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The life of Benjamin Barker, a notorious highwayman, from his youth to his death; who was executed at Chelmsford on Friday the 18th of May, 1750, for robbing Mr. John Blower, of Bocking, in the Bury Coach. Containing a full account of his wicked behaviour from his infancy, with the many intrigues during his apprenticeship with lewd women, &c. Together with the many robberies he and his gang committed in divers parts of England. Also an account of his trial, behaviour in Gaol after sentence, and dying words at the place of execution.
Date: 1750- Books
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A full and genuine account of the confessions and behaviour, whilst under sentence of death; and of the lives, characters, and last dying words, of the two malefactors, one of whom was executed at Kingston upon Thames, on Thursday the 21st, and the other at Kennington Common, ... on Friday the 22d of August, 1740. With a true copy of the remarkable papers, ... Particularly two prayers, composed by Mr. Hooper himself, ... To which is added, the trial, confession, character, and dying words, of ... Benjamin Randal, ... executed ... the 8th of August, 1740, ...
Date: [1740?]- Books
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A full and compleat history of the lives, robberies, and murders, of all the most notorious highwaymen, that have been in England, Scotland, France and Ireland , from the Reign of William the Conqueror to this Time. Beginning with Thomas Dun, Robin Hood and Little John, Sir John Falstaff, Capt. Hind, the Golden Farmer, Nevisson, Whitney, and above 100 more. Also Giving a more full Account than any yet published, of the Robberies committed by Benjamin Child, John Hawkins, and George Sympson, who were all three Executed for robbing the Bristol Mail. Concluding With the Life and Robberies of the Famous Cartouch in France; and also the Robberies, and remarkable Actions of John Molhoni and James Carrick, lately Executed for Robbing William Young, Esq; in his Chair. The whole being faithfully collected out of the best histories Records, Trials, Ordinaries Accounts, and Manuscripts. By J. W.
J. W.Date: [1742?]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HOP-HOW
Date: 1777-1937Reference: MS.8917- Books
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The description and use of an universal and perpetual mathematical instrument. Shewing The most Expeditious and Exact Method of solving all practical Questions in Arithmetick, Trigonometry, Navigation, Dyalling, Astronomy, &c. Viz. Sun's Place, - Right Ascension, - Declination, - Amplitude, - Rising and Setting, and Equation of Time. Likewise The Dominical Letter, Cycle of the Sun, Golden Number, Epact, Fix'd and Moveable Feasts in both Accounts, Terms and their Returns, New and Full Moons, Moon's Southing, Time of High Water for Thirty-Four Havens, With the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Conjunction of the Superior and Transits of the two Inferior Planets over the Disk or Face of the Sun. By Benjamin Scott.
Scott, Benjamin, 1688-1751.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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The American gentleman's medical pocket-book, and health-adviser : containing a statement of the modes of curing every disease to which he is liable; and directions in case of accidents on the road or at sea. With a full account of epidemic cholera, of dyspepsia, and of sick-headache; their causes, cure, and prevention: and a popular description of the human teeth; their formation, diseases and treatment / by the author of The lady's medical pocket-book.
Date: [1833]- Books
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A Full and true account of the birth, life, and death, of Judas Iscariot, who was the son of Simon, and of the tribe and lineage of Benjamin. Shewing how his mother was foretold by a dream that she should bear a son that would betray the saviour of the world; how his father thought to prevent it, by putting him in a small boat and committing him to the seas; how he was found by some fishermen that belonged to the Island of Iseariot: how a Prince brought him up, and made him his son's companion; how he treacherously drowned the prince's son, and for fear of discovery fled to the land of Canaan, where he killed his own father and married his mother; afterwards betrayed our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; last of all, how be hanged himself, and his bowels gushed out.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A complete system of book-keeping, by an improved mode of double-entry: Comprising A Regular Series of Transactions, as they have Occurred in Actual Business; Illustrated by a Variety of Precedents, disposed in such a Manner as to remove every Obstacle in stating the most difficult Accounts, either between Individuals or Partners: Together with Approved Forms of all the Subsidiary Books required in Trade; being the Result of Thirty Years Observation and Experience. The whole designed as a Perfect Companion for the Counting-House; with a view of Fixing a Standard for Practical Book-Keeping, Suited to the Merchant and Trader of Every Denomination. To which are added, A New Method of Stating Factorage Accounts, Adapted Particularly to the Trade of the British Colonies: Also, A Concise, but Comprehensive View of the Exchanges between all the principal Trading Cities of Europe; with Examples, shewing the readiest Mode of calculating them, at full Length. By Benjamin Booth, Late of New-York, and now of London, Merchant.
