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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: 1749Reference: 10127i
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Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.
Reference: 36435i
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The street-wise patient's guide to surviving cancer : how to be an active, organised, informed, and yet welcomed patient / Professor Karol Sikora, MA PhD FRCR FRCP FFPM.
Sikora, KarolDate: 2016
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An Act for the better enlightening the open place, streets, lanes, passages, and courts, and for the better regulating the nightly watch and bedels within the parish of Christ Church in the county of Middlesex
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The directory and guide for the city and county of Chester; With a concise history of their antiquities, fortifications, churches, government, trade, fairs, streets, &c. charitable foundations, markets, inns, gentlemen's seats. remarkable prospects, &c. i
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Chester guide: or An account of the antient and present state of that city. Containing a concise description of its antiquities, fortifications, churches, government, trade, fairs, streets, lanes, and rows, charitable foundations, markets, inns, gentlemen
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Discoveries and cautions from the streets of Zion, by a watchman of the night: in a sermon, delivered at Providence chapel, October 22, 1798, by William Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, and at Monkwel
Huntington, William
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An act for widening several streets in the city of Edinburgh; for opening a communication from Queen's Street to Broughton Loan; for enlarging the burial ground; and for extending the royalty of the said city over part of the lands of Broughton
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Bye-law made by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the City of Sheffield under section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, with respect to spitting in public streets.
Date: [1925]
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An act for extending the powers of the corporation for paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets of Dublin, and to enable the said corporation to build a bridge across the River Anna Liffey, at Island Bridge
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An overhead view of Paris streets with the message: "AIDS. 3 centres meet the youth so that information flows faster than the disease"; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris . Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672471i
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An Act for building a church in the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for enlightening and cleansing the streets of the said town, and for keeping and maintaining a nightly watch there
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The history of Derby; from the remote ages of antiquity, to the year MDCCXCI. Describing its situation, air, soil, water, streets, buildings, and government. With the illustrious familes which have inherited its honours. Also, the ecclesiastical history
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The cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets; with an epigram in verse, adapted to each. Embellished with sixty-two elegant cuts. To which is added, a description of the metropolis in verse
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An Act for erecting workhouses, for the better employing and maintaining the poor within the burgh of Bury Saint Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk; and for the better repairing and paving the streets and highways there
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Knight's annotated model byelaws of the Local Government Board : with respect to I. cleansing of privies, etc., II. nuisances, II. common lodging-houses, IV. new streets and buildings, V. slaughter-houses.
Date: 1893
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The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.
Dodd, Daniel.Date: [1765?]Reference: 43147i
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Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
Martinet, Achille Louis, 1806-1877.Date: 1820Reference: 4543i
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Knight's annotated model byelaws of the Local Government Board : with respect to I. cleansing of privies, etc., II. nuisances, II. common lodging-houses, IV. new streets and buildings, V. slaughter-houses.
Date: 1897
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Bowles's new London guide; being an alphabetical index to all the streets, Squares, Lanes, Courts, Alleys, Docks, Wharfs, Keys, Stairs, &c. Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Worship; Villages, Hamlets, Hospitals and Public Buildings of every denomina
Bowles, Carington
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Bowles's new London guide, and Hackney-Coach directory: being an alphabetical index to all the streets, Squares, Lanes, Courts, Alleys, Docks, Wharfs, Keys, Stairs, &c. Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Worship; Villages, Hamlets, Hospitals, and Publ
Bowles, Carington
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Act for the improvement of the city of Edinburgh, and constructing new, and widening, altering, improving and diverting existing streets in the said city ; and for other purposes. 31st May 1867, 30 & 31 Victoriae, Cap. 44. With the incorporated clauses, notes, arrangement of sections, and analytical index.
Date: 1867
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The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 16 January 1815Reference: 42866i
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An answer to A short essay on the scheme lately set on foot for lighting and keeping clean the streets of the city of Exeter. Demonstrating the pernicious and fatal effects with which it would have been attended
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An act, for better regulating the poor; Maintaining a nightly watch; lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets, rows, and passages; providing fire-engines and firemen, and regulating the hackney-coachmen, chairmen, carmen, and porters, within the city o

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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Honourable Artillery Company ground, London: people gather in the streets and on roof tops to watch the Lunardi hydrogen balloon going over their heads in the sky, 1784. Process print.

The street-wise patient's guide to surviving cancer : how to be an active, organised, informed, and yet welcomed patient / Professor Karol Sikora, MA PhD FRCR FRCP FFPM.

An Act for the better enlightening the open place, streets, lanes, passages, and courts, and for the better regulating the nightly watch and bedels within the parish of Christ Church in the county of Middlesex

The directory and guide for the city and county of Chester; With a concise history of their antiquities, fortifications, churches, government, trade, fairs, streets, &c. charitable foundations, markets, inns, gentlemen's seats. remarkable prospects, &c. i

Chester guide: or An account of the antient and present state of that city. Containing a concise description of its antiquities, fortifications, churches, government, trade, fairs, streets, lanes, and rows, charitable foundations, markets, inns, gentlemen

Discoveries and cautions from the streets of Zion, by a watchman of the night: in a sermon, delivered at Providence chapel, October 22, 1798, by William Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street, and at Monkwel

An act for widening several streets in the city of Edinburgh; for opening a communication from Queen's Street to Broughton Loan; for enlarging the burial ground; and for extending the royalty of the said city over part of the lands of Broughton

Bye-law made by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the City of Sheffield under section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, with respect to spitting in public streets.

An act for extending the powers of the corporation for paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets of Dublin, and to enable the said corporation to build a bridge across the River Anna Liffey, at Island Bridge

An overhead view of Paris streets with the message: "AIDS. 3 centres meet the youth so that information flows faster than the disease"; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris . Colour lithograph.

An Act for building a church in the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for enlightening and cleansing the streets of the said town, and for keeping and maintaining a nightly watch there

The history of Derby; from the remote ages of antiquity, to the year MDCCXCI. Describing its situation, air, soil, water, streets, buildings, and government. With the illustrious familes which have inherited its honours. Also, the ecclesiastical history

The cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets; with an epigram in verse, adapted to each. Embellished with sixty-two elegant cuts. To which is added, a description of the metropolis in verse

An Act for erecting workhouses, for the better employing and maintaining the poor within the burgh of Bury Saint Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk; and for the better repairing and paving the streets and highways there

Knight's annotated model byelaws of the Local Government Board : with respect to I. cleansing of privies, etc., II. nuisances, II. common lodging-houses, IV. new streets and buildings, V. slaughter-houses.

The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.

Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.

Knight's annotated model byelaws of the Local Government Board : with respect to I. cleansing of privies, etc., II. nuisances, II. common lodging-houses, IV. new streets and buildings, V. slaughter-houses.

Bowles's new London guide; being an alphabetical index to all the streets, Squares, Lanes, Courts, Alleys, Docks, Wharfs, Keys, Stairs, &c. Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Worship; Villages, Hamlets, Hospitals and Public Buildings of every denomina

Bowles's new London guide, and Hackney-Coach directory: being an alphabetical index to all the streets, Squares, Lanes, Courts, Alleys, Docks, Wharfs, Keys, Stairs, &c. Churches, Chapels, and other Places of Worship; Villages, Hamlets, Hospitals, and Publ

The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.

An answer to A short essay on the scheme lately set on foot for lighting and keeping clean the streets of the city of Exeter. Demonstrating the pernicious and fatal effects with which it would have been attended

An act, for better regulating the poor; Maintaining a nightly watch; lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets, rows, and passages; providing fire-engines and firemen, and regulating the hackney-coachmen, chairmen, carmen, and porters, within the city o