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Exeter-Change. The following is a catalogue of part of the capital collection of birds and beasts now exhibiting at the grand menagerie in the Great Room, as above: A Royal Bengal Striped Tyger and Tygress, being the First ever exhibited at the above Place, much superior to any of the Kind in this Kingdom. - The Tygress was landed from the Duckingfield-Hall Indiaman, on the 14th of September, 1796. A ravenous hunting Tyger, from Bengal. An Asiatic Panther, from ditto. A beautiful Spotted Leopard, from Africa. A ravenous Laughing Hyaena. A wonderful Polar or Sea Lion; an amphibious Animal, which cannot live without being washed with Water every Day. A Jackall, or Lion's Provider. A ravenous Wolf, from Siberia, in Russia. A beautiful Antelope, from Asia. A large Tyger Cat; and a Muscovy or Civet Cat. A large Wild Man of the Woods, that walks upright, and is so extremely sagacious as to understand every Word the Keeper says to him. A Long-Armed Baboon; and a curious Ape, from Ape's-Hill, in Barbary. A stupendous Ostrich, Nine Feet high, from the Coast of Barbary. A Pelican of the Wilderness,-a Bird so remarkable as to be mentioned in Sacred History, that feeds it's Young ones with it's own Blood. A Royal Crown Crane, or Bird of Paradise. Two Condor Minor Vultures very rare and scarce. An Imperial Vulture, the largest ever seen in this Kingdom. A Golden Eagle, from Santa Cruz; and a Horned Owl, from Bohemia. And a Variety of other Animals and Birds, too numerous to insert. Admittance 1s. each Person. In an adjoining Apartment, is A wonderful Maif Elephant, which, although the largest Animal in the Creation, is so sagacious and tractable, as to be obedient to every Command of it's Keeper; and is so exceedingly tame, that Children frequently ride on it's Back with the greatest Safety, as the Den is well constructed for that Purpose. - Admittance 1s. each Person. In an Apartment under the Greatroom, is to be Seen from Obscurity, by A curious Appartus, Variety of Pleasing Perspectives and Public Animation, far excelling any thing of the Kind yet invented. Admission One Shilling each Person, or the Three Exhibitions for Half-a-Crown. N. B. Foreign Birds and Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged, by G. Pidcock, as above.
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and general director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House for every Month in the Year, but also ample practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in Practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous - Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c. &c. And, to which, in this edition, are added, additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants (not in any former edition) with general explanations of their nature and culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener To His Grace The Duke Of Leeds) John Abercrombie, Gardener, Newington, Surry; (formerly of Tottenham-Court, Middlesex,) and other gardeners.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1787- Books
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[A] catalogue of a very neat and valubale collection of books, in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and English, many of them are bound in Turkey leather, and other elegant bindings. Amongst which are the following, folio. Dicticnnaire de Bayle, 5 tom. Paris diction de commerce, 3 tom. 1741 Viturve, par Perrault - - 1684 Sir T. Roe's Negotiations, in Turkey leather Tanner's notitia, in Turkey leather Sir H. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol in Turkey leather Petty's maps of Ireland plans of all the cities, forts, &c. of Canadia, finely drawn T. Livius ap. Aldun, corin Turcico Ju. Pollux, ch. max. corio Turcico Horseman's converyancing, 3 vol Hale's pleas of the crown, 2 vol. voffii opera omn. 6 10m. Milton, 2 vol. Lock, 3 v. &c. works Quarto. Don Quixote, in Spaish, 4 vo. with sine cuts - - Lond. ̂DAelian de natura animal. 2 tom, chria Turcio de moivie of chances, lst fait. Transactions abridg'd, 8 vol. Historie de France par Daniel, 10 tom. - - - - Paris Barman's Quintillian, 2 tom. Histoire des Finances, 3 tom. Dictionnaire de Richelert, 2 tom. 1732 Jugements de seavans, p ar bailler, s tom. grand pap.. Voyage de Tournesort, 2 tom. Par. Histure de Turneue, 2 tom. Par. With may more in Flio, Quarto, and Octavo, equally good, which will be sold (very cheap) the prices printed in the catalogue, on Monday the 6th of June, 1748, and continue daily till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, bookseller, in Old Round Court, in the Strand, against york-buildings. Catalogues to be liad cratis at the following booksellers, viz. Mr. Strahan's Cornhill; Mr. Osborne's, Pater noster-Row; Mr. Lewis's, in Russet street, Covint Garden; Mr. Brindly's in New-Bond-street; Mr. Jackson's, in St. James's street; Mr. Orven's, next the Devil Tavern, Fleet-street; and at the place of sale: where may be had the full value for any library or parcel of books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1748]- Books
