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Seven pieces of tufa from the vicinity of Naples. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43699i- Books
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The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual: Containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant service, as to officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In the course of which, the following subjects are particularly elucidated: I. Disbursements, & other ship-accounts. 2. Instructions for the officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Tables useful in martime affairs. 4. Exchanges. 5. Real and imaginary monies of the world. 6. Owners. 7. Masters. 8. Seamen and seamen's wages. 9. Impressing. 10. Articles of regulation for the Royal Navy. 11. Freight, charter-parties, & demurrage. 12. Ballast. 13. Pilots and pilotage. 14. Marine insurances. 15. Averages. 16. Bottomry and respondentia 17. Privateers. 18. Bills of exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-acts. 21. Smuggling-acts. 22. Manifest-act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Sea and Davis's streights. 24. Southern whale-fishery. 25. British fisheries. 26. Newfoundland fisheries. 27. Oyster-fishers. 28. Regulation of seamen in the coasting-trade. 29. Slave-trade. 30. Act for consolidation of the duties. 31. Duties in the Unites States of America. 32. Duties at the sound. The fourth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a Gentlemam of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual: Containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In the course of̀ which, the following subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & other ship-accounts. 2. Instructions for the officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary monies of the world; and tables of the agreement which the weights and measures o the principal places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of captures by His Majesty's ships and private vessels of war. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and seamen's wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, charter-parties, & demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. PIots and pilotage. 15. Marine insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and respondentia 18. Bills of exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland seas and davis's streights. 24. Southern whale-fishery. 25. British fisheries. 26. Newfoundland fisheries. 27. Oyster-fisheries. 28. Regulation of seamen in the coasting-trade. 29. Slave-trade. 30. Act for consolidation of the duties. 31. Duties in the United States of America. 32. Duties at the sound. The fifth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
The lagoon : how Aristotle invented science / by Armand Marie Leroi ; with translations from the Greek by Simon MacPherson and original illustrations by David Koutsogiannopoulos.
Leroi, Armand MarieDate: 2014- Books
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Positively the last night. By permission of the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor, and the Worshipful the Mayor. In the Concert Room At the Black Bear, Shoemaker-Row, This Evening, Saturday, May 14th, 1796, will be presented A Divertisement, Comprising the following Subjects, by George Saville Carey. With a Poetical Apology. Part I. Mr. Incledon-Ma chere Amie. Air in the Manner of Rubinelli. Mrs. Wells-Charming Fellow. Mr. Dignum-Sally in our Alley. The Savoyards in London. Messrs. Barry, Garrick, and Smith, contrasted in King Richard the Third. Part II. The Etonians at Salt Hill. Mr. Kemble-Henry the 5th. Mr. Henderson-Shylock. Too late for Dinner,-A Story taken from Life. Shakspeare, on Degree and Order in Society. Serenade in the Jubilee, after the manner of Messrs. Bannister and Dignum. Part III. Madam Mara and the Mouse-A Duet. Mr. Wroughton-Dumont Mrs. Pitt-Widow Lovet. Milton Oysters, in the manner of Leoni. Garrick's Examination of a Stage Candidate. Part IV. Ben Johnson and the Fish,-A Tale. An entire new Dialogue, in the manner of the celebrated Messrs. Foote and Weston, in the Shades. The whole to conclude with A Poetical Descant on the Universal Art of Imitation; In the Course of which will be introduced the following Characters, viz. The Country Lout-The City Apprentice-The Young Quaker-The Pettifogger-The Young Counsellor-The Judge-The Lobby Lounger-And Miss Dabb, a Nymph of the Green Boxes. Doors to be opened at Seven, and to begin at Eight O'Clock, precisely.
Carey, George Saville, 1743-1807.Date: 1796]- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence: O-P
Date: 1988-1989Reference: PP/CRI/J/1/2/13/1Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspondence: O-P
Date: 1992-1993Reference: PP/CRI/J/1/3/13/3Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Books
Supermother's cooking with grass.
Date: [1971]- Pictures
James Hutton (left) and Joseph Black (right), natural philosophers, talking together. Etching and aquatint by J. Kay, 1787.
Kay, John, 1742-1826.Date: 1787Reference: 544708i- Books
A dictionary of the economic products of India / by George Watt (assisted by numerous contributors).
Watt, George, Sir, 1851-1930.Date: [1972]- Pictures
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Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.
Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.Date: 1840-1849Reference: 29822i- Videos
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Action of cilia and the effect of drugs on their activity.
Date: 1934- Books
Women's health matters / edited by Helen Roberts.
Date: 1992- Archives and manuscripts
Locock, Sir Charles: letters to Dr William Kerr
Sir Charles LocockDate: 1821-1875Reference: MS.8773- Pictures
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An election banquet. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1755.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 24 February 1755Reference: 38385iPart of: An election- Digital Images
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Pathogenesis and remedies: piman, Chinese woodcut, late Ming
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Dining on turtles : food feasts and drinking in history / edited by Diane Kirkby and Tanja Luckins.
Date: 2007- Books
The Fulton Fish Market : a history / Jonathan H. Rees.
Rees, Jonathan, 1966-Date: [2023]- Books
The living planet in crisis : biodiversity science and policy / [edited by] Joel Cracraft and Francesca T. Grifo.
Date: [1999], ©1999- Archives and manuscripts
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael, 1860-1906.Date: 1890-1906Reference: GALTON/3/3/22/17Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Weekly account of the receipt and consumption of provisions at St Mary's Hospital
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, LondonDate: October 1898-October 1903Reference: MS.9308- Videos
Drills, dentures and dentistry : An oral history.
Date: 2015- Videos
The magic of mushrooms.
Date: 2016- Books
Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification / edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978