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Images

  • Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.
  • Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
  • When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.
  • The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.
  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
  • Events around and about !! : February - March 1993 / London Lighthouse.
  • When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.
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Catalogue

    • Journals

    Bellevue literary review.

    | Date: 2001-
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum

    | Date: c. 1775 | Reference: MS.4179
    • Books
    • Online

    The advancement and reformation of modern poetry. A critical discourse. In two parts. The First, Shewing that the Principal Reason why the Ancients excel'd the Moderns in the greater Poetry, was because they mix'd Religion with Poetry. The Second, Proving that by joyning Poetry with the Religion reveal'd to us in Sacred Writ, the Modern Poets might come to equal the Ancient. By Mr Dennis.

    Dennis, John, 1657-1734. | Date: MDCCI. [1701]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    English Medical Compendium, 16th century

    | Date: c.1575 | Reference: MS.7117
  • view The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
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    The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690 | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 24726i
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