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Every man his own gardener. Being a new and much more complete gardener's kalendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden and Shrubbery; Nursery, Green-House, and Hot-House, for every Month in the Year, but also ample practical Directions for performing the said Work, according to the newest and most approved Methods now in practice among the best Gardeners. With complete practical Directions for Forcing all Kinds of choice Plants, Flowers, and Fruits, to early Perfection, in Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Frames, Forcing-Houses, Vineries, &c. Also particular Directions relative to Soil and Situation, adapted to the different Sorts of Plants and Trees, &c. And to the Whole are added, complete and useful Lists of Kitchen Garden Plants, Fruit Trees, Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Fibrous-Rooted Flowers, Bulbous and Teberous - Rooted Flowers, Green-House, and Hot-House Plants; Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens and Plantations, &c. &c. And to which, in this Edition, are added, additional Systematic General Catalogues of Hardy Herbaceous Perennials and Biennials, and of Hot-House Plants (not in any former Edition) with general Explanations of their Nature and Culture. By Thomas Mawe, (gardener to his grace the duke of leeds) John Abercrombie, Gardener, Newington, Surry; (formerly of Tottenham-Court, Middlesex,) and other gardeners. Corrected, and greatly Enlarged, with considerable material new Additions, and wholly new improved in the most copious and general Manner in every Department of the Work.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1791- Books
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History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America : containing the navigation and the remarkable things seen on the sea by the author; the behavior of Villegagnon in that country; the customs and strange ways of life of the American savages; together with the description of various animals, trees, plants, and other singular things completely unknown over here / Jean de Léry ; translation and introduction by Janet Whatley.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611Date: 1992, ©1990- Books
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The complete cow-doctor, or, farmer's companion. Treating of the most common disorders of black-cattle - their causes, symptons and cures. By Joshua Rowlin, of Hollins, Parish of Lamplugh, Cumberland. To which is prefixed, the natural history of that animal, from the most eminent Natural Historians-a Disquisition on Rumination and Digestion-on the Circulation of the Animal Fluids; from Dr. Munro, Fourcroy, and others. There is also a particular description given of an elastic tube, invented by Dr. Munro, with the method of using it for the immediate relief of swellings occasioned by eating Wet Clover-by Fogsickness, or Poisons. To the whole is added, an appendix, Containing many remarks and observations, on the Murrain, Gargle, or Pestilential Fever, made by eminent Physicians, at different times, when that Disorder raged in England, &c.
Rowlin, Joshua.Date: 1794- Books
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An entire new magazine. On Friday, February 1, 1793, will be Published, (price only Sixpence) Elegantly Printed on a Superfine Paper, and Embellished with a most Beautiful Frontispiece, finely Engraved by a Capital Artist, The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of extraordinary productions and events In Nature and Art: Consisting Entirely of Matters which come under the Denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the way! and Unaccountable! Including Many surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers, strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, and a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious and surprizing. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Travellers, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. No. 1, for January, 1793. (to be continued Monthly.) Containing (among a great Variety of other Particulars equally marvellous and curious) the following most extraordinary Articles. A wonderful Deliverance-Instances of Persons who have changed their Sex-The Bloody Bell, an extraordinary Execution-The Gammon of Bacon-The Birth of a Devil-The English Irishman-The Female Sleep Walker-The Drumming Well-A Woman with Child 27 Years-A Camp set on Fire hy Sparrows-A surprising Discovery of Murder-The Original of Peeping Tom of Coventry-Surprizing Examples of Instinct in Animals-A monstrous Serpent-The Sea punished by Command of Xerxes, the Persian King-Remarkable Anecdote relating to Death-The Bearded Woman-The Stone Eater-An Unaccountable Transformation of a Cheshire Cheese-The Grateful Lion-The Law of Cuckoldom in Scotland-Extracts from Baron Munchausea's Romantic Travels-Whimsical Anecdote of a Drunken Man-A most Extraordinary Event-A Lady burnt to Ashes by a Fire kindled in her own Body. - &c. &c. &c. With many other astonishing Relations too numerous to be mentioned in this Hand-Bill.
