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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Pictures
Two men walking along a path on mount La Verna towards a sanctuary. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
Ligozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626.Date: [1612]Reference: 563603i- Pictures
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The widow of a murdered French envoy in Rome pleading for her life: a man tells her "We are Romans, we do not kill women". Etching after J.D. Schubert.
Schubert, Johann David, 1761-1822.Date: [1794]Reference: 42816i- Pictures
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Christ raising Lazarus. Engraving by D. Le Bossu after G. Brandi.
Brandi, Giacinto, 1621-1691.Date: 1670-1679Reference: 34567i- Pictures
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A Franciscan monk showing a little chapel on mount La Verna to two pilgrims. Engraving attributed to D. Falcini after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
Ligozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626.Date: [1612]Reference: 563601i- Pictures
A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [C. 1800]Reference: 16164i- Pictures
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Jean Foy Vaillant. Line engraving by N. Habert, 1688.
Date: 1688Reference: 9324i- Books
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Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 31 décembre 1842, / par Aristide Reinvillier ... I. Du diagnostic et du pronostic des différentes formes de gastralgies. ... [etc].
Reinvillier, Aristide, active 1842-1870.Date: 1842- Pictures
Epicharmus of Cos. Lithograph by T. Sauvé after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Date: [1829]Reference: 3087468i- Books
Professional and economic data on the activity of a country physician from the south of France in 1869 / by Christian-F. Roques, C.P. Roques, J.C. Escolier and J.P. Roques.
Date: 1991- Books
Traité singulier de métallique contenant divers secrets touchant la connoissance de toutes sortes de métaux & minéraux, la maniere de les tirer des mines, de les essayer & de les purifier : avec d'autres secrets et tours de mains rares, tant pour les orfévres, jouailliers, affineurs, fondeurs, chaudronniers, potiers d'etaing, coûteliers, plombiers, forgerons, serruriers, que pour tous ceux qui travaillent sur les métaux, & principalement pour ceux qui ont des mines à cultiver & faire valoir, leur enseignant la maniére de les mettre à profit, & d'en abréger le travail & les dépenses et plusiers autres secrets concernant les métaux, comme les départir étant mêlés tous ensemble, sans eau de départ, &c / Traduit de l'original espagnol de Perez de Vargas, imprimé à Madrid en 1568 ... Par G.G. [i.e. Gaspard Gautier].
Pérez de Vargas, Bernardo, active 16th century.Date: 1743- Pictures
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Sálazie, Réunion Islands: the mountains and moorhen pond. Tinted lithograph by C. Merme, 1831, after A. Roussin.
Roussin, A., active 1860.Date: 1811Reference: 22706i- Pictures
A male écorché standing, leaning against a tree, exposing the anatomy of his thorax and his left breast. Woodcut by François Jollat, 1545, after Étienne de La Rivière and Charles Estienne.
Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.Date: [1557/1575]Reference: 38852i- Books
Recueil de plusieurs machines militaires et feux artificiels pour la guerre & recreation : auec l'alphabet de Trittemius par laquelle chacun qui sçait escrire peut promptement composer congruement en latin, aussi le moyen d'escrire la nuict á son amy absent / de la diligence de Iean Appier dit Hanzelet, chalcographe et de François Thybourel, me. chyrurgien.
Thybourel, François, active 1620.Date: 1620- Pictures
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Anna Maria Herig, a girl with a skin disease: anterior view. Line engraving by C. Baron after J. de Sève, 1777.
Sève, Jacques de, active 1742-1788.Date: 1777Reference: 332i- Pictures
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Hermaphroditus in the pool of the spring-nymph Salmacis, who begged the gods that they be joined for all time; the gods acceded and they became one, male and female. Engraving by Colinet after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1786Reference: 27750iPart of: Galerie du Palais Royal.- Books
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Observations sur l'usage interne du colchique d'autome, du sublimé corrosif, de la feuille d'oranger, du vinaigre distillé, &c. : Dans lesquels on trouve des moyens de guérir plusieurs maladies qui résistent aux remédes usités. / Pâr Mrs. Störck, Locher, de Haen, médicins de Vienne. Précédées d'un Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de ces différens moyens de guérison. Pâr M.L.B.D.P.D.M.P.
Störck, Anton, Freiherr von, 1731-1803.Date: MDCCLXIV [1764]- Books
Les oeuures anatomiques et chirurgicales de Me. Germain Courtin, : ... : Traictant amplement de l'anatomie du corps humain, de la generation de l'homme, & de toutes les maladies externes ... avec leur guerison. / Le tout rangé, divisé, noté & reduit en forme de commentaires, sur la Chirurgie de M. Guidon de Cauliac. Par Estienne Binet.
Courtin, Germain, -1597Date: M. DC. LVI. [1656]- Pictures
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Saint Paul preaches before a small group in a crowded forum in Athens. Etching by J.A. Bellanger, 1749, after himself.
Bellanger, Jean Achille, active 1745-1770.Date: 1749Reference: 24891i- Pictures
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A soldier returns and is greeted with great affection by his wife and child. Stipple engraving by L. Darcis after J.B. Isabey.
Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, 1767-1855.Date: 1797Reference: 27119i- Books
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Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 28 mars 1838, / par Louis-Ant.-Alp. Frere, de Paris.
Frere, Louis-Antoine-Alphonse, active 1838-1845.Date: 1838- Pictures
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The death of Robert Faulknor: he is shot while lashing the French enemy ship to his own ship. Etching and engraving by W. Bromley and C. Blackberd, 1801, after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: 1801Reference: 548026i- Books
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Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 8 août 1842, / par Michel-Louis Le Blanc de Varennes, de Nevers ... I. Des analogies et des différences entre le pancréas et les glandes salivaires. ... [etc].
Le Blanc de Varennes, Michel-Louis, active 1842-1845.Date: 1842- Pictures
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The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas after his execution. Engraving by Peter Gleich after L.C. de Carmontelle.
Carmontelle, 1717-1806.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 37828i- Books
A new discovery of a vast country in America extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico ... With a description of the Great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals: also, the manners, customs, and languages, of the several native Indians; and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation: giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan. Both parts illustrated with maps and figures, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William / By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.Date: 1698