With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.

Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

The road entering Bath from the south side of the bridge. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829, after T. H. Shepherd.

Directions : when giving a ball hold in hand before fire until soft ... / Francis Cupiss Limited.

A doctor out hunting: attacked by the hounds, having fallen from his horse. Coloured etching by J.H., 1842.

Rama fighting with his sons with the help of Hanuman over a horse sacrifice. Watercolour drawing.

A Jain horsegroom with his wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.

Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.

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Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Advertising leaflet printed in black type on white paper. Page 3 has "Remarks on Major's restorative drinks".

Veterinary medical ephemera. Horses. Box 1

Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].

A treatise on horses and horsemanship by Alfonso di Rogiero. f. 4r. 'Ordine di cavaliere. et ammaestrare cavalli, dare lettione secondo la qualita, et dispositione di ciascuno, cominciando da che sono polledri: composto dal Sign. Alfonso di Rogiero, San Severini, cavalliero, et cavallarillo Napolitano. f. 71v. [in a different hand] Seguono le qualità di cavalli Item le Segnature Item gl[sic] Mantelli, et Peli. Con alcune attioni, quali mostrano di Natura, et giudicii se possi fare sopra quelle. ff. 85r.-110. blank.

110 ff. (original foliation 1-100) 1 vol., 205 × 160 mm. (?)18th cent. vellum binding, with 'n.4.' in large letters on front cover, and some indecipherable lettering on spine in what appears to be the same hand as that on f. 71v. Library shelf marks: vii h-ii (f. 1v.); H108 in pencil on inside cover.

Equitation, Italy, 16th century

Address label printed in black ink on white paper with two single line rules above the addressee containing the text 'carriage paid through'and to either side where there is the text: 'Cupiss' Constitution Balls, Cough Balls, etc., for horses, cattle & sheep' to the left and 'From Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss' to the right.

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Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].

Equitation, Italy, 16th century

Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

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Horses

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Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Remarks on Major's influenza drinks / [J. Major].

Equitation, Italy, 16th century

Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

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