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  • English mastiff standing in a field with a forest in the background. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.
  • Two English par-force dogs and two German hunting-hounds resting in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.
  • English hospital in Beira, Mozambique: staff, patients and the Lady Superintendent, Mrs. Goodman. Ink wash and gouache drawing by F. C. Dickinson, 1901, after E. Watts.
  • Exclusive engagement of the tallest man in the world, Albert Brough, The English Giant : eight feet in height and well proportioned ... / South London Palace, London Road, S.E.
  • An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary : With an index of English words, king list and geographical list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, Coptic and Semitic alphabets, etc / by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge.
  • Silver hearts, half-hearts and droplets interpersed with German and English sex-related words; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by John Lindell and Frank Wagner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • An episode in King Henry VI, part II: Margerie Jourdayne with others conjure up a diabolical spirit in the hope of revealing to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester the results of competing claims to the English crown. Etching by J. Goldar, 1791, after E. Dayes.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • A compleat body of chymistry: wherin is contained whatsoever is necessary for ... knowledge of this art ... and teaching the most exact preparation of animals, vegetables and minerals, so as to preserve their essential vertues / Rendered into English by P. D[e] C[ardonnel] Esq. one of the gentlemen of His Majesties Privy Chamber. Part. I.[-The second part].
  • A compleat body of chymistry: wherin is contained whatsoever is necessary for ... knowledge of this art ... and teaching the most exact preparation of animals, vegetables and minerals, so as to preserve their essential vertues / Rendered into English by P. D[e] C[ardonnel] Esq. one of the gentlemen of His Majesties Privy Chamber. Part. I.[-The second part].
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • 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.