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  A brief of proceedings between Sr. Hierom Sankey and Dr. VVilliam Petty with the state of the controversy between them tendered to all indifferent persons.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. ; Sankey, Hierome, Sir.
  Description:
  Petty was employed to survey the forfeited estates in Ireland with a view to their distribution among the army. The work provoked animosities and jealousies, and the mouthpiece of the opposition to Petty was Sir Hierome ...
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  A declaration concerning the newly invented art of double writing. Wherein are expressed the reasons of the authors proceedings in procuring a priviledge for the same : as also of the time, manner, and price, of the discovery of the said art, and of the instruments belonging thereunto. For the satisfaction of all that desire to be partakers of the great benefit of the same, before they adventure anything towards the reward thereof. Whereunto is annexed a copie of an ordinance of both houses of Parliament, approving the feasibility and great use of the said invention, and allowing a priviledge to the inventor, for the sole benefit thereof for 14 years, upon the penalty of one hundred pounds.
  Date of publication:
  1648
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Anonymous. Attributed to Sir William Petty. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 29." Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  A discourse of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, hearth, excise, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning wars, the church, universities, rents and purchases ... : the same being frequently applied to the state and affairs of Ireland, and is now thought seasonable for the present affairs of England : humbly recommended to the present Parliament.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Attributed to Sir William Petty. Cf. NUC pre-1956. First published in 1662. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Reproduction of original in University of Chicago Library.
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  A further assertion of the propositions concerning the magnitude, &c. of London contained in two essays in political arithmetick mentioned in Philos. transact. numb. 183 : together with a vindication of the said essays from the objections of some learned persons of the French nation / by Sr. W. Petty, Knt. ...
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Caption title. Date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
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  A political essay, or, Summary review of the kings and government of England since the Norman Conquest by W. P---y, Esq.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Pudsey, William. ; Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Written by W. Pudsey. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Wrongly attributed to Sir William Petty. Cf. Watt's Bibl. Brit., vol. II, 75li. Errata: p. 195. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of [brace] crown-lands, assessments, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c. : with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning [brace] warres, the church, universities, rents and purchases, usury and exchange, banks and lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money/wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c. : the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Attributed to William Petty by Wing. Includes index. Errata: p. [2]-[3] (at end) Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  An essay concerning the multiplication of mankind: together with another essay in political arithmetick, concerning the growth of the city of London: with the measures, periods, causes, and consequences thereof. 1682. / By Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the Boston Public Library.
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  Another essay in political arithmetick, concerning the growth of the city of London with the measures, periods, causes, and consequences thereof, 1682 / by Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  Deux essays d'arithmetique politique, touchant les villes et hospitaux de Londres et Paris. Dedie's au Roy, par le chevalier Petty, de la Société Royale
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  "The Deux essays, .. were written in English, but Hull brings forward evidence shewing that they were first published in French" - Cf. Keynes. Copy cropped at foot, affecting text. Reproduction of the original in the British ...
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  Double writing.
  Date of publication:
  1648
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Imprint from Wing. From the text: The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament having by several Certificats from divers credible men received satisfaction, not only of the feasibility, but also of the great use of the ...
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  Further observations upon the Dublin-bills, or, Accompts of the houses, hearths, baptisms and burials in that city by Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  "In 1686 the Further observations were prefixed to the Observations upon the Dublin bills as issued in 1683, and the whole was put forward as a 'second edition, corrected and enlarg'd'. In fact, however, the original ...
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  Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city.
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Graunt, John, 1620-1674. ; Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Errata: p. [1] at end. Attributed also to Sir William Petty. Cf. C.H. Hull, The economic writings of Sir William Petty. Cambridge, 1899. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  Observations upon the cities of London and Rome Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
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  Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality, MDCLXXXI, and the state of that city by the observator on the London bills of mortality.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Written by Sir William Petty. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Four folded tables at beginning. Reproduction of original in Columbia University Library. "A postscript to the stationer": p. [1]-[4].
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  Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings ... as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Errata: p. [22]. Advertisements on p. [1-3] at end. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  Sir William Petty his Quantulumcunque concerning money to the Lord Marquess of Halyfax, anno 1682.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in University of Chicago Library.
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  The advice of W.P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of learning
  Date of publication:
  1647
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. ; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
  Description:
  Written by W. Petty. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
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  The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26. of November, 1674, concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / by Sir William Petty, Kt. ...
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  "An appendix of elasticity" (p. 121-135) deals with theory of atomic structure. Errata: p. [30]. Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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  The political anatomy of Ireland with the establishment for that kingdom when the late Duke of Ormond was Lord Lieutenant ... : to which is added Verbum sapienti, or, An account of the wealth and expences of England, and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner ... / by Sir William Petty ...
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. ; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
  Description:
  Dedication signed: N. Tate. Reproduction of original in Columbia University Library.
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  The politician discovered, or, Considerations of the late pretensions that France claims to England and Ireland, and her designs and plots in order thereunto in two serious discourses / by a true Protestant and well-wisher of his countrey.
  Date of publication:
  1681
  

  Author(s):

  Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Attributed to William Petty. cf. NUC. Advertisement at end.
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