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An historical account of the curiosities of London and Westminster, in three parts. Part I. Containing a full description of the Tower of London, and every thing curious in and belonging to it. Part II. Contains the history of Westminster-Abbey, from its foundation to the present time; with its antiquities, tombs, and inscriptions. Part III. Treats of the Old Cathedral of St. Paul's, and the new; together with a full account of the monument, London-Stone, the City-Wall, Gates, and other antique remains.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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An historical account of the curiosities of London and Westminster, in three parts. Part I. Contains a full description of the Tower of London, and every Thing curious in and belonging to it. Part II. Contains the history of Westminster-Abbey, from its Foundation to the present Time; with its Antiquities, Tombs, and Inscriptions. Part III. Treats of the old cathedral of St. Paul's and the new; together with a full Account of the Monument, London-Stone, the City-Wall, Gates, and other antique Remains.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state ; to which pious and unprecedented exercises is prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking ; the facts, attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen ; and the discourses, correctly noted by clerical stenographers / by several medical gentlemen.
Date: 1815- Books
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The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious, or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools, and other Magnificent Buildings, as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Gaols, and all Publick Edifices. Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. And many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. Bailey, Author of the Universal, Etymological, English Dictionary.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: [1734]- Pictures
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A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.Date: 1840Reference: 32029i- Books
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A collection of all the statutes now in use; with notes in the Margin. To the reigns of Our late Most Gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary, Of ever Blessed Memory: to which is added, rules, order, and directions, by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, for the regulating of all cities, Walled Towns and Corporations in this Kingdom of Ireland, according as by the Act of Settlement is directed. as also, A Necessary Table or Kalendar to the whole Work, expressing in Titles the principal Matter therein contained, for the Ease and Advantage of the Reader.
Ireland.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Pictures
Remnants of a mosque.
Chow, CalvinDate: 2019Reference: 3321159iPart of: Blindness of the sea.- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, an account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last one the walls of the present House of Commons. Including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the city of Westminster, and the place and other buildings there, and the principles and history of painting and gothic architecture. By John Sidney Hawkins, Esq.F.A.S. The plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842.Date: [1800]- Pictures
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Kowloon, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 18845i- Pictures
Kowloon, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 18844i- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1866Reference: 19164i- 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: 19165i- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19125i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++78.
Date: 2010- Books
Black Deutschland / Darryl Pinckney.
Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-Date: 2016- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, in octavo, the Scots antiquarian miscellany. Comprehending the most authentic account of the origin of the Scots, with the boundaries of their kingdom before they conquered the picts;-an account of their ancient kings, and of berigonium (or dunmacsnichain) the ancient chief city of the Scots;-with an account of the Kings of the Isles, and of the Orkncys. Also an account of the kingdom of the picts, of their Kings, monuments of antiquity, &c.;-an account of druid temples, altars, burying-places, groves, &c.;-an account of the Roman Walls, encampments, stations, out-posts, ports, coins, medals, monumental inscriptions, &c. that have been found in Scotland; with an historical and genealogical account of the noble families, and a natural history of the parishes in Scotland. Subscriptions taken in by John Gillies, the publisher; Mess. Elliot, Creech, and Balfour, Edinburgh; Mess. Gillies, Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow; Mr J. Murray, and T. Philipe, London.
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral. Containing 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from it's first Foundation, in which many curious Particulars concerning it's ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoveries and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on it's Beauties and Defects. 4. A full View of every Thing curious in it shewn to Strengers. 5. A Comparison of it's Dimensions with those of the Old Church: And of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To Which Are Added A Description of the Monument. Some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Relics, And a Review of the Ancient Wall and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: [1770]- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral. Containing 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from its first Foundation, in which many curious Particulars concerning its ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoveries and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on its Beauties and Defects. 4. A full View of every thing curious in it shewn to Strangers. 5. A Comparison of its Dimensions with those of the Old Church; and of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To Which Are Added A Description of the Monument, Some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Relicks, And a Review of the Antient Wall and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: [1765]- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral. Containing 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from its first Foundation, in which many curious Particulars, concerning its ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of Proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoveries and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on its Beauties and Defects. 4. A full View of every Thing curious in it shewn to Strangers. 5. A Comparison of its Dimensions with those of the Old Church; and of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To which are added, A Description of the Monument, Some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Relicks, And a Review of the Antient Wall and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: 1753- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral. Containing 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from it's first Foundation, in which many curious Particulars concerning it's ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoverses and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on it's Beauties and Defects. 4. A full View of every Thing curious in it shewn to Strangers. 5. A Comparison of its Dimensions with those of the Old Church: And of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To which are added, A Description of the Monument, Some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Relics, And a Review of the Ancient Walls and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
Patients wait in the outpatients' department of a hospital. Drypoint by D. Thorne.
Thorne, Diana, 1895-1963.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 24556i- Pictures
Photograph of a man with shirt open.
Date: 1980Reference: 3305099iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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An historical description of St. Paul's Cathedral, Containing, 1. The History of the Old Cathedral from it's Foundation; in which many curious Particulars concerning it's ancient Customs, Privileges, and Solemnities, are recited. 2. An Account of the Manner of proceeding in taking down the vast Ruins of the Old Cathedral, with the Discoveries and Observations made upon the Spot by Sir Christopher Wren. 3. A full Description of the founding, building, ornamenting, and finishing the present Structure, with Observations on it's Beauties and Defects. 4. An Explanation of the Entablature, Sculpture, and all the Decorations and Paintings both within and without the Church. 5. A concise Account of every Thing curious that is shewn in it to Strangers. 6. A Comparison of it's Dimensions with those of the Old Church: And of the Dimensions of both with those of St. Peter's at Rome. To which are Added, a Description of the Monument, with an Explanation of its Sculpture, and a Translation of the Latin Inscriptions round it; Also some Conjectures concerning London-Stone and other Roman Remains; And a Review of the Ancient Walls and Gates about the City.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1866Reference: 19124i- Pictures
Nanking, Kiangsu province, China: stone warriors at the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19254i