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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 4
Date: January 1900 - August 1900Reference: WF/E/03/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
A frightened woman stands alone in a burning city street. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957 (?).
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: 12 August 57[?] [12 August 1957?]Reference: 2863672iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Mourners, some in stovepipe hats, watching the burning of a funeral pyre. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: 28:3:66 [28 March 1966]Reference: 2913941iPart of: Adamson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 7
Date: June 1901 - November 1901Reference: WF/E/03/07 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 17
Date: February - June 1904Reference: WF/E/03/17 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 4
Date: January 1900 - August 1900Reference: WF/E/03/04 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 4
Date: January 1900 - August 1900Reference: WF/E/03/04 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.
Reference: 18342i- Pictures
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The execution of the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa on the stake, ordered by Pizarro. Line engraving with etching after E. Chappel.
Chappel, Edouard, 1859-Reference: 43585i- Books
Contributions to reparative surgery : showing its application to the treatment of deformities, produced by destructive disease or injury; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development; and cicatricial contractions from burns / by Gurdon Buck.
Buck, Gurdon, 1807-1877Date: 1877- Books
Model Nazi : Arthur Greiser and the occupation of western Poland / Catherine Epstein.
Epstein, CatherineDate: 2010- Books
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Panorama. This grand (but awful) subject, painted in oil, upon two thousand four hundred and sixty four square feet of canvas, represents the burning of his Majesty's ship the Boyne, of ninty [sic]-eight guns, which was esteemed one of the finest ships in the British Navy; She took fire by accident the first of May, 1795. As likewise, the miraculous escape of the Grand Fleet from the flames, which consisted of more than thirty-five sail. Executed by that celebrated artist, R. Dodd, author of the most naval prints which have been published during the present war. It is now open for public inspection, in a large temporary building, erected for that purpose, in Norfolk-Street, Manchester, from ten in the morning, till six, in the evening.
Date: 1800?]- Books
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The truth of the case: Or, A Full and True account Of the Horrid murders, Robberies and Burnings, Committed at Bradforton and Upton-Snodsbury, in the County of Worcester; and of the apprehension, examination, tryal, and conviction, of John Palmer, and Tho. Symonds, gent. William Hobbins, and John Allen, labourers, for the said crimes. To which is added, An Account of the Occasion of the Bp. of Oxford's going to the Prisoners after their Condemnation, and of his Lordship's whole Transaction with them; Written by the said Bishop. Likewise, An Account of what pass'd between the Ordinary and the Prisoners. And Remarks on their Dying Speeches. Publish'd on Occasion of a late imperfect, false, and scandalous Libel, Entituled, The Case of John Palmer and Thomas Symonds, Gent. who were executed, &c. By R. W-
Date: 1708- Books
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Proposals for publishing by subscription, travels through different parts of Europe and Asia. Particularly a journey to Jerusalem in 1788, with an account of the life and private memoirs of T...... W......, Esq. Written by himself. The work will be elegantly printed by T. Bensley, in two volumes royal quarto, on superfine wove paper, and hotpressed; of which this proposal may be considered as a specimen. To be enriched with twenty-one engravings, executed by the most eminent artists. The price to subscribers will be five guineas in boards. A list of the subscribers to-be published, and the money to be paid on the delivery of the work. Subscriptions are received in London at the House of John Hood, Esq. and Co. Debrett, Piccadilly; and Murray and Highley, Fleet Street; and in Dublin by Burne and Co. College Green.
T. W., Esq.Date: 1790?]- Books
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Memoirs of the life, ministry, tryal and sufferings of that very eminent person James Nailer, the Quaker's great apostle. Who was Try'd by the High Court of Parliament for Blasphemy, in the Year 1656. With a faithful Relation of his unparalell'd Sentence, and the Execution thereof upon his Body, in the Cities of London, Westminster and Bristol, viz. 1. Standing Twice in the Pillory, 2. Whipt, and receiv'd 310 Lashes, 3. Bor'd thro' the Tongue with a red hot Iron. 4. Burn'd to the Scull with the Letter B. 5. Made to ride backward, bare - ridged, thro' Bristol. 6. Six Times whipt there, 7. And then committed to Bridewel, to hard Labour. Publish'd by an Impartial Hand, to prevent the Abuses in Dr. Kennet's History when Publish'd, and the Gross Imperfection and Misrepresentations of James Nailer in the late Folio Collection of Trials.
Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Pictures
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by E. Ficquet after M. Q. de La Tour.
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.Reference: 8252i- Books
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The divine avenger: or, the fatal consequences of murder; exemplified in the following tragical relations: I. Of a Nobleman of Burgundy, who falling in Love with a Lady at Church, marries her; and living very happily, his Sister envies them, and contrives their Ruin by fomenting Jealousies betwixt them; which occasions a Duel betwixt him and another Gentleman; which not succeeding to her Wish, she poisons her Sister-in-Law, and then her Brother; for which she is tried, hang'd, burn'd, and her Ashes thrown into the Air. II. Of a Gentleman of Venice, who first by himself, and then by his Friend, sollicits the Love of a Lady of Milan. She falls desperately in Love with, and marries his Friend; which the Gentleman resenting, challenges, fights, and kills the Husband; in Revenge for which she employs two Ruffians to kill him; this being discover'd, she is hang'd, burnt, and her Ashes scatter'd in the Air. III. Of a French Nobleman, who falling in Love with a Farmer's Daughter, debauches her, and then causes her and her Infant to be murder'd, to make Way for his Preferment in Marriage to a Lady of a great Family and Fortune. His Villainy being discover'd, he is broke alive, and his Accomplices suffer the most ignominious Deaths. IV. Of a Gentleman and Lady of Valentia, who entertaining a mutual Love for each other, she to secure him her own, causes his Rival to be murder'd. They are married; but she giving him Cause of Jealousy, he murders her and her Paramour. This occasions a Duel between him and the Brother of her first Lover, in which he treacherously kills him; for which he is tried, confesses the formen Murder, and is executed. V. Of a Venetian, who murdered his Wife because she was old; for which he is tried and convicted on the Evidence of his own Daughter, and at last executed. Embellish'd with several curious copper-plate cuts adapted to the Work.
Date: [1738]- Pictures
A Christmas celebration. Gouache by H. Sennitt, 1949.
Sennitt, H., active 1949.Date: 7/11/49 [7 November 1949]Reference: 2948664iPart of: Adamson Collection- Film
Born losers.
Date: 1967