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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]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, in all branches of learning: Containing several libraries lately purchased, In which are included those of Monsieur Sanson, and The Rev. Mr. Francis Peck, lately deceased. The books are in fine Condition, and great Numbers of them elegantly Bound. Amongst many more valuable Articles are the following, viz. Folio. Winstanley's Views of Audly End Atkyns's Gloucestershire Carte's Hist. England, 4 v. in Russia leather Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Prints of the Antiquarian Society, 2 vol. in Russia leather Wood's Palmyra Universal History, 10 vol. Montfaucon's Antiquitics and Suppl. in 8 v. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all Nations, with Picart's cuts, 6 vol. Thurloe's State Papers, large and sm. pap. Bacon's Works, large and small paper Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. large paper Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. Hakluyt's Voyages, 2 vol. Peere William's Reports, 3 vol. Ventris's Reports, best edit. Ld. Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Lilly's Conveyancer, 2 vol. best edit. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwayte's Dictionary, 2 v. Bayle's Dictionary, l. pap. in Turkey, 5 vol. - Dict. sm. pap. 5 vol. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. James's Med. Dict. 3 vol. Folio. Platonis Opera Serrani, 3 tom. -- Ficini, edit. opt. -- Gr. ap Aldum Aristophanes Kusteri Xenophon Leunclavii Euripides Barnesii Thucydides Dukeri Plutarchi Opera, a Zylandri, 2 tom. Idem, compact. in 4 tom. Lucian Bourdelotio Demostthenes Wolfii Aeschylus Stanleii Polybius Casauboni The King of Poland's Gallery, bound in Russia leather Count Bruhl's Gallery, in Russia leather Columna Trajana & Antonina Ectypa Varia ad Hist. Illust. a T. Hearne Musaeum Veronens. Cortonense, Odescaleum, Romanum, &c. Corps Diplomatique, 23 vol. complet. Ocuvres de Bayle, 4 tom. grande pap. Etat de la France, par Boullanvilliers, 3 t. Guiccuardin Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Ven. Davlla, 2 tom. Ven. Thuani Hist. Sui Temp. 7 t. ch. max. Le Neptune Francoise Par. Clarke, 4 v. Burnet's Reform. 3 vol. Tillotson, Barrow, &c. Waltoni Bib. Polyglotta & Lex. 8 t. Critici Sacri & Supp. 13 tom. Clerici in Vet. & Nov. Test. 6 tom. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, on Monday, February 13th, 1758, and continue till are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews-Gate, near St. Martin's-Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 d. (to be returned) to be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Strahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's-Street; Mr. Matthews and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; 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: 1758]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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A catalogue of several libraries lately purchased, Particularly of The Right Hon. Countess Dowager of Portland, George Proctor, Esq; Counsellor at Law. The Rev. Squire Payne, M. A. Archdeacon of Stowe, and Mr. Josiah Holder, of the Navy-Office. Containing above Twelve Thousand Volumes of Choice and curious books in various Languages, and in all Branches of useful and polite Learning. Many of them on Royal Paper, and in elegant Condition. Among which are Folio. Rymer's Foedera &c. 17 vol Journals of the H. of Commons 10 vol Calendars to the Lords Journals Statutes at Large 7 vol best edit. Madox's Hist. of the Exchequer Prynne's Records 3 vol Roy. Paper Dr. Hill's Nat. Hist. 2 vol Roy. Pap. col Cheselden on the Bones Roy. Pap. Cowper on the Muscles Roy. Pap. Relig. Ceremonies. Picarts Cuts 6 vol Montfaucon's Antiquities 6 vol Churchill's Voyages 4 vol Harris's Voyages 2 vol System of Geography 2 vol. Campbell's Vitruvius Britan. 3 vol Chambers's Dictionary 2 vol Collier's Dictionary 4 vol Purchas's Pilgrims 5 vol Mr. Boyles Works 5 vol Mr. Locke's Works 3 vol Ld. Bacon's Works 4 vol Basket's Imperial Bible 2 vol ruled and finely bound, blue Turkey. Patrick Lowth and Whitby 6 vol Dr. Clarke's Works 4 vol Bp. Stillingfleets Works 6 vol Philosoph. Transact. abridg. 9 vol 4 to Histoire Romaine 20 vol 4 to Vies de Plutarque 9 vol 4 to gr. pap. Rapin Hist. x vol Gr. Pap. Lord Somers's Tracts 12 vol 4 to Graevii Antiq. Italiae & Siciliae 45 tom Hist. Byzant Scriptores 30 vol Erasmi Opera 11 vol Ger. Vossii Opera 6 vol Calasii Concord. Hebraea 4 vol Hortus Malabaricus 12 vol Dr. Clark's Caesar a fine Copy Aristophanes, Kusteri Ch. max. Herodotus Gronovii Ch. max. Plato Serrani 3 vol Cicero Manuccii 4 vol Aeschylus Stanleii H. Stephani Thes. Ling. Gr. 5 vol Dictionaire de Trevoux 6 vol. Antiquite de Montfaucon 15 vol Calmet sur la Bible 9 vol Hist. de Chine 4 vol Grand Pap. Thuani Hist. par Buckley 7 vol Ruysch Theatrum Animal. 2 vol Flamstead Atias & Hist. Caelest. 4 vol A Compleat Sett of the Philosoph. Transactions from No. 1 to 1744 in 31 vols Quarto. Cambridge Classics 5 vol Roy. Pap. Fleury Hist. Eccles. 20 vol Grand Papier. A great many of the Classics ad usum Delphini, Paris editions. A large Number of the Variorum Classics And a very good Collection of Law Books. Which will be sold very cheap, (the Price Printed in the Catalogue) on Monday August 26th, 1751. and continue till all are Sold. By John Whiston and Benj. White, Booksellers in Fleetstreet. Catalogues may be had (pr. 6d.) of Mr. Merrill at Cambridge, Mr. J. Fletcher at Oxford, Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, Mr. Strahan in Cornhill; and at all the principal Booksellers in England, Mr. Kincaid, at Edinburgh, and Messrs. Ewing, at Dublin.
John Whiston and Benjamin White (London, England)Date: 1751]- Books
Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption. Band 21 / Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle (Hg.).
Date: 2011- Digital Images
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Lysistrata a play about AIDS
Ralf. König- Books
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Jacobi Palmerii a Grentemesnil, Exercitationes in optimos fere auctores Græcos. Velut Herodotum, Thucydidem ... ut et in antiqvos poetas, Aristophanem, Theocritum, Moschi Idyllia
Le Paulmier, Jacques 1587-1670Date: 1668- Pictures
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Seven British politicians as statues on plinths inscribed with the names of ancient characters as well as their own names in abbreviation. Engraving, 1746.
Date: June 5th 1746Reference: 32807i- Books
The pregnant male as myth and metaphor in classical Greek literature / David D. Leitao.
Leitao, David D., 1964-Date: 2012- Pictures
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Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
Date: 1825Reference: 546740i- Books
Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure.
Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self / edited by Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman.
Date: 2013- Books
Making sense of sex : attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature / William Loader.
Loader, William R. G., 1944-Date: 2013