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The American geography; or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A Concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With A Particular Description Of AtKentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To Which IS Added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with two sheet maps - One Of At The Southern, The Other Of At The Northern States. - From The Latest Surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A complete atlas, or distinct view of the known world; exhibited in sixty-eight maps: viz. Chart of the World. The World in two Hemispheres. Europe. Great Brit. and Ireland. England and Wales. Scotland. Ireland. France. Spain. Portugal. Netherlands, or Low Countries. United - Provinces, or Holland. Germany in Circles. South-West Part of Germany. South-East Part of Germany. North-East Part of Germany. North-West Part of Germany. Switzerland. Savoy and Piedmont. Italy. Northern Parts of Italy. Naples and Sicily. Scandinavia. Denmark. Sweden. Moscovy. Poland and Lithuania. Hungary and Transilvania. Turkey in Europe. Islands in the Archipelago. Asia. Turkey in Asia. Anatolia, with Syria. Asia Minor. The Holy Land. The Caspian Sea. Persia. The Russian Empire. China. Japon. Mogul Empire. East India Islands. Africa. Nubia and Abissinia. Barbary. Negroland and Upper Guinea. Southern Parts of Africa. African Islands. America. Brazil. Paraguay, with the River Plata. Chili, Terra Magellanica, and Terra del Fuego. Peru and Amazons. Terra Firma. West Indies. Mexico, or New Spain, with California. Luisiana, Florida, and Canada. Carolina. Virginia and Maryland. Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England. Newfoundland, Newscotland, and Cape Briton. Bermudas and St. Christopher. Cuba and Hispaniola. Jamaica. North Pole. Towns and Harbours. Barbadoes. Antigua. Greenland. In which the latitude and longitude of the Principal Places in different Countries are laid down, according to the Latest Discoveries. By Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to his Majesty.
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner.
Date: 1999- Books
Quarantaines et lazarets : l'Europe et la peste d'Orient, XVIIe-XXe siècles / Daniel Panzac.
Panzac, Daniel.Date: 1986- Digital Images
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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The memoirs of Michael Clancy, M.D. Containing, his observations on many countries in Europe: particularly, the southern parts of France, the Province of Guienne, Part of Spain, Paris, London, and Ireland, where he resided at different Times, for the Space of twenty-five Years. ...
Clancy, Michael, approximately 1700-approximately 1750.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
Kinship in Europe : approaches to long-term development (1300-1900) / edited by David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Jon Mathieu.
Date: 2007- Books
Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans.
Date: [2013]- Books
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The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual: Containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In the course of̀ which, the following subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & other ship-accounts. 2. Instructions for the officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary monies of the world; and tables of the agreement which the weights and measures o the principal places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of captures by His Majesty's ships and private vessels of war. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and seamen's wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, charter-parties, & demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. PIots and pilotage. 15. Marine insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and respondentia 18. Bills of exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland seas and davis's streights. 24. Southern whale-fishery. 25. British fisheries. 26. Newfoundland fisheries. 27. Oyster-fisheries. 28. Regulation of seamen in the coasting-trade. 29. Slave-trade. 30. Act for consolidation of the duties. 31. Duties in the United States of America. 32. Duties at the sound. The fifth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779 / By Charles Peter Thunberg.
Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828.Date: 1795- Books
Wanderings in search of health / [Albert Denison Londesborough].
Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron, 1805-1860.Date: 1849- Books
Travels in Europe and Africa ... / by Colonel Keatinge. Comprising a journey through France, Spain and Portugal, to Morocco: with a particular account of that empire. Also a second tour through France in 1814.
Keatinge, Maurice, -1835.Date: 1816- Books
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The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual: containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts fot the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary Monies of the World; and Tables of the Agroement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantinf. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The sixth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795] [1796]- Books
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The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual: containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and other in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts for the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and Imaginary Monies of the World: and Tables of the Agreement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage, and Rates of Pilotage in the Royal Navy. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomby and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The seventh edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
The public debate on Biotechnology in southern european countries : final report.
Date: 1995- Books
Living with the Black Death / [Lars Bisgaard & Leif Søndergaard (eds.)].
Date: 2009- Books
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A new, authentic, and complete edition of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages round the world: undertaken and performed by royal authority, for making new discoveries, &c. viz. His first voyage, undertaken and performed in His Majesty's ship the Endeavour, for observing the transit of Venus, and making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and round the world. His second-in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, for making discoveries towards the South Pole and round the world. His third and last-in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, to the Pacific Ocean, for making more recent discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, &c. and to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America, its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe, &c. &c. Comprehending the life and death of Capt. Cook, Capt. Clerk, &c. Together with a narrative of Capt. Furneaux's proceedings, during the separation of the Adventure and Resolution, in which period several of his people were destroyed by the natives of Queen Charlotte's Sound. Including tables of the various languages of the South Sea islands, with the explanation in English, together with a list of the gentlemen, officers, and men who attended Capt. Cook in his expeditions round the world. In which are incorporated, the substance of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. viz. those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, &c. Illustrated with near 200 copper-plate engravings, finely executed by the most eminent masters. An entire new edition, taken from the original journals as published in quarto by government, at a most extravagant price. The whole now revised, corrected, and improved, and published on reasonable terms, by Capt. John Hogg, late of the Royal Navy.
Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.Date: [1790?]- Books
Counter-Reformation, economic decline, and the delayed impact of the medical revolution in Catholic Europe, 1550-1750 / Jonathan Israel.
Israel, Jonathan I.Date: 1999- Books
The making of the Middle Ages / R. W. Southern.
Southern, R. W. (Richard William), 1912-2001.Date: 1959- Books
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To the curious in general. Whatever deserves the epithet of the rare, certainly will deserve the strictest attention of the greatest curiosos. Just arrived from the southern part of Africa, and now to be seen alive, ... at Mr. Patterson's, pastry-cook, no. 37, near the top of the Hay-market, the most astonishing and largest ostrich, ever seen in Europe. ... The satyr and the grand cassawar [sic], ... to be seen at Mr. Gough's Menagery, no. 99, Holborn-Hill, ...
Gough's Menagery (Holborn-Hill, London, England)Date: 1795?]- Books
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Winter in the south of Europe, or, Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica, Sicily and Biarritz as winter climates / by J. Henry Bennet.
Bennet, James Henry, 1816-1891.Date: 1865- Books
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The balance of births and deaths / by Robert R. Kuczynski.
Kuczynski, Robert René, 1876-1947.Date: 1928-1931- Digital Images
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Cynoglossum officinale L. Boraginaceae. Houndstongue. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: “... being roasted and laid to the fundament, helps the haemorrhoids. It is also good against burnings and scaldings.” It contains hepatocarcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids and while people are known to eat the young leaves as a vegetable, this is inadvisable. The whole plant is hairy and may cause contact dermatitis. The use of herbal remedies, which contain these alkaloids, by the Bantu of southern Africa correlates with their high incidence of tumours of the liver and pancreas. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Doctoral dissertations on South Asia, 1966-1970 : an annotated bibliography covering North America, Europe, and Australia / compiled and edited by Frank J. Shulman.
Shulman, Frank Joseph, 1943-Date: 1971