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The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.
Peedle, Thomas, active 1650.Date: [1858?]Reference: 896i- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Nicholas Munckley, Esq; of Hampstead, and several other gentlemen: Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following, Folio. Rapin and Tindal's Continuat. 5 vol. with all the cuts Sir James Ware's Works, 2 vol. Whitlock's Memorials, best edit. State Tryals, 6 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Journals H. Commons, with Indexes, 31 vol. Clarendon's Hist. and Continuat. 4 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. l. p. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. Mortan's Northamptonshire, l. pap. Thoresby's Leeds, l. pap. - small paper, in russia leather Religious Ceremonies. 6 vol. Antient and modern Hist. 23 vol. Le Brun's Voyages, 3 vol. Wheeler and Spon's Travels, Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Voyages de Norden, 2 tom. - de Thevenot, 2 tom. Locke, 3 vol. Bacon, 3 vol. Boyle, 5 vol. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts, large and sm. pap. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 vol. Bayle, 5 vol. General, 10 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Collier, 4 vol. Miller's Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Portuguese and English Dict. Bible, l pap. by Buck and Daniel - with fine cuts, in turkey leather, printed by Watson, - - Edinb. Patrick, Lowth and Whitby, 6 vol. Bp. Stillingfleet's Works, 6 vol. Dr. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Cases in the House of Lords, 18 vol. Coke's Institute, 2, 3, 4, last edit. Reports, by Croke, 3 vol. Raymond, 2 vol. Leonard, Bulstdoe, Shower, 2 vol. Siderfin, Hardress, Ventris, Vernon, &c. Bracton de Legibus Selden's Works, 6 vol. Le Grand Coustumier de Normandie Plinius Harduini, 3 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Herodotus Wesselingius Thucidides Duckeri Strabo, 2 tom. Thuanus, 7 tom. Gale Scriptores Ang. 3 tom. Twysden, Script. Ang. Anderson Diplomat. Scotiae Kircheri Oedip-Aegypt. 4 tom. Hill's Nat. Hist. 3 vol. coloured - Fossils, l. p. coloured Hortus Elthamens, 2 tom. Gualtieri Index Testac. Hippocrates & Galeni Opera a Chartatis, 9 tom. cum fig. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec Stuart's Athens Rossi's Statues Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 tom. l. pap. Vitruve, par Perrault L'ediffices de Rome, par Desgodeta With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on August 5th, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mr. Merrie, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1765]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, in all branches of learning: Containing several libraries lately purchased, In which are included those of Monsieur Sanson, and The Rev. Mr. Francis Peck, lately deceased. The books are in fine Condition, and great Numbers of them elegantly Bound. Amongst many more valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio. Winstanley's Views of Audly End Atkyns's Gloucestershire Carte's Hist. England, 4 v. in Russia leather Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Prints of the Antiquarian Society, 2 vol. in Russia leather Wood's Palmyra Universal History, 10 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquitics and Suppl. in 8 v. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all Nations, with Picart's cuts, 6 vol. Thurloe's State Papers, large and sm. pap. Bacon's Works, large and small paper Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. large paper Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 2 vol. Peere William's Reports, 3 vol. Ventris's Reports, best edit. Ld. Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Lilly's Conveyancer, 2 vol. best edit. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwayte's Dictionary, 2 v. Bayle's Dictionary, l. pap. in Turkey, 5 vol. - Dict. sm. pap. 5 vol. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. James's Med. Dict. 3 vol. Folio. Platonis Opera Serrani, 3 tom. -- Ficini, edit. opt. -- Gr. ap Aldum Aristophanes Kusteri Xenophon Leunclavii Euripides Barnesii Thucydides Dukeri Plutarchi Opera, a Zylandri, 2 tom. Idem, compact. in 4 tom. Lucian Bourdelotio Demostthenes Wolfii Aeschylus Stanleii Polybius Casauboni The King of Poland's Gallery, bound in Russia leather Count Bruhl's Gallery, in Russia leather Columna Trajana & Antonina Ectypa Varia ad Hist. Illust. a T. Hearne Musaeum Veronens. Cortonense, Odescaleum, Romanum, &c. Corps Diplomatique, 23 vol. complet. Ocuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. grande pap. Etat de la France, par Boullanvilliers, 3 t. Guiccuardin Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Ven. Davlla, 2 tom. Ven. Thuani Hist. Sui Temp. 7 t. ch. max. Le Neptune Francoise Par. Clarke, 4 v. Burnet's Reform. 3 vol. Tillotson, Barrow, &c. Waltoni Bib. Polyglotta & Lex. 8 t. Critici Sacri & Supp. 13 tom. Clerici in Vet. & Nov. Test. 6 tom. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, on Monday, February 13th, 1758, and continue till are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews-Gate, near St. Martin's-Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 d. (to be returned) to be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Strahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's-Street; Mr. Matthews and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1758]- Pictures
A water-dog. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]Reference: 751266i- Books
