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Leonardi Plukenetii amaltheum botanicum. (i.e.) Stirpium indicarum alterum copiæ Cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens; Quarum Sexcenae & insuper Selectis Iconibus, æneisque tabulis in gratiam phytosophorum exquisite & summo artificio illustrantur. Opus Tempori Sacratum. In Magnis vel Voluisse Sat est.
Plukenet, Leonard, 1642-1706.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
Leonardi Plukenetii Amaltheum botanicum : (i.e.) Stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens, quarum sexcenae & insuper, selectis iconibus, aeneisque tabulis in gratiam phytosophorum exquisitè & summo artificio illustrantur. Opus tempori sacratum. In magnis vel voluisse sat est.
Plukenet, Leonard, 1642-1706.Date: M.DCC.V. [1705]- Books
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Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum quales sunt cancri, echini, echinometra, stellæ marinæ, &c. ut et cochlearum ... quibus accedunt conchylia, ut nautilus, cornu Ammonis, & conchæ univalviæ et bivalviæ ... denique mineralia ... / Quorum omnium maximam partem Georgius Everhardus Rumphius ... collegit; jam vero naturae amator et curiosus quidam in hunc ordinem digessit, et ... aeri incidi curavit.
Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702.Date: 1739- Books
Observations on the antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles: exemplify'd and prov'd by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. With a vocabulary of Cornu British language / By William Borlase.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: 1754- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription Mineralogia Cornubiensis; or, a general treatise upon Minerals, Mines, and Mining, Wherein the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, as to their origin, matter, formation, direction, inclination, interruption, elevation, and depression, Are rationally accounted for, upon the Universal Principles of Nature and Philosophy. With the Methods at large of discovering, working, and drawing the water of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, Together with the cleansing and metalizing their Products; Shewing each particular Process for digging, raising, dressing, as saying, and smelting of Ores in Cornwall. To which will be added, A Cornu-British Etymological explanation of the Cornu-Technical Terms and Idioms of Tinners: Including those which are used among the Lead Mines and Collieries of Great-Britain. By W. Pryce, of Redruth, in Cornwall.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: 1774]- Books
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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, and the British isles, exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, LL. D. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Archæologia Cornu-Britannica; or, an essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language; containing the rudiments of that dialect, in a Cornish grammar and Cornish-English vocabulary, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors. Wherein The British Original of some Thousand English Words in common Use is demonstrated; together with that of the Proper Names of most Towns, Parishes, Villages, Mines, and Gentlemen's Seats and Families, in Wales, Cornwall, Devonshire, and other Parts of England. By William Pryce, M. D. of Redruth, Cornwall, author of Mineralogia Cornubiensis.
Pryce, William, 1725?-1790.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, customs, And Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, In Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify'd and prov'd by Monuments now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Faithfully drawn on the Spot, and Engrav'd according to their Scales annex'd. With A Summary Of The Religious, Civil, and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest; Illustrated by the Plans and Elevations of several Ancient Castles, An Eastern View of the Monastery and Site of St. Michael's Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
Appareils sanitaires en porcelaine et en grès fin a [sic] email [sic] dur : briques et carreaux émaillés pour revêtements carreaux en grès cérame pour dallages catalogue général juillet 1902.
P. de Lachomette, Villiers & Cie.Date: 1902- Digital Images
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Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
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Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
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Three snakes: a horned viper; a Madagascan langaha; a grass snake. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 42037i- Pictures
Three types of lizard and an iguana. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 41908i- Pictures
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Men on horseback are goring bulls with spears, crowds of people are watching from the sidelines. Engraving after Jan van der Straet.
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.Reference: 34374i- Pictures
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Ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching by B. L. Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: 1 November 1798Reference: 41796i- Pictures
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Lamp shells and ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: 1 November 1798Reference: 42227i- Pictures
Four snakes of the cobra family, including a horned viper. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 41967i- Pictures
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Five species of toad. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 41876i- Pictures
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A rhinoceros. Woodcut after A. Dürer.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: [1602]Reference: 41009i- Archives and manuscripts
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Herbal
Musa, AntoniusDate: Mid 13th CenturyReference: MS.573- Books
Description anatomique des parties de la femme, qui servent à la generation; avec un Traité des monstres [by F. Licetus], de leur causes, de leur nature, & de leur differences : et une description anatomique, de la disposition surprenante de quelques parties externes & internes de deux enfans nés dan la ville de Gand, capitale de Flandres le 28 avril 1703 ... &c. &c / par Jean Palfyn ; Lesquels ouvrages on peut considerer comme une suite de l'Accouchement des femmes. Par Monsr. Mauriceau.
Palfijn, Jan, 1650-1730.Date: 1708- Pictures
The rape of Europa. Engraving by J. Frey after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1732Reference: 11722i- Pictures
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Adrianus Junius [Adriaen de Jonghe]. Line engraving by C. de Visscher.
Reference: 4920i- Pictures
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas carrying out a chemical procedure. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Date: 1848-1850Reference: 2659iPart of: Les représentans représentés. Assemblée législative- Pictures
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Twelve univalve molluscs. Coloured etching by M. Harris.
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788.Date: 17 February 1787Reference: 40480i