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The custom of couvade / by Warren R. Dawson.
Dawson, Warren R. (Warren Royal), 1888-1968.Date: 1929- Books
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Instructions for the collectors and other officers employ'd in Her Majesties Customs, &c. in the north-part of Great-Britain; with forms of dispatches, schemes for calculations, and the regular methods of accompting.
Great Britain. Customs Establishment.Date: Anno Dom. 1707- Books
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The pleasant art of money-catching. Treating, I. Of the original and invention of money. II. Of the Misery of wanting it, &c. III. How Persons in Want of Money may supply themselves with it. IV. A new Method for ordering of Expences. V. How to save Money in Diet, Apparel, and Recreations. VI. How a Man may always keep Money in his Pocket. Vii. How a Man may pay his Debts without Money. Viii. How to trave without Money. To which is added, the way to turn a penny, Or, the Art of Thriving. With several other Things, both Pleasant and Profitable.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A sermon preached before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, on Monday, Nov. the 5th, 1705. By the Right Reverend Father in God, William lord bishop of Lincoln.
Wake, William, 1657-1737.Date: 1705- Books
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Observations on the report of the Committee of Secrecy.
Date: 1715- Books
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A tariff, or book of rates, of the customs to be levied, on goods imported & exported, at the port and frontier custom-houses. Translated from the Russ.
Russia. Sovereign (1762-1796: Catherine II)Date: 1767- Pictures
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A Chinese man offering a small lizard on a chopstick to an English guest who is reluctant to eat it. Coloured lithograph by Smith after himself.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33095iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Pictures
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The people of China weighed down by the hierarchy of emperor, mandarins and priests. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33098iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Pictures
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An Englishman is startled when he sees his reflection in the mirror and finds his Chinese barber has given him a queue. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33097iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Pictures
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A Chinese man and woman having their first Western clothes fitted. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33096iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Books
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The haunted tower: a comic opera. In three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street.
Cobb, James, 1756-1818.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The spanish rogues: being the history of Donna Rosina, a notorious cheat, and her accomplices. Translated from the Spanish, by Edward Waldron, Esq. of Lincoln-Inn.
Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648?.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1792]- Books
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The odious, despicable, and dreadfull condition of a drunkard, drawn to the life to deterre others, and cause them to decline the wayes of death, or, A hopefull way to cure drunkennesse : (the root of all evill, and rot of all good) in such as are not (by long custome) past cure : composed, and published for their good, who (not for want of ignorance) prinde themselves in drunken good-fellowship : which probably may open their eies, as the tasting of honey did Jonathan, and cause them to say as the governour to the bridegroome, John 2.10, The good wine was kept back untill now / by Junius Florilegus.
Younge, RichardDate: 1649- Books
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The odious, despicable, and dreadfull condition of a drunkard, drawn to the life to deterre others, and cause them to decline the wayes of death, or, A hopefull way to cure drunkennesse : (the root of all evill, and rot of all good) in such as are not (by long custome) past cure : composed, and published for their good, who (not for want of ignorance) prinde themselves in drunken good-fellowship : which probably may open their eies, as the tasting of honey did Jonathan, and cause them to say as the governour to the bridegroome, John 2.10, The good wine was kept back untill now / by Junius Florilegus.
Younge, RichardDate: 1649- Pictures
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Street scene with snake charmers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 30638iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Musician with instrument made from pumpkin shells joined by a wire and played with a bow, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31209iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Interior with reclining man holding snake-like hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 30630iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Musician with a percussion instrument made of two drums of different sizes joined together, and played with a drumstick, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31372iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Man seated in doorway playing the tobri, a wind instrument, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31150iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Brahman priest with a musical shell and a bell, being used at a religious ceremony, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31179iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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A musician with a d'hole, a drum played at one end with a stick, and at the other with the hand, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31373iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Hindu ascetic seated under a tree, near Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 30728iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Man playing a borung, a type of horn played at Hindu festivals, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31259iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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Seated man in doorway smoking a cocoa nut hookah, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 30613iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
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A musician with a nagra, a type of drum played with sticks, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31307iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos