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Kymber. A monody. To Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart. By Mr. Potter.
Potter, R. (Robert), 1721-1804.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.
Date: 1760
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Observations on the landing of forces designed for the invasion of a country. With arguments on the safest and most expedient courses to be taken on that occasion; by Sir Clement Edmonds, Knt. Whereupon are added, some animadversions, With several Examples and Arguments to manifest the great advantages o a good fleet in war Between Nations divided by the Sea; And prove, that an Army may be landed in an Enemy's Country, unless they have a Naval Power able to oppose it. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knt.
Edmondes, Clement, Sir, 1566 or 1567-1622.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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Fossil feathers and some heretofore undescribed fossil birds / by R.W. Shufeldt.
Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934.Date: 1913
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A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.
Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]
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A course of anatomico-physiological lectures on the human structure and animal oeconomy; interspersed with various critical notes, extracted from Memoirs, Transactions of Learned Societies, &c. and Pathological Observations deduced from Dissections of morbid Bodies. Including whatever is most valuable in the works of all the eminent professors on these subjects. Particularly Winslow, Haller, Ruysch, Morgagni, Monro, Heister, &c. Illustrated with an historical compendium of the Rise, Progress, and Discoveries, which have been made in the Animal Oeconomy, gradually traced to the present Time. With the art of injecting and making anatomical preparations. ... . The third edition. By Charles Nicholas Jenty, M. D. Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences and Surgery at Paris, Stockholm, Rouen, Dijon, Toulouse, &c.
Jenty, Charles Nicholas.Date: 1765
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A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.
Date: MDCCLX. [1760]
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Moderation, or a candid disposition towards those that differ from us, recommended and enforc'd : a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Halifax, On Sunday, July the 28th, 1751. By John Watson, A. M. Fellow of Brazen-Nose College Oxford, and Curate of the said Parish Church.
Watson, John, 1725-1783.Date: [1755?]
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Thirty-Six curious histories, fables, and allegories; Taken from the Spectator and Guardian; Peculiarly Adapted to Form young Minds to a Love of Virtue, and an Abhorrence of Vice; viz. Inkle and Yarico. Laetitia and Daphne. Socrates and Physiognomist. Eudoxus and Leontine. Gypsy an Ambassador. Constantia and Theodosius. An Atheistical Author. Herod and Mariamne. Eginhart and Imma. French Renegado, &c. Dervise and K. of Tartary. Drop of Water, a Fable. Two Westminster Scholars. Reduced Citizen. Madam de Villacerfe. Basilius and Alexandrinus. Amazons Common wealth. Chremylus and Plutus. Biton and Clitobus. Rhynsault, unjust Governor Sultan Mahmud and Visier. Bantam Ambass. Letter. Persian Glass Man, a Fable. Fadlallah and Zemroude. Infidel Sultan and Doctor. A Jewish Tradition. Pleasure and Pain, a Fable. Menippus and Jupiter. Persian Sultan. Timoleon and Providence. Androcles & Numidian Lyon French Nobleman. Santon Barsissa and Devil. R- T- and her Maid. Helim the Physician. A Knight made virtuous.
Date: 1752
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A poem on the various scenes of shooting. On a new plan. By John Aldington, Of Evesham in Worcestershire, An Experienced Fowler. Humbly Recommended to the Gentlemen of the Gun.
Aldington, John.Date: 1767
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The law-Suit: or the farmer and fisherman. A poem. In which is contained, the polite speech of the chairman of a bench of justices at a country quarter-sessions, and the various artifices made use of in the several courts of judicature. Wrote for the benefit of unhappy clients, and humbly inscribed to the gentlemen of the faculty.
Barber, James, Rev.Date: 1738
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India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and peacock feathers. Watercolour, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 777732i
Part of: Indian trades and occupations, buildings and personalia. Album of drawings, paintings etc. by M. Wilthew (?), 18--.
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A young woman posing naked, lying on a sheepskin rug with feathers (?) in the background.
Reference: 550027i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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A man in uniform wearing a large three-cornered hat with peacock feathers in it. Lithograph.
Reference: 31714i
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Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology / edited by Robert Allen.
Date: 2010
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The anatomy of the humane body. Illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates of the most considerable parts; all done after the life. By W. Cheselden, Surgeon; Fellow of the Royal Society.
Cheselden, William, 1688-1752.Date: 1713
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An explication of the first causes of action in matter; and of the cause of gravitation. By Cadwallader Colden.
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776.Date: [1746]
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A sermon preached at the cathedral church of St. Paul, before the Sons of the Clergy, on Thursday the second of May, 1745. Being the day of their annual feast. By the Honourable and Reverend Henry Hervey Aston, A. M. Rector of Shotteley in the County of Suffolk.
Aston, Henry Harvey, 1701-1748.Date: [1745]
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A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2043502i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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M0005702: Melanesian item on a stand made from a skull, feathers, plants, cord and other materials
Date: 23 September 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/47/12
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Lifting a ton of feathers : a woman's guide for surviving in the academic world / Paula J. Caplan.
Caplan, Paula J.Date: [1993]
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Fifteen heads of women wearing the newest fashionable head-dresses of 1831; also a hat with feathers. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 32397i
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The heads of five women wearing high chignons dressed with flowers, feathers and jewellery. Coloured lithograph by E.T.
Reference: 32854i
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The heads and shoulders of five women wearing hats elaborately decorated with feathers, ribbons, and flowers. Coloured line block.
Reference: 33149i
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Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, wearing a lavish dress and a high head-dress of feathers. Mezzotint, 1795.
Date: 25th March 1795Reference: 570408i

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Kymber. A monody. To Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart. By Mr. Potter.

A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.

Fossil feathers and some heretofore undescribed fossil birds / by R.W. Shufeldt.

A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.

A full and candid answer to a pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the present German war.

Moderation, or a candid disposition towards those that differ from us, recommended and enforc'd : a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Halifax, On Sunday, July the 28th, 1751. By John Watson, A. M. Fellow of Brazen-Nose College Oxford, and Curate of the said Parish Church.

A poem on the various scenes of shooting. On a new plan. By John Aldington, Of Evesham in Worcestershire, An Experienced Fowler. Humbly Recommended to the Gentlemen of the Gun.

India: a man with a crutch carrying tubes decorated with bells and peacock feathers. Watercolour, 18--.

A young woman posing naked, lying on a sheepskin rug with feathers (?) in the background.

A man in uniform wearing a large three-cornered hat with peacock feathers in it. Lithograph.

Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology / edited by Robert Allen.

The anatomy of the humane body. Illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates of the most considerable parts; all done after the life. By W. Cheselden, Surgeon; Fellow of the Royal Society.

An explication of the first causes of action in matter; and of the cause of gravitation. By Cadwallader Colden.

A sermon preached at the cathedral church of St. Paul, before the Sons of the Clergy, on Thursday the second of May, 1745. Being the day of their annual feast. By the Honourable and Reverend Henry Hervey Aston, A. M. Rector of Shotteley in the County of Suffolk.

A performer in drag poses on stage wearing a head garment with sprawling feathers. Photographic postcard, 191-.

M0005702: Melanesian item on a stand made from a skull, feathers, plants, cord and other materials

Lifting a ton of feathers : a woman's guide for surviving in the academic world / Paula J. Caplan.

Fifteen heads of women wearing the newest fashionable head-dresses of 1831; also a hat with feathers. Coloured engraving.

The heads of five women wearing high chignons dressed with flowers, feathers and jewellery. Coloured lithograph by E.T.

The heads and shoulders of five women wearing hats elaborately decorated with feathers, ribbons, and flowers. Coloured line block.

Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, wearing a lavish dress and a high head-dress of feathers. Mezzotint, 1795.