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Souvenir of the Salon of Fragrance and Fair Women at Harrods, during the "All-British" shopping week, March 27th to April 1st : under the personal patronage of his serene highness Prince Alexander of Teck / organised by Gertrude Robins.
Date: 1911- Books
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The accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1677- Books
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The psalm-singer's choice companion, or an imitation of Heaven on earth; and the beauty of holiness. Being a compleat composition of church musick, containing variety of tunes for all the common metres of the psalms, ... To which is added, An alphabetical dictionary, ... The second edition, carefully corrected and amended by the author; ... All set and composed by John Barrow, ...
Date: [1740?]- Books
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The works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out. Together with the author's life; a glossary; copious indexes; and a list of the various readings. In eight volumes.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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The works of Shakespear. In which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out. Together with the author's life; a glossary; copious indexes; and, a list of the various readings. In eight volumes.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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The horse-mans honour, or, The beautie of horsemanship : as the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses : with the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer : not innented [sic] and drawne from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise : and now published at the request of diuers honourable and worthy persons, for the generall good of the noble nation of Great Britaine.
Morgan, Nicholas, of CrolaneDate: 1620- Books
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The beauties of Stow: or, a description of the pleasant seat, and noble gardens, of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cobham. With above thirty designs, or Drawings, engraved on Copper-Plates, of each particular Building. By George Bickham.
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
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Claudian the poet his elegant history of Rufinus, a most corrupt and rapacious prime minister to the Emperor Theodosius. Mount Ætna poetically described; With a Curious and Exact Account of its Fiery Eruptions. To which are added the most beautiful passages in Claudian, Statius, Orpheus, Aratus, and Euripides, rendered into English verse. Also letters moral and entertaining. By Mr. Hughes.
Hughes, Jabez, 1684 or 1685-1731.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Il convito amoroso! or, a serio-comico-philosophical lecture, on the causes, nature, and effects of love and beauty, At the different Periods of Human Life, in Persons and Personages, Male, Female, and Demi-Charactêre; And in Praise of the Genial and Prolific Influences of the Celestial Bed! As delivered by Hebe Vestina! The Rosy Goddess of Youth and of Health! from the Electrical Throne! in the Great Apollo-Chamber, At the Temple of Hymen, in London, Before a Glowing and Brilliant Audience of near Three Hundred Ladies and Gentlemen, who were commanded by Venus, Cupid, and Hymen! to assist, in joyous Assembly, at the Grand Feast of very Fat Things, which was held at their Temple, on Monday Evening, the 25th of November, 1782; but which was interrupted by the rude and unexpected Arrival of his Worship, Midas Neutersex, Esq; and his Bum-Possé, just as the Dessert was about to be served up. Published at the earnest Desire of many of the Company, and to gratify the impatient and very intense Longings of Thousands of Adepts, Hibernian and British;-of the Cognoscenti;-et de les Amateurs ardens des delices exquise de Venus! To which is subjoined, a Description of the stupendous Nature and Effects of the Celebrated Celestial Bed!
Hebe Vestina.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The beauties of the English stage: consisting of all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the English plays, ancient and modern. Continued down to the present year. Digested under proper heads in alphabetical order, with the names of the plays and their several authors refer'd to. In two volumes.
Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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A treatise on singing explaining in the most simple manner, All the Rules for learning to sing by Note, without the Assistance of an Instrument, with some Observations on Vocal Music, interspersed with Original Examples, Solfeggi, Airs, Ducttos &c. &c Selected, & Compressed from the most Eminent Authors both Ancient and Modern, (particularly some Beautiful Vocal Pieces of Sacred Music from the M.S.S. of Jomelli and Sacchini, neverbefore published. In the collection of the late James Harris. & W.B.Earle Esq. salisbury with directions for a graceful management & Delivery of the Voice. By Ent. at Stationers Hall Joseph Corfe, Pr. 10s. 6. Gentleman of his Majesty's Chapels Royal & Organist of the Cathedral at Salisbury
Corfe, Joseph, 1741-1820.Date: [1799]- Books
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The psalm-singer's choice companion, or an imitation of Heaven on earth, and the beauty of holiness. Being a compleat composition of church musick, containing variety of tunes for all the common metres of the psalms, ... To which is added, An alphabetical dictionary, ... The third edition, carefully corrected, and amended by the author; ... All set and composed by John Barrow.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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The visions of Sir Heister Ryley: with other entertainments. Consisting of two hundred discourses and letters representing, by way of image and description, the characters of vertue, beauty, affectation, love and passion; the agreeableness of wit, truth and honour, made conspicuous by morals. As also scenes of the birth of nature, the sudden turns of fortune, the madness of domestick contests, the humours of the town, and the false arts of life, both of human and irrational beings, trac'd thro' all their intricate mazes.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: 1711- Books
Look great / Boots.
Date: [2007]- Books
Bayley's shoppers' monthly. January, 1930, Winter maladies: how to prevent and cure them / C. Bayley.
Bayleys (Firm)Date: 1930- Books
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A journey from London to Scarborough, in several letters from a gentleman there, to his friend in London. Letter I. The Passage to Scarborough by Sea. An Account of what is most remarkable in the Way thither by Land, and a Description of the several Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, &c. on the Road, particularly Edmonton, Cheshunt, Ware, the New-River Head, Puckeridge, Gogmagog-Hills and Cambridge. Letter II. St. Ives, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Stilton, Burleigh-House and Park, Stamford, Lord Gainsborough's Seat, the Roman Fosseway, Grantham, Lord Tyrconnel's Seat and Park, Ancaster, Lincoln, the Cathedral and Castle. Letter III. Lincoln-Heath, Spittle, the Wolds of Lincolnshire, Redbourn, Hibberstow, Barton on the Humber, Hull, the Garrison, &c. Letter IV. Beverley, the Minster; Driffield, Foxhole and Seymore; thence to Scarborough. Letter V. Scarborough, the Description of it towards the Sea, and its lofty Situation; the Harbour and Piers; the Shipping; great Plenty and Variety of Fish; the beautiful Parterre on the Sands; Sports and Exercises there; of the Spaw, the Resort thither of late Years; a humorous Description and Character of Dicky Dickinson, Keeper of the Wells; the manner of Gentlemen and Ladies bathing in the Sea, Verses on a Lady bathing in the Sea. The Town and Buildings described, Ledgings, and Provisions, number of Inhabitants, Hackney-Chairs. Long-Room, its pleasant and lofty Situation, Balls and Assemblies, the Phar? Bank, Billiard-Tables, &c. The Ordinaries, and the Custom of them; the Play-House, Booksellers Shop, the Coffee-House; with an Account of the various Diversions and agreeable Amusements of the Place. With a list of the nobility, quality, and gentry at Scarborough, during the spaw season, in the year 1733 . Taken from the Subscription-Books at The Spaw, and The Long-Room, The Booksellers Shop, and The Coffee-House. To which is annex'd an account of the nature and us of the Scarborough spaw-water, interspers'd with some Observations and Remarks.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Annales Regioduni Hullini: Or, The history of the royal and beautiful town of Kingston-upon-Hull, from the original of it, thro' the means of its illustroius founder, King Edward the first: who (Being pleas'd with its beautiful situation whilst hunting with his nobles on the plesant banks of the river) erected the town anno dom. 1296: and from that remarkable r̆a, the vicissitudes of it are display'd, till this present year, 1735. In which are included, all the most remarkable tranfactions ecclesiastical, civil, and military. The erection of churches, convents, and monasterires; with the names of their founders, and benefactors: also a succinct relation of the De la Pole's family, from the first mayor of that name, to his successors, who were advanc'd to be Earls and Dukes of suffolk. The monuments, inscriptions, &c. in the churches of Holy Trinity, and St. Mary. The names of the mayors, sheriffs, and chamberlians; with what remarkable accidents have befallen some of them in the course of their lives: intersperse'd with a compendium of British history, especially what alludes to the civil wars, (For the better illustration of such things as most particularly concern'd the town in those troublesome times;) and since then, with regard to the revolution. Adorned with cuts. As likewise vartious curiosities in antiquity, history, travels, &c. also a necessary and compleat index to the whole. Together with several letters, containing, scarborogugh, whitby, &c. for the entertainment of the curious treavlers, who visit the north-west parts of Yorkshire. Faithfully collected by Thomas Gnet, compiler of the history of York, and the most remarkable places of that large county.