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Contemplations amongst Vincent's Rocks, near the city of Bristol: In which there is a Description, not only of the said Rocks, and of the Woods, and a peculiar Flower that grows upon and amongst them, but also Of the Hot-Wells, so samed through all the known World. Likewise of the River that runs between the said Rocks, and of Birds and other Animals that inhabit and seed thereon. Some Notice also is taken of the Ships and other Vessels that are almost continually passing and repassing to and from the City of Bristol. - With some Observations that have been made at different Times on board some Ships, whilst they have been waiting for a Wind in Kingsroad. The whole not only entertaining to the Reader, but also tending, thro' the Divine. Blessing, to the Conviction, Conversion, and Comfort of the Redeemed of the Lord; as every Object treated of is attempted to be Spiritualized. By the Rev. John Dolman, Vicar of Chalk in Kent.
Dolman, John, active 1758-1765.Date: 1772- Books
Feast & fast : the art of food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.
Date: 2019- Books
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For one night only. At the theatre, Wisbech: Mr. Scriven presents his most respectful Compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wisbech-Begs Leave to inform them he has at a great Expence purchased a Correct Copy of that truly admirable and entertaining Poetic and Prosaic Composition, called Collins's Evening Brush, Exhibited by the Author, in London and several of the Principal Cities and Towns in this Kingdom, to the most elegant and crowded Audiences-A Piece, allowed by all who have honoured it by their Attention to be replete with Wit, Humour, Satire, and Food for Laughter. On Friday Evening August 27th. 1790, will be presented a pasticcio, call'd Collins's Evening Brush. For Rubbing off the Rust of Care: Divided into four parts. Part I. An Exordium to the Audience, wherein the Author shews his wish to please, with a particular Attention to avoid giving Offence to any Individual, by a Sacrifice to the Shrine of Ill Nature, or the slightest Stab to moral Virtue Then follows as an Introduction to the Piece itself. The Brush Song. After which A Dissertation on Actors and Acting. The humorous contrast between Jack Sly and John Bull, the late David Garrick and Snip the Taylor. Hamlet and the Scot's Pedlar. The Tragedy Belwether, and Tragedy Bantam Cock. Concluding with a Comic Song, called Shakespear's seven Ages, In which will be Introduced The Infant, The Schoolboy, The Lover, The Soldier, The Justice, The Old Man, And Second Childhood. Part II. A Humorous Description of Parish Clerks. A critical dispute, Whether a Hedge Hog is an Animal, or a Vegetable; an Artifical or a Natural Curiosity. The Political Barber. The Learned Irish School-Master, teaching the Little Puny Whipsters their Cris-Cross-Row. Darby Logan, the Irish Bull-Maker. Concluding with an Irish Song. in which he gives a humorous Description of his Voyage from Dublin to London. End of Act II. - The Lass of Richmond Hill, by Mrs. Scriven: Part III. The Imperfect Norwich Actor, Dryden's Pegasus, The English Aristophanes The One armed Tragedian. And the Raw-Boned Actresses. Concluding with the Comic Song of, Ancient Rome contrasted with Modern London. A Hunting Song, by Mrs. Scriven. Part IV. A song, called the disgraced Roman General Bellisarius. The Puny Richard the Third. Concluding with a new comic song. During the evening The New Four & Twenty Fidlers. The Whole to Conclude with A Hornpipe by Mr. Sriven. Doors to be open'd at Six, and begin precisely at Seven O'Clock. - Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had at the Inns, Printing-Office, and of Mr. Scriven at Mr. Friend's in Deadman's-Lane.
