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Petite encyclopédie des jeunes gens: ou définition abrégée des notions rélatives aux arts et aux sciences, à l' Astronomie, au Blason, à la Chronologie, à la Géographie, à L'Iconologie, à la Mythologie, à la Physique, et généralement à tout ce dont il est nécessaire et agréable d'avoir quelques Idées nettes et précises: LE Tout Range' Suivant L'Ordre Alphabe'tique: Avec Figures. In tenui Labor. - Par N. Wanostrocht, Docteur en Droit.
Wanostrocht, N. (Nicolas), 1745-1812.Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Archives and manuscripts
Cutting from a biographical dictionary, giving information about François Vincent Raspail
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7445/17Part of: Raspail, François Vincent, (1794-1878), French chemist and revolutionary politician, and his sons- Books
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Nouveau dictionnaire des plantes médicinales / par A. Heraud.
Date: 1875- Books
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A catalogue of upwards of twenty thousand volumes, of the most Valuable books in all Languages and Sciences; comprehending The most Capital and Curious Collections of Prints, Books of Natural History, Antiquities, &c. in fine Condition. Amongst which are Raffell's Gallery at the Vatican, finely illuminated Flores Holsteni, elegantis. depict. Enevclopedie par Diderot. &c. 28 tom. P. Eugene & Marlborough's Battles, 4 vol. l p. Antichita D'ercolano, 7 tom. Shakespeare's Works, 1623, Russia Bucho, Centurie des Planches de L'hist. Nat. enluminees - Fleurs Chineses. enluminees Bartolozzi's Works, 5 vol. 400 prints Piranesi's Works, 12 vol. Russia Sir W. Hamilton's Etruic. Antiq. 4 v. Rus. Capt. Baillie's Works, in Mor. Proofs King of Denmark's Shells, painted extra Miller's Linnean System, 2 vol. coloured Pennant's British Zoology, coloured, eleg. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. royal paper Teliemaque, belles fig. Marmora Oxoniensis Spence's Polymetis, first impression, Russia Claude Lorraine's Landscapes Miller's Plants, 2 vol. coloured, Russia St. Chrysostom, 13 tom. eleg. Robert and de L'Isle's Atlas, gr. pap. Hamilton's School of Painting Hunter's Anatomical Plates Ceremonies Religieuses, 7 tom. Strange's Works, complete Buck's Views, 4 vol. Fables de Fontaine, 4 tom. Plato Serrani, 3 tom. Harris's Aurelian, coloured, Russia Knor Deliciae Naturae, 2 tom. coloured, Russia Edward's Natural History, 7 vol. col. Mor. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. Morocco, coloured. Knor Deluvii Testes, 3 tom. coloured Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. finely coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. fine copy Physica Sacra, 4 vol. elegant Museum Florentinum, 12 tom. Graevii et Gronovii Antiquit. &c. 33 tom. Heads of illustrious Persons, l. p first impres. Clarke's Caesar, fine copy, Russia Ruins of Palmyra, Balbeck, Spalatro, Ionia, Greece, Athens, Paestum, &c. &c. Cowper on the Muscles, large paper, Rus. Cowper's Anatomy, large paper, ditto Edmondson's Peerage, 5 vol. large pap. extra Passerii Picturae Etruscor. 2 tom. fig. depict. Pembroke's Medals, large paper. Russia Dactyliotheca Smithiana, 2 tom. fine cuts Ridinger's Works, 3 vol. Russia Gallerie de Boyer D'aguilles, gr. et p. pap. Vandermulen's Works, first impression Crozat's Collection. 2 vol. large paper Clande Lorraine's Drawings, by Erlom, 2 vol. Curious Missals, finely illuminated Robert's Atlas, g. p. Campbell's Vitiuvius Britannicus, 5 vol. Kent's Inigo Jones, 2 vol. large paper Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Rus. Hollinshead's Chronicle, 2 vol. King's Vale Royal Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary, Stonehenge, and Aubery, 3 vol. Tanneri Notitia Monastica Dictionaries, all the best Editions, Eng. Lat. French, and Italian, &c. Corpus Byzantiae Historiae, 23 tom. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 tom. Medicae Artis Principes Thuani Historia, 7 tom. L'antiquitees par Montfaucon, 15 tom. Corps Diplomatique, 24 tom. With many Others equally Valuable, Which will begin to be Sold this Day, 1780, (for Ready Money only) and continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller in New Bond Street, Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had (price 6d. to be allowed) At Mr. Dodsley's, Pall-Mall; Mr. Cadell's, in the Strand; Mr. Law, Ave-Mary Lane; Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal Exchange; and at the Place of Sale; also of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge; and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1780]- Books
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Dictionnaire de chirurgie, contenant la description anatomique des parties du corps humain ... le méchanisme des fonctions ... le manuel des opérations chirurgicales, avec ... les usages des différens instrumens et médicamens employés dans le traitement des maladies du ressort de la chirurgie ... / Par Mrs. le V*** [Vacher de la Feutrie], M*** [Moysant] et de la M*** [Macellerie].