Gent, Thomas, 1693-1778.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Pictures
ReOrientalisms.
Burman, Chila KumariDate: 2004Reference: 3321161i- Pictures
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ReOrientalisms.
Burman, Chila KumariDate: 2004Reference: 625315i- Books
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A catalogue of that valuable collection of high finished pictures from London, which are now on sale and exhibition, No 28. west side of the South Bridge, immediately above Mess. Gibson and Co. shop. Which will be sold by private contract, under the direction of Mr Smith. In this beautiful collection, amongst others of the old mastees, is a capital landscape of salvator rosa, also, a precious small cabinet picture of teniers. Of the modern masters, two by Hogarth, Morland, Ibbitson, Anderson, Frcebaira, Rathbone, the good samaritan by that scarce master John Runciman, with some fancy subjects after nature by rising. A cabinet picture by Loutherberg, truly capital. The whole will be offered to the inspection of the candid. Public, and humbly submitted to their librality and protection. Attendance from ten in the morning till seven at night. Catalogues and admission one shilling allowed to purchasers.
Smith, Mr. (Alexander), active 1782-1786.Date: 1785?]- Books
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Catalogus librorum in omni ferè arte & scientia præstantium; or, a catalogue of the library Of a very Eminent Gentleman lately deceas'd; consisitng of a very large and beautiful collection of books in most arts and sciences: Such as the Antiquities of the several Counties in England; most of the Travels and Voyages which have been printed; the most noted Authors in Divinity, History, Poetry, &c. The Classics cum Notis Variorum, and by old Elziver; many of the Fathers of the Paris Editions, Greek and Latin; and near Eleven Hundred Volumes of Miscellaneous Tracts. Which will be sold cheap (the Price mark'd in each Book) at Edward Symon's shop, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, on Tuesday the 25th of this instant February, at Nine of the Clock in the Morning. Catalogues may be had Gratis at Oliver's Coffee-House, at Westminster-Hall Gate; Old-Man's at Charing-Cross; the Mount in Grosvenor-Street near Grosvenor-Square; Davys's in Covent-Garden; Richard's at Temple Bar; Farnival's in Holborn; the Chapter in Pater noster Row; and at the Place of Sale.
Date: 1723?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1979-1997Reference: PP/SUS/B/2Part of: Papers of Susan, Beaumont Society member- Ephemera
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Pulmonaria officinalis L. Boraginaceae Distribution: Europe. Pulmonaria or Lungwort are names for a lichen and a perennial plant in the Boraginaceae. This is the latter. Lyte (1578) has a woodcut of our plant and also calls it Sage of Jerusalem and says it is of 'no particular use in physicke, but is much used in meates and salads with eggs, as is also Cowslippes and Primroses, whereunto in temperature it is much alike.' He lists and describes the lichen separately. Culpeper (1650) said he found many sorts of lunguewort in perusing Authors ' Pulmonari, arborea and Symphytum maculosum [and the latter is our plant, the others the lichen] and that they 'helpe infirmities of the lungues, as hoarseness, coughs, wheezing, shortnesse of breath etc.' Coles (1657) who espouses the Doctrine of Signatures in a way unrivalled by any other English author, might have been expected to confirm the concept that the mottled leaves looked like the cut surface of a lung which indicates their purpose, but he only mentions the lungwort which is a lichen. However, Porta's beautiful book on the Doctrine, Phytognomica (1588), is clear that the plant called Pulmonaria with hairy leaves like a bugloss, spotted white with purple flowers, commonly called 'cynoglossa' [with a woodcut which could be Pulmonaria officinalis] indicate its use for ulcerated lungs, spitting blood, shortness of breath and asthma equally with