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Origins of pharmacy and therapy in the Near East : prepared for the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of History of Pharmacy held at the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry on June 13, 1971 / by Sami K. Hamarneh.
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925-2010.Date: 1973- Books
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The history of the seven years war. Part I. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Memoirs of the lives and characters of the illustrious family of the Boyles: Containing, I. The life of Richard Boyle, commonly known by the name of the great Earl of Cork, one of the lord justices, and lord high-treasurer of Ireland. II. - Richard, his second son, first Earl of Burlington, and, after his father, Earl of Cork. III. - Charles Boyle, gentleman of the bedchamber, and privy-counsellor to K. William, afterwards Earl of Burlington and Cork. IV. - Roger, Lord Broghill, the first Earl of Orrery. V.- the Hon. Robert Boyle, famous in the literary world for his improvements in philosophy and other learned works. VI. - Henry Boyle, Lord Carleton, chancellor of the Exchequer to K. William, and secretary of state to Q. Anne.VII. - Charles Boyle, late Earl of Orrery, grandson to Roger, Lord Broghill; his character as a statesman, a soldier, and scholar; with a particular relation of his learned controversy with Dr. Bently. VIII. - John Boyle, the present Earl of Orrery and Cork. IX. - Francis Boyle, Lord Viscount Shannon, late general of the forces in Ireland. Also, X. An impartial account of the life, character, and parliamentary conduct of the Right. Hon. Henry Boyle, Esq; speaker of the Hon. House of commons, one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council, and twelve times sworn one of the lord justices of Ireland. Illustrated with many curious pieces of English history, not extant in any other author. The whole extracted from original papers and manuscripts.
Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Archives and manuscripts
Papers on various subjects
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044/3/1-47Part of: Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector- Books
Arabic medicine in China : tradition, innovation, and change / by Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson.
Buell, Paul D.Date: 2021- Books
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The most rare and excellent history of the Duchesse of Suffolkes calamity : To the tune of Queene Dido.
Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600Date: [1635?]- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
500 years of gnosis in Europe : exhibition of printed books and manuscripts from the gnostic tradition, Moscow & St. Petersburg = 500 let gnozisa v Evrope gnosticheskai︠a︡ tradi︠t︡si︠︡ia v pechatnykh i rukopisnykh knigakh, Moskva - Sankt-Peterburg / organized by Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, M.I. Rudomino Russian State Library for Foreign Literature ; from the collections of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam [and others] ; [compiled by Carlos Gilly ; in collaboration with Marina Afanasyeva].
Date: 1993- Books
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The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... / edited by Alfred H. Miles ; assisted by a staff of specialists.
Date: [1897?]- Archives and manuscripts
Personal notes on a variety of subjects (e.g. languages, literature, history, geology and biology) on scraps of paper, envelopes, etc.
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044/3Part of: Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector- Books
Rasārṇavakalpa = Manifold powers of the ocean of rasa / text edited and translated into English by Mira Roy, in collaboration with B.V. Subbarayappa.
Date: 1976- Books
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The history of the Grecian War: in eight books. Written by Thucydides. Faithfully translated from the original by Thomas Hobbes Of Malmsbury. With maps describing the country.
Thucydides.Date: 1723- Books
Dietary hygiene and allied literature in the Ming dynasty of China / Zheng Jinsheng.
Zheng, JinshengDate: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Cooper Family & Business
Date: c 1910 - c 1985Reference: WF/C/M/H/37/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- Archives and manuscripts
The Eighteenth Century and After - Historical Narrative
Date: c.1960sReference: GC/119/B.2/7Part of: MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury (1880-1969)- Books
Flower madness : the significance of the blossom in Japanese literature / Susumu Nakanishi.
Nakanishi, Susumu.Date: 1982- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue for 1795. A catalogue of valuable books, ancient and modern, in various languages, and in every class of Literature. Including the entire Library of The Rev. and Learned Anth. Temple, M. A. Late Master of the Grammar-School at Richmond, and Vicar of Easby. And several other Libraries and Parcels of Books lately purchased. Amongst which are the following scarce and curious Articles: Bill's Vegetable System, 26 vol. Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, 2 vol. Dugdale's Antiquities of York Thoresby's History of Leeds Parkinson's theater of Plants - - Russia gorrarde's Herbal, by Johnson. - - Russia Rapin's History of England, 5 vol. Gardnor's Views on the Rhine Raphael's Ceilings in the Vatican Stubbs's Anatomy of a Horse Philosophical Transactions, 56 vol. Capt. Cook's last voyage, fine impressions, 4 vol. Monthly Review and index, 86 vol. Johnson's Works of English Poets, 75 vol. Gilpin on Ornamental Landscape, &c. 9 vol. Codex T. Bezae, Cantabrigiensis, 2 vol. Sebae Thesaurus Retum Nat. 4 vol. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, 8 vol. Diodoras Siculus, Gr. Lat. Wesselingli, 2 vol 2 Constantini Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Encyclopedic, public par Diderot, 25 tom. Scapulae Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Ciceronis Opera-Omnia, 10 vol. Reaumur, Histoire des Insectes, 6 tom. Salustio en Espanol . . . . Madrid 2772 Histoire dea Ordres Monastiques, 8 tom. Virgilii Opera, Burmanni, 4 vol. Principales Avantures de Don Quichotte Decameron de Jean Boccace, 5 tom. Buffon Oeuvres Completes, 58 tom. Anacreontis Carmina, Graece. Parma 1791 The Books will begin to be sold, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 12th of October, and continue till Christmas next, By J. Todd, Bookseller, Stationer, and Printseller, In Stonegate, York. - The full value for Libraries, Parcels of Books, and Prints. Catalogues, Price 1s. may be had of Mr. Faulder, Bookseller, New Bond-Street, Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Pater-Noster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1795]- Archives and manuscripts
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Collection of medical tracts in verse and prose, mostly in Middle English (Leech-Books, III)
Date: Early 15th century - late 16th centuryReference: MS.406- Books
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A memento for Holland : or A true and exact history of the most villainous and barbarous cruelties used on the English merchants residing at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherland governor and conncel [sic] there. Wherein is shewed what tortures were used to make them confess a conspiracy they were never guilty of; by putting them on the rack, and by a water torture, to suffocate them; and by burning them under their arm pits, and soals of their feet, till their fat by dropping extinguished the candles.
Date: 1652- Books
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Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine. Extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Containing such useful discoveries as have not been collected by other writers on the same subjects. By Dr. Peter Templeman.
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: MDCCLIII. - MDCCLIV. [1753-54]- Journals
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History of science
Date: 1962-- 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
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 9
Date: May 1905 - Feb 1906Reference: WF/E/01/01/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- 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