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Warm and snug : the history of the bed / [Lawrence Wright].
Wright, Lawrence, 1906-1983.Date: [1962]
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A pregnant woman on an obstetrical bed. Line engraving by G.B. Cipriani, 1811, after S. Clementi.
Clementi, Silvio.Date: 1811Reference: 17109i
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An Acount [sic] of the apprehending & taking, of Mr. John Robinson, and William Criss, for the murther of Mrs. Mary Robinson, particularly, how they were discovered by a letter, from an unknown hand, and seized in their beds, this morning at a powder-shop
Date: 1699
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A treatise on the three medicinal mineral waters at Llandrindod, in Radnorshire, South Wales. With some remarks on mineral and fossil mixtures, in their native veins and beds; at least as far as respects their influence on water / [Diederick Wessel Linden].
Linden, Diederick Wessel, active 1745-1768.Date: 1756
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A spiritual antidote against sinful contagion. A cordial for believers upon their death-beds. With a corrosive for the unconverted ... / written as a letter to ... friends ... in daily expectation of death by the plague. [Anon.] By Tho. Doolitell.
Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707Date: 1667
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A brief report of the cases treated in the 14 beds in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children under the care of Dr Burn Murdoch : for six months from November 3, 1894, to April 30, 1895 / by W.B. Bell.
Bell, W. Blair (William Blair), 1871-1936Date: 1895
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Specification of George Robinson : invalid's bed.
Robinson, George.Date: 1855
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Bloudy nevves from Wales declaring the proceedings of the Lord Byron for the King, the rising of the Welch-men, and their falling upon the quarters of the Parliaments forces, cutting of the throats of Col. Hortons men in their beds. Also a fight neer Yarm
Date: 1648
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An Account of the apprehending & taking of Mr. John Robinson and William Criss for the murther of Mrs. Mary Robinson particularly how they were discovered by a letter, from an unknown hand, and seized in their beds this morning at a powder-shop ... with t
Date: 1699
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Specification of William Newton : surgical chair bed.
Newton, William.Date: 1856
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La qualità del dormire : evoluzione storica e tecnologica del sistema letto = historic evolution and technology of the bed system / Carlo Vannicola.
Vannicola, Carlo.Date: 1997
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A pregnant woman in bed another figure stands by the bed explaining something to her. Pen drawing after a woodcut by J. Berntsz, 1538.
Date: 1538Reference: 16865i
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Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.
Lake, William Robert.Date: 1872
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Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.
Lake, William Robert.Date: 1872
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A treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks of the preparation of food, the excellency of good airs and the benefits of clean sweet beds also of the generation of bugs and their cure : to which is added, a short discourse of the pain in the teeth shewing
TryonDate: 1682
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Strange and lamentable news from Ireland being a true and perfect relation of the bloody murthering and robing of Thomas Moor and his family, after which set fire on his house, and burnt them in their beds : as is truly asserted by one that came lately fr
Date: 1676
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A New-years gift for the Whigs: or, A true relation of threescore Presbyters (foot and horse) that surprized two of the kin[gs] guards in their beds at an inn seaven miles from Edenborough, cutting all the flesh off their bon[es] till they were dead, and
Date: 1684
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Specification of Charles Louis Henry Moesch. : bed chair and commode.
Moesch, Charles Louis Henry.Date: 1872
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Health's preservative: being a dissertation on diet, air, and down-beds. And of the cause and cure of buggs. With other discoveries ... / [By T. Tryon] To which are added directions how to buy, feed and fatten fowl ... By an eminent poulterer deceas'd.
Date: 1750
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A spiritual antidote against sinful contagion : a cordial for believers upon their death-beds : with a corrosive for the unconverted : at first written in three letters to private friends in daily expectation of death by the plague ... / by Tho. Doolittle.
Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707Date: 1667
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Bought of ... The Royal Blind Asylum & School : hair, wool & sea-grass mattrasses, straw palliasses, feather beds, bolsters & pillows, door mats & lobby matting, brass & iron bedsteads, bassinettes, baby linen baskets, grain sacks, ropes & twine, bedding cleaned and repaired, baskets of all sorts / Wm. Martin.
Martin, William.Date: [1992?]
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A nobleman lying ill in a four poster bed converses with another man as a maid pours him a drink. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
Dawe, Henry Edward, 1790-1848.Date: [between 1840 and 1849]Reference: 32916i
Part of: Life of a nobleman
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The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1821
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The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1821
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A couple sit up in bed looking around at numerous other couples making love in rows of beds; with smaller vignettes showing someone receiving a drug injection, a needle piercing an arm and a range of condoms; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678056i

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Warm and snug : the history of the bed / [Lawrence Wright].

A pregnant woman on an obstetrical bed. Line engraving by G.B. Cipriani, 1811, after S. Clementi.

An Acount [sic] of the apprehending & taking, of Mr. John Robinson, and William Criss, for the murther of Mrs. Mary Robinson, particularly, how they were discovered by a letter, from an unknown hand, and seized in their beds, this morning at a powder-shop

A treatise on the three medicinal mineral waters at Llandrindod, in Radnorshire, South Wales. With some remarks on mineral and fossil mixtures, in their native veins and beds; at least as far as respects their influence on water / [Diederick Wessel Linden].

A spiritual antidote against sinful contagion. A cordial for believers upon their death-beds. With a corrosive for the unconverted ... / written as a letter to ... friends ... in daily expectation of death by the plague. [Anon.] By Tho. Doolitell.

A brief report of the cases treated in the 14 beds in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children under the care of Dr Burn Murdoch : for six months from November 3, 1894, to April 30, 1895 / by W.B. Bell.

Specification of George Robinson : invalid's bed.

Bloudy nevves from Wales declaring the proceedings of the Lord Byron for the King, the rising of the Welch-men, and their falling upon the quarters of the Parliaments forces, cutting of the throats of Col. Hortons men in their beds. Also a fight neer Yarm

An Account of the apprehending & taking of Mr. John Robinson and William Criss for the murther of Mrs. Mary Robinson particularly how they were discovered by a letter, from an unknown hand, and seized in their beds this morning at a powder-shop ... with t

Specification of William Newton : surgical chair bed.

La qualità del dormire : evoluzione storica e tecnologica del sistema letto = historic evolution and technology of the bed system / Carlo Vannicola.

A pregnant woman in bed another figure stands by the bed explaining something to her. Pen drawing after a woodcut by J. Berntsz, 1538.

Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.

Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.

A treatise of cleanness in meats and drinks of the preparation of food, the excellency of good airs and the benefits of clean sweet beds also of the generation of bugs and their cure : to which is added, a short discourse of the pain in the teeth shewing

Strange and lamentable news from Ireland being a true and perfect relation of the bloody murthering and robing of Thomas Moor and his family, after which set fire on his house, and burnt them in their beds : as is truly asserted by one that came lately fr

A New-years gift for the Whigs: or, A true relation of threescore Presbyters (foot and horse) that surprized two of the kin[gs] guards in their beds at an inn seaven miles from Edenborough, cutting all the flesh off their bon[es] till they were dead, and

Specification of Charles Louis Henry Moesch. : bed chair and commode.

Health's preservative: being a dissertation on diet, air, and down-beds. And of the cause and cure of buggs. With other discoveries ... / [By T. Tryon] To which are added directions how to buy, feed and fatten fowl ... By an eminent poulterer deceas'd.

A spiritual antidote against sinful contagion : a cordial for believers upon their death-beds : with a corrosive for the unconverted : at first written in three letters to private friends in daily expectation of death by the plague ... / by Tho. Doolittle.

A nobleman lying ill in a four poster bed converses with another man as a maid pours him a drink. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.

The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett.

The American gardener. Or, A treatise on the situation, soil, fencing and laying-out of gardens; on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses; and on the propagation and cultivation of the several sorts of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers / By William Cobbett.