the lichen with the same name. Lobel & Pena (1570) call it 'PULMONARIA, masculosa folia Borrago. floribus Primula veris, purpureis [PULMONARIA spotted, Borage-leaved, flowers like Primula veris - Cowslips - purple]' and say that women mix the leaves with a little broth and make it into an omelette for lung disorders and to strengthen the heart.. Lobel (1576) calls it Maculosa Pulmonaria and describes a white flowered form with a good woodcut. Gerard (1633) uses the same woodcut as Lobel and calls it Pulmonatia foliis Echii, Buglosse Cowslips with red flowers, and a woodcut of a narrow leaved plant as Pulmonaria masculosa, Spotted Cowslips of Jerusalem with red, blue and purple flowers and says 'the leaves are used among pot-herbes. The roots are aso thought to be good against the infirmities of ulcers of the lungs...'. Quincy (1718) writes: '... it has a glutinous juice ... and heals ulcers and erosions. It is commended in coughs and spitting of blood but is little used either in the Shop or Prescriptions'. Not used in modern medicine. It is in the family Boraginaceae whose species are often rich in pyrrolizidine alkaloids that cause liver toxicity and liver cancers, but levels in Pulmonaria officinalis may not be significant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Pulmonaria officinalis L. Boraginaceae Distribution: Officinalis indicates its medicinal use in early medicine. Europe. Pulmonaria or Lungwort are names for a lichen and a perennial plant in the Boraginaceae. This is the latter. Lyte (1578) has a woodcut of our plant and also calls it Sage of Jerusalem and says it is of ' no particular use in physicke, but is much used in meates and salads with eggs, as is also Cowslippes and Primroses, whereunto in temperature it is much alike.' He lists and describes the lichen separately. Culpeper (1650) said he found many sorts of lunguewort in perusing Authors ' Pulmonari, arborea and Symphytum maculosum [and the latter is our plant, the others the lichen] and that they 'helpe infirmities of the lungues, as hoarseness, coughs, wheezing, shortnesse of breath etc.' Coles (1657) who espouses the Doctrine of Signatures in a way unrivalled by any other English author, might have been expected to confirm the concept that the mottled leaves looked like the cut surface of a lung which indicates their purpose, but he only mentions the lungwort which is a lichen. However, Porta's beautiful book on the Doctrine, Phytognomica (1588), is clear that the plant called Pulmonaria with hairy leaves like a bugloss, spotted white with purple flowers, commonly called 'cynoglossa' [with a woodcut which could be Pulmonaria officinalis] indicate its use for ulcerated lungs, spitting blood, shortness of breath and asthma equally with the lichen with the same name. Lobel & Pena (1570) call it 'PULMONARIA, masculosa folia Borrago, floribus Primula veris, purpureis [PULMONARIA spotted, Borage-leaved, flowers like Primula veris - Cowslips - purple]' and say that women mix the leaves with a little broth and make it into an omelette for lung disorders and to strengthen the heart. Lobel (1576) calls it Maculosa Pulmonaria and describes a white flowered form with a good woodcut. Gerard (1633) uses the same woodcut as Lobel and calls it Pulmonatia foliis Echii, Buglosse Cowslips with red flowers, and a woodcut of a narrow leaved plant as Pulmonaria masculosa, Spotted Cowslips of Jerusalem with red, blue and purple flowers and says 'the leaves are used among pot-herbes. The roots are aso thought to be good against the infirmities of ulcers of the lungs...'. Quincy (1718) writes: '... it has a glutinous juice ... and heals ulcers and erosions. It is commended in coughs and spitting of blood but is little used either in the Shop or Prescriptions. Not used in modern medicine. It is in the family Boraginaceae whose species are often rich in pyrrolizidine alkaloids that cause liver toxicity and liver cancers, but levels in Pulmonaria officinalis may not be significant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley