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Clint Walker posing with saw.
Date: [between 1954 and 1980?]Reference: 3289463iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Jacques Sernas posing.
Date: [between 1947 and 1995?]Reference: 3289426iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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The hermit: or, the unparalled [sic] sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any human Assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing I. His Conferences with Those who found him out, to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put 'prentice to a Lock-Smith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after this Escape, he went to Sea a Cabbin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married Three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Bailey. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was ship-wracked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious Map of the Island, and other Cuts.
Longueville, Peter, active 1727.Date: 1727- Books
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The unhappy lovers: or, the history of James Welston, gent. Together with his voyages and travels. To which is added, several curious pieces, which he had, with great Pains and Industry, collected together, some of which were wrote Three Hundred Years ago, and no-where else to be met with.
Hannay, Patrick, -1629?.Date: M,DCCXXXII. [1732]- Pictures
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Michael Redgrave. Photographic postcard, 193-.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]Reference: 2059131iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Sal Mineo. Photographic postcard, 195-.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 2059096iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Marlene Dietrich.
Date: [between 1934 and 1950?]Reference: 3306362iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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A treatise on febrile diseases: intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers ; inflammations ; hemorrhagies ; and the profluvia ; in which an attempt is made to present ... whatever ... it is requisite for the physician to know, respecting the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases ; with experimental essays, on certain febrile symptoms, on the nature of inflammation, and on the manner on [sic] which opium and tobacco act on the living animal body (Volume 1).
Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.Date: 1809- Books
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A treatise on febrile diseases: intermitting, remitting, and continued fevers ; eruptive fevers ; inflammations ; hemorrhagies ; and the profluvia ; in which an attempt is made to present ... whatever ... it is requisite for the physician to know, respecting the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases ; with experimental essays, on certain febrile symptoms, on the nature of inflammation, and on the manner on [sic] which opium and tobacco act on the living animal body (Volume 2).
Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.Date: 1809- Books
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The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton: Containing an Account of his being set on Shore in the Island of Madagascar, his Settlement there, with a Description of the Place and Inhabitants: Of his Passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main Land of Africa, with an Account of the Customs and Manners of the People: His great Deliverances from the barbarous Natives and wild Beasts: Of his meeting with an Englishman, a Citizen of London, among the Indians, the great Riches he acquired, and his Voyage Home to England: As also Captain Singleton's Return to Sea, with an Account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1720- Books
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The army regulator: or, the military adventures of Mr. John Railton; giving an account of his particular services in the Horse Grenadiers, the dragoons, the foot, and the train of artillery. Shewing, I. The Frauds practised by the Officers, from the General to the Corporal, to render the poor Private Centinel miserable. II. The Art of Inlisting Men: Or, the Secret History of a remarkable Officer of Dragoons in the Year, 1735. III. Practices after Inlisting, whereby the Horses are deprived of their Corn, the Men of their Money, and the King of his Soldiers, by False Ministers. IV. Proofs of 300 l. a Year, being sunk out of the King's Allowance of 500 l. a Year for a Troop of Dragoons. V. The Sinking-Fund continu'd; near 50,000 l. a Year being sunk by Fagots, and 100,000l. a Year, by furnishing the Forces with Accoutrements, &c. VI. The Author's Sufferings, as a Foot-Soldier, 1736. The Connivance of Trading Justices and Serjeants, as to Inlisting; his false Imprisonment and Release, 1737. Vii. The Transactions of Tea-Table-Officers; how little they regard, and how frequently they break, the Articles of War. Viii. Of Military-Punishments, and the Severities inflicted upon Soldiers in the Savoy, Black-Hole, &c. IX. The Honour of the Sword; wherein is made appear that a real Gentleman Soldier, rightly educated, is the finest Gentleman in the World. The Example and Character of Prince Eugene recommended. X. Articles of War, and other valuable Papers relating to the Regulation of the Army. With the Artifices made use of to prevent the Publication of this Book. The Whole Addressed to his Majesty.
Railton, J. (John).Date: 1738- Books
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Discontent; or, an Essay on Faction: a satire. Address'd to the writers of the Craftsman, and other party papers.