Date: 1767- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Journals
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Journal of religion in Africa . Religion en Afrique.
Date: 1967-- Journals
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Journal of religion in Africa . Religion en Afrique.
Date: 1967-- Archives and manuscripts
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Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A- Books
Forme e oggetti della conoscenza nel XIV secolo : studi in ricordo di Maria Elena Reina / a cura di Luca Bianchi e Chiara Crisciani.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
Hall, Marshall (1790-1857), English physician and neurophysiologist
Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857Date: 1830 - 1855Reference: MS.8780- Books
Psychoanalysis and the sciences : epistemology - history / André Haynal ; translated by Elizabeth Holder.
Haynal, André.Date: 1993- Books
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The spirit of laws. Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron DE Montesquieu. By Thomas Nugent, LL. D. - Prolem Sine Matre Creatam.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Military memoirs of Great Britain: or, a history of the war, 1755 - 1763. With elegant copperplates. By David Ramsay.
Ramsay, David, of Edinburgh.Date: 1779- Books
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Another collection of philosophical conferences of the French virtuosi, upon questions of all sorts; for the improving of natural knowledg. Made in the assembly of the beaux esprits at Paris, by the most ingenious persons of that nation. Render'd into English / by G. Havers, Gent. & J. Davies of Kidwelly, Gent. [from T. and E. Renaudot].
Renaudot, Théophraste, 1586-1653Date: 1665- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Perspectives arabes et médiévales sur la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque : actes du colloque de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques), Paris, 31 mars - 3 avril 1993 / édité par Ahmad Hasnawi, Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal et Maroun Aouad.
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French rudiments: consisting of a grammar of the language, every-way better than any, and more comprehensive than All; - A Vocabulary of the most usual Words; - A Sententiae of the most familiar Phrases; - A Dictionary of the most beautiful Idioms; and - A Florilege of the most celebrated Pieces, from the best Writers, both Ancient and Modern. To which are added tables of corresponding terminations, and words of similar sound; in English, French, Latin, Greek, &c. by way of Key to the Etymology. A List of Words, the same (or nearly so) in Sound; but different in Sense, and Spelling; cast into short Sentences, for the Ease of the Memory. AN Explanation of Idioms; with divers other Curious and Useful Particulars. The whole dispos'd in the most easy and instructive method; and Printed in the most Commodious Manner; as well to strike the Eye and Imagination, by a proper Distinction of Letter and Situation; as for the readier Turning to, or Learning of any Particular: And, SO, Fitted for the Use of Ladies as well as Gentlemen (whether French, or English) and even brought-down to the Capacities of little Children. By Solomon Lowe.
Lowe, Solomon, -1750.Date: [1740]- Books
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A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern; containing, an account of the political state, and principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations in ancient and modern times; their Manners and Customs; the Local Situation of Cities, especially of such as have been distinguished by Memorable Events: With An Abridgement of the Fabulous History or Mythology of the Greeks. To which is Prefixed, An Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography, from the Earliest Periods to the time of Sir Isaac Newton: Also, a brief Account of the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy, occasionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the General and Particular Properties of Matter; the Air, Heat and Cold, Light, and its effects; the Laws of Motion; the Planetary System, &c. - With a Short Description of the Component Parts of the Terraqueous Globe, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the more accurate discoveries of Modern Chemists. Designed chiefly to connect the study of classical learning with that of general knowledge. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.
Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.Date: 1794- Books
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A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern; containing, An Account of the Political State, and Principal Revolutions of the most Illustrious Nations in Ancient and Modern Times; their Manners and Customs; the Local Situation of Cities; especially of such as have been distinguished by Memorable Events: With an abridgement of the fabulous history or mythology of the Greeks. To which is prefixed, An Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography, from the earliest Periods to the Time of Sir Isaac Newton: Also, a brief Account of the Principles of the newtonian philosophy, occasionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the General and Particular Properties of Matter; the Air, Heat and Cold Light, and its Effects; the Laws of Motion; the Planetary System, &c. - With a Short Description of the Component Parts of the Tereaqueous Globe, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the more accurate Discoveries of Modern Chemists. Designed chiefly to connect the Study of Classical Learning with that of General Knowledge. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the high school of Edinburgh. The second edition, corrected, To which is added, a geographical index, containing the Latin names of the principal countries, cities, Rivers, and Mountains mentioned in the Greek and Roman Classics; With the Modern Names subjoined. Illustrated with maps.
Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.Date: 1797- Books
Petri Gassendi Diniensis Ecclesiæ præpositi, ... Opera omnia in sex tomos diuisa ... / Hactenus edita auctor anti obitum recensuit, auxit, illustrauit. Posthuma verò totius naturae explicationem complectentia, in lucem nunc primùm prodeunt, ex bibliotheca illustris viri Henrici Ludovici Haberti Mon-Morii.
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.Date: M. DC. LVIII. [1658]- Books
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The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters. Containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy; in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany, or France; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767; including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred. Extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch. To which are added, two catalogues; the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters; for the use of those, who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands, and manners, of the different schools. - The other, a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals. The whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method, than hath hitherto appeared; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of the admirers and professors of the art of painting. By the Rev. M. Pilkington, A.M. vicar of Donabate and Portraine, in the diocese of Dublin.
Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language / By John Wilkins.
Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.Date: 1668- Books
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Chronological annals of the war; from its beginning to the present time. In two parts. Part I. Containing from April 2. 1755, to the end of 1760. Part II. - from the beginning of 1761. to the signing of the preliminaries of the Peace. With an Introductory Preface to each Part, a Conclusion, and a General Index to the Whole. By Mr. Dobson.
Dobson, Mr. (John).Date: [1763]- Books
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A new musical grammar, and dictionary: or, a general introduction to the whole art of musick. In four books. Teaching, I. The Rudiments of Tones, Diatonick, and Semitonick; according to the Gamut. - With Rules for Tuning the Voice, and Beating of Time; the Nature of Keys, and Transposition; and of all other Characters used in Musick. II. Containing such plain and easy Directions as are necessary for Tuning, and Playing on, the Organ, Harpsichord, Bass Viol, Violin, Hautboy, Flute, Bassoon, &c. - With Songs and Lessons in great Variety; in 2, 3, and 4 Parts. - With Rules for Tuning of Bells, and Pricking of Chime-Barrels, &c. And the Structure of an Organ considered, in all its curious Branches: And a Feeling Scale of Musick for such as are blind. III. The Theory of Sound, from its Natural Causes: Or, A Philosophical, and Mathematical Dissertation thereon; in a concise and easy Method, &c. Together with the Principles of Practical Musick: Or, the most Authentick Rules of Composition, either in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 Musical Parts: Shewing the Allowed Passages of all Concords, and Discords; and the Contrivance of Fuge, or Canon, in great Variety. IV. The Musicians Historical, and Technical Dictionary; explicating above 550 of the most useful Terms that generally occur in Musick; as they are taken from the Greek, French, Latin, and Italian Writers. With an Account of Instruments, and their Inventors, &c. The Whole is extracted from the best Authors, both Ancient, and Modern; and methodically digested to every Capacity. - With a Preface prefactory; and a Table to the Whole. This Book the Grounds of Musick doth contain, The Organ, Hantboy, Viol, and Flute explain: How Bells are Tun'd; and how the Chimes do play; And cheerful Songs, to drive dull Cares away, &c The third edition, with large additions. By William Tans'ur, Senior, Musico-Theorico.
Tans'ur, William, 1699?-1783.Date: [1756]