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The admirable travels of Messrs. Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin; containing a Tour of 3000 Miles through the unknown Tracts of Africa; describing the manner how they were driven on the western Coast by a storm, Sept. 1. 1770, and taken Prisoners by some hundreds of Negroes, sold to an Indian Chief, carried to Court 500 miles inland, raised to great honours by the sovereign Prince, with their strange mode of obtaining leave to quite his Dominions. Together with the Manners, Customs, Fashions, Complexion of the Inhabitants, their Diet, Produce, Traffick, Wealth, and Religion; as also, the numerous wild Beasts, Serpents, Fowls, Hills, Mountains, Valleys, Rivers, Plains of the Country, lying between 16 South latitude, 21 East long. and the Equator. Likewise, Their mode of travelling, and loss of Jenkins through fatigue, in attempting to cross the extensive Sands; with the manner how D. Lowellin lived full five Years on an uninhabited Spot, and his providential Delivery on the 11th of April 1779, by a company of Merchants, who blindfolded his Eyes on the Journey, to prevent him from discovering the Situation of their Country. His elegant Account of their opulent Capital, and arrival at Grand Cairo in Egypt, on the 10th of May 1780, with his substance; and a short Account of some remarkable Things in Turkey, as taken on his return to Britain in September 1781.
Lowellin, David, 1726-Date: [1782]- Books
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The admirable travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin through the unknown tracts of Africa: With he manner how Lowellin lived eight year on an uninhabited spot; and, having sustained many dangerous attacks from the wild beasts and savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1784, after having been fourteen-years in those extensive regions.
Lowellin, David, 1726-Date: [1786]- Books
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A caveat against seducers, by Richard Standfast, rector of Christ-Church in Bristol. To which is added, the blind-man's meditations. And a dialogue between a blind man and death. By the same author.
Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.Date: 1711- Books
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Letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse. By the Author of Friendship in death. To which are added, ten letters by another hand.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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A new operation for the cure of amaurosis, impaired vision, and short-sightedness, in a letter, addressed to John Richard Farre / By James J. Adams.
Adams, James J.Date: [1841]- Books
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Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles, ou, Exposé de différens moyens, vérifiés par l'expérience, pour les mettre en état de lire, à l'aide du tact, d'imprimer des livres dans lesquels ils puissent prendre des connoissances de langues, d'histoire, de géographie, de musique, &c., d'exécuter différens travaux relatifs aux métiers, &c. ... / par M. Haüy.
Haüy, Valentin, 1745-1822.Date: 1786- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence relating to establishing the survey
Date: 1963-1965Reference: PP/GRF/C.1Part of: Fraser, George Robert (1932-)- Books
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A new grammar of the Latin tongue, comprising all in the art necessary for grammar-schools. To which is annex'd, a dissertation upon language. By John Clarke, author of the two essays upon education and study, introduction to the making of Latin, &c.
Clarke, John, 1687-1734.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A new operation for the cure of amaurosis, impaired vision, and short-sightedness : in a letter, addressed to John Richard Farre / by James J. Adams.
Date: [1841]- Books
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The works of Tacitus. ... : Containing The Annals. To which are prefixed, Political Discourses Upon that Author. Part I.
Tacitus, Cornelius.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]-32- Books
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A disquisition about the final causes of natural things : wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions a naturalist should admit them? / by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; to which are subjoyn'd, by way of appendix, Some uncommon observations about vitiated sight, by the same author.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1688- Books
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The blind beggar of Bethnal Green. A dramatic performance: with several instructive and entertaining pieces. By Robert Dodsley, author of the Original fables.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Pious and holy breathings; or, a treatise of choice and precious hymns. Composed and branched out from divers chosen Texts of Scripture out of the Old and New Testament. Published and set forth as being proper and useful to the State and Condition of the Godly. By Ann Rennew, a blind maid, formerly Member of the Congregational Church of Christ sometimes at Cottenham, but is now join'd at Cambridge.
