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English Recipe Book, later 17th - early 18th century
Date: Late 17th century - 18th centuryReference: MS.7822- Pictures
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The menhir of Saint-Uzec, in Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany. Colour lithograph after A. de Mortillet.
Mortillet, Adrien de, 1853-1931.Date: 1897Reference: 31411i- Archives and manuscripts
Secreta Secretorum, France, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7298- Books
Les sources de la démographie historique française dans les archives publiques (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) / par René Le Mée.
Le Mée, René.Date: 1967- Pictures
A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 16882iPart of: Le mariage à la ville- Books
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Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs : three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial "congress" as practised in France during the seventeenth century / by John Davenport.
Davenport, John, 1789-1877.Date: 1869- Pictures
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People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1638Reference: 26945i- Books
Il pensiero chirurgico di Pierre Dionis, maestro di chirurgia nel jardin royal di Parigi - XVII secolo / [Eugenio Filippi-Gabardi].
Filippi-Gabardi, Eugenio.Date: 1957- Pictures
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A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1772Reference: 17426i- Pictures
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A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26944i- Books
Louis Chéron (Paris, 1655 - Londres, 1725) : l'ambition du dessin parfait / François Marandet.
Marandet, FrançoisDate: [2021]- E-books
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Republic of women : rethinking the Republic of Letters in the seventeenth century / by Carol Pal.
Pal, Carol.Date: 2012- Pictures
A Dutch physician taking the pulse of a female patient, a urine flask in a wicker basket is on a table beside them. Engraving by P. Basan, 16--, after G. Ter Borch, the younger.
Ter Borch, Gerrit, the younger, 1617-1662.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21645i- Videos
Fragonard the obscure.
Date: 1997- Videos
Flesh and wax.
Date: 1997- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his jaw in the background. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1777]Reference: 16474i- Pictures
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A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26943i- Videos
The vanities of Dr. Ruysch.
Date: 1997- Books
The transvestite memoirs of the abbé de Choisy; and, The story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville / translated from the French and with an introduction by R.H.F. Scott.
Choisy, abbé de, 1644-1724.Date: 1973- Pictures
Pierre-Louis Laideguive. Etching by Ch. Waltner after M.Q. de Latour.
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.Date: [187?-?]Reference: 2136642i- Pictures
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Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
S. J.Date: 1791Reference: 15873i- Pictures
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Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
Date: 1791Reference: 15982i- Books
Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck / Johanna Luthman.
Luthman, JohannaDate: 2017- Books
La mort des rois : documents sur les derniers jours de souverains français et espagnols, de Charles Quint à Louis XV / textes réunis, traduits et presentés par Saint Perez.
Date: [2006]- Pictures
A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
Auger, Adrien Victor, 1787-1836.Date: 1817Reference: 16488i