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Our cancer year / by Joyce Brabner and Harvey Pekar ; illustrations by Frank Stack.
Brabner, Joyce.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
The cockroach papers : a compendium of history and lore / Richard Schweid.
Schweid, Richard, 1946-Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
War against the weak : eugenics and America's campaign to create a master race / Edwin Black.
Black, Edwin.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
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Paradise retriev'd: plainly and fully demonstrating the most beautiful, durable, and beneficial method of managing and improving fruit-trees. Against Walls, or in Hedges, Contrary to Mr. Lawrence, and Others upon gardening. Together with a treatise on mellons and cucumbers. By Samuel Collins Esq; of Archester in Northampton-Shire.
Collins, Samuel, of Archester, Northamptonshire.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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A sermon preach'd in the cathedral church of Worcester, August the 3d 1705, at the Assizes. By George Walls, D. D. Prebendary of that Church. Published at the Command of the Right Reverend Father in God, William Lord Bishop of Worcester; but delay'd on account of the great and long Illness of the Author.
Walls, George, 1644 or 1645-1727.Date: 1706- Books
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Extraordinary case of suicide: being a narrative of the life and unfortunate end of James Doe, who was found drowned in Seamill-Dock, near Bristol. With an exact copy of the manuscript, found written on the Walls of an uninhabited House. At Sea-Mill Dock, On Saturday the 14th October, 1797.
James, Joseph, of Bristol.Date: [1797]- Books
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An irrefragable argument fully proving, that to discharge great debts is less injury, and more reasonable, than to discharge small debts. Humbly offered to the Legislature. By Samuel Byrom, late of Byrom and Par, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Esq; and now a Prisoner within the Walls of the Fleet Prison, London.
Byrom, Samuel.Date: [1729]- Books
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The following lines were spoken at a Fête, at Frogmore, given by Her Majesty, On The Princess Amelia's, and Princess Of Orange's Birth-Day, August the eighth, 1799. *** After Mrs. Page's first Address, near the Walls of Mrs. P's own House, now a building in which The Queen, and Princesses, sometimes sit of a Morning, a Scene was represented, selected from Shakespeare.
Sudley, Mary.Date: [1799?]- Books
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The laws of sewers; or the office and authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in making Laws and Ordinances, and imposing Rates or Taxes for repairing the Walls, Banks, and other Defences. III. Of their Power by Law as to Distresses, and decreeing Lands to be sold to levy Charges for Repairs, and inflicting Punishments, by Fine and otherwise. Also The Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, and other Officers under the Commissioners, and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To which are added, the laws relating to Rumney-Marsh, and other marshes and fens.
Date: 1732- Books
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The laws of sewers; or the office and authority of Commissioners of Sewers. Containing, I. Their Power of Enquiry into Annoyances and Defects of Repairs of Sea-Banks and Walls, publick Streams and Rivers, Ditches and Marsh-Grounds. II. The Authority of the Commissioners in making Laws and Ordinances, and imposing Rates or Taxes for repairing the Walls, Banks, and other Defences. III. Of their Power by Law as to Distresses, and decreeing Lands to be sold to levy Charges for Repairs, and inflicting Punishments, by Fine and otherwise. Also The Particular Offices of Bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, and other Officers under the Commissioners, and Proceedings of a Court of Sewers, Orders, Warrants, &c. To which are added, the laws relating to Rumney-Marsh, and other marshes and fens.
Date: 1726- Books
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The antient and present state of the city of Oxford. Containing an account of its foundation, antiquity, Situation, Suburbs, Division by Wards, Walls, Castle, Fairs, Religious Houses, Abbeys, St. Frideswede's, Churches, as well those destroyed as the present, with their Monumental Inscriptions; Mayors, Members of Parliament, &c. The whole chiefly collected by Mr. Anthony à Wood; with additions by the rev. Sir J. Peshall, Bart.
Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A sermon preach'd at the cathedral church in Worcester, on Wednesday, January the 19th. 1703/4. Being the fast-day for imploring the blessing of Almighty God upon Her Majesty and Her Allies engaged in the Present War. As also For the Humbling our selves before Him in a deep Sense of the Judgment of the late Dreadful Tempest, &c. By George Walls, D. D. Prebendary of Worcester. Publish'd at the Request of some that heard it.
