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  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.
  • Fasciculo di medecina vulgare. Queste sono le cose contenute in questo dignissimo Fasciculo di medicina vulgare ... el modo di judicar la urina ... El modo di trazer el sangue ... La figura de lhuomo come le sotto posto ali pianeti. La figura della matrice ... El consiglio / per la peste de Maestro Piero da Tusignano. La anathomia de Maestro Mondino ... Virtu dalcune herbe secondo Plinio et Alberto Magno ... [Vulgarizato per Sebastiano Manilio Romano. Con alchune recette dignissime novamente azonte et non mai piu stampate].
  • We, the court of examiners, chosen and appointed by the master, wardens and assistants of the Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in pursuance of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 55th year of the reign of his majesty King George the third entitled an Act for the better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales, do hereby by virtue of the power & authority invested by the said Act certify that ... has been by us carefully and deliberately examined as to his skills & abilities in the science & practice of medicine ... duly qualified as an apothecary.
  • A uniformed British military doctor in front of a Red Cross horse-drawn cart. Chromolithograph, c. 1870.
  • A woman personifying faith, by the sea, holding a cross and a chalice. Coloured mezzotint, 17--.
  • A woman personifying faith, by the sea, holding a cross and a chalice. Coloured mezzotint, 17--.
  • A woman personifying faith, by the sea, holding a cross and a chalice. Coloured mezzotint, 17--.
  • A child wearing Scottish dress and a feathered hat is mounted on a Shetland pony. Steel engraving by J. Cochrane after W. Salter, 1845.
  • Two young women gathering reeds by the edge of some water, watching, and being watched by, two deer. Engraving by F. Bracquemond after Gustave Jundt.
  • A boy is accused of breaking a shop window while the real culprits hide behind a water pump. Engraving by H. Lemon after W.H.Knight.
  • A baby sits in a chair chewing a rattle. Engraving by A & E. Varin after A. Anker.
  • The good Samaritan helping a stranger who has been ignored by a priest and Levite. Line engraving by S. Smith after C.L. Eastlake.
  • A maidservant washing a woman's feet. Engraving by P. Pelée after A.E. Plassan.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, side elevation. Engraving.
  • Three women are picking up the small pieces of corn left in the fields after harvesting. Etching by A. Masson after J.F. Millet.
  • A baby is sitting on a table having new shoes put on her feet. Engraving by H. Bourne after W.P. Frith.
  • A choir of men and boys singing and playing musical instruments. Engraving by H. Bourne after T. Webster.
  • A village ale-house, in which the landlord is offering a watch as the prize in a raffle. Engraving by G. Greatbach after E. Bird.
  • A young woman convalescing in a country garden watches a bird feed on bread. Coloured line engraving by C. Cousen after M.B. Foster.
  • A noblewoman and two noblemen examining some gold produced by an alchemist. Engraving by G. Greatbach after A.H. Tourrier.
  • The blind school, Southwark. Engraving by T. A. Prior, [c.1835], after D. McKewan.
  • Amoret and Aemylia, with Prince Arthur (right), in the cottage of Sclaunder (Slander). Engraving by G.A. Periam after F.R. Pickersgill.
  • Textiles: an automatic "mule" cotton spinning machine, plan. Engraving.
  • Two young children in ragged clothing learning to beg for money. Engraving by H. Bourne after R. Rothwell.
  • A man holding a set of bagpipes. Engraving by R.C. Bell after Sir D. Wilkie.
  • The murder of Archbishop Sharp: he is lying on the ground before his coach, his daughter is restrained from attending him as one of the surrounding men draws his sword. Line engraving by H. Bourne after W. Allan.
  • Two children examining a hare and a fowl hung up after a hunt while a younger child sits on the ground eating bread. Engraving by C. W. Sharpe after H. Browne.