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  • Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: comets in a night sky. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: diagram of the path of comets. Engraving.
  • Observations on the comet.
  • Ephemera Collection, Comet Whiskey label
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
  • Astronomy: a comet seen over London. Wood engraving.
  • An account of the comet of the year 1811.
  • The new comet : drawn at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
  • Astronomy: a comet in the night sky. Wood engraving, ca. 1860.
  • Astronomy: various views of Donati's comet in the night sky. Process print.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a comet, lightning, and French soldiers. Coloured lithograph, [c.1847?].
  • Astronomy: an anthropomorphic comet, with a tail composed of earth-bound objects. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of the motion of a comet. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Astronomy: a large, bright, comet in the night sky, being observed by two men. Engraving, 1811.
  • Astronomy: stars in the night sky, with Encke's comet. Coloured engraving by J. Basire, 1851 after C. Piazzi Smyth.
  • Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
  • Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.
  • The path of the great comet of 1858, will be traced in space, with explanatory remarks / Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh.
  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including Napoleon III on horseback with a smiling Queen Victoria, a flag-draped coffin, and a battle. Coloured lithograph, [c.1867?].
  • See page 880/1 : where you'll find the evidence confirmed that Zantac (ranitidine) can help you to reduce duodenal ulcer relapse rates.
  • See page 880/1 : where you'll find the evidence confirmed that Zantac (ranitidine) can help you to reduce duodenal ulcer relapse rates.
  • The largest, the most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, February 26th, 1819; and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.
  • An astronomer and astrologer in his study, plotting points on a globe with a pair of dividers. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • A young couple with an infant daughter; advertising the One-child policy in China. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Paracodol : dissolves pain.
  • Paracodol : dissolves pain.
  • Paracodol : dissolves pain.