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A new review of London: being an exact survey, lately taken, of every street, lane Court, Alley, Square, Close, Green, Wharf, Row, Garden, Field, and all Places, by what Name soever call'd, within the cities, liberties, or suburbs of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. Alphabetically digested. To which are added, I. The Rates of Foreign and Domestick Letters, II. An exact and correct List of all the State-Coaches, Waggons, and Carriers, where they Inn at in London, and Days they go out of Town. III. A List (never before done) of all the Houses of the British Nobility, in London and Westminster. IV. The Rates of Watermen, Hackney-Coaches, Chairs, and Carts. Peculiarly adapted for Trade and Business, and therefore very necessary for all Gentlemen, Ladies, Merchants, Shopkeepers, Country-Chapmen, and others.
Burridge, Richard, 1670-Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Pictures
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Hong Kong: westerners promenading and taking sedan chairs along Kennedy Road. Wood engraving after C.J. Uren, 1883.
Uren, Charles J., 1860-1887.Date: [1883]Reference: 37154i- Books
Handbook of wheel chairs and hand propelled tricycles / [issued by the Department of Health and Social Security].
Date: Between 1970 and 1972?]- Books
Professional recommendation : Allwin trade mark folding invalids' chairs : March, 1937 / [Richards Son & Allwin Ltd.].
Richards Son & Allwin.Date: 1937- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: cardigan, tiger cactus, plants and flowers, fruit and vegetables, kitchen items, living room chairs (August-December 2001)
Date: 09/08/2001-09/12/2001Reference: PP/AMI/B/796Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
Reference: 31257i- Pictures
Men of various sizes are sitting on chairs watching a very tall man (Moissan?). Lithograph by L. Fuchs.
Fuchs, Louis, active 1901.Reference: 546307i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: garden toad, bedroom window sill, kitchen items, carnations, table and chairs, St Mary Magdalene churchyard (August-September 1999)
Date: 16/08/1999-21/09/1999Reference: PP/AMI/B/769Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
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A catalogue of all the elegant houshold furniture, pictures, and drawings, a neat library, China, rich Silver brocaded Silks, Diamond Rings, Gold Watch, &c. of Henry Woodward Esq. deceased, Brought from his late House in Chapel-Street, Grosvenor-Place, consisting of Beautiful Cotton & other Furniture in Bedsleads and Window Curtains, Cabriole Chairs, capital Pictures and Drawings, by Rubens, Rembrandt, and other admired Masters, a well chosen Library containing about 400 Volumes, &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Pollard, at Mr. Hathwell's great auction room, in St. Alban's Street, on Monday, the 30th of June, 1777, and the Three following Days. To be viewed on Friday and Saturday next, and till the Sale, which will begin each Day at 12 O'Clock. Cacalogues may then be had on the Premises, and of Mr. Pollard, Woodstock-Street, near New Bond-Street.
Pollard, Mr.Date: 1777]- Books
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The southampton guide: or, an account of the ancient and present state of that town. Its trade, public buildings, charitable foundations, churches, fairs, markets, playhouse, assembly rooms, baths, &c. Together with a description of the Isle of Wight Netley Abbey New Forest Lymington Lyndhurst Redbridge Romsey Broadlands Bellevue Bevis Mount St. Dennis Titchfield, &c. Interspersed with many curious and useful Particulars. To which are added rules observed in the subscription news room; Terms of Board and Lodging; the going out and coming in of the Mail; Account of Packets and Hoys; Rates of Chairs; perpetual Tide-Table; a List of the Stage Coaches, Carriers, &c. and the Days they set out from Southampton, with the Places where they inn, &c. Also The Distances, in measured Miles, of some useful Roads from Southampton; with an Alphabetical List of the Cities and principal Towns in Great Britain, also measured from Southampton.
Date: [1793?]- Books
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At R. Montagu's book-warehouse, The General Post-Office, That End of Great Queen-Street, next Drury-Lane, is a Choice Collection of valuable books being The libraries of two Eminent Counsellors, late of Lincoln's-Inn, in all Faculties and Parts of Learning. In English, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, &c. Together with several Manuscript Law Books. Which will begin to be Sold Cheap for ready Money only, On Monday the Thirteenth of February, 1737-8. The Price being affixed to the first Leaf of each Book. There will likewise be exposed to sale the Furniture of one of their Chambers, Consisting of Wallnut-Tree Chairs; Glasses, Sconces, Paintings, Prints, Tables, a Writing-Desk, Bed, Buroe, Horse Furniture, Fowling-Pieces, Nets, Umbrellas, &c. with near Two Hundred scarce, antique Medals and Coins. Also a large Number of fairly wrote Manuscript Sermons, several Hundred Grammars; and above Fifty Thousand Pamphlets.
