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A half naked woman held by two men, one of whom is peering up her skirt, while another forcibly pours the contents of a teapot down her throat which she spits back into his face: representing America being punished by British politicians with the Boston Port Bill. Engraving, 1774.

A sentimental murder : love and madness in the eighteenth century / John Brewer.

Omai, a man from the island of Raiatea, Polynesia. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after N. Dance, 1774.

A voyage performed by the late Earl of Sandwich round the Mediterranean in the years 1738 and 1739. Written by himself ... To which are prefixed, memoirs of the noble author's life / by John Cooke [the editor].

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Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792

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Omai, a man from the island of Raiatea, Polynesia. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after N. Dance, 1774.

A voyage performed by the late Earl of Sandwich round the Mediterranean in the years 1738 and 1739. Written by himself ... To which are prefixed, memoirs of the noble author's life / by John Cooke [the editor].