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Painless & perfect dentistry : artificial teeth and dental surgeons 1850-1920 : a selection of ephemera from the General Collections : 13 April - 24 July 2004 : a small display in the cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 2004- Ephemera
Clean and sparkling : soaps & detergents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 30 November - 27 February 1999 / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1998- Books
Urban alchemy / made by Hilary Powell ; in collaboration with demolition site materials and those working with them on University College London sites of deconstruction and refurbishment.
Powell, HilaryDate: 2015- Ephemera
On the shelf : printed ephemera from the chemist's shop, 1890-1940 : 1 March - 29 May 1999 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 1999- Books
Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science / Srdjan Smajic.
Smajic, Srdjan, 1974-Date: 2010- Pictures
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Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11754i- Books
Seeking nature's logic : natural philosophy in the Scottish enlightenment / David B. Wilson.
Wilson, David B., 1961-Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.Date: [2015]- Ephemera
Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: [1999]- Ephemera
Branded : famous brand names among the library's post-1850 ephemera and pamphlets : 4 January - 1 April 2000 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 2000- Books
The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
Date: [2015]- Ephemera
The chemist's shop : advertising from shops and advertising for shops from 1860-1945 : 2 April - 27 July 2002 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the Wellcome Library / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: 2002- Pictures
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A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
Villiers, Frederick, 1852-1922.Reference: 24463i- Archives and manuscripts
Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Sidrach, De la vertu des pierres précieuses et des herbes
Date: Early 14th centuryReference: MS.457- Books
Waste and want : a social history of trash / Susan Strasser.
Strasser, Susan, 1948-Date: 1999- Books
Antarctica, art and archive / by Polly Gould.
Gould, PollyDate: 2020- Books
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A catalogue of a curious collection of books: containing Ten Thousand Volumes, in all Branches of Learning, of the best Authors, In Divinity, History, the Greek and Roman Historians, Poets, Orators, &c. Poetry, Painting, Medicine, Surgery, Philosophy, Mathematicks, &c. in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and English. The Books are in elegant Condition. Amongst which are the following, General Dictionary, 10 vol. Dict. de Bayle, 5 tom. Par. Dict. de Trevaux, 5 tom. Dict. de Moreri, 6 tom. H. Stephani Thesaur. cum Glossar. 5 tom. Char. min. Suidae Lexic. 3 tom. Ch. max. & min. Constantini Lexicon, Edit. opt. Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 tom. Plutarchi Opera, Gr. Lat. 2 t. Par. Plinii Harduini, 3 t. Ch. max. & min. Aristophanes Kissteri, Gr. & Lat. Lucian Bourdeletius - Polybius Casauboni - Zenoph. Leunelavii Dion. Halicarnassus, Hudsoni, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus Rhodomanni Gale's Herodotus-Paufanias Khunii Pindar, Gr. Lat. Ox. - Strabo 1707 Buckley's Thuanus, 7 tom. Septuaginta, Graece, Romae Com. Prayer of Edward VI. 1st Edit. Critici Sacri, 9 tom. Picart's Ovid, fine Cuts Works of Tillotson, 3 vol. - Barrow. 2 vol. - Jackson, 3 vol. - Bingham, 2 vol. - Prideaux, 2 vol. -Clarke, 4 vol. - Beveridge, 2 vol. &c. New System of Geography, 2 vol. Universal History, 8 vol. Moreton's Northamptonshire, large and small Paper, and several of the Counties. State Trials, 8 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Spence's Polymetis, fine Cuts Salmon's Modern History, 3 vol. Giannone's Naples, 2 vol. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Hawkins's Scatutes, 6 vol. and 7 vol. of Acts Anstis's Regist. of the Garter, 2 vol. Cooper's Anarom and on the Muscles Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. coloured Wallis Opera omnia, 3 tom. Hooke's Micrographia. With many Hundreds more in Folio, Quarto and Octavo, equally good, which will be Sold (very cheap) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 15th of May 1749, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Round Court in the Strand, against York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had Gratis at the following Booksellers, viz. Mr. Strahan's, Cornhill; Mr. Osborne's, Pater-Noster-Row; Mr. Lewis's, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley's, in New-Bond-Street, Mr. Jackson's, in St. James's street; Mr. Owen's, next the Devil Tavern, Fleet-Street; and at the Place of Sale: Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1749]- Books
Death and survival in urban Britain : disease, pollution and environment, 1800-1950 / Bill Luckin.
Luckin, BillDate: 2020- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
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For 1792. A catalogue, of a fine and useful collection of ancient and modern books, (lately purchased), in all languages and sciences, The whole forming an Assemblage, of more then Twenty Thousand Volumes, in Maps Books of Prints History Antiquities Voyages Travels Philosophy Arts and Sciences Mathematicks Natural History Gardening Husbandry Trade Poetry Miscellanies Divinity Latin French, Italian, &c. Which are now selling remarkably Cheap, By Shepperson and Reynolds, booksellers, No. 137, Oxford Street. Who give the utmost Value for Libraries or Parcels of Books, and Exchange Books on the most Liberal Plan. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale, and of the following Booksellers: - Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; Meffieurs Robinson, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Brown, Corner of Essex-Street, Strand; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly, London: Mess. Merrill, Cambridge; and Mess. Cook and Fletcher, Oxford.
Shepperson and Reynolds.Date: 1792]- Books
When language broke open : an anthology of queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent / edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez.
Date: 2023- Books
Medicine and justice : medico-legal practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914 / Katherine D. Watson.
Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)Date: 2020- Pictures
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Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
Marais, Maurice, 1852-Date: 23 January 1897Reference: 16999i- Books
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Constructions of cancer in early modern England : ravenous natures / Alanna Skuse.
Skuse, Alanna, 1986-Date: 2015- Books
A history of disability in England : from the medieval period to the present day / Simon Jarrett.
Jarrett, SimonDate: 2023