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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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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 new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecutions in Persia, under Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France; the persecutions in Germany and Poland; the cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.Date: [1785?]- Books
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Catalogue of the intire cabinet of capital drawings, collected by the late Greffier Francois Fagel, from the beginning of the Present Century, Not only out of the principal Cabinets that have been brought to marker, during that Period, but out of private Collections, comprising Choice Specimens of the Genuine Works of Leo. Da Vinci Michael Angelo Raphael Julio Romano Polidoro Correggio The Carracci Paolo Veronese Albert Durer Lucas Van Leyden Rubens Vandyck Jordaens Rembrandt Wouwermans Berghem Nicolo Poussin Cla. Lorraine Seb. le Clerc &c. &c. to which are added, Some Modern Italian Landschapes, belonging to the same Family: which will be sold by Auction, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Philipe, at his Rooms, in Warwick Street, Golden Square, adjoining the Chapel, On Monday, the 20th of May, 1799, and five following Days, At Twelve O'Clock. To be publicly viewed on Friday and Saturday preceding the Sale. - Catalogues, Price 1s. 6d. to be had at the Rooms, and at No. 22, Golden Square.
Philipe, Thomas.Date: [1799]- Books
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A catalogue of near ten thousand volumes of books: being part of the stock of William Frederick, bookseller, in Bath: which will be sold very reasonable, according to their Condition; he having found it necessary, (after many Years Attendance on the Public,) to decline the lending of books. --And being constantly supplied with all New Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications, (with the best Sorts of Stationary Wares) hopes for a Continuance of those Favours from his Friends and the Public, which he is glad of an Opportunity most gratefully to acknowledge. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale, and of Mr. George Robinson, in Pater-Noster-Row; Mess. Hodson and Johnson, in Salisbury; and Mr. Cadel in Bristol. - Any Orders from a Distance are expected to be sent Post paid.
Frederick, William, -1776.Date: 1770?]- Books
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Books
Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man : the early writing and work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960 / Allan Beveridge.
Beveridge, Allan.Date: 2011- Pictures
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Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25337i- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25289i- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving after an original engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25315i- Books
The late Sigmund Freud, or, the last word on psychoanalysis, society, and all the riddles of life / Todd Dufresne.
Dufresne, Todd, 1966-Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)
Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)Date: 1919-1996Reference: PP/AEM- Archives and manuscripts
Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)
Bowlby, JohnDate: 1887-2000Reference: PP/BOW- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.
Amoreux, Pierre Joseph, 1741-1824Date: [2017]- Archives and manuscripts
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), novelist: notes on his health
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968.Date: 1936Reference: MS.8512- Archives and manuscripts
Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)
Browne, Stanley George, 1907-1986Date: 1837-1990Reference: WTI/SGB- Archives and manuscripts
Macdonald, Professor George
Macdonald, George, 1903-1967.Date: 1938-1977Reference: PP/MAC- Archives and manuscripts
The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)
Rosen, Ismond, (1924-1996) MB, BCH 1946, DPM 1951, MD 1954, FRSM, Hon. FRCPsych (posthumous), Fellow Society of Portrait SculptorsDate: c.1941-2010Reference: PP/ROS- Archives and manuscripts
Lewis, Sir Thomas
Lewis, Sir Thomas (1881-1945)Date: 1907-1982Reference: PP/LEW- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, Professor George Grey
Turner, G. Grey (George Grey) (1877-1951)Date: 1935-1951Reference: PP/GGT