Date: [1736]- Books
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The mandate of His Eminence Monseigneur the Cardinal de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris, for the publishing the appeal which he brought the 3d of April, 1717. to the Pope better advised, and the future General Council from the Constitution of our Holy Father Pope Clement XI. of the 8th of September, 1713. which begins with these Words, Unigenitus Dei Filius. Together with the very Act of the Appeal. To which is added, the extract from the registers of the Chancery of the Church and University of Paris of the 11th of September, 1718. As also the Extract from the Registers of the Conclusions of the Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Paris. From the Paris Edition put out by the Cardinal's Order, just now printed, by Jean Baptiste Delespine, Printing Bookseller to the King and his Eminence Monseigneur the Cardinal de Noalles, Archbishop of Paris in the Rue St. Jacques. Faithfully translated into English and printed together with the genuine French (for the Benefit of the Curious) with the Cardinal's marginal Notes, Quotations, and References (as in the Paris Edition) relating to this famous Controversy, which already has been and will be the Subject of so much Speculation to the learned World.
Noailles, Louis-Antoine de, 1651-1729.Date: [1718]- Books
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The Nuttall encyclopaedia : being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge ... / edited by ... James Wood.
Date: 1900- Books
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Remarks on the history of Fingal, and other poems of Ossian: translated by Mr. Macpherson. In a letter to the Right Honourable the Lord L-. By Ferdo. Warner, L.L.D.
Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Literary character of men of genius : drawn from their own feelings and confessions / by Isaac Disraeli.
Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848.Date: [1881?]- Books
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Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, English and foreign sources : including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of the wise men, in their bearing on life, literature, speculation, science, art, religion, and morals, especially in the modern aspects of them, / selected and compiled by James Wood.
Wood, James, Rev.Date: 1893- Books
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A full and plain account of the gout; from whence will be clearly seen, the folly, or the baseness, of all pretenders to the cure of it: In which every thing Material by the Best Writers on That Subject is taken notice of; and accompanied with some New and Important Instructions for its Relief, which the Author's Experience in the Gout above Thirty Years hath induced him to impart. The second edition corrected. To which is added an index. By Ferdo. Warner, L.L.D.
Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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God, and all other reasonable beings, happy in proportion to their virtue. or, an essay upon moral virtue, and its necessary connection with all rational happiness. In a letter to the Reverened Dr. Clark, Rector of St. James's Westminster. By a clergy-man.
Warner, clergyman.Date: [1724]- Books
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Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern English and foreign sources : including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of wise men, in their bearing on life, literature, speculation, science, art, religion, and morals especially in the modern aspects of them / Selected and comp. by the Rev. James Wood.
Wood, James, Rev.Date: 1902- Books
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An illustration of the Book of common-prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. In which The Observations of all the Learned Divines, who have wrote upon any Part of it, are included and inserted in their proper Order; With further Explanations by the Compiler. The whole Containing A full and particular Exposition of all the Prayers, Epistles, and Gospels throughout the Year; Notes on all the Rubricks; an Account of all the Festivals and Saints-Days; of the antient Use of Liturgies, of Lessons, of Calendars, and their Regulation under the late Act of Parliament; of Psalmody, of Churches, of Ornaments, &c. Likewise An Exposition of the Communion-Service, Rites of Baptism, Catechism, Form of Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, Burial of the Dead, &c. With A Paraphrase on all the Psalms, according to the Translation used in the Common-Prayer-Book. Very Useful for Families, To excite Devotion, and enable every One to pray with the Understanding. By Ferdinando Warner, M. A. Rector of Queenhithe, London.
Church of England.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754] [1752-53]- Books
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The nature, cause and symptoms of the gout: as stated by Dr. Sydenham, Cheyne, etc. from which is rationally deduced its direct and perfect cure / Gilbert Nelson.
Nelson, Gilbert.Date: [1727]- Books
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Britannia. A poem.
Thomson, James, 1700-1748.Date: M.DCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
Understanding nanotechnology : from the editors of Scientific American / compiled and with introductions by Sandy Fritz ; foreword by Michael L. Roukes.
Date: 2002- Books
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The tenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1861 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.Date: 1861