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A true state of the present difference between the Royal African Company, and the separate traders: Shewing the irregularities and impositions of the joint-stock managers; the uselesness of their forts; the expence they are at in the maintenance of the same; the charge of supporting them in a condition of defence; the vast sums they have receiv'd by the ten per cent. Duty in order thereunto, and what had been misapply'd to their own private uses; the advantages and reasonableness of an open trade to Aftica; and, lastly, the danger of an exclusive trade, not only to the traders of South and North Britain, but, to our American plantations. Written by a true lover of his country, and humbly submitted to the wise consideration of both Houses of Parliament.
True lover of his country.Date: Printed in the year 1710- Archives and manuscripts
Unpublished papers by Jane Wyndham-Kaye – talks, drafts of articles, etc
Date: 1959-1984, n.dReference: SA/HVA/G.6/1Part of: Health Visitors' Association- Archives and manuscripts
Letter Book, S M Burroughs & Co
Date: 14 February - 8 December 1879Reference: WF/E/02/04/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Plan of Rebuilding Portion Of Works At Waterloo, Sydney, N.S.W. Sheet no 4. West, north and south elevation and cross section D.D.
Date: 1931Reference: WF/CA/P/05/11Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The wanderer: or, surprizing escape. A narrative founded on true facts. Containing a series of remarkable events, during a late very extraordinary Adventure, from the Projection, to its Appearance in the North, and total Defeat. Interspers'd With several curious and authentic Particulars the Public has hitherto been unacquainted with, and wrote without Prejudice or Partiality: taken from the Journals of two Persons principally concerned in the whole Transaction. With some remarks on a romance called Ascanius: shewing the Author thereof very defective in his Materials, and Candour in the Relation.
Date: Printed in the Year, M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes: in which are included the library of the Rev. Mr. Chalmers, of Eglin, in Scotland, With several other large Parcels of Law, Mathematicks, Divinity, and English History of Several Eminent Gentlemen, Deceased, &c. The Whole making a large Assortment of valuable Books in most Languages. Arts, and Sciences, and in general are in very good Condition. Among which are the following. Folio. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 vol. best edit. Thoresby's Leeds, L. P. in Russ. Atkyns's Gloucestershire, L. P. in Russ. Morant's Essex, 2 vol. large and small paper Rapin and Tindal's Contin. 5 vol. in Russ. ... Voyages and Travels by Churchill, 8 vol. in Rus. Harris, 2 vol. in Rus. gilt leaves, Pococke, 2 vol. eleg. Shaw, L. P. Thevenot, Drummond, Drake, &c. Montfaucon's Antiquities, L. P. compleat in 5 vol. in Rus. Duncan's Caesar, eleg. in Rus. Universal History, 7 vol. Winston's Josephus, 2 vol. eleg. in Rus. Rycaut's Peru, good copy Parkinson's Herbal Gerarde's Herbal Salmon's Herbal, 2 vol. fine paper Utry's Chaucer, large paper ... Dion Cassius Reimari, 2 tom. eleg. Scapulae Lexicon, in Rus. edit. opt. J. Caesari in Metal. dal Pedrusi, 10 tom. Ciceronis Opera Stephani, 2 tom. Les Restes de L'ancienne Rome, par D'overbeke, eleg. in Rus. Bayle's Dict. and Biography. 12 vol. eleg. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vol. eleg. in Rus. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vol. eleg. Miller's Dictionary Delpino's, Chambaud's, eleg. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance. 2 vol. eleg. ... Pollexsen, L. P. Fortescue, Freeman, T. Raymond, Comberbach, Fitz-Gibbons. Wilson, &c. Bacon's Abridgement, 5 vol. best Horseman's Conveyancing, 2 vol. best Domat's Civil Law, 2 vol. best Bracton de Legibus, 4to. Wesley's Christian Library, 50 vol. Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 2 vol. Which will be sold very cheap (for Ready Money only) the lowest Prices in the Catalogue, on Wednesday, March [blank] 1770, and continue daily on Sale, by William Otridge Bookseller; Opposite the North-Side of the New Church in the Strand; where most Money is given for any Library or Parcel of Books, or Books exchanged.
Otridge, William, -1812.Date: 1770]- Books
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Abstract of the twelfth census of the United States, 1900 / Bureau of the Census.