Booth, Benjamin.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A Full and true account of Benjamin Child, a Quaker; a notorious cheat and impostor; Shewing, I. How he lodg'd at an eminent Quakers, one Mr. Harman in Abingdon, where he feign'd himself sick, and made his will, leaving Mr. Harman, his wife, and daughter; three hundred pounds each, and one hundred pound between the two servants of the house; ...o his recovery, and marrying Mr. Harman's daughter, with whom he had three hundred pounds portion. II. How he cheated the Queen's receivers general of excise, by forging bills upon good men in London. III. How in the same manner he serv'd all that he dealt with in that country. IV. His coming to London, and buying himself divers sorts of habits, viz. an officer's, a minister's, and a ...ake's of the town; with his keeping company with broken scrivener, and their counterfeiting bills upon several occasions. V. His going to the mint, and there living three quarters of a year without paying any rent; as also ...ow he gave his landlord a forg'd bill upon a goldsmith in the Strand, who went to see if it were good, and was seiz'd till he could produce the person he had ...of. VI. The manner of his being apprehended, and ...rried before Justice Rich, and his being there charg'd by Mr. Warner a goldsmith in Fleetstreet, for counterfeitng his hand in several bills; with his confession, and commitment to the Marshalsea.
Date: 1708- Books
The early days of the 'American journal of the medical sciences' / by Edward B. Krumbhaar.
Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966.Date: 1929- Archives and manuscripts
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Vol. 2. Male and female patients admitted March 1847-May 1850
Camberwell House AsylumDate: mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: MS.6220Part of: Camberwell House Asylum- Books
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A catalogue of a large and elegant collection of books, including the libraries of the late learned and Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, Editor of Xenophon; the Rev. Mr. Mudge, of Plymouth; and several other curious libraries, lately purchased. Among them are Sebae Museum, 4 vol. many cuts. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured. Mrs. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. coloured. Knorr Deliciae Naturae, 2 vol. coloured. Meyer's Animals, 2 vol. coloured. Schefferi Fungi, 2 vol. coloured. Roesel's Frogs and Insects, coloured. Gleichen Nouvelles Decouvertes, coloured. Parkinson's Herbal, 2 vol. L. P. Turkey. Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Miller's Figures of Plants, 2 vol. coloured. British Zoology, compleat, coloured. Gerrarde's Herbal, by Johnson, coloured. Rumphii Herbarium Amboinense, 7 vol. Edward's Birds & Gleanings, 7 v. 4to, col. Oederi Flora Danica, 8 Fasciculi. Raii & Bauhini Hist. Plant. 6 vol. Plukenetii Opera omnia, 4 vol. 4to. ... Poetae Graeci, H. Stephani, 2 vol. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. Aristophanes, Ammianus, Dionys. Halicarn. Diodorus Siculus, Dion Cassius, Josephus, Pindar, Polybius, Plutarch, Pausanias, Ptolemaei Geog. Strabo, Thucydides, Vitruvius, & alii, edit. opt. Ld. Burlington's Palladio. Edmondson's Baronagium, 5 vol. L. P. Desgodetz Edifices Antiques de Rome. Galleria Giustiniana, 2 vol. edit opt. ... Voyage par Norden, 2 tom. Saurin sur la Bible, 6 tom. fig. Calmet, Comment. sur la Bible, 9 tom. Calmet, Diction. de la Bible, 4 tom. G. P. Biblia Polyglotta, &c. Waltoni, 8 v. ruled. Critici Sacri, &c. 13 vol. edit. op. Sixti V. Septuaginta Gr. Romae. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. edit. bened. S. Hieronymi Opera; 5 vol. edit. bened. Field's Bible, 2 vol. cuts, Russia. Bartoloccii Bibliotheca Rabbin. 5 vol. ... R. Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vol. Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Bacon's Abridgment, 5 vol. new edit. Coke on Littleton, last edit. And a great Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Learning. The lowest Prices are printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book: And the sale will begin on Tuesday, the 13th of February, 1770, and continue till all the Books are sold, by Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1770]- Books
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A catalogue of a large, Valuable, and Curious collection of books, In all Languages, and in every Branch of Literature: Among which are the following, Hortus Eystettensis, Besleri. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. Rus. coloured. Scheuchzer Physique Sacree, 8 tom. Roesel's Insects and Frogs, coloured. Meyer's Animals, 3 vol. coloured. Knorr's Lapides Diluvii, coloured. Knorr Deliciae Naturae, coloured. Schaefferi Fungi, 2 vol. coloured. Flora Danica, 2 vol. coloured. Ehret Plantae, per Trew, coloured. Hill's Natural Hist. 3 vol. L. P. coloured. Trew's Flowers, by Seligman, coloured. British Zoology, coloured. Schmiedel Icones, coloured. Hill's British Herbal, lar. pap. coloured. Academie des Sciences, 97 tom. 4 to. comp. Philosoph. Transact. at large, compleat. Dillenii Hortus Elthamensis, 2 vol. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, 12 vol. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent, morocco. Montfaucon Antiquite, 15 tom. gr. pap. Voyage D'egypte, par Norden, 2 tom. Estampes, par Crozat, 2 tom. gr. pap. De Lisle and Roberts's Atlasses. Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec. Ruins of Greece, by Le Roy. Caesaris Comment. per Sam. Clarke. Sir T. Hanmer's Shakespeare, 6 vol. 4 to. Spence's Polymetis, first edit. Overbeke Reliquiae Romae Ant. Picart's Ovid's Metamorphoses. Gazettes, a Set of, 41 vol. Anderson's History of Commerce, 2 vol, Ld. Clarendon's Hist. 4 vol. lar. pap. rus. Religious Ceremonies, 7 vol. lar. pap. Horseley's Britannia Romana, lar. pap. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Biographia Britannica, 7 vol. State Trials, 10 vol. compleat. Carte's History, 4 vol. lar. pap. Rapin and Tindal's Hist. 5 vol. James's and Postlethwayt's Dictionaries. Miller's and Johnson's Dictionaries. Patrick, Lowth, Arnald and Whitby, 7 v. Plinii Hist. Nat. Harduini, 3 vol. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vol. Paris. Polybius Casauboni. Dion Cassius, Reimari, 2 vol. Diodorus Siculus, Wesselingii, 2 vol. Dionysius Halicarnassus, Hudsoni, 2 vol. Rymeri Foedera, 20 vol. edit. opt. Biblia Polyglotta, &c. Waltoni, 8 vol. N. Test. Graec. R. Stephani, corio Turcico. Erasmi Opera omnia, clerici, 10 vol. S. Chrysostom, Edit. Benedict. 13 vol. Concilia, a Harduino, 12 vol. Du Cange Glossarium, 6 vol. Seldeni Opera, 6 vol. ch. max. Somneri Diction. Saxonicum. H. Steph. Thesaurus Ling. Gr. 4 vol. The Prices are marked in the first Leaf of every Book, and printed in the Catalogue: And The Sale will begin on Thursday the 10th of March, 1768, and continue till all the Books are sold, By Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1768]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: M
Date: 1820-1951Reference: MS.8878- Books
The fever of 1721 / Stephen Coss.
Coss, StephenDate: 2016- Ephemera
Insects and pests ephemera. Box 1.
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Clark, Frederick Le Gros (1811-1892)
Clark, Frederick Le Gros, 1811-1892Date: 7 February 1868-23 November 1883Reference: MS.8640- Archives and manuscripts
John Hodgkin junior (1800-1875)
Date: 1809-1976Reference: PP/HO/EPart of: Hodgkin family- Books
A guide to treatments that work / edited by Peter E. Nathan, Jack M. Gorman.
Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to George Rolleston and his wife Grace
Date: 1860-1885Reference: MS.6119Part of: Rolleston family- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 8
Date: Jul 1904 - May 1905Reference: WF/E/01/01/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Ballingall, Sir George (1780-1855), F.R.S., Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University
Ballingall, George, Sir, 1780-1855Date: 1808-1852Reference: MS.6905