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The triumphant chariot of antimony : being a conscientious discovery of the many reall transcendent excellencies included in that minerall / written by Basil Valentine ... ; faithfully Englished and published for the common good by I.H.
Basilius ValentinusDate: 1660- Books
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Description du camion prysmatique de Mr. de Perronet, premier ingénieur des ponts & chaussées de France, suivie de la description d'un chariot circulaire, proposé par Mr. Le Turc, Prof. of Military Sciences, the French Language, and Geography.
Le Turc, Monsieur.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Basil Valentine, his triumphant chariot of antimony with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius. M.D / With the true book of the learned Synesius, a Greek abbot, taken out of the emperour's library, concerning the philosopher's stone. [Translated by Richard Russell].
Basilius Valentinus.Date: 1678- Digital Images
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Eros is seated on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man an a woman; rococo frame below the image. Ink drawing, ca. 1740.
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The triumphant chariot of antimony : being a conscientious discovery of the many real transcendent excellencies included in that mineral. / Written by Basil Valentine a Benedictine monke ; faithfully Englished and published for the common good. By I.H. Oxon.
Basilius ValentinusDate: 1661- Pictures
Eros (Cupid) carried in triumph on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man and a woman; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.
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The triumph of the physician Jacobus Castricus (Jacques van den Kasteele): allegorical figures of Practice and Theory accompany him in a chariot under a triumphal arch; in the foreground, honey, mint and artemisia and mythical beasts are tramping on the contorted bodies of plague, fever and dropsy. Process print after H. Holbein (?), ca. 1540.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567418i- Pictures
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Above, neck-handled black-figured Greek amphora (Corinthian, ca. 550 B.C.); centre, detail of decorative frieze showing two men on horseback and a bird holding a snake in its beak; below, detail of decorative frieze showing a man on a chariot drawn by horses, with two attendants. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565669iPart of: Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.- Pictures
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Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above, symbolising the element fire. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 2 Jan[uar]y 1797Reference: 23947i- Books
Tower of Babel : the evidence against the new creationism / Robert T. Pennock.
Pennock, Robert T.Date: 2000, ©1999- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and entire houshold goods, plate, linen, books, china, watches, diamond, stone, and gold rings, coins, and medals, phaeton, chariot, horses, &c. &c. Of the late Henry Brownrigg, Esq; At his late Dwelling-House, at Pennington, near Lymington; Which will be sold by auction, (on the premises,) By John Braxton, On Monday, the 2d of July, and the Thirteen following Days. The Goods to be Viewed the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday preceding the Sale, which will begin each Day at Eleven O'Clock.
Braxton, John.Date: 1781- Pictures
A woman personifying the city of Lyons, carried in a chariot drawn by lions, passes before King Henri IV and Marie de' Medici who are in the guise of Jupiter and Juno; representing the meeting of Henri IV and Marie de' Medici in Lyons after their marriage by proxy. Engraving by G. Duchange, 170-, after J.B. Nattier after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1700 and 1709]Reference: 3063501iPart of: Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg.- Pictures
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Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23618i- Pictures
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The Egyptians are drowned as Moses parts the waves. Engraving after H. Wierix.
Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619.Reference: 18260i- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1866Reference: 19134i- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1866Reference: 19136i- Pictures
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Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19137i- Pictures
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Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19135i- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Crim. Con. A narrative of a late trial in a cause of crim. con. Wherein the Rt. Hon. George, Earl of Westmeath was plaintiff, and the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, defendant. To which is subjoined: a poetical deseant on modern incontinency; or, The mysteries of coaching developed. With a word or two directing to the choice of charioteers, addressed to the higher circles. And in conclusion: a coach-scene described; or, a dissertation on strokes. After the manner of sterne.
Westmeath, George Frederick Nugent, Earl of, 1760-1814.Date: [1796]- Books
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Crim. Con. A narrative of a late trial in a cause of crim. con. Wherein the Rt. Hon. George, Earl of Westmeath was plaintiff, and the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, defendant. To which is subjoined: a poetical descant on modern incontinency; or, the mysteries of coaching developed. With a word or two directing to the choice of charioteers, addressed to the higher circles. And in conclusion: a coach-scene described; or, a dissertation on strokes. After the manner of sterne.
Westmeath, George Frederick Nugent, Earl of, 1760-1814.Date: [1796]- Pictures
The Circus of Flaminius (or Circus Flaminius), Rome: reconstruction of its unruined state. Line engraving by N. Beatrizet, 1552, after P. Ligorio.
Ligorio, Pirro, approximately 1513-1583.Date: [1552]Reference: 2977750i- Pictures
A procession in Paris, 1612, to mark dynastic marriages joining France and Spain. Etching by M. Merian after C. Chastillon, 16--.
Chastillon, Claude, 1559 or 1560-1616.Date: [1615?]Reference: 2970951i- Books
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A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research: Also Marking and Explaining some of the desiderata. With an appendix. No I. On the Elements of Speach. No. II. On the Origin of Written Language, Picture, Hieroglyphic, and Elementary-Writing. No. III. On the Ships of the Ancients. No IV. On the Chariots of the Ancients. By T. Pownall.
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]