Rennew, Ann.Date: 1714- Books
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Michael Clancy, M.D. (blind actor and playwright) / [T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick].
Kirkpatrick, T. Percy C. (Thomas Percy Claude), 1869-1954.Date: 1938- Books
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A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa, and travels into the interior of that country; containing particular descriptions of the climate and inhabitants, and interesting particulars concerning the slave trade. By Joseph Hawkins, of New York, who has since become blind; and for whose benefit it is now published by his friends.
Hawkins, Joseph, 1772-Date: 1797- Books
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A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa, and travels into the interior of that country; containing particular descriptions of the climate and inhabitants, and interesting particulars concerning the slave trade. By Joseph Hawkins, of New York, who has since become blind; and for whose benefit it is now published by his friends. Copy-right secured as the act directs.
Hawkins, Joseph, 1772-Date: 1797- Pictures
The Institut National des Aveugles-nés, Paris: interior during the visit of Pope Pius VII. Aquatint with etching by Marlé, 1805.
Marlé, active 1805.Date: 1805Reference: 545557i- Books
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The two cousins, a moral story, for the use of young persons. In which is exemplified the necessity of moderation and justice to the attainment of happiness. By the author of the "Blind child," and "Dramatic dialogues." [Ten lines from Beaumont and Fletcher]
Pinchard, Elizabeth Sibthorpe.Date: 1796- Books
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Idea agriculturæ. The principles of vegetation asserted and defended. Being an essay on the theory and practice of husbandry: Proceeding on the three noted mediums of improvement, viz. marle, lime, and shells, principally relating to the Isle of Anglesey. With rules and directions to find out the latter (wonderful in fertilizing the barrenest land) on other shores of Great-Britain and Ireland, where the like beds of broken shells, the winnowings of the sea, must naturally lye, if the like vast plenty of shellfish, do breed on the coasts, and in all probability, will be found, if they be fought for, according to these directions. By Henry Rowlands, vicar of Llanjdan, in the Isle of Anglesey; author of Mona antiqua: wrote in the year 1704.
Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Archives and manuscripts
Fraser, George Robert (1932-)
Fraser, George Robert (b.1932)Date: 1861-2013Reference: PP/GRF- Books
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Scripture and reason, a poem: containing various arguments in refutation of Mr Paine's pamphlet entitled The age of reason. By J. Osborne, a blind seaman of South-Shields.
Osborne, J.Date: 1795- Pictures
Joshua Ward receiving money from Britannia and bestowing it as charity on the needy. Engraving after Thomas Bardwell, 1749.
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704-1767.Date: [24 Feb. 1748/9]Reference: 11971i- Archives and manuscripts
Blindness in Childhood
Date: 1957-1972Reference: PP/GRF/C.1-130Part of: Fraser, George Robert (1932-)- Books
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The Life, actions and exploits, of the most notorious and famous Mary Field, otherwise, Thompson, otherwise Web, otherwise, Davis, the blind Horper's wife, otherwise, Milliner, the rope-makers wife, otherwise, Wild, otherwise Johnston, the captain of the trading Billander to Holland, otherwise, Smoaker, otherwise, Mary Clark. Who was lately convicted for defacing His Majesty's coin, and received sentence to be burnt, but obtained His Majesty's most gracious Pardon for transportation for life, in six months after the date hereof, March the 1st. 1747/8. Her several intercourses with her ceremonial husbands, mostly delivered by herself. Illustrated with curious and moral observations: her character under Jonathan Wild, delivered by his Nephew to the author. Her transactions in Ireland for ninteen years, coming little short of her exploits in England: collected by the author from good authority.
Date: 1748- Books
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Fractions anatomized: or, the doctrine of parts made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. On a plan entirely new. To which is added, a concise but full explanation of duodecimal arithmetic. Also, rules to young officers of excise, for the examination of their own books, and rectifying errors. By Richard Ramsbottom, An Officer in the Excise. Blind Nature waits on Man, and clouds his Way, But Science leads us into open Day.
Ramsbottom, Richard.Date: 1762