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  • The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England / By R[ob.] P[lot] LL.D.
  • The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England / By R[ob.] P[lot] LL.D.
  • The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England / By R[ob.] P[lot] LL.D.
  • The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England / By R[ob.] P[lot] LL.D.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • Essays on natural history / by Charles Waterton ; edited, with a life of the author, by Norman Moore.
  • Royal College of Surgeons, circa 1813. Compare with Sir Zachary Cope, the History of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London 1959, figure 58.
  • Historical portraits ... : the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... / the portraits chosen by Emery Walker ... with an introduction on the history of portraiture in England.
  • Modern cremation : its history and practice with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England / by Sir H. Thompson.
  • A history of domestic manners and sentiments in England during the middle ages / by Thomas Wright ; with illustrations from the illuminations in contemporary manuscripts and other sources, drawn & engraved by F.W. Fairholt.
  • A history of domestic manners and sentiments in England during the middle ages / by Thomas Wright ; with illustrations from the illuminations in contemporary manuscripts and other sources, drawn & engraved by F.W. Fairholt.
  • The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.
  • The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.
  • A practical treatise on variola ovina, or small-pox in sheep, containing the history of its recent introduction into England; with the progress, symptoms, and treatment of the disease; also the experiments instituted to ascertain its peculiar features, and the best means to avert its fatal consequences / [James Beart Simonds].
  • A practical treatise on variola ovina, or small-pox in sheep, containing the history of its recent introduction into England; with the progress, symptoms, and treatment of the disease; also the experiments instituted to ascertain its peculiar features, and the best means to avert its fatal consequences / [James Beart Simonds].
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.