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Collection of engravings formed between the years 1860-68 : annotated catalogue & index to portraits, by M. Holloway / [Alfred Morrison].
Morrison, Alfred, 1821-1897.Date: 1868
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A catalogue of engraved British portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present time. Consisting of the effigies of persons in every walk of human life; as well those whose services to their country are recorded in the annals of the english history, as others whose eccentricity of character rendered them conspicuous in their day. With an appendix, containing the portraits of such foreigners as either by alliance with the Royal Families of, or residence as visitors in this Kingdom, or by deriving from it some title of distinction, may claim a place in the British series Methodically disposed in Classes, and interspersed with a number of Notices Biographical and Genealogical, never before published. By Henry Bromley.
Bromley, Henry, 1750-Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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Address on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of Mr Ernest Hart to his wife at Grosvenor House, April 10, 1883 : His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G. in the chair.
Date: 1883
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Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American philosophical society, &c. interspersed with various notices of many distinguished men: with an appendix, containing sundry philosophical and other papers, most of which have not hitherto been published / [William Barton].
Barton, William, 1754-1817.Date: 1813
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Magazin des estamps, 1777. A catalogue of a large and capital collection of historical prints, English and foreign portraits, books of prints, drawings and pictures, Containing the Finest Historical Prints, By Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyck, Hollar, And other Great Masters, also a large and very fine collection of Scarce English portraits, By Faithorne, Hollar, Pass, Loggan, Vertue, &c. drawings By the most Esteemed Masters; Fine Capital Pictures By the Greatest Masters: also Fine Books of Prints. In this beautiful Collection are the compleat Works of Hollar, many of which are exceeding rare, some Proofs, and others with Variations. The Whole now Selling, At the Magazin des estamps, In Cockspur-Street, facing the Haymarket; Where may be had Catalogues at 2s. 6d each; as also at Mr. Pinchbeck's Repository. - To prevent Confusion, none can be admitted without a Catalogue.
Magazin des Estampes (London, England)Date: 1777]
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Iconographia Scotica or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland engraved from the most authentic paintings &c with short biographical notices. By John Pinkerton, ...
Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.Date: 1797
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Iconographia Scotica or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland engraved from the most authentic paintings &c with short biographical notices. By John Pinkerton, ...
Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.Date: 1797
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Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain / Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, by Edmund Lodge.
Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839.Date: 1835
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A dissertation on the properties of pus : which gained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXVIII, and was ordered to be printed for the use of the Society / by Everard Home, F.R.S. and one of the presidents of the Lyceum Medicum.
Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832.Date: 1788
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An anthropological study of some portraits of Shakespeare and of Burns : (abstract) / Arthur Keith.
Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.Date: [1914]
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Books and portraits illustrating the history of plant classification exhibited in the department of botany.
British Museum (Natural History)Date: 1909
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Frans Cornelis Donders, 1818-1889 : with a portrait from an unfinished work of G.F. Watts.
Bowman, William, Sir, 1816-1892.Date: 1891
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Books and portraits illustrating the history of plant classification : exhibited in the department of botany.
British Museum (Natural History)Date: 1906
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The contrast, or two portraits of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. The first taken in 1771, the second in 1792 and 1793. Dedicated, without permission, to that Right Honourable gentleman.
Cleaner of faded portraits.Date: [1793?]
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The contrast, or Two portraits of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. The first taken in 1771, the second in 1792 and 1793. Dedicated, without permission, to that Right Honourable gentleman.
Cleaner of faded portraits.Date: [1793?]
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An academy for grown horsemen, containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and grand equerry to the Doge of Venice.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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Iconographia Scotica: or, portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, engraved from the most authentic paintings, &c. With their lives, compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars, never before published; the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations, / by John Smith, of the Inner Temple.
Smith, John, of the Inner Temple.Date: [1798]
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Woodburn's gallery of rare portraits; consisting of original plates, by Cecil, Delaram, Droeshout ... [etc.], with facsimile copies from the rarest and most curious portraits, illustrative of Granger's "Biographical history of England", Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion", Burnet's "History of his own time", Pennant's "London", &c. ... containing two hundred portraits, of persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval achievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives deserving the notice of the historian and biographer. Particularly the ... equestrian set of plates in the illustrated Clarendon, belonging to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.G., with others from the most remarkable and singular prints, in the possession of different noblemen and gentlemen, celebrated for their collection of rare portraits / [Samuel Woodburn].
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853.Date: 1816
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A catalogue of engraved portraits of nobility, gentry, clergymen, and others, born, resident in, or connected with the county of Warwick. Alphabetically arranged, with names of the painters and engravers, and the size of each plate; to which are added numerous biographical notices, compiled or selected with great assiduity, research, and care / [John Merridew].
Merridew, John.Date: 1848
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Shakespeare illustrated by an assemblage of portraits and views; with biographical anecdotes of the different persons, and descriptions of places mentioned: adapted to the whole series of that author's dramas. To which are added portraits of actors, editors, &c. Arranged, with directions for their insertion in any edition.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: [1793?]
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The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain, on one hundred and eight copper-plates. Engraved by Mr. Houbraken, and Mr. Vertue. With their lives and characters, by Thomas Birch, ...
Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766.Date: 1756
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A catalogue of a collection of prints, and books of prints, by the most eminent antient and modern masters; consisting of fine historical prints and foreign portraits, By the following, viz. Albert Durer, Raphael, Rubens, Vandyck, Rembrandt, Salvator Rosa, Count Goudt, Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, Carrache, Jac. Freii, Drevet, Dorigny, Balechou, Hogarth, Worlidge, Watteau, Beauverlet, &c. &c. &c. Likewise a large Collection of English Portraits, by Faithorne, Gaywood, Glover, Marshall, Hollar, Cross, Pass, Payne, Lombart, Vosterman, Vanderbank, White, Loggan, Vertue, Vandergutcht &c. &c. &c. Including a great Number of fine Mezzotintos, by Smith, Faber, M̀ardel, &c. &c. &c. A small collection of coins and medals, and books on various subjects, As Antiquity, History, Coins, Medals, &c. &c. Together with upwards of six hundred scarce and uncommon plays. Which will begin to be sold, on Wednesday the 1st of January, 1772, The lowest Price printed in the Catalogue, by John Thane, three doors from Piccadilly, in Old Bond Street; Who gives the full Value for any Collection, or Parcel of Prints, Coins, Medals, &c. or exchanges. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; and at Mr. Snelling's, Bookseller, in Fleet Street.
Thane, John, 1748-1818.Date: 1771]
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Memoirs of King Charles I. and the loyalists who suffered in their cause; chiefly extracted from Lord Clarendon's History of the rebellion. Illustrated with their portraits, from Vandyke, &c.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.Date: 1795
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Memoirs of King Charles I. and the loyalists who suffered in his cause; chiefly extracted from Lord Clarendon's History of the rebellion. Illustrated with their portraits, from Vandyke, &c.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.Date: 1795
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An historical account of the Siamese twin brothers, from actual observations.
Hale, James W.Date: 1834

