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A family enters a church at Ariccia for the christening of a child. Engraving by L. Stocks after P. Williams.
Williams, Penry, 1798-1885.Date: November 1 1839Reference: 32530i- Books
Nauchna konferentsi︠︡ia : veterinarna farmakologi︠︡ia, farmakoprofilaktika, terapi︠︡ia i stimuli︠a︡tsi︠︡ia na selskostopanskite zhivotni pri uslovi︠︡iata na promishlenoto zhivotnovudstvo = scientific conference veterinary pharmacology, pharmacoprophylaxis, therapy ans stimulation of farm animals under the conditions of industrial stock breeding / [redaktori M. Popov, D. TSekova.
Date: 1973- Books
A sure way to order bees and fruit-trees, or, A compleat bee-master : shewing, I. The way to manage and encrease them. A platform for a bee-hive. What food ought to be propagated about the bee-houses. To raise large stocks of bees. Their errors that kill the drone-bees. II. To keep sheep and horses from from all diseases. III. Divers receipts in physick, and how every man may be his own doctor at small charge. IV. Directions for managing fruit-trees, &c. so that they shall never fail bearing fruit.
Date: [1726?]- Pictures
A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 17580iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Books
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The Muses Mercury: or The monthly miscellany. Consisting of poems, prologues, songs, sonnets, translations, and other curious pieces, never before printed. By the Earl of Roscommon, Mr. Dryden, Dr. G--th, N. Tate, esquire. Mr. Dennis, Dr. N--n, Capt. Steel, Mr. Manning, &c. To which is added an account of the stage, of the new opera's and plays that have been acted, or are to be acted this season; and of the new books relating to poetry, criticism, &c. lately publish'd.
Date: 1707-- Pictures
Share-dealers and ruined speculators confronting each other in a crowded street during the share price boom of 1720. Etching after A. Humblot, ca. 1720.
Humblot, Antoine, -1758.Date: [1720?]Reference: 3783iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet prison, before a committee of the House of Commons visiting the prisons. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 June 1803Reference: 43249i- Books
Drosophila : a laboratory handbook / Michael Ashburner, Kent G. Golic, R. Scott Hawley.
Ashburner, M.Date: [2005], ©2005- Pictures
Raphael and a young woman known as La fornarina sitting on a balcony, with Rome in the background. Engraving by L. Stocks, 1842, after A.W. Callcott.
Callcott, Augustus Wall, 1779-1844.Date: 1843Reference: 3064774i- Books
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Nil admirair: or, A smile at a bishop; Occasioned by an hyperbolical eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr. Porteus, in his late charge to the clergy. Also expostulation; or, An address to miss Hannah More. Likewise, duplicity, or the bishop, and simplicity, or the curate: a pair of tales. Moreover, and ode to the blue-stocking-club. And, finaliy, an ode to some robin red-breasts in a country Cathedral. By Peter Pindar, Esq.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M,DCCC. [1800]- Books
Cognitive behavior therapy and eating disorders / Christopher G. Fairburn.
Fairburn, Christopher G.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
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The female jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. Amongst other highly distinguished Personages, Male and Female, celebrated in this Work, are the following: Their Most Sacred Majesties The R-y-l B-t-sh P-nc-Sses D-ch-ss of Y-k Her R-y-l H-n-ss P-nc-ss A-g-r-s F-d-ck, late Lady A-g-ta M-r-y D-ch-ss of D-v-ns-re Lady Elizabeth F-st-r Comte de Fersan Lady Cper Sir Charles W-tw-th, K. B. Lord H-rv-y Dutchess of R-tl-nd Dutchess of B-df-d Lady L-de Charles M-ns-n Lord Ch-lm-de-ly Miss G-nn-ng Lord P-Get Duchess of G-d-n Col. Sr. L-g-r Mr. P-tt Late King of Sweden Lady W-r-n Mr. D-d-ss Lady B-th Mr P-lt-n-y Mrs. R-b-s-n Late Lord Littleton Marchioness of S-l-sb-ry Col. T-lt-n P-ce of W-Les Mr. Hugo M-yn-l, Senior Lady A-ch-r M-gr-v-ne of A-p-ch C. of B-ck-h-ms-re, late Mrs. H-b-t Mr. Harry Er-Ngt-n Mr. J-Kyll Mrs. B-st-w Mrs. H-st-r L-Nch P-Zzi Countess of S-st-n Viscountess M-yn-d Quick the Actor Lady M-l-Neux Col. F-Tzp-t-ck Lady W-ll-ce Abbe St. Fare Marquis de la Fayette Mr. Wright the Sheriffs' Officer Lady L-c-n Mrs. C-Ghl-n Mrs. Siddons Mr. P-Wis Viscountess D-dl-y and W-rd Earl Sp-nc-r Late Col. Bosville Viscount D-dl-y and W-rd Viscountess H-Mpd-n Duke of M-tr-se Mr. Daniel H-Ses Miss W-st Miss Elizabeth J-Ffr-es Mr. Fox Earl F-Tzw-ll-m Lady Elizabeth L-Ttr-l Earl of C-rh-Mpt-n Dutchess of C-mb-l-nd Countess Tv-c-n-l General W-ts-n Col. C-Wtr-ne Ld D-l-v-l The Blue Stocking Society, &c. By the author of the former Jockey club.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1794- Books
Overcoming binge eating : the proven program to learn why you binge and how you can stop / Dr. Christopher G. Fairburn.
