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Damask (Hesperis matronalis L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17186i- Pictures
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Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16263i- Books
Perfumes of yesterday / by David G. Williams.
Williams, David G.Date: [2004], ©2004- Pictures
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Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller): flowering and fruiting stems with separate node and floral and fruiting segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17396i- Pictures
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Gum cistus (Cistus ladanifer L.) and bastard indigo (Amorpha fruticosa L.): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740.Date: [1730]Reference: 20533i- Pictures
A cartouche with swags of fruit advertising the pharmacy of G. Acton, Worcester. Engraving by Gracroft.
Gracroft (Engraver at Worcester), fl. 19th century.Date: Between 1800 and 1899Reference: 26775i- Pictures
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Mecca balsam (Commiphora opobalsamum): entire young plant. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.
Date: 1 October 1804Reference: 20919i- Pictures
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Valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.): flowering stem with separate rooting stem and floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16779i- Archives and manuscripts
Recipe book
Date: c.1893-1897Reference: MS.7984Part of: Thompson, Charles John Samuel (1862-1943), medical librarian- Pictures
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20096i- Pictures
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): mature fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20098i- Pictures
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Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): tree bearing flowers and fruit. Coloured lithograph, 1812, after J. Forbes, 1780.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20099i- Books
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Dietrichsen and Hannay's diary and daily memoranda for 1848, : bound up with their almanack.
Hannay & Dietrichsen, Chemists and Druggists.Date: [1849]- Books
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Calendar for the year 1896-97 / University of Durham College of Medicine.
University of Durham. College of Medicine.Date: 1896- Books
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Miss Leslie's lady's new receipt-book : a useful guide for large or small families, containing directions for cooking, preserving, pickling, and preparing the following articles according to the most new and approved receipts, viz.: soups, fish, meats, vegetables, poultry, oysters, game, puddings, pies, tarts, custards, ice creams, blancmange, cakes, confectionary, sweetmeats, jellies, syrups, cordials, candies, perfumery, etc.
Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858.Date: 1851- Books
Fragrant : the secret life of scent / Mandy Aftel.
Aftel, MandyDate: 2014- Ephemera
Retail pharmacy ephemera : Pre-1850, M-Z.
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Duty on income, land tax, &c. Kearsley's annual ten-penny tax tables, for the year 1799; containing the duties on houses Windows Dogs Male Servants Bachelors Carriages with 4 or 2 Wheels Taxed Carts Horses for Pleasure or Draught, Mules. An accurate stamp table, Including the Regulations respecting Deeds, Bilis of Exchange, Notes, Receipts, Legacies, Hair-Powder Licences, Hats, Pawnbrokers, Perfumery, Quack Medicines; and Armorial Bearings; likewise the new duty upon income.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1799]- Books
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The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. Also, the order of a bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the table, in the present taste. And also, fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1799- Books
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The new London family cook; or, Town and country housekeeper's guide. Comprehending directions for marketing ... practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes ... With the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c., cookery for the sick, and for the poor; directions for carving ... Also a collection of valuable family recipes,in dyeing, perfumery, &c. Instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening. And an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. forming in the whol a most complete family instructor / by Duncan Macdonald; and assistants.
MacDonald, Duncan, active 1800.Date: [1800]- Books
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Kearsley's annual eight-penny tax tables, for the year 1794 and 1795, Containing the new duties on attornies clerks, bricks and tiles, glass, paper, slates, stones, spirits, &c. The acts repealing the duties on gloves, and the registry of births, marriages, and christenings. Also an accurate abstract of the former taxes on Apptentices Auctioneers Alehouse-keepers Bills of Exchange Brewers Brandy dealers Candles Coaches Distillers Excise licenses Game licences Hawkers & pedlars Houses Horses Medicines Notes of hand Perfumery Oost horses Receipts Servants Spirits Stamps Sugar Table beer Windows Wire &c. &c. &c. The act of the present session which empowers the commissioners of stamps to stamp bills of Exchange in certain cases. And, among a variety of other acts of general concern, the bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus act, the New Penny-Post regulations, and the Act for the Due Observance of the Lord's day.
