Martin Folkes

Born 1690-01-01

Died 1754-01-01

Identifiers

VIAF25477557
WikidataQ325849
ISNI000000008207074X
Open LibraryOL1817940A

Top Subjects

Early works to 1800 (2)
Numismatics (2)
English Coins (2)
Gold coins (2)
England (2)
Coins, English (2)
Numismatics -- Great Britain (2)

Books by Martin Folkes

Total count: 14

A table of English gold coins from the eighteenth year of King Edward III, when gold was first coined in Englandwith their several weights and present intrinsic values

Printed for the Society of Antiquaries1736-01-01
A table of English gold coins from the eighteenth year of King Edward the Thirdwhen gold was first coined in England to the present time. With their weights and intrinsic values.

Reprinted1745-01-01
A table of English silver coins from the Norman conquest to the present timewith their weights, intrinsic values, and some remarks upon the several pieces

1745-01-01
Letters relating to the plague, and other contagious distempersPart I. Letters to Martin Folkes. Part II. Letters to *****. Also letters containing an account of the murrain, or plague, among cattle

Printed for J. Buckland1745-01-01
Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epactand a method of finding the time of Easter ... being part of a letter from the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes, Esq., president of the Royal Society, and by him communicated to the same, May 10. 1750

Printed for C. Davis1751-01-01
Employment for the microscopein two parts. I. An examination of salts and saline substances, their amazing configurations and crystals, as formed under the eye of the observer, with plain directions how to prepare such substances, and preserve them in constant readiness for inspection; whereby the curious may always be furnished with numberless objects hitherto little known, also occasional considerations on gems, poisons, the vegetation of metals, the resuscitation of plants, the formation of amber, corals, and many other subjects. II. An account of various animalcules never before described, and of many other microscopical discoveries, with observations and remarks, likewise a description of the microscope used in these experiments, and of a new micrometer serving to shew the size of magnified objects, together with instructions for printing off any medal or coin

Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater noster-Row, and J. Cuff, Optician in Fleet-Street1753-01-01
A catalogue of the... collection of mathematical instruments, gems, pictures ... etc. of M. Folkes ... which ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford ... the 7th, and ... 8th, of May ... 1755

[s.n.]1755-01-01
A catalogue of the ... collection of mathematical instruments, gems, pictures ... etc. of M. Folkes ... which ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford ... the 7th, and ... 8th, of May ... 1755

publisher not identified1755-01-01
A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal society ... lately deceased; which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker ... To begin ... February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted)

1756-01-01
A catalogue of the ... collection of coins, medals, and medallions ... of M. Folkes ... which ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford ... the 27th of Jan. 1756, etc

publisher not identified1756-01-01
A catalogue of the ... library of Martin Folkes, esq., president of the Royal society ... lately deceased; which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker ... To begin ... February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted)

1756-01-01
A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, bound and unbound, of the learned and ingenious Martin Folkes, Esq. late president of the Royal Society, deceas'd; which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 15th of this instant January 1756, and the seven following evenings ...

publisher not identified1756-01-01
Tables of English silver and gold coins

By the Society of Antiquaries1763-01-01
Correspondence and papers of Edmond Halleypreceded by an unpublished memoir of his life

Taylor & Francis1937-01-01