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The smart : the story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the unfortunate Perreau brothers / Sarah Bakewell.
Bakewell, Sarah, 1963-Date: 2001- Books
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Enthusiastick impostors no divinely inspir'd prophets. Being An Historical Relation of the Rise, Progress, and present Practices of the French and English Pretended Prophets. Wherein all their Agitations, Extasies, Inspirations, Prophetical Warnings, and Pretences to working Miracles, are proved False, Counterfeit and Ridiculous Impostures; by Observations and Testimonies, under the Hand-Writing of several Persons of known and undoubted Reputation, that were Eye and Ear-Witnesses of their Transactions. Humbly Dedicated to the Lord Bishop of London.
Kingston, Richard, 1635?-Date: 1707- Pictures
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J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: 8 September 1830Reference: 21000i- Pictures
Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
S., B., active 1750.Date: 1750Reference: 20586i- Pictures
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Two performing itinerant medicine vendors in costume on a horse drawn carriage rehersing their speeches on a country lane as a young woman walks past. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20599i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in the square of the Grand Duke of Florence. Lithograph by Levilly after F. Pieraccini.
Pieraccini, Francesco.Reference: 20907i- Books
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With the circumstances of each fraud, and the names of all the parties injured. The northern hero; being a faithful narrative of the life, adventures, and deceptions, of James George Semple, commonly called Major Semple, alias Major Harrold, Major Maxwell, Major Grant, Major Cunningham, Major Winter, &c. &c. &c. With an Account of his Devices at Lord Salisbury's, Sir Thomas Dundass's, and Mr. Pitt's. Also the almost innumerable Inventions by which he obtained Goods of Tradesmen of every Profession, with the Particulars of each Transaction. The Whole supported by indisputable Authority, with the Names of the Persons who were the Objects of his Depredations, and the singular Manner of his Apprehension. Together with an account of his trial, Before Mr. Justice Gould and the Recorder, at th Old Bailey, on Saturday, September 2, for defrauding Mr. John Lycett, Coach-Maker, in Whitechapel, of a post-chaise, value Fifty Guineas, of which the Jury convicted him without going out of Court.
Date: [1786]- Books
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King Henry the Vii. Or the popish impostor. A tragedy. As it is acted by His Majesty's servants, at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane.
Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Pictures
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A theatrical itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to a crowd, assisted by an elaborately dressed man and an owl. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20911i- Pictures
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Doctor Saltinbanco, a medicine vendor, attacking one of his clients for non-payment. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20638i- Books
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The free Briton's answer to the Pretender's declaration. Supposed to be wrote by His Grace the Lord A---b---sh---p of Y--ke.
Gordon, Thomas, -1750.Date: M,DCC,XLV. [1745]- Books
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An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, The pretended Rabbet-Breeder of Godalming in Surrey, From Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. Together with An Account of her Confession of the Fraud. By Sir Richard Manningham, Kt. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Physicians, London.
Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.Date: 1726- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i- Books
The imposteress rabbit breeder : Mary Toft and eighteenth-century England / Karen Harvey.
Harvey, Karen, 1971-Date: 2020- Books
Imagining monsters : miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England / Dennis Todd.
Todd, Dennis, 1944-Date: 1995- Books
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The history of the life of the great impostor Mahomet: Containing, I. His birth and parentage. II. Of his wives. III. His journey into heaven and the extraordinary things which he saw. IV. Of his publishing the Alcoran. V. His wars, with many other extraordinary particulars. VI. His death and burial at Medina, &c. By Humphrey Prideaux, D.D. dean of Norwich.
Prideaux, Humphrey, 1648-1724.Date: 1795