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Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].
West, William, 1770-1854.Date: [1825]- Books
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An approved medicine against the deserued plague.
Anderson, Anthony, -1593Date: 1593- Books
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A rich cabinet with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious sirpits [sic] at their vacant hours : Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, air, and vvater. And fire works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1658- E-books
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Articles of a Friendly Society, held at the house of Thomas Bedford, known by the sign of the cock, the corner of Golden-lane, Old-street
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Emblems of the triumph of Christ over worldly powers. Etching by W. Hollar, 1654.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: [1654]Reference: 2855737i- Books
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[A]dvertisement of a very useful book now published, intituled, The art of brewing beer, ale, &c : The contents of the book are as follows, viz.
Salusbury, Thomas, active 1685-1694Date: 1690- Books
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A treatise of the pestilence : vvherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiues against all infection: and lastly is taught the true and perfect cure of the pestilence, by most excellent and approued medicines. Composed by Thomas Thayre chirurgian, for the benefite of his countrie, but chiefly for the honorable city of London.
Thayre, ThomasDate: 1603- Books
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Chymicus rationalis: or, The fundamental grounds of the chymical art : rationally stated and demonstrated, by various examples in distillation, rectification, and exaltation of vinor spirits, tinctures, oyls, salts, powers, and oleosums; in such a method as to retain the specifick virtue of concrets in the greatest power and force. In all which the chymical doctrines are illustrated upon a new hypothesis or spagirick course, composed agreeable to practical philosophy, and the best authority of art, for mysteries treated of by Cartes, Starkey, Sylvius, Glauber, Helmont, Paracelsus, and others, are explicated and exemplarified, ... and so fitted in order for the publick service. In which is contained, a philosophical description of the astrum lunare microcosmicum, or phospheros. Recommended to all that desire to improve and advance profitable truths, such as are real and not hystorical. / By W. Y-Worth, spagirick physician in both medicines, and philosopher by fire.
Y-Worth, W. (William)Date: 1692- Books
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Evangelium sydereum: or, Revelation demonstrated : In three parts. The first being a philosophical discourse leading to the second. The second is Holy Scripture, astronomically handled from the radix of a nativity, and a direction of the luminaries, &c. The third is an appendix touching the scheme of Sol's ingress into Aries for the year 1677. The whole being a divine treatise recommended to the serious perusal of the unprejudic'd mathematician and astrologer, as also of all other persons, to the intent they may behold God's glorious wonders revealed in the heavens. By John Southworth, an experiencer of the love of Jesus, and a well-wisher to the people in scorn called Quakers.
Southworth, John, 1592-1654Date: 1680- Books
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A new art of brewing beer, ale, and other sorts of liquors : so as to render them more healthful to the body, and agreeable to nature; and to keep them longer from souring with less trouble and charge than generally practiced, which will be a means to prevent those torturing distempers of the stone, gravels, gout and dropsie. To which is added, the art of making mault, &c. and several useful and profitable things relating to country affairs. Recommended to all brewers, gentlemen and others, that brew their own drink. The third edition, with many large additions never printed before. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick, who hath lately published rules physical and moral for preserving of health, with a bill of fare of 75 noble dishes of excellent food. Price bound 1 s. Licensed and entred according to order.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1691- Books
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Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague : With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant. Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience; for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore. By Stephen Bradwell, of London physician.
Bradwell, StephenDate: 1636- Books
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp : with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues collected by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London 1629.
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650Date: [1629]]- E-books
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Proposals for insurance on marriage, by the Noble and Honest Society, at their office, at the sign of the vine, over against the Royal Bagnio in Newgate-Street
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650.Date: 1629- Books
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Deliramenta catarrhi: or, The incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author, that great philosopher, by fire, Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton, physician to the late King.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644Date: 1650- E-books
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Alice Ford, at the old sign of the horse-shoe, no. 50 Thomas Street, between Meath-St. and Vicar - Street, Dublin, manufactures the following goods of the choicest materials in the best manner, and is determined to sell them on terms pleasing and advantag
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An elegy, on the deplorable, and never enough to be lamented death, of the illustrious, and serene Charles the II. King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, &c : who departed this life, (on Friday the 6th. of February, between 11 and 12. of the clock, in the forenoon: and was interr'd at Westminster, the 14th. of the same month, being the 55th year of his age, 1684/5.
Ker, Patrick, active 1691Date: 1685- Books
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The gouernment of health: a treatise written by William Bullein, for the especiall good and healthfull preseruation of mans bodie from all noysome diseases, proceeding by the excesse of euill diet, and other infirmities of nature: full of excellent medicines, and wise counsels, for conseruation of health, in men, women, and children. Both pleasant and profitable to the industrious reader.
Bullein, William, -1576Date: 1595- Books
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Lithotomia vesicæ: that is, An accurate description of the stone in the bladder : shewing the causes and pathognomicall signes thereof, and chiefely of the method whereby it is to be artificially taken out both of men and women, by section. Wherein severall wayes of operation are described, and the chirurgicall instruments lively delineated. Written first in High Dutch by Gulielmus Fabritius Hildanus ... Afterward augmented by the author, and first translated into Latin by his scholler and communer Henricus Schobingerus Sangalthensis; and now done into English by N.C. ... With better instruments than heretofore.
Fabricius Hildanus, Wilhelm, 1560-1634Date: 1640- Books
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[The ladies dispensatory,] : [containing the natures, vertues, and qualities of all herbs, and simples usefull in physick, reduced into a methodicall order, for their more ready use in any sicknesse, or other accident of the body. The like never published in English. With an alphabetical table of all the vertues of each herb, and simple.].
Sowerby, LeonardDate: [1652]- Books
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A modest defence of the caueat giuen to the wearers of impoisoned amulets, as preseruatiues from the plague : wherein that point is somewhat more lergely reasoned and debated with an ancient physician, who hath mainteined them by publicke writing: as likewise that vnlearned and dangerous opinion, that the plague is not infectious, lately broched in London, is briefly glansed at, and refuted by way of preface, by Fr. Hering D. in Physicke. Reade without preiudice; iudge without partialitie.
Herring, Francis, -1628Date: 1604- Books
Dental services offered by Paul Jullion, surgeon dentist. Letterpress with woodcuts, ca. 1752.
Jullion, Paul, d. approximately 1766.Date: [1752?]- Pictures
Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Obadiah riding a coach horse knocks Dr. Slop off his pony into a pond, a sign to Shandy Hall hangs over him. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 22031i- Pictures
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Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847.Date: [1816]Reference: 30807i