bladud are displayed...Bath: R. Cruttwell for J. Almon, engraved frontispiece portrait by Baron after Hoare--Bishop, R. The east India navigator’s daily assistant; with the new method of computing the longitude... R. Hilton, for the author, tables, one folding engraved plate, RARE (only five copies recorded by ESTC, no recent auction records)--Ellis, John. An Historical Account of Coffee...for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774, folding engraved plate of Coffea Arabica [Kress 11132; Hunt 638; Sabin 22317]; and 5 other verse works, including satires, and other works (e.g. John Lawson's Synopsis of all the Data for the Construction of Triangles... Rochester, 1773, A Plan for Preserving the Maritime Power and Commerce of the Nation, in time of war...1773, The Question concerning Literary Property, 1773, Reflections on the Law of Arrests in Civil Actions, [1774], A Treatise upon Fines, 1773); 4to, some works with manuscript ex-libris "Bibliotheca Edinensis" on title pages, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, binding rather worn, joints partially cracked (1)