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A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1772Reference: 17426i- Pictures
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A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Coloured line engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1767, after J.-B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1767Reference: 18202i- Archives and manuscripts
Secreta Secretorum, France, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7298- Books
The limits of the human : fictions of anomaly, race, and gender in the long eighteenth century / Felicity A. Nussbaum.
Nussbaum, Felicity.Date: 2003- Books
The early modern subject : self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume / Udo Thiel.
Thiel, Udo, 1954-Date: 2011- Pictures
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The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 4 March 1796Reference: 12183i- Books
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of print being the libraries of the Late Rev. Doctor Usher, F.T.C.D. Mr. Clarendon, and another gentleman which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1796, by James Vallance, at his Sale-Room, No. 6, Eustace-Street, the collection consists of a number of excellent books in various branches of literature; among which are the following: folio. Montsaucon's Grecian and Roman antiquities, with the supplement, 15 vol. first impressions of the plates. - Antiquities of France, 5 vol. with plates, Boydel's Shakespeare, with large and small plates, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Hodges's views in India fine impressions, bound in Russia. Miller's illustration of the sexual system of linnŭs, 3 vol. with plates coloured and plain, Rubens's landscapes, engraved by Bolswert. Kirby's perspective, fine plates, large paper. Overbeke's antiquities of Rome, 3 vol. impressions, large paper. Trajan and antonine columns, fine impressions, Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. with plates best edition. Ancient and modern universal history 12 vol. Cooke's voyages, 10 vol. compleat, fine plates pressions of the plates, bound in green tu Pope's works and translations, 14 vol. copy. Spenser's fairie queene, 3 vol. with many designs, elegant. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vol. elegant. Doddridge's family expositor, 6 vol. plates, fine copy. With many others equally good. Most of the prints are fine impressions.
Vallance, James.Date: 1796]- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746- Books
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Rymbegla, sive rudimentum computi ecclesiastici et annalis veterum Islandorum, in qvo etiam continentur chronologica, geographica, astronomica, geometrica, theologica, nonnulla ex historia universali & naturali rariora / Qvam ex manuscriptis Legati Arna-Magnæani versione Latina, lectionum varietate, notis in materiam computisticam, indice vocum Rymbeglæ propriarum, & rerum in partem historicam auxit Stephanus Biörnonis Isl. Addita sunt 1. Talbyrdingus ejusdem notis illustratus, 2. Oddi astronomi Somnia, 3. Joh. Arnæ et 4. Finni Johannæi Horologia.
Date: 1780- Archives and manuscripts
Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Sidrach, De la vertu des pierres précieuses et des herbes
Date: Early 14th centuryReference: MS.457- Pictures
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A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.Date: 1856Reference: 17876i- Ephemera
Welfare and orphanages ephemera. Box 1.
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Demons and witches arrive at the sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1755]Reference: 40371i- Pictures
Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1755Reference: 40368i- Archives and manuscripts
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Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum
Date: 1478Reference: MS.458- Archives and manuscripts
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Livre des simples médecines, in French
Date: c. 1470Reference: MS.626