Kearsley, Catharine.Date: 1794- Books
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Darley's Circulating library, Queen-Street, town of Portsea, where books are lent to read at 12s. per year, 4s. per quarter, 1s. 6d. per month, 6d. per week, or 2d per volume. Also are sold the following articles on the lowest terms. Scented, coloured, and plain hair powders foreign and English pomatums shaving boxes & brushes buckle, tooth, & comb ditto cloaths, nail, and shoe ditto variety of wash balls windsor, violet, and other soaps patent and ball blacking tooth powder and powder mask's steel hat and cap pins powder bags and puffs of all sorts French carmine rouge hair slides lavender, arquebusade, and Hungary water and essences wax and wafers court plaister all sorts of ivory and horn combs dressing cases knives, razors, & scissars gold and silver mounted ivory and tortoiseshell tooth-pick cases Dutch and English toys, &c. &c. No stamp charged on any article of perfumery.
Darley's Circulating library (Portsea, England)Date: [1790?]- Books
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Plocacosmos: or the whole art of hair dressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair; also Ample and wholesome Rules to preserve the Hair. The Hair completely analyzed, as to its Growth, Nature, Colour, &c. and all and every Article used in the Hair, on the Head, Face, &c. as, False Hair, Perfumery, Cosmetics, &c. clearly analyzed and examined; with a History of the Hair and Head Dress, from the earliest Ages to the present Time, particularly as they have appeared upon the English Stage for these last Two Hundred Years; with Strictures on the present Performers belonging to each Theatre. The Plan of this Work requiring it, there are also complete Rules for the Management of Children and Education of Youth; and excellent Rules for the Preservation of the Health and Happiness of Age; being a Guide through the Seven Ages of Man: The whole interspersed with Moral Thoughts, being necessary for all Families. By James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.
Stewart, James.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The art of cookery, made plain and easy; Which far excels any Thing of the Kind yet published. Containing, I. A List of the various Kinds of Meat, Poultry, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit, in Season, in every Month of the Year. II. Directions for Marketing. III. How to Roast and Boil to Perfection. IV. Sauces for all plain Dishes. V. Made Dishes. VI. To dress Poultry, Game, &c. Vii. How expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. Viii. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes for Suppers, or Side or Corner Dishes. IX. To dress Turtle, Mock-Turtle, &c. X. To dress Fish. XI. Sauces for Fish. XII. Of Soups and Broths. XIII. Of Puddings and Pies. XIV. For a Lent Dinner; a Number of good Dishes, which may be made use of at any other Time. XV. Directions for the Sick. XVI. For Captains of Ships; how to make all useful Dishes for a Voyage; and setting out a Table on board. XVII. Of Hog's Puddings, Sausages, &c. XVIII. To pot, make Hams, &c. XIX. Of Pickling. XX. Of making Cakes, &c. XXI. Of Cheesecakes, Creams, Jellies, Whipt Sullabubs. XXII. Of Made Wines, Brewing, Baking, French Bread, Muffins, Cheese, &c. XXIII. Jarring Cherries, Preserves, &c. XXIV. To make Anchovies, Vermicelli, Catchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French Beans, &c. XXV. Of Distilling. XXVI. Directions for Carving. XXVII. Useful and valuable Family Receipts. XXVIII. Receipts for Perfumery, &c. In which are included, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition. With a copious index. By Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1796- Books
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The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published. Containing, I. How to Roast and Boil to Persection every Thing necessary to be sent up to Table. II. Of Made Dishes. III. How expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. IV. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes for a Supper or Side-Dish, and little Corner-Dishes for a great Table. V. To dresh Fish. VI. Of Soups and Broths. Vii. Of Puddings. Viii. Of Pics. IX. For a Lent Dinner; a Number of good Dishes, which may be made use of at any other Time. X. Directions to prepare proper Food for the Sick. XI. For Captains of Ships; how to make all useful Dishes for a Voyage; and setting out a Table on board. XII. Of Hog's Puddings, Sausages, &c. XIII. To pot and make Hams, &c. XIV. Of Dickling. XV. Of making Cakes, &c. XVI. Of Cheesecakes, Creams, Jellies, Whipt Syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of Made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muslins, &c. XVIII. Jarring Cherries and Preserves, &c. XIX. To make Anchovies, Vermicelli, Catchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French Beans, &c. XX. Of Distilling. XXI. How to market; the Season of the Year for Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Fish, Herbs, Roots, and Fruit. XXII. A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, by Dr. Mead. XXIII. A Receipt to keep clear from Bugs. To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. And also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index. By Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]