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A treatise on the action of ejectment. By Charles Runnington, J. C. Editor of the last Edition of Hale's History of the Common Law.
Runnington, Charles, 1751-1821.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A review of the proceedings and arguments in a cause in Chancery, between James Fox, Esq. and Robert Mackreth, Esq. In which Lord Kenyon, then Master of the Rolls, pronounced a Decree in Favour of Mr. Fox; which was affirmed by the Lord Chancellor on an Appeal to him; and, on a further Appeal, re-affirmed in the House of Lords: wherein the conduct of Mr. Mackreth, In the Transactions, which are involved in and produced the Cause, is defended;-the Charges of the Counsel, employed by Mr. Fox, refuted;-and Mr. Mackreth's Character fully and completely rescued from the Imputations of the Decree. By a retired Barrister.
Ambler, Charles, -1794.Date: 1792- Pictures
Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender. Engraving by E. Finden, 1821, after L. Tocqué, 1748.
Tocqué, Louis, 1696-1772.Date: September 1821Reference: 2044873i- Books
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An account of the French expedition to Egypt: comprehending a view of the country of Lower Egypt, its cities, monuments, and inhabitants, at the time of the arrival of the French; and a particular description and measurement of Pompey's Pillar, Illustrated by a Plate. By Charles Norry, Member of the Philotechnical Society, and one of the Architects attached to the Expedition. Translated from the French.
Norry, Charles, 1756-1832.Date: 1800- Books
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Tarare, an opera, in five acts: With a prologue. As it is now performed with universal applause at the Theatre of the Royal Academy of music, upon the boulevards, in Paris. Translated from the French of M. Caron de Beaumarchais, by Mr. C. James, author of petrarch to laura, &c.
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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An English woman lost in the American jungle is captured by a native American with a tomahawk. Engraving by C. Warren, 1797, after J. Burney.
Burney, James, 1750-1821.Date: Novr. 4 1797Reference: 33078i- Pictures
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The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.
Brocas, Charles, 1774-1835.Date: 1822Reference: 17481i- Pictures
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
Sneyd, John.Date: 14 March 1803Reference: 12191i- Pictures
Britannia as a patient who is in danger of death owing to disagreement between her three doctors over their competing remedies; representing the weakness of Britain during the replacement of Addington by Pitt as Prime Minister and the exclusion of Fox. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 20 May 1804Reference: 12194i- Journals
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The North American review
Date: 1821-- Archives and manuscripts
Lectures on the Practice of Physic; including material by William Cullen (1710-1790)
Gregory, James, 1753-1821Date: 1767-1768Reference: MSS.2618-2627Part of: Gregory, John (1724-1773)- Pictures
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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 2 May 1803Reference: 12193i- Books
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The tomb of James Molai; or, The secret of the conspirators. (Translated by a gentleman of Boston.) Addressed to those who wish to know every thing.
Cadet de Gassicourt, C.-L. (Charles-Louis), 1769-1821.Date: --1797- Pictures
The marriage of Richard, Duke of York and Lady Anne de Mowbray, both as children, in Saint Stephen's Hall, Westminster, 1477/1478. Mezzotint by W. Say, 1821, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: May 4, 1821Reference: 2491696i- Books
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An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.
Date: 1777- Books
A history of political and religious persecutions : from the earliest days of the Christian church / by Fernando Garrido and C.B. Cayley.
Garrido, Fernando, 1821-1883.Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Pictures
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Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 20 June 1799Reference: 12187i- Books
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Religio medici : to which is added, Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-burial; a discourse on sepulchral urns / by Sir Thomas Browne ; with a preliminary discourse and notes, by J.A. St. John. 1841.
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.Date: 1838- Pictures
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Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed; represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the university of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
Kay, John, 1742-1826.Date: [1838]Reference: 10782i- Archives and manuscripts
Bunsen family, diplomats and politician
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von, 1791-1860Date: 1839-1867Reference: MS.8785- Pictures
French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 6 March 1799Reference: 18129i- Books
The academic Gregories / by Agnes Grainger Stewart.
Stewart, Agnes Grainger.Date: 1901- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+48.
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C.S. Parnell and John Walter, dressed as ancient Greek warriors, are engaged in single combat under the eyes of two judges and a barrister. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 27 October 1888.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: Oct.r 27th 1888Reference: 564949i- Pictures
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Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed: represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the University of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
Kay, John, 1742-1826.Date: 1817Reference: 544963i