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  • Booksellers' Provident Retreat, Abbots Langley: perspective view. Coloured lithograph.
  • Booksellers' Provident Retreat rest home, Abbots Langley: the facade. Lithograph after W.H. Cooper.
  • A Chinese bookseller seated on a box in the street, reading in front of his books. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Dadley after Pu-Qua.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Catalogue of a bookseller's retail stock : comprising a variety of standard, miscellaneous works, juveniles, etc. : to be sold at auction / by Joseph Leonard, no.37 Tremont Row, on Tuesday, October 19, 1847.
  • 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.
  • Wolfgang Moritz Endter (1653-1728)
  • Street vendors on the Seine in Paris: a pet-groomer, a shoe shiner, and a bookstall. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • 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.
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Aristotle's works compleated ... Containing I. The compleat master-piece ... II. His compleat and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. His last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity : To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair.
  • Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire: east front. Etching by R.W. Smart after R.B. Harraden.
  • Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire: west front. Etching by R.W. Smart after R.B. Harraden.
  • 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.
  • New experiments and observations touching cold or, An experimental history of cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold ... Whereunto is annexed an account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society / by ... Dr. C. Merret. Together with an appendix containing some promiscuous experiments and observations relating to the precedent history of cold. By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
  • New experiments and observations touching cold or, An experimental history of cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs's doctrine about cold ... Whereunto is annexed an account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society / by ... Dr. C. Merret. Together with an appendix containing some promiscuous experiments and observations relating to the precedent history of cold. By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
  • [Leaflet advertising Höfels Pure Foods Ltd.'s Garlic Pearles (Pure plant supplements) and some of their books].
  • Ferrites / Philips Technical Library.
  • For more information / The FRESH Network.
  • For more information / The FRESH Network.
  • Ferrites / Philips Technical Library.