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Female effigy, Simbo Island, Solomon Islands. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
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Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
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The true effigies of the German giant : now to be seen at the Swan near Charing-Cross, whose stature is nine foot and a half in height, and the span of his hand a cubit compleat. He goes from place to place with his wife, who is but of an ordinary stature, and takes money for the show of her husband.
Date: 1660- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription The tryal of Christian Krumbholtz, D.D. For Preaching several Seditious Sermons, and stirring up the people to rebellion against the magistrates and government of Hamburgh. Originally printed and publish'd by order of the High Imperia Commissioners. And now faithfully translated into English. To which will be added, the effigies of Dr. Krumbholtz. Done from the original.
Phillips, John, bookseller.Date: 1712]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002724: A Nkondi from the Congo, West Africa
Date: 04 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/22/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The picture of love unveil'd: being an answer to one, who was very inquisitive to know what love was. Made English from the Latin of Amoris effigies. By John Norris, M. A. Late Rector of Bemerton, near Sarum. The fourth edition. To which are prefixed, I. A brief account of the author and Translator.; with a List of his Works. II. Some reflections upon love and beauty; by Way of Apology for this Kind of Writing.
Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Digital Images
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A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Short hair, necklet and ear pendants of coix seeds. Lips sewn together, no threads hanging.
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A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
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Pierres tombales seldjoukides à effigie au 14e siècle en Antolie / A. Süheyl Ünver.
Ünver, A. Süheyl (Ahmet Süheyl), 1898-1986.Date: 1960- Books
The marrow of ecclesiastical history, contained in the lives of one hundred forty eight Fathers, schoolmen, first reformers, and modern divines. Which have flourished in the Church since Christ's time to this present age : faithfully collected, and orderly disposed according to the centuries wherein they lived together with the lively effigies of most of the eminent of them cut in copper / by Samuel Clark.
Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.Date: 1654- Books
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A Full and true account of the discovery of a notorious design to disturb the government, with the seizing and apprehending the effigies of the pretender, pope, cardinals, Jesuits and fryers, by sixteen of Her Majesty's Grenadiers, last night about twelve of the clock, in an empty house in Angel-Court, Drury-Lane, and conveying them to the Treasury-Chamber at Whitehall also a search after the authors of this design.
Date: [1710?]- Books
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Moriĕncomium Or, The praise or folly. Made English from the Latin of Erasmus. By W. Kennett of S. Edm. Hall, Oxonnow Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with forty six copper plates, and the effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More: all neatly engraved from the designs of the celebrated hans holbeine. To which is prefix'd, a preface by the translator, and divers copies of commendatory verses.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: M,DCC,XXIV. [1724]- Books
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The character of a generous prince drawn from the great lines of heroick fortitude. From which by the rule of contraries, may be delineated the effigies of a prodigious tyrant. The vertues of the former, and the vices of the latter, being fully represented; by a pleasant variety of examples, from ancient and modern history. By a hearty well-wisher of Her Majesties government, and the Church of England.
Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.Date: 1703- Books
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The lives of the holy apostles, viz. St. Peter. St. Paul. St. Andrew. St. James the Great. St. John. St. Philip. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Thomas. St. James the Less. St. Simeon the Zealot. St. Jude. St. Matthias. Together with those of St. Barnabas: and St. Mark, and St. Luke, evangelists. According to the Accounts of Holy Scripture, and the best Ecclesiastical Writers. Illustrated with their several effigies, curiously engraved.
Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Digital Images
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Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male
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Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur, sed et per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis germanicisque appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus. Cum indicibus diuersis. Quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus, atq[ue] omnibus nunc iterum ad archetypum diligenter restitutis & castigatis / [Georg Agricola].
Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555.Date: 1561- Books
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur, sed et per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis latinis germanicisque appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de animantibus subterraneis liber, ab autore recognitus. Cum indicibus diuersis. Quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus, atq[ue] omnibus nunc iterum ad archetypum diligenter restitutis & castigatis / [Georg Agricola].
Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555.Date: M. D. LXI. [1561]- Books
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Pauli principis de la Scala et Hun, marchionis Veronae & c. domini Creutzburgi Prussiae, Primi tomi miscellaneorum, de rerum caussis & successibus atque secretiori methodo ibidem expressa, effigies ac exemplar, nimirum, vaticiniorum & imaginum Ioachimi abbatis Florensis Calabriae, & Anselmi episcopi Marsicani, super statu summorum pontificum Rhomanae Ecclesiae, contra falsam, iniquam, vanam, confictam & seditiosam cuiusdam pseudomagi, quae nuper nomine Theophrasti Paracelsi in lucem prodijt, pseudomagicam expositionem, vera, certa, & indubitata explanatio
AnonDate: 1570- Books
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Garioch Garland or the life and death of the famous Charles Leslie, ballad-singer, commonly called Musle-mow'd Charlie. Who died at Old Rayne, aged five score and five. To which is added, two excellent new songs, entitled and called Johny Lad, and the Old Way of the Highland Laddie, by the foresaid author. With the right and true effigies of the said Charles Leslie. Licensed and entered according to order.
Date: 1750?]- Digital Images
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Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
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Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
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Canoe-head mask, New Guinea.
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Fighting Adze Toki, Greenstone blade and carved handle. Maori, New Zeland. In the exhibition of The Medicine of Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth.
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A shrunken head, Jivaro Indian, Ecuador, S.America. Long hair, threads from lips, feather pendant from ears
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A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most noted pirates. Interspersed with several remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London. Adorn'd with the effigies, and other material transactions of the most remarkable offenders, engraved on copper-plates. By Capt. Charles Johnson.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]