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A catalogue of a valuable collection of books; consisting of several libraries, and particularly those of the Rev. Thomas Negus, D. D. Rector of St. Mary's Rotherhithe, and Mr. William Price, a very ingenious Painter of Glass, Both lately deceased, this collection comprehends near ten thousand Volumes in various Languages, and in almost every Class of Learning, and many of them in the most elegant Bindings. Among them are the following, Recueil D'fstampes par Crozat, 2 vol. Ehret Plantae, per Trew, vivis coloribus. British Zoology. cuts coloured. Some original Drawings of the Zoology. ... Petiveri opera Botanica, &c. 3 vol. Philosoph. Transact. at large, 4to. comp. Hill's natural Hist. 3 vol. cuts. Antoniana Margarita, 2 vol. cor. Ture. Hippoctates & Galen, Charterii, 13 vol. De Bry India orient. & occident. 4 vol. Russ. Assemanni Biblioth. orient. 4 vol. Giggei Lexicon Arabicum, 4 vol. ... H. Steph. Critici Sacri, 9 vol. Ed. Opt. Clericus in vet. & nov. Test. 6 vol. Ruins of Palmyra, Balbec and Athens. Overbeke's Ruins of Rome. Antiquarian Society's Prints. Harris and Churchill's Voyages. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Russia. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. compleat. Camden's Britannia, 2 vol. Russia. Horseley's Britannia Romana, 2 vol. State Trials, 6 vol. last edit. Johnson, Miller, Chambers, James and Ainsworth's Dictionaries. Patrick, Lowth, and Whithy, 6 vol. ... Statutes at large, by Cay and Russhead. Spence's Polymetis, Morocco. Cowper and Albinus's Anatomy. Cowper and Albinus's Anatomy. Ceremories Religieuses, 7 tom. Gr. pap. Medailles de Louis le Grand. Maroq. Du Halde Descript. de la Chine 4 tom. G. P. Sir Tho. Hanmer's Shakespear, 6 vol. 4 to. Ld. Sommers's Tracts, 16 vol. 4to compl. Moliere, Oeuvres de, 6 tom. 4 to. Marcq. Racine, Oeuvres de, 3 tom. 4to. Maroq. Parliam. Hist. and Chandler's Dub. 46 v. Political States, 59 vol. Svo. And many other Articles of equal Value, which will begin selling very reasonable, The Prices being printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book. On Tuesday, March 18, 1766, and continue on Sale daily. By Benjamin White, Removed to Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, next White-Friers, Who gives the utmost Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1766]- Books
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The great herball newly corrected. The contentes of this boke. A table after the latyn names of all herbes, a table after the Englysshe names of all herbes. The propertees and qualytes of all thynges in this booke. The descrypcyon of vrynes, how a man shall haue trewe knoweledge of all sekenesses. An exposycyon of the wordes obscure and not well knowen. A table, quyckly to fynde remedyes for all dyseases, God saue the Kynge.
Date: Anno. M.D.XXXIX. [1539]- Pictures
Albert, Prince Consort, on his deathbed at Windsor Castle, with members of the royal family and the royal household in attendance, 14 December 1861. Lithograph by W.L. Walton after Oakley, c.1865.
Oakley.Date: [1865?]Reference: 62i- Books
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Memoirs of John lord de Joinville, grand seneschal of Champagne / written by himself; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX., king of France, surnamed Saint Louis, including an account of that king's expedition to Egypt in the year MCCXLVIII. To which are added, the notes anddissertations of M. Du Cange on the above ... together with the dissertations of M. le Baron de la Bastie on the life of St. Louis, M. L'Évesque de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the Assassins of Syria; from the 'Memoires de l'Académie de belles lettres et inscriptions de France. The whole translated by Thomas Johnes, esq.
Joinville, Jean, sire de, 1224?-1317?Date: 1807- Archives and manuscripts
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Longmore Pamphlet Collection: Volume 4
Date: 1863-1882Reference: RAMC/423/4Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, ... of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. Of heresiarchs and schismaticks, ...; of emperors, kings, ... and great generals; of ancient and modern authors; of philosophers, inventors of arts, and all those who have recommended themselves to the world, ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, ... and other considerable places, both of ancient and modern geography; ... the religion, government, morals and customs of the inhabitants; the sects of Christians, Jews, ... and Mahometans ; the principal terms of arts and sciences; ... the statutes and laws; and withal, the history of general and particular councils, under the names of the places where they have been celebrated. The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers and lexicographers; ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, ... the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, ... and most famous men of all professions, ...: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time. ... The second edition revis'd, corrected and enlarg'd to the year 1688; by Jer. Collier, A.M.
Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680.Date: MDCCI [1701]- Pictures
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Geology: the Mer de Glace, Chamonix-Mont Blanc. Wood engraving by J.D. Cooper after P. Justyne.
Justyne, Percy William, 1812-1883.Date: 1896Reference: 46877i- Pictures
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A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.Date: 1740Reference: 32445i- Archives and manuscripts
French miscellany
La Rochefoucaud, Paul Auguste Gaston de, comte de Jarnac, 1675-1714Date: 1711-1851Reference: MS.9245- Pictures
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Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).
Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543.Reference: 24713i- Books
Fluid exchanges : artists and critics in the AIDS crisis / edited by James Miller.
Date: [1992]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Leach-Leslie
Date: 1682-1912Reference: MS.8891- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 1.
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Offprints of published journal articles written or co-authored by Copeman
Date: 1925-1967Reference: SA/HEB/E/1/1Part of: Heberden Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL- Archives and manuscripts
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget (1900-1986)
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget, 1900-1986Date: 1919-1988Reference: PP/HBF- Archives and manuscripts
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987)
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian, FRS, OM (1915-1987) Medical Scientist; Nobel LaureateDate: 1937-1991Reference: PP/PBM- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL