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Landscape with swans in a pool (artwork)
Date: 1940s-1950sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/5/5/1Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
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[The] swans: a fable on the fall and rise of credit.
Date: 1747- Pictures
Angels, flora, swans and chemical apparatus: border to a pharmacy label. Etching.
Reference: 16239i- Pictures
Above, two swans and a sword fish; below, a swallow and a swift. Coloured etching.
Date: 16 December 1786Reference: 40478i- Books
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Dying swans and madmen : ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / Adrienne L. McLean.
McLean, Adrienne LDate: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
Angels, flora, swans and chemical apparatus: border to a pharmacy label. Reproduction of an etching.
Reference: 16240i- Books
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The whole faith and duty of a Christian; Methodically explained in the words of Scripture. By William Steveson, M.A. rector of Morning Throrp in Norfolk[.]
Stevenson, William, 1683?-1760.Date: 1717- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Pictures
Morning, represented as a young woman drawn by swans across water on a scallop shell. Lithograph after R.S. Lauder.
Lauder, Robert Scott, 1803-1869.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 672357i- Ephemera
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly : hatching and rearing all kinds of domestic poultry, as swans, geese, turkies, ducks, chickens, and guinea fowls...
Date: 1823- Books
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The country gentleman's companion. Containing, I. Directions for the choice, Ordering, Dietting, and Breeding of Draft, Road, Hunting, and Running horses; the whole Art of Riding them; and the most approved Remedies for all the Diseases and Accidents they are subject to. II. The Ordering and Breeding of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen, Sheep, Lambs, Goats, Swine, and Rabbets; and the best Remedies for the Cure of their respective Diseases. III. The fattening, cramming, and curing of Cocks, Hens, Capons, Chickens, Geese, and Turkies; and of feeding Swans, Pheasants, Partridges, Pidgcons, Quails, Doves, and other small Birds. IV. The Nature, Ordering, and Preservation of Bees. V. The Arts of Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Angling, Fishing, and other Country Recreations; of curing Hawks, Hounds, &c. of ordering and making Fish-Ponds; and of taking and preserving Fish. VI. The Choice, Ordering, Breeding, and Dietting of Fighting-Cocks, both before and after Battle. Vii. A compendious gardener's kalendar, shewing what Work is to be done, monthly, in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden. By a country gentleman, From his own Experience.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The best books : a reader's guide to the choice of the best available books (about 50,000) in every department of science, art and literature, with the dates of the first and last editions, and the price, size and publisher's name of each book : a contribution towards systematic bibliography / by William Swan Sonnenschein.
Sonnenschein William Swan, 1855-1931.Date: 1891- Books
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The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation: or, the whole art of husbandry; Containing. I. Directions to Cure all Diseases in Horses, which are almost 300, with 12 Medicines only not of 12d cost. Also to Cure Oxen. Kine. Bulls. Calves, Sheep. Lambs. Goats. Swine. Dogs. Conies. Hares. Poultry. Geese. Ducks. Swans, &c. Pigeons. Singing Birds. Hawks. Deer, &c. To teach Dogs. II. Directions to Improve Land. Arable and Pasture. to Order Flax. Hemp. Saffron. Liquorice. Bees. Silk-Worms. and to make some new Invented Plows. III. To Brew Pale Ale and Beer, make Cyder equal to Canary, and not stand in 4d. charge per Quart, and to make Mead and Metheglin. IV. Of Planting and Raising Trees for Timber and Fruit, Grafting and Gardening, to order Clover and St. Foin. V. To destroy Moles, Foxes and other Vermin. VI. To Heal all diseases in Men or Women with Chew'd white Bread. Also a Pleasant and wholesome Drink for a Family, which will not cost a Farthing a Gallon, best for Young and Old, Rich and poor Sick and Well. VII. Directions in Angling. Fowling. Hawking. Hunting. Ringing, &c. By G. Markham Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1707- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
The bleak age : based on "The age of the chartists" / by J.L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond.
Hammond, J. L. (John Lawrence), 1872-1949.Date: 1934- Pictures
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Three Greek pouring vessels; left, red-figured vessel; middle, black vessel with a handle; right, protocorinthian vessel (ca. 670 B.C.) decorated with black-figured swans. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565471iPart of: Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.- Books
The pageant of the lamp : the story of the electric lamp.
Date: [1939?]- Books
Extract of a letter ... to the editor of the Med. and Phys. Journal / [Matthew Macnamara].
Macnamara, Matthew, Indian Army Officer, -1824.Date: [1805?]- Books
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Drunkenness.
Wilson, George R. (George Robert)Date: 1893- Pictures
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A swan. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1975.
Bishop, Mary, (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990.Date: Dec. 75 [December 1975]Reference: 2856137iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
A swan. Watercolour by R. Bottomley, 1968.
Bottomley, Roger, active approximately 1968.Date: 27.3.68 [27 March 1968]Reference: 2917478iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Dr Jonathan Swan's quack magic : the dubious history of health fads and cures / Jonathan Swan.
Swan, Jonathan.Date: 2003- Books
Cholera in Hull / P. Swan.
Swan, Philip.Date: 1983- Books
Cardiac surgery with hypothermia / Henry Swan.
Swan, HenryDate: 1981- Pictures
The Nile Expedition: burying one victim of the cholera epidemic. Process print after Swan.
Swan.Reference: 20938i