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Collection of engravings formed between the years 1860-68 : annotated catalogue & index to portraits, by M. Holloway / [Alfred Morrison].

Address on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of Mr Ernest Hart to his wife at Grosvenor House, April 10, 1883 : His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G. in the chair.

Iconographia Scotica or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland engraved from the most authentic paintings &c with short biographical notices. By John Pinkerton, ...

Iconographia Scotica or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland engraved from the most authentic paintings &c with short biographical notices. By John Pinkerton, ...

Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain / Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, by Edmund Lodge.

A dissertation on the properties of pus : which gained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXVIII, and was ordered to be printed for the use of the Society / by Everard Home, F.R.S. and one of the presidents of the Lyceum Medicum.

An anthropological study of some portraits of Shakespeare and of Burns : (abstract) / Arthur Keith.

Books and portraits illustrating the history of plant classification exhibited in the department of botany.

Frans Cornelis Donders, 1818-1889 : with a portrait from an unfinished work of G.F. Watts.

Books and portraits illustrating the history of plant classification : exhibited in the department of botany.

The contrast, or two portraits of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. The first taken in 1771, the second in 1792 and 1793. Dedicated, without permission, to that Right Honourable gentleman.

The contrast, or Two portraits of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. The first taken in 1771, the second in 1792 and 1793. Dedicated, without permission, to that Right Honourable gentleman.

The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain, on one hundred and eight copper-plates. Engraved by Mr. Houbraken, and Mr. Vertue. With their lives and characters, by Thomas Birch, ...

Memoirs of King Charles I. and the loyalists who suffered in their cause; chiefly extracted from Lord Clarendon's History of the rebellion. Illustrated with their portraits, from Vandyke, &c.

Memoirs of King Charles I. and the loyalists who suffered in his cause; chiefly extracted from Lord Clarendon's History of the rebellion. Illustrated with their portraits, from Vandyke, &c.

An historical account of the Siamese twin brothers, from actual observations.