Scriven, Mr.Date: 1790]- Archives and manuscripts
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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The compleat family physician; or, universal medical repository. Containing the Causes, Symptoms, Preventions, And Cures, Of all the various Maladies to which Human Nature is subject, from the Birth to the Grave. Including The Diseases peculiar to Seamen, as well as those of particular Climates; such as the East and West Indies, Coast of Guinea, Greenland, Newfoundland, &c. with the proper Methods of treating Lunaticks, and Persons who are subject to Fits of any Kind. - And the best and most approved Preservatives against Epidemick and Contagious Diseases; such as the Plague, Putrid Fevers, Gaol Distemper, and other Infections. Together with An Account of all the celebrated Spas-Not only of this Country, but such others also, as are of great Repute in other Parts of the World, and the Waters of which are usually imported into these Kingdoms; with some Observations on the Virtues and Efficacy of Sea Water and Bathing. Likewise, Strictures on Quackery in general; and a candid Examination of the respective Merits of James's Powder, Norton's Drops, Ormskirk Powder, Ward's Drops, And Other Popular Medicines. With a full Account of the various Kinds of Poisons, both Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; and the best Methods of counteracting their respective Effects. - Also, the Means to be made use of for restoring Drowned or Strangled Persons, as published by the Humane Society; and the Plan of Dr. Hawes, Secretary to that benevolent Institution, for preventing Persons being buried Alive. To which is added, The family surgery. Containing Directions for treating Green and Old Wounds; proper Stypticks for immediately stopping the Blood in all Cases; and infallible Applications for the Cure of the Bite of Mad Animals, as well as the Bite or Sting of venomous Animals and Insects. With some approved Receipts for the Cure of Ringworms, Warts, Corns, Bruises, Carbuncles, &c. and Directions for managing the Eyes, Ears, Teeth, Nails, &c. so as to prevent Blindness, Deasness, and Lameness in the Feet. Also, The proper Methods of making and using Salves, Ointments, Pills, Cataplasms, Poultices, Fomentations, Embrocations, &c. &c. Together with The compleat British herbal. And A List of all such Drugs, Chymicals, &c. as are directed to be used in the different Preparations, with their Prices at Apothecaries Hall, London. The Whole Forming A Compleat Body Of AtDomestick Medicine, Calculated As well to assist Gentlemen of the Faculty, as for the Use of private Families; and in which the utmost Care is taken to recommend such Remedies as are most plain and simple, and of Course the least expensive, and readiest to be procured. By Hugh Smythson, M.D. Late Student at the University of Leyden. When, on the Bed of loath'd Disease, With streaming Eyes, Affection sees A Child, a Husband, Wife, or Friend, And fears the much-lov'd Victim's End; How sighs the sympathetick Heart, For Knowledge in the Healing Art! How fears, lest Want of Skill prevent The kind Assistance fondly meant! No more, by anxious Dread possess'd, Shall Terror fill the friendly Breast; Whilst in our Labours are combin'd The healing Arts of all Mankind.
Smythson, Hugh.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A discourse concerning the action of the sun and moon on animal bodies; and the influence which this may have in many diseases / By Richard Mead. In two parts.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: [1708]- Books
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A description of South Carolina; containing, Many curious and interesting Particulars relating to the Civil, Natural and Commercial history of that colony, viz. The Succession of European Settlers there; Grants of English Charters; Boundaries; Constitution of the Government; Taxes; Number of Inhabitants, and of the neighbouring Indian Nations, &c. The Nature of the Climate; Tabular Accounts of the Altitudes of the Barometer Monthly for Four Years, of the Depths of Rain Monthly for Eleven Years, and of the Winds Direction Daily for One Year, &c. The Culture and Produce of Rice, Indian Corn, and Indigo; the Process of extracting Tar and Turpentine; the State of their Maritime Trade in the Years 1710, 1723, 1740 and 1748, with the Number or Tonnage of Shipping employed, and the Species, Quantities and Values of their Produce exported in One Year, &c. To which is added, A very particular Account of their Rice-Trade for Twenty Years, with their Exports of Raw Silk and Imports of British Silk Manufactures for Twenty - five Years.
Glen, James, 1701-1777.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
To catch a virus / John Booss, Marilyn J. August.
Booss, JohnDate: [2013]- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Videos
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The macrophage.
Date: 1975- Videos
What Makes Us Human.
Date: 2013