Walls, George, 1644 or 1645-1727.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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The complete kitchen gardener, and hot bed forcer; with the thorough practical management of Hot-Houses, Fire-Walls, and Forcing-Houses, and the improved modern culture of the Pinery-Stoves, and Pine-Apples, being A thorough practical Display of these most capital Branches of Gardening in their General Culture, and agreeable to the present greatly improved modern Process; whereby that most importantly-useful District the Kitchen Garden, and all its Appurtenances of Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Houses, Pinery-Stoves, &c. and the Culture of their several various Productions in superior Perfection and greatest Abundance, are fully explained in a Manner never before done for general Instruction, as requiring a particular distinct Explanation; and now first completely accomplished, from the Result of above Forty Years daily practical Experience and Observation. Author of Every Man his own Gardener, commonly called Mawe's Gardener's Kalendar; but the work of J. A. only.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The scots gardiners director, containing instructions to those gardiners, who make a kitchen garden and the culture of flowers their business: In Which Good Kitchen Gardens for great and for small Families are described, with Directions for cultivating the Fruits to be planted upon Hot-Walls, and upon Walls to which no Heat is applied, and upon Espaliers. With Directions to build Stoves for Pine-Apples, and the Culture of that Fruit; the Management of Hot-Beds for all Seasons of the Year; and the Culture of all the Herbs suitable to furnish a good Kitchen Garden: Together with the Culture Of the most considerable Vernal, Summer, and Autumnal Flowers, which are planted or sown in the open Ground in this Country; with Descriptions and Amendments of the Dutch Catalogues of Flower Seeds, which come annually from Holland; Particularly adapted to the Climate of Scotland. By a gentleman, one of the members of the Royal Society.
Justice, James, 1698-1763.Date: MD.CC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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The gentleman's recreation: Or the second part of the art of gardening improved. Containing several new experiments and curious observations relating to fruit-trees: particularly, a new method of building walls with horizontal shelters. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By John Laurence, M. A. Rector of Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire. To which is added by way of Appendix. A new and familiar way to find a most exact Meridian Line by the Pole-Star; whereby Gentlemen may know the true Bearings of their Houses and Garden Walls, and regulate their Clocks and Watches, &c. by Edward Laurence, Brother to the Author of this Book.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: 1716- Books
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The British fruit-gardener; and art of pruning: comprising, The most approved Methods of Planting and Raising every useful Fruit-Tree and Fruit-Bearing-Shrub, whether for Walls, Espaliers, Standards, Half-Standards, or Dwarfs: The true successful Practice of Pruning, Training, Grafting, Budding, &c. so as to render them abundantly fruitful: and Full Directions concerning Soils, Situations, and Exposures. By John Abercombie; Of Tottenham-Court, Gardener: Author of Every Man his own Gardener, First published under the Name of Tho. Mawe.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The British fruit-gardener; and art of pruning: comprising, the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-bearing-shrub, whether for Walls, Espaliers, Standards, Half-Standards, or Dwarfs: The true successful Practice of Pruning, Training, Grafting, Budding, &c. so as to render them abundantly fruitful: And Full Directions concerning Soils, Situations, and Exposures. By John Abercrombie; Of Tottenham-Court, Gardener; Author Of Every Man his own Gardener, First published under the Name of Tho. Mawe.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The hot-House gardener on the general culture of the pine-apple, and methods of forcing Early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and other choice fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. with directions for raising melons and early strawberries. By John Abercrombie, Author of Every Man his own Gardener; The Universal Gardener's Kalendar; The Complete Kitchen Gardener; and the Garden Vade Mocum. Illustrated with five copper plates, representing the Pine-Apple, Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries, Melon, and Strawberries,-Coloured from Nature.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Pictures
Guard turrets on the walls of Aurelian, Rome: different ground levels are shown before and after construction of the walls, with ruins of buildings incorporated into the wall. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2975145i- Books
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository: or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools and other Magnificent Buildings; as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Goals; and all Publick Edifices; Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. and many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. B.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1722- Books
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository; or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, Cornices, and Mouldings, for Finishing Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, on a Plan Entirely New, and Easy to be Understood. Circular Circular Soffits, Flewing and Winding, in Strait and Circular Walls, Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular and Elliptical Sky-Lights, and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their Circular Bars, Shop. Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. A new edition. Engraved on sixty-nine copper plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
Microbial cell walls / by M.R.J. Salton.
Salton, Milton R. J.Date: 1960- Pictures
A section of the walls of Aurelian, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1756Reference: 2975144i- Books
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The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious, or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, Walls, Gates, Bridges, Monasteries, Priories, Sanctuaries, Nunneries, Religious Houses, Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Colleges, Inns of Court, Hospitals, Schools, and other Magnificent Buildings, as Exchanges, Halls, Crosses, Markets, Gaols, and all Publick Edifices. Also Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Springs, &c. And many other curious Matters in Antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the Difference between the Ancient and Present State of these two Famous Cities. By N. Bailey, Author of the Universal, Etymological, English Dictionary.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: [1734]