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A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case. Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, Architecture, Surveying, Geography, Perspective, &c. with an Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers. And The Description of, and Precepts for the Delineation of, Ship-Guns and Sea Mortars. To this Treatise, is prefixed A Brief Account of Authors, who have wrote on the Proportional Compasses and Sector. The third edition, with many additions. By John Robertson, Librarian to the Royal Society.
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Pictures
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An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
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A man pounding a mixture with a pestle and mortar - an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
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Les mortiers et les porphyres / [Roger Cazala].
Cazala, Roger, Madame.Date: 1953- Books
Les mortiers d'apothicaires / [Roger Cazala].
Cazala, Roger, Madame.Date: 1953- Pictures
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Apothecaries' Hall: an ancient mortar, with details of its decoration. Engraving.
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Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
Matthews, active 1861.Date: 1861Reference: 15932i- Books
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A treatise of artillery: containing I. General constructions of brass and iron guns used by sea and land, and their Carriages. II. General Constructions of Mortars and Howitzes, their Beds and Carriages. III. Dimensions of all Carriages used in Artillery. IV. Exercise of the Regiment at Home, and Service Abroad in a Siege of Battle. V. Its March and Encampment, Ammunition, Stores, and Horses. VI. Lastly, The necessary Laboratory Work for Fire-Ships, &c. To which is prefixed, an introduction, with a theory of powder applied to fire-arms. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification, And Preceptor of Engineering, &c. to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: 1780- Books
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A treatise of artillery: containing I. General constructions of brass and iron guns used by sea and land, and their Carriages. II. General Constructions of Mortars and Howitzes, their Beds and Carriages. III. Dimensions of all Carriages used in Artillery. IV. Exercise of the Regiment at Home, and Service Abroad in a Siege or Battle. V. Its March and Encampment, Ammunition, Stores, and Horses. VI. Lastly, The necessary Laboratory Work for Fire-Ships, &c. To which is prefixed an introduction, with a theory of powder applied to fire-arms. The second edition, with large additions, alterations, and corrections. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification, And Preceptor of Engineering, &c. to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: 1768- Books
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A treatise of artillery: containing I. General constructions of brass and iron guns used by sea and land, and their carriages. II. General constructions of mortars and howitzes [sic], their beds and carriages. III. Dimensions of all carriages used in artillery. IV. Exercise of the regiment at home, and service abroad in a siege or battle. V. Its march and encampment, ammunition, stores, and horses. VI. Lastly, the necessary laboratory work for fire-ships, &c. To which is prefixed, an introduction, with a theory of powder applied to fire-arms. With large additions, alterations, and corrections, according to the second London edition. By John Muller, professor of artillery and fortification, and preceptor of engineering, &c. to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: 1779- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Nederlandse vijzels / door D.A. Wittop Koning.
Wittop Koning, D. A. (Dirk Arnold), 1911-2001.Date: 1989- Pictures
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Death as an apothecary's assistant making up medicines with a mortar and pestle for the apothecary attending a female patient who sits by the fireside. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson or one of his followers.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 20131i- Books
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A treatise of artillery: Containing I. General constructions of brass and iron guns used by sea and land, and of their carriages. II. General constructions of mortars and howitzes, their beds and carriages. III. The dimensions of all other kinds of carriages used in the artillery. IV. The exercise of the regiment at home, and its service abroad in a siege or a battle. V. Its march and encampment; ammunition, stores, and horses. VI. Lastly, the necessary laboratory work. To which is prefixed, a theory of powder applied to fire-arms. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery. By John Muller, professor of artillery and fortification.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Pictures
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A theatrical figure in a tuxedo supporting a pestle and mortar as a hat and holding a large pill. Watercolour painting.
Chasemore, Archibald, active 1874-1878.Reference: 15700i- Pictures
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A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
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An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.Reference: 15915i- Pictures
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A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.
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An apothecary with pharmaceutical equipment seated in an arched window. Etching by B.A. Dunker after G. Metsu.
Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.Reference: 36123i- Books
El morter mossàrab del Castell de la Geltrú (Vilanova i la Geltrú) / Iris Figuerola i Pujol i Xavier Sorní i Esteva.
Figuerola i Pujol, Iris.Date: 1992- Pictures
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A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
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A pharmacist wearing a white coat and lapel badges of his professional association; representing the expertise of the pharmacist. Colour lithograph, 1935.
Verband Deutscher Drogisten.Date: [1935?]Reference: 583303i- Books
Der Mörser : Geschichte und Erscheinungsbild eines Apothekengerätes Materialen, Formen, Typen / Edmund Launert.
Launert, Edmund.Date: [1990], ©1990- Digital Images
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17th century mortar