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Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: 1787- Books
In the courts of religious ladies : art, vision, and pleasure in Italian Renaissance convents / Giancarla Periti.
Periti, Giancarla, 1966-Date: [2016]- Books
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Lane's ladies museum, or Complete pocket memorandum-book, for the year 1792: Ornamented with an elegant descriptive and interesting engraving of Henry and Louisa, from the errors or education, and ladies the errors of education, and ladies in the most fashionable dresses: containing I. Holidays for the year II. An exact account of the times of buying and selling stocks. III. Description of the plate. IV. One hundred and eight pages ruled for a memorandum book, on an improved plan. V. The select country dances for the year. VI. The favorite new songs sung at Vaux-hall, &c. &c. VII. Select pieces of poetry. VIII. Necessary rules for marketing, &c. IX. A correct table of expences, &c. &c.
Date: [1792]- Books
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A treatise on the hair: Shewing Its Generation. Means of its Preservation. Causes of its Decay. How to recover it when lost. What occasions its different Colours; with the probable Means to alter it from one Colour to another. Its most proper Management in different Climates, and in all the Stages, and Circumstances of Life. also a description of the most fashionable methods of dressing ladies and gentlemens hair, both Natural and Artificial. With An Essay on Dress in General, Address'd to the Ladies of Great-Britain. By David Ritchie, Hair-Dresser, Perfumer, &c.
Ritchie, David, Hair-dresser.Date: MDCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Garrick's jests; or, genius in high glee. Containing all the jokes of the wits of the present age, viz. Mr. Garrick, Ld. Lyttleton, Mr. Fox, Ld. Mansf-, Mr. Burke, Mr. Foote, Mr. Selwyn, Dutchess of K. Lady H-, Lady T-, &c. Being Humorous, Lively, Comical, Queer, Satirical Droll, Smart Repartees; Facetious, Merry Bon Mots, &c. To which are added, a new selection of epigrams, poems Conundrums, Toasts, Sentiments, Hob-Nobs, &c. now in Fashion, And the Favourite New Songs Sung last Season at Vauxhall.
Date: [1785?]- Pictures
Vignettes showing the effects of a cure in a sanatorium on a lady. Colour lithograph after Leonard, ca. 1910.
Leonard.Date: 1910Reference: 577231iPart of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.- Pictures
Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19598i- Books
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The ladies' complete visiting guide, containing directions for footmen and porters, being calculated for the purpose of receiving and delivering visiting cards, and answering Letters, with Dispatch & Punctuality; The work contains a correct list of all the fashionable streets at the west end of the town; divided into fou parts or districts, And leading from one Street to the other, according to each Divisior, with proper Directions in the First Page of the Work.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1790. Being the Second after Leap Year. Embellished with the fashionable Dresses of the Year 1789, and a beautiful View of the Front of Carlton-House. Containing, Amongst a great Variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive Articles, the following: The necessary Pages for Engagements, Memorandums, and Expences, ruled in a more plain and familiar Manner than any yet adapted for the Use of the Ladies; Tables of all the moveable and immoveable Feasts, Fasts, and Holidays in the Year; Days and Hours for buying, accepting, or transferring Stock, and receiving Dividends; Holidays at the Public Offices; Royal Family of Great Britain; Regal Table; Sovereigns of Europe's Birth Days; Perpetual Diary; Interest Table; Essay on Ceremony; Reflexions on Forethought; on the Advantage of Society; A Lady's Choice in Matrimony; Ode to Sleep; A Nuptual Card; On a Watch; Receipts in Cosmetics and Medicine; The favourite Songs and Country Dances for the Year; New Rates of Coachmen and Watermen; with several useful Particulars, necessary Marketing Tables, &c. Compiled at the Request of several Ladies of Quality.
Date: [1790]- Books
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Garrick's jests, or the English Roscius, in high glee. Containing all the jokes of the wits of the present age, viz: Mr. Garrick, Ld. Lyttleton, Mr. Fox, Ld Mansf, Mr. Burke, Dr. M, Mr. Foote, Mr. Selwyn, Dutchess of K-N, Lady HN, Lady TD, Sir Jos. Mawby, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Colman, Lord L., Mr. Courtney, Lady G, &c. Being Humourous, Lively, Comical, Queer, Satirical, Droll, Smart repartees; Facetious, Merry, Bon Mots, Funny, Entertaining and the favourite songs sung this season at Vauxhall and the London play-houses. To which are added A new Selection of Epigrams, Poems, Conundrums Toasts, Sentiments, Hob-Nobs, &c. now in Fashion. Which will kill Care, promote Jollity and Good-Humour amongst both Sexes.
Date: [1785?]- Books
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The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water.
Date: 1753- Books
The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water.
Date: 1751- Pictures
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A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.
