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Aurignacian Backed Knives from Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Chatelperron, La Croze-de-Tayac, and Laussel, Marquay, France
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Two street cleaners grubbing the surface of a street with brooms and knives. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 24 May 1816Reference: 43981i- Archives and manuscripts
Box 2 Resuscitation experiments - Pask, Eve's rocking stretcher and Royal Navy resuscitation equipment. Liston's operating table and surgical knives
Date: c.1940s-1960sReference: PP/RRM/F.47/93-112Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Pictures
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Saint Christine: she is flogged before being cut with red hot knives. Stipple engraving by Benard after C.A. Chasselat.
Chasselat, Charles Abraham, 1782-1843.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 4630i- Pictures
Surgical instruments: six figures, including three knives, two artery-clamps and a saw. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.Date: [1749]Reference: 2829958i- Ephemera
John Chasson, razor & surgeons instrument maker : at the C and Cross, in Newgate Street near St. Martins Le Grand, London : makes and sells all sorts of surgeons instruments, razor, lancets, scissors, penknives & all sorts of knives & forkes... / John Chasson, coutelier.
Chasson, John.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Ephemera
Edward Stanton at the Saw and Crown in Lombard Street London : lancet-maker : maketh and selleth all sorts of surgeons instruments likewise razors scissors penknives knives & forks... NB lancets and other instruments carefully ground and sett.
Stanton, Edward.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Pictures
Catheters and knives used by William Cheselden and others in operating for bladder stone. Etching by J. Mynde, 1743, after L. Heister.
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.Date: [MDCCXLIII [1743]]Reference: 2823221i- Pictures
Catheters and knives used by William Cheselden and others in operating for bladder stone. Etching by F. Sesone, 1749, after L. Heister.
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758.Date: [1749]Reference: 2840323i- Ephemera
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Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
Vegan Society.Date: [1990?]- Pictures
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Four women with knives and wooden paddles are cutting and beating the wool and a man is putting it through a combing device. Stipple engraving.
Reference: 31342i- Books
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M. Burchell, in Long-Acre, cutler, & great toy-shop, the sign of the famous anodyne necklace ... and case of knives ... Almanack / [Matthew Burchell].
Burchell, Matthew.Date: [1730?]- Pictures
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Surgery: surgical instruments, including instruments to extract the head of a dead foetus and knives. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 47643i- Pictures
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A cutler, or maker of knives, daggers and swords, working in his shop as a customer tests the weight of a sword. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34922i- Books
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A cataract knife of excellent shape and proportion devised a century and a half ago, by Dr. Thomas Young, of Edinburgh, and the knives which preceded it / by Alvin A. Hubbell.
Hubbell, Alvin A. (Alvin Allace), 1846-1911.Date: 1900- Pictures
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A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come to buy and is holding some money in her hand. Coloured etching, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 31254i- Ephemera
To the admirers of the Arts : a beautiful specimen of the art of cutlery, manufactured by Joseph Rodgers and Sons, no.7, Norfolk-Street, Sheffield.
Joseph Rodgers & Sons.Date: [1819?]- Pictures
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A cooper's workshop: two men and a boy are using knives and a spokeshave to make hoops fit around the staves of a barrel, other men outside are hammering on lids, some tools of their trade are hanging on the walls. Coloured etching.
Reference: 31262i- Digital Images
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An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.
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The Ulu, or woman's knife, of the Eskimo / by Otis T. Mason.
Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908.Date: [1890]- Pictures
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Old eating implements: spoons, forks, and a knife. Engraving after Schnebbelie.
Schnebbelie, Jacob, 1760-1792.Date: 1790Reference: 29251i- Ephemera
John Best at ye Mace ye corner of Lumbard Street bext ye Stocks Market maketh razors, sissers, launcets, penknives : and all sorts of chirurgeons instruments : also by him are sold fine hoanes.
Best, John.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave Money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. To teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch kites, crows, Mogpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not see them. 11. To write Love Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl Venison, or any Flesh, sweet a Month. 15 To make a Drink when you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To fox Fish and Fowle. 17. To make one Candle out outlast three: 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent Plaistering for Ceilings or Wolls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great Variety of Innocent Sport and pastime. - Adorn'd with above AC curious Cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and ingenuity
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a Glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. Teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch Kites, Crows, Magpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not feel 'em. 11. To write Love-Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl, Venison, or any Flesh sweet a month. 15. To make a Drink you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To sox Fish and Fowl. 17. To make one Candle outlast three. 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent plaistering for Ceilings or Walls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great variety of innocent Sport and Pastime. Adorn'd with above 40 curious cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and Ingenuity.
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
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Nenia Britannica; or, A sepulchral history of Great Britain; From the earliest period to its general conversion to Christianity. Including a complete series of the British, Roman, and Saxon sepulchral rites and ceremonies, with the contents of several hundred burial places, opened under a careful inspection of the author. The barrows containing urns, swords, spear-heads, daggers, knives, battle-axes, shields, and armill:̆-decorations of women; consisting of gems, pensile ornaments, bracelets, beads, gold and silver buckles, broaches ornamented with precious stones; several magical instruments; some very scarce and unpublished coins; and a variety of other curious relics deposited with the dead. Tending to illustrate the early part of and to fix on a more unquestionable criterion for the study of antiquity: to which are added, observations on the Celtic, British, Roman, and Danish Barrows, discovered in Britain. By the Rev. James Douglas, F.A.S. chaplain in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Douglas, James, 1753-1819.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]