Fairburn, Christopher G.Date: [2013]- Pictures
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A delegation of British health officials caricatured as a queue of Elizabethan courtiers. Pen drawing by A. Granville, 1922.
Granville, A., active 1917-1923.Date: 1922Reference: 545798i- Videos
Epilepsy today.
Date: 1968- Film
Epilepsy today.
Date: 1968- Books
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The banker's sure guide: or, monied man's assistant. In three parts, viz. I. Tables of Interest for any Sum, at the current Prices of 2, 2?, 3, 3?, 4, 4?, and 5 p. Cent. from 1 to 90 and 300 Days; and from 1 Month to a Year, at 2, 2?, 3, 3?, 4, 4 & 1-6th (or 10d. in the Pound) 4?, 4?, 4?, and 5 per Cent. II. Sundry Tables shewing the Value of Annuities certain, and Annuities on Lives, founded on the most rational Probabilities; how to find the Value of two or more Lives, joint Lives, Reversions, Presentations, &c. Also Tables for joint Lives, and the longer of two or three Lives. III. A large and accurate Table of Commission or Brokerage, from ? to 3 per Cent. rising progressively only ? per Cent. at a Time. - Also, of 4, 5, 6, & of 9 to 20 per Cent. which together may be readily applied to Exchanges to Ireland. To which is prefixed, by Way of Introduction, A New and comprehensive Treatise on Decimals: A concise new Method of equating the Stocks to one another, and how to calculate what Interest is made of the Money laid out in any of them; how to find the Value of Stock, &c. The fourth edition, enlarged and corrected. By S. Thomas, Author of the British Negociator, or Foreign Exchanges made easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: 1778- Books
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The banker's sure guide: or, monied man's assistant. In three parts, viz. I. Tables of Interest for any Sum, at the current Prices of 2, 2?, 3, 3?, 4, 4?, and 5 p. Cent. from 1 to 90 and 300 Days; and from 1 Month to a Year, at 2, 2?, 3, 3?, 4, 4 and 1-6th (or 10d. in the Pound) 4?, 4?, 4?, and 5 per Cent. II. Sundry Tables shewing the Value of Annuities certain, and Annuities on Lives, founded on the most rational Probabilities; how to find the Value of two or more Lives, joint Lives, Reversions, Presentations, &c. Also Tables for joint Lives, and the longer of two or three Lives. III. A large and accurate Table of Commission or Brokerage, from ? to 3 per Cent rising progressively only ? per Cent. at a Time. - Also of 4, 5, 6, and of 9 to 20 per Cent. which together may be readily applied to Exchanges to Ireland. To which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a new and comprehensive treatise on decimals: A concise, new Method of equating the Stocks to one another, and how to calculate what Interest is made of the Money laid out in any of them; how to find the Value of Stock, &c. The fifth edition, enlarged and corrected. By S. Thomas, Author of the British Negociator, or Foreign Exchanges made easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: 1782- Pictures
The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Archives and manuscripts
Jean Lindenmann: correspondence etc, 1967
Date: 1967Reference: GC/267/24/12Part of: Interferon Collection- Pictures
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Pictures
A young woman, with her hair loose, and wearing a body stocking holds her hands clasped together.
Reutlinger familyDate: [between 1894 and 1900]Reference: 529252iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
The travels and adventures of serendipity : a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science / Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber.
Merton, Robert King, 1910-2003.Date: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
A young woman wearing a body stocking, poses standing with her hands raised together whilst looking up.
Reutlinger familyDate: Approximately 1900Reference: 531561iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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A general treatise of agriculture, both philosophical and practical; displaying the arts of husbandry and gardening: in two parts. Part I. Of husbandry; Treats of the Nature of the Soil, Air, and Situation proper for the Production of Vegetables; the different Methods of Improving Lands; the Manner of Planting and Raising Timber; the Stocking of Farms with Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Bees, Grass, Grain, &c. with Estimates of the Profits arising thereon, &c. Part II. Of gardening; Treats of the Circulation of the Sap in Vegetables; the Generation of Plants, and their Distribution into Genera; the different Kinds and particular Management of Fruit and Fruit-Trees; the Methods of Grafting, Inarching, and Inoculating; the Dispositions of Gardens in General; the Cultivation and Improvement of the Kitchen and Pleasure Gardens; the Manner of managing Exotic Plants and Flowers, and naturalizing them to our Climate; together with an Account of Stoves, Artificial Heats, &c. Originally written by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. And now not only corrected and properly methodised, but adapted to the present practice, and improved with the late Theories, in many large Notes, wherein the several Methods of Culture, and the different Systems of Botany and Vegetation, according to the most approved Writers of the present Period upon these Subjects, are delivered. With a Compleat Index of all the Matters contained in the Book. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]