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The best of Annals of improbable research / edited by Marc Abrahams.
Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
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The coffee-mans granado : discharged upon the Maidens complaint against coffee. In a dialogue between Mr. Black-burnt and Democritus; wherein is discovered severall strange, wonderful, and miraculous cures performed by coffee, (the like never heard of since the creation.) with the names of the persons, and places of their abode, who were cured when left off by the physitians. Also some merry passages between Peg and Cis, two merry milk-maids of Islington, touching the rare vertues of chocolate / written by Don Bollicosgo Armuthaz.
Armuthaz, BollicosgoDate: 1663- Books
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A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture.
Date: 1752- Books
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Lucina sine concubitu : a treatise humbly addressed to the Royal Society : in which is proved, by most incontestable evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed, without any commerce with man / edited by Edmund Goldsmid.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1885- Books
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Doctor merry-man: or nothing but mirth. Written by S.R.
Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?Date: 1642- Books
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A cup of coffee: or, Coffee in its colours.
Date: Printed in the year 1663- Books
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A cup of coffee: or, Coffee in its colours.
Date: Printed in the year 1663- Pictures
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A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: 1826Reference: 664596iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings- Books
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Le miroir des urines : par lesquelles on voit & connoît les différens tempéramens, les humeurs dominantes, les siéges & les causes des maladies d'un chacun / suivant les longues expériences du sieur Davach de la Riviere.
Davach de la Rivière, Jean, active 1696.Date: 1762- Books
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A prognostication for the year 1699, after a new fashion : Wherein the reader will see (if he be not blind) many things as wisely observed, as by other star-gazers. Being the third after bissextile or leap year. Calculated for the meridian of Scotland, and may serve, without sensible error, for any other country besided, where they understand the English tongue. / By Merry Andrew a well-wisher to the mathematicks.
Merry Andrew.Date: 1699- E-books
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It's all of a peace or French Leuisdors for English bricks. [a satirical print]. By Way of Allegorical Episode to the above Print is added, the kitchen in an uproar: A New Humorous, Satirical ballad, to the Tune of, The Abbot of Canterbury
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The court and city vagaries : or intrigues, of both sexes. Written by one of the fair sex.
One of the fair sex.Date: [1710?]- Books
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Humbuggiana : a poem / by M. Deavenport.
Deavenport, M.Date: 1842- Books
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Medico mastix; or, physic craft detected. A satirico didactic poem / [Anon].
Schomberg, R. (Ralph), 1714-1792.Date: 1774- Books
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings.Date: 1870-1954- Books
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The Miraculous recovery of a dumb man at Lambeth, or, A Brief and true relation of an extraordinary distemper : which at Christmas 1671 seized upon Mr. Francis Culham of South-Lambeth in the county of Surrey, chyrurgeon, and took away his understanding and speech and so continued for the space of four years and four months : with his wonderful restauration on Fryday the 12 of May, 1676, by the immediate hand of God.
Date: 1676- Books
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On the effects of evacuating the aqueous humour in inflammation of the eyes, and in some diseases of the cornea / by James Wardrop.
Wardrop, James, 1782-1869.Date: 1813- Books
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Lillies banquet : or, the star-gazers feast, with the manner and order how every dish is to be placed upon his great table at Christmas, for all sects and sorts of persons, both Presbyterian, Independants, Anabaptists, Quakers, Shakers, Seekers and Tearers.
Date: [1653]- Books
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Taylors feast : contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653Date: Anno. 1638- Pictures
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A doctor tells his patient that the patient is lazy, not ill. Process print after T. Evans, 1934.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1934Reference: 15519i- Pictures
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A precocious child telling a dentist exactly what is wrong with her teeth. Process print after L. Baumer, 1936.
Baumer, Lewis, 1870-Date: 1936Reference: 15526i- Pictures
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A man strapped into a dentist's chair with the dentist looking on. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: 1925Reference: 15446i- Books
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The natural history of the arbor vitae, or, Tree of life.
Stretzer, Thomas, -1738Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Pictures
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A dentist strapped into his own chair being terrorized by a patient holding a buzzing drill. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970.Date: 1925Reference: 15450i- E-books
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Bristol and Nottingham against London: or, the funeral of city faction; exemplified in a humorous print. To which is added, Bristol and Nottingham instructions and a proper reply to all instructors, by a noble lord