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Lanzoni, Giuseppe (1663-1730)
Lanzoni, Giuseppe, 1663-1730Date: 1686-1716Reference: MS.3166- Pictures
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A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.
Reference: 34348i- Pictures
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Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching.
Reference: 34346i- Books
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The royal pastime of cock-fighting. Or the art of breeding, feeding, fighting and curing cocks of the game. Published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take Delight in that Royal, and Warlike Sport. To which is Prefixed, A short Treatise, wherein Cocking is proved not only Ancient and Honourable, but also Useful, and Profitable. By R.H. a lover of the sport, And a Friend to such as delight in Military Discipline.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1709- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 93A.
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Medical Officers of School Association
Medical Officers of School Association (f.1884)Date: c.1884-2005Reference: SA/MOS- Books
Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London / Rosalind Crone.
Crone, Rosalind.Date: 2012- Books
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The king of good-fellows: or, The merry toper's advice : Being a pleasant new song much in request. This is the man whose company once had, will make men cheearful [sic], though of late but sad: he hates curmudgeons, but does court the blade, that will spend free, for drinking is a trade; by it long nights flye swift, and seem but short, no pastime's like unto true tippling sport. To a pleasant new tune.
Date: [1684?]- Books
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The young man's best companion: Being new arithmetic in two parts. I. Shews, how a person may speedily learn (without the help of a master) numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, the rule of three, the rule of proportion, the rule of fellowship, allegation, false position. II. Vulgar fractions, reduction of vulgar fractions; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of vulgar fractions; of decimal fractions, reduction of vulgar fractions to decimal, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals, the rule of three in fractions; of simple interest, of compound interest, practical questions of barer, loss, gain exchange of coin, &c. Rules of practice, with divers curious recreative questions for the exercise of arithmetic. Also an appendix, containing compendious ways of subtraction, multiplication and division; with several entertaining sports and pastimes. By S. Lowe, schoolmaster.
Lowe, Solomon, -1750.Date: 1754- 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?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Non-medical notes
Date: 1894-1900Reference: MS.6806/8Part of: Falkener, Lyon (1867-1947) M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.- Books
Smokerama : classic tobacco accoutrements / Philip Collins ; photography by Sam Sargent.
Collins, Philip, 1944-Date: [1992]- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 11
Date: 1909-1910Reference: WF/M/GB/01/12Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd