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- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
Royal Army Medical CorpsDate: 17th century - 20th centuryReference: RAMC- Archives and manuscripts
Lectures on Obstetrics
Date: Mid 18th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.MSL.110- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Books
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches, élève de Boerhaave - et son importance pour la Russie / [David Willemse].
Willemse, David.Date: 1966- Books
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The english reader: or, pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; To Improve their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate come of the most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a few preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading. By Lindley Murray, Author of ̀̀english Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners,'' &c.
Date: 1799- Books
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The laughing philosopher's legacy to dull mortals. Which if you read, the duce is in it, If you dont smile within a minute. Said Sue to Will the other day, With Countenance cast down - I have not now, tho' once so gay, A Will to call my own.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Poetical reflexions, moral, comical, satyrical, &c. On the vices and follies of the age, Containing, I. An elegy on the death of W-m El-s, who kept the Punch-House in H-k-Court, and serv'd 177 publick houses, in and about London, with that liquor. II. On a plumb-cake, which the Burrough of G-d prsented King - III. with, at his going to Embark for Spain; and a speech that was made by the city of C-y, at his arrival there. III. An extempore thought on Mrs. Priaulx's begging a play-day for some school boys. IV. In La[u]dem Caroli Suucorum regis ab Hostibus Conjuratis undiq; petiti. V. On the death of King William. Written by a Lady. VI. The fable of the bull and the frog. VII. Fair warring to seditious scriblers. VIII. A lampoon on the Cambridge Beaus. IX. Britain's wish for the Duke of Marlborough's return. In imitation of the fifth ode of the fourth book of Horace. Inscrib'd to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. X. On Mr. Day, that liv'd at the Sign of the Horse-Shoe, who lay'd the key under the door, and out-ran his landlord. XI. On Clarinda, mask'd. XII. The genius of London, to Sir Charles Duncombe, on his being chose Lord Mayor for the year 1709. Made the beginning of October. Part the tenth. To be continu'd occasionally. By several good Hands.
Date: [1708?]- Pictures
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Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
Chevalier, Sabine Stuart de, active 18th century.Date: 1781Reference: 37282i- Books
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The drunkard's legacy in four parts. First - Of a gentleman's having a wild son, and sore-seeing he would come to Poverty, had a Cottage built with one Door to it, always kept fast. His Father on his Dying-Bed, charged him not to open it 'till he was poor and slighted, which the Young Man promised he would perform. Secondly - Of the Young Man's pawning his Estate to a Vintner, who when poor, kicked him out of Doors. Thinking it Time to see his Legacy, he broke open the Door, where instead of Money, found a Gibbet and a Halter, which he put round his Neck, and jumping off the Stool, the Gibbet broke, and a Thousand Pounds came down upon his Head, which lay hid in the Ceiling. Thirdly-Of his redeeming the Estate; and fooling the Vintner out of Two Hundred Pounds, who for fear of being jeered by his Neighbours, cut his own Throat. And lastly, - Of the young man's reformation. Very proper to be read by all who are given to drunkenness.
Date: [1800?]- Books
Leerer Raum in Minervas Haus : experimentelle Naturlehre an der Universität Leiden, 1675 - 1715 / Gerhard Wiesenfeldt.
Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard.Date: 2002- Books
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A new epitome of the annals of Great-Britain: or, a succinct, impartial history of England, from the remotest period of intelligence to the conclusion of the last war. Containing A satisfactory Account of every interesting Occurrence and memorable Character, relative to English History, both at Home and Abroad. Particularly its Origin; the Progress of its Empire; Laws; Civil and Religious Establishment; its various remarkable Operations, Naval and Military; with the Transactions of the most celebrated Personages who distinguished themselves in a Political, Ecclesiastical, or Military Capacity. - Interspersed with Cuts of all the Kings and Queens of England, from William the Conqueror to George III. inclusive. - With an Introduction, on the Constitution and Polity of Great-Britain; its Division into Counties, and the principal Towns in each, their Disance from London, &c. To which is prefixed, a new and correct Map of England. Useful for Youth at Schools, as well as others who are desirous of retaining what they have read of the History of their Country. The second edition, enlarged and corrected. By G. Grey.
Grey, G. (Gilbert).Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Priestcraft defended. A sermon occasioned by the expulsion of six young gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading, and expounding the Scriptures. Humbly dedicated to Mr. V- C-r and the H-ds of H-s, by their humble servant, the shaver.
Macgowan, John, 1726-1780.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
The seconde parte of William Turner's Herball : wherein are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke / Latin / Duche / Frenche / and in the Apothecaries Latin / and somtyme in Italiene / wyth the vertues of the same herbes wyth diuerse confutationes of no small errours / that men of no small learning haue committed in the intreatinge of herbes of late yeares. Here vnto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande / and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effectuall / both in Almany and Englande ... / set furth by William Turner Doctor of Physik.
Turner, William, -1568.Date: In the yeare of our Lorde 1562- Books
Commercial visions : science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age / Dániel Margócsy.
Margócsy, DánielDate: [2014]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The history of England, from the Norman conquest to the present time; or, a tragi-comic song, in four parts, to the tune of - When Troy town for ten years war, &c. AN Useful, Instructive, and Diverting Lesson for those who have not Time to read Large Books. He that delights in Hist'ry, soon may find Something to please, and edify the Mind. A true Historic Tale, when rightly told, Will please the Young, and can't displease the Old: Such is my Theme, 'tis founded on the Truth, Meant chiefly to persuade vain thoughtless Youth To let the Hist'ry of strange Lands alone, Till they get thorough Masters of their own: This my Advice -- and he that likes to look At what I've done, pays Three-Pence for this Book; And when he's learn'd the Song through ev'ry Part, And can with Ease repeat it all by Heart, If it should chance to enter in his Thought That its too dear, I'll give him back a Groat. To which is added, the multiplication table in a song. By N. Withy, of Hagley, Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: 1785- Books
De snijkunst verbeeld : Delftse anatomische lessen nader belicht : beschrijving van de vier Delftse anatomische lessen en een overzicht van de gezondheidszorg in Delft en haar beoefenaren in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw / redactie: Hans Houtzager, Michiel Jonker ; tekstbijdragen, Hans Houtzager [and three others].
Date: [2002]- Pictures
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In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Aquatint by C. Rosenberg, 1799, after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: May 1 1799Reference: 38145iPart of: Hudibras- Books
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Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.Date: 1813- Books
Bernard Siegfried Albinus (l697-1770) on 'human nature' : anatomical and physiological ideas in eighteenth century Leiden / H. Punt.
Punt, H. (Hendrik), 1947-Date: 1983- Books
Coffee houses and book clubs in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Northumberland / John C. Day.
Day, J. C.Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Rape in the republic, 1609-1725 : formulating Dutch identity / by Amanda Pipkin.
Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)Date: 2013- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Books
The idea of disability in the eighteenth century / edited by Chris Mounsey.
Date: [2014]- Pictures
A pyramidal bas relief monument to Lady Cecilia Johnston, seated on a latrine-like stool; expressing her position in fashionable society as an elderly coquette. Etching by James Gillray, 1791.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 19 September 1791Reference: 12088i