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  • Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
  • Viceregal decree : prohibiting the extraction of papers, documents, and books from archives and libraries, and their sale to biscuit-makers, rocket-makers, apothecaries, shopkeepers, and the like, for consumption in their trades : Mexico City, December 10, 1799 / Miguel Joseph de Azanza.
  • Street vendors on the Seine in Paris: a pet-groomer, a shoe shiner, and a bookstall. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women, in the time of their conception, bearing and suckling their children; with the best means of helping them, both in natural and unnatural labours: together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children / ... made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.
  • Aristotle's compleat master-piece. In three parts : Displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man, regularly digested into chapters and sections ... To which is added A treasure of health; or, the family physician ... / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women, in the time of their conception, bearing and suckling their children; with the best means of helping them, both in natural and unnatural labours: together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children / ... made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.
  • The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • The tryal of Spencer Cowper, John Marson, Ellis Stevens, and William Rogers, Gent. : upon an indictment for the murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18. 1699. Of which they were acquitted. With the opinions of the eminent physicians and chyrurgeons on both sides concerning drowned bodies, delivered in the tryal. And the several letters produced in court.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.
  • Practical observations on the treatment of the diseases of the prostate gland. Illustrated by copper plates / by Everard Home.
  • The encouragement to works of charity and mercy, from Christ's acceptance of them as done to himself. A sermon preached in the Parish Church of All Saints in Northampton, before the President and Governors of the County Infirmary for sick and lame poor on Thursday, March 29, 1744 / by Richard Grey ... ; To which are added, the statutes of the said Infirmary.
  • An old woman sits reading at a table outside a house while three children watch the hen with her chicks. Engraving.
  • Alexandra, Princess of Wales with her baby son Albert Victor. Engraving by W. Holl the younger, 1864, after a photograph by V. Heath.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Just published, (price 2 s.) curiously engraved, and printed on a sheet and half of fine elephant paper : a new method of representing the general geography of solar eclipses, exemplified in a specimen of that which is to happen on the 18th of February next.
  • Love me tender, love me... safely... : Your pocket guide to sex / Health Education Authority.
  • Love me tender, love me... safely... : Your pocket guide to sex / Health Education Authority.
  • Lord John Russell, as an auctioneer with Sir Robert Peel as his clerk, auction a bundle of papers inscribed "law of libel", "trial by jury" and "bill of rights"; Daniel O'Connell, a prospective bidder, examines a paper marked "Magna Charta". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1840.
  • Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desparate diseases / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... after Englished by James Cook, author of the Marrow of chirurgery. To which is now added ... Counsels and advices ... By the same author. In the close ... Directions for drinking of the Bath-water, and Ars cosmetica ... by H. Stubbs.
  • Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desparate diseases / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... after Englished by James Cook, author of the Marrow of chirurgery. To which is now added ... Counsels and advices ... By the same author. In the close ... Directions for drinking of the Bath-water, and Ars cosmetica ... by H. Stubbs.
  • The surprizing life and death of Doctor John