United States. Bureau of the Census.Date: 1904- Books
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An elegy on Dicky and Dolly, with The virgin: a poem. To which is added the narrative of D. S. when he was in the north of Ireland.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Archives and manuscripts
Memorial and testimonials of the services of Robert McCormick
Date: c.1866Reference: MS.8682/11-13Part of: McCormick, Robert (1800-1890)- Books
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The four kings of Canada. Being a succinct account of the four Indian princes lately arriv'd from North America. ...
Date: 1710- Books
Markhams maister-peece·, or, What doth a horse-man lacke. : Containing all possible knowledge whatsoeuer which doth belong to any smith, farrier or horse-leech, touching the curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses; drawne with great paine and most approued experience from the publique practise of all the forraine horse-marshals of Christendome, and from the priuate practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome. Being deuided into two bookes. The first containing all cures physicall. The second whatsoeuer belongeth to chirurgerie, with an addition of 130 most principall chapters, and 340 most excellent medicines, receits and secrets worthy euery mans knowledge, neuer written of nor mentioned in any author before whatsoeuer. Together with the true nature, vse, and qualitie of euerie simple spoken of through the whole worke. Reade me, practise me, and admire me. / Written by Geruase Markham gentleman.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1610- Books
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Eulogy on General George Washington. A sermon, delivered February 22d, 1800, in the North Dutch Church, Albany, before the legislature of the state of New-York, at their request: By John B. Johnson, one of the Chaplains of the House of Assembly, and one of the Ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church, in the city of Albany.
Johnson, John B. (John Barent), 1769-1803.Date: 1800- Archives and manuscripts
Evolving versions of McCormick's account of his voyage up the Wellington Channel in 1852
Date: c.1854Reference: MS.8682/1-9Part of: McCormick, Robert (1800-1890)- Books
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A prospect of the city of Jerusalem, in it's spiritual building, beauty and glory. Shewed in a sermon preach'd at Hartford in His Majesty's colony of Connecticut, May 13th, 1742, being the anniversary day for electing the Honourable the governour, the deputy-governour, and the worshipful assistants there. By Isaac Stiles, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in North Haven. [Four lines from Psalms]
Stiles, Isaac, 1697-1760.Date: 1742- Archives and manuscripts
Literature of various birth control and women's welfare clinics
Date: 1930s-1950sReference: PP/EFG/A.47Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Pictures
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A room in a house in North-Holland, in which a young woman cuts a root vegetable next to the window. Line engraving by P.G. Langlois, 1782, after D. van Tol.
Tol, Dominicus van, approximately 1631-1676.Date: [1782?]Reference: 672620i- Archives and manuscripts
Publications by Parkes
Date: 1950s-1980sReference: PP/ASP/BPart of: Parkes, Sir Alan Sterling (1900-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection
Date: 1930s-2000sReference: SA/HHC- Books
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Liberty, a poem. By T. Underwood Late of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Author of the Impartialist, &c.
Underwood, Thomas, 1739 or 1740-Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The vade mecum for America: or A companion for traders and travellers: containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of any commodity, ready cast up, from one yard or pound to ten thousand. II. A table of simple and compound interest. III. Th names of the towns, and counties in the several provinces and colonies of New-England, New-York, and the Jersies; as also the several counties in Pensilvania [sic], Maryland and Virginia: together with the time of the setting of their courts. IV. The time of the general meetings of the Baptists an Quakers. V. A description of the principal roads from the mouth of Kennebeck-River in the north-east of New England, to James-River in Virginia. VI. A correct table of the kings and queens of England, from Egbert the 1st King of England to His Present Majesty King George II. Together with several other instructive tables in arithmetick, geography &c. To which is added, the names of the streets in Boston. Collected & composed with great care & accuracy.
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Archives and manuscripts
North America
McMichael, Sir John, FRCP, FRCPE, FRS (1904-1993) CardiologistDate: c.1959-1964Reference: PP/JMM/H/3Part of: McMichael, Sir John (1904-1993)- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellanea
Date: c. 1930s-1990sReference: GC/97/D.3/16Part of: McCance, Robert Alexander (1898-1993), and Widdowson, Elsie May (1908-2000)- Books
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A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general : and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain.
Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669Date: 1662- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: B
Date: c.1920sReference: PP/GGT/B/19Part of: Turner, Professor George Grey- Books
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An epistle to Friends in Great Britain, to whom is the salutation of my love, in the unchangeable truth.
Nicholson, Thomas, 1715-1780.Date: 1762]