Montagu, R. (Richard), active 1718-1749.Date: 1738]- Books
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The southampton guide: or, an account of the ancient and present state of that town. Its trade, public buildings, charitable foundations, churches, fairs, markets, playhouse, assembly rooms, baths, &c. Together with a description of the Isle of Wight, Netley Abbey, New Forest, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Redbridge, Romsey, Broadlands, Bellevue, Bevis Mount, St. Dennis, Titchfield &c. Interspersed with many curious and useful Particulars. To which are added, rules observed in the subscription coffeehouse; Terms of Board and Lodging; the going out and coming in of the Mail; Account of the Packets and Hoys; Rates of Chairs; perpetual Tide Table; a List of the Stage Coaches, Carriers, &c. and the Days they set out from Southampton, with the Places where they inn, &c. Also, The Distances, in measured Miles, of some useful Roads from Southampton; with an Alphabetical List of the Cities and principal Towns in Great Britain, also measured from Southampton.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The 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, Gentlemens Seats in its Environs, Remarkable Prospects, &c. Including a List of the Earls of Chester; together with the Times of going out and coming in of the Posts, Post Coaches, Machines, Waggons, Carriers, Names and Places of Abode of the News Carriers, Rules and Rates of the Assemblies, the Rates of Chairs, Carmen, &c. Likewise the Distances of the neighbouring Market Towns and Places, Gentlemens Seats, &c. To which is added, a directory: containing an alphabetical list of the clergy, merchants, tradesmen, &c. in the city and market towns in the county. The second edition, with additions an corrections. Embellished with a pespective view, and a ground plan of the city.
Date: 1782- Books
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To be sold by auction, By Richard Finney, junr. on Wednesday the 24th day of June, 1795, at the house of the late Marshall Killer, deceased, in St. Peter's-Parish, Derby, household furniture, Consisting of Tables, Chairs, Mahogany Double Chest of Drawers, Oak Book Case and Desk, an Eight-Day Clock (new) with Mahogany Case, Mahogany Book-Case with Glass Doors; a large Settee Bed; Pier and Swing Glasses; a good Wilton Carpet 12 Feet 9 Inches by 11 Feet 9 Inches; new Silver Plate; Prints; Glasses; an elegant Time Piece, with Candlesticks to match; a Grand Piano Forte; Harpsichord; Mahogany Four Posts and Tent Bedsteads; Mattresses, Feather Beds; Kitchen Requisites; Brewing Utensils, &c. &c. The Sale to begin at 10 O'Clock precisely. Particulars of the plate may be had on the premises, or at Mr. Drewry's, on Monday preceding the sale.
Finney, Richard.Date: [1795]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003207: Lighting and desks in inspection room of large printing works / M0003207EB: Three women working on adjustable chairs
Date: 02 November 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/26/24Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Improvements in dental and other chairs, and in lifting and lowering apparatus applicable to the same / [Thomas Harry Gardner].
Gardner, Thomas Harry.Date: 1893- Pictures
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Thirteen diagrams of a child in the womb in various positions; two obstetrical chairs and several obstetrical instruments. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.Date: [1749]Reference: 17074i- Books
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An account of the subsisting licenses for private sedan chairs, on the 25th of March, 1785: With the names of the owners thereof, alphabetically ranged, their residence, and the number of said licenses respectively. John Bailie, register to the governors of the foundling hospital.
Foundling Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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An improved appliance comprising a water motor and a spittoon for attachment to dental and like chairs / [William Baskin Alford].
Alford, William Baskin.Date: 1905- Pictures
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A man and a woman in France standing on chairs playing musical instruments in the street. Coloured aquatint with etching.
Date: Sep. 1 1805Reference: 31906i- Pictures
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European men and women being transported by Indian men, in a coach drawn by oxen, in sedan chairs, and in a carriage pulled by men. Wood engraving, 1875.
Date: 1875Reference: 37016i- Books
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The compleat parish-officer; containing, I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens, how chosen, their Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of the Act for building Fifty new Churches in London and Westminster. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. of surveyors of the Highways, and Scavengers, how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. Together with the statutes relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs, &c.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1731- Books
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The laws and customs, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the City of London: containing. The several charters granted to the said city, from William the Conqueror to the present time; the Magistrates and Officers thereof, and their respective Creations, Elections, Rights, Duties, and Authorities; the Laws and Customs of the City, as the same relate to the Persons or Estates of the Citizens; the Nature, Jurisdiction, Practice and Proceedings of the several Courts in London; and the Acts of Parliament concerning the Cities of London and Westminster, alphabetically digested under the following Titles, viz. Administration, Aldermen, Aliens, Annoyance, Apothccaries, Appeals, Ashes, Attaines, Ballast, Barhers, Bawdy-House, Billingsgate, Black-Well-Hall, Brass, Brokers and Stockjobbers, Buildings, Butchers, Butter and Cheese, Carts, Chairs, Churches, Coaches, Coals, Conduits, Constables, Coopers, Cordwainers, Corn, Debts, Drapery, Election, Fish, Fuel, Garbling and Gauging, Gold and Goldsmiths, Gunpowder, Highways, Jury, Market, Oilmen, Painters and Plaisterers, Pavement, Physicians, Quo Warranto, Recognizances, Sewers, Stockjobbers, Streets, Tithes, Victuallers, Water, Watermen, Weights and Measures, and Wine.
Corporation of London.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
illustrated price list of wicker and cane bath chairs... : and other requisites for invalids. No.20 / J.J.P.B.
Date: [1906?]- Books
Report and recommendations of the panel to assess the NIH investment in research on gene therapy /Stuart H. Orkin, Arno G. Motulsky, co-chairs.
Date: 1995