Dawe, Philip.Date: Sep.r 3 1772Reference: 35493i- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
Date: 1798]- Books
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table; containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, Properly disposed for Family Dinners Of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With upwards of Fifty Bills Of Fare For Suppers, From Five Dishes to Nineteen; And Several Deserts: including a considerable number of choice receipts Of Various Kinds, With full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner: now first published from the manuscript collection of a professed housekeeper; Who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the First Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The modern Christian; or, practical sinner: exemplified, in the monstrous villanies of the age, and the great coolness and indifference of mankind towards their Creator, and the vast concern of salvation. The Farce of a Sick-Bed, and the Humours of the last Hours, in most Examples of Life. Punch and Port, the great Reliefs, in troubled Consciences. H-ll thought no hotter than a Town-Bagnio; and the D-l a sine well-bred Gentleman. Fasting, forgot in South Britain and Ireland. Our Roast-Beef, a weightier Incentive than our Religion, for Foreigners to visit us. Hypocrisy, a certain Sign of Insolvency. A Story of a 6 per cent. Lady, who pray'd her Friends and Acquaintances out of 30,000 l. principal Money. Marriage, a Separation for ever: The false Education of young Ladies the Cause of it. Christian Behaviour, much out of fashion: Quadrille and Ombre, obtain'd their Freedom of the City of London. All Men running mad and bewitched, and pursuing their own Destruction.
Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Pictures
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The blind school, Southwark: with a bustling street scene. Lithograph by L. Haghe, ca.1835, after J. Johnson.
Johnson, J.Date: [1835?]Reference: 38857i- Books
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Medical cautions, for the consideration of invalids; those especially who resort to Bath: containing essays on fashionable diseases; dangerous effects of hot and crowded rooms; regimen of diet, &c. An Enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters; an Essay on Quacks, Quack Medicines, and lady doctors; and an appendix, containing a table of the relative digestibility of foods, with explanatory observations. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.
Casals i Camps, Emili, 1843-1928.Date: [1882?]Reference: 44588i- Books
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The delicate songster, or, ladies vocal repository. Comprizing a select and elegant collection of the most esteemed songs; Which are sung At the Theatres, Public Gardens, &c. Whose Peculiar Merit have introduced them into the Polite Parties of the first Fashion, and established their reputation, with those of the finest taste, including some approved Original designs, to exercise the Talents of the Fair Sex in Musical Composition. With a Poetical Address to the Ladies, on Taste, in Singing, and another Original Piece entitled, The Fair Ones Moniter, Or Musico Poetical Medley of Charges against man. From the best Authorities. The whole designed as A sentimential Museum of Poetical and Musicial excellence and calculated to engage the attention, without ... the Taste, to Harmonize the Soul, without Irritating the Passion, and to chear the Heart, without forcing a blush into the cheek of Modesty.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The lady's assistant, for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, &c. Containing One hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners, of Five Dishes to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; with Upwards of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen; and Several Deserts: Including Likewise, The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, with Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: Published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table, being a complete system of cookery, Containing One Hundred and Fifty select Bills of Fare, properly disposed for Family Dinners of Five Dishes, to Two Courses of Eleven and Fifteen; With Upwards Of Fifty Bills of Fare for Suppers, from Five Dishes to Nineteen, And Several Deserts: Including Likewise. The fullest and choicest Receipts of various Kinds, With Full Directions for preparing them in the most approved Manner, from which a continual Change may be made, as wanted, in the several Bills of Fare: Published from the manuscript collection of Mrs. Charlotte Mason, A Professed Housekeeper, who had upwards of Thirty Years Experience in Families of the first Fashion.
Mason, Charlotte.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Medical cautions; chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases The dangerous Effects of Hot and Crouded Rooms. An Enquiry into the Use of Medicine during a Course of Mineral Waters. On Quacks, Quack Medicines, and Lady Doctors. And An Essay on Regimen, very much enlarged. The second edition. To which are now added, Appendix I. Containing farther Animadversions on a celebrated Quack Medicine, and Remarks on the Medical Powers and Use of the Dulcified Acids. Appendix II. An Essay on Therapeutics. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The ladies new and polite pocket memorandum-book, for the year of our Lord 1789. Being the Twenty-Ninth of King George III. the Thirty-Eighth of the New Style in Great-Britain, and the First after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Embellished with a beautiful copper-plate, representing two ladies in the most fashionable dresses now worn; also an elegant Engraving of Somerset-Place from the Water. Containing, I. A Useful Memorandum-Book, &c. &c. II. Marketing Tables. III. Table of Interest. IV. The Chronologist for 1788; enumerating every remarkable and interesting Occurrence. V. A Table to cast up Wages. VI. Select Pieces of Poetry. VII. The most esteemed new Songs sung at Vaux Hall. VIII. New Country Dances for 1789. IX. Marriages and Deaths of the Nobility, &c. in the Year 1788. X. Holidays, Birth-Days, &c. for 1789. XI. Wealth, Wisdom, and Virtue, an Eastern Tale. XII. The Force of Love, an interesting Tale. XIII. Hackney-Coach Fares. XIV. Rates of Watermen.
Date: [1789]- Books
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Lucifer's lectures; or, The infernal tribune. Price a good six-pence. Belzebub's pandemonium council to the privileged orders, as well as the inferior ranks of society in England; wherein is briefly and truly proved, that all the inhabitants of Great Britain, spiritual and temporal, profane and divine, clergy, laity, young, old, rich, and poor, and all ages, situations, and descriptions of life, are exactly following the directions of the Devil and his agents, and going to hell as fast as they can: being a sure guide to the infernal regions below, for M--n--r--y, M-g----tes, clergy, young ladies, old aunts, parents, methodist parsons, spoiled children, youth of fashion, apprentices, generals, admirals, shoe-blacks, cobblers, &c.
Date: [1800?]