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Joanna Hutton - Bird Study
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/48Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - Bird Study
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/47Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Double-Crested Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/51Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Double-Crested Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/52Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Tufted-Necked Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/50Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Black-Breasted Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/49Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Black-Breasted Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/45Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - The Black-Breasted Humming-Bird
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/46Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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The vermin-Killer: being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds, of all sorts, earwigs Caterpillars, Flies, Fish, Foxes, Frogs, Gnats, Mice, Otters, Pismires, Pole-Cats, Rabbets, Rats, Snakes, Scorpions, Snails, Spiders, Toads, Wasps, Weasles, Wants or Moles, Worms in Houses and Gardens, Bugs, Lice, Fleas, &c. Also Several excellent Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders. And Some useful Directions for Gardening and Husbandry: and likewise for Travellers in regard to the Management of a Horse on a Journey, &c. With many curious Secrets in Art and Nature.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The school of arts; or new book of Useful Knowledge. Containing the management and breeding of canary birds. Monthly Observations in the Orchard, Kitchen and Flower Gardens Observations in Husbandry, in the Manuring, Plowing, Weeding, and Enriching of Land. The Vermin Killer; teaching how to destroy Bugs, Lice, Fleas, Mice, Rats, Moles, Weasels, Pole-Cats, Badgers, Foxes, Otters, Wasps, Worms, Snails, Flies, Pisinires, Caterpillars, Spiders, &c. Those rare secrets how to catch Fish, and make Bird Lime, together with a valuable collection of receipts, for the cure of most disorders incident to horse and beasts, with the management of Horses on Journies, by J. Cundall, late of Brandsby. To which is added, the whole art of painting in oil & water colours. Gilding with Gold and Silver. The Method of colouring Maps. The curious Art of Varnishing and Japanning, with Receipts for making Varnish and Japan. To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Ivory, Leather, Paper and Parchment, different Colours. To take Spots out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen, or Woollen, and many other Things worthy of Note.
Cundall, J.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Art and nature joyn hand in hand. Or, The poor mans daily companion : Wherein is shew'd for two pence charge, how you may cure any distempers incident to humane bodys: as first, the magical and physical vertues of beasts and birds, of trees and herbs, ... for curing of most diseases astrologically; a brief treatise of urines, as well of mens as of womens, to judge by the colour ... also a charme to know whether the sick party shall live or die; also to cure the Kings evil, ... against wry-necks, quartane agues, for one that cannot make water; how to make the true antidote powder called, the orvietane of Rome: to take away pearls, and films from the eyes; elixir vitæ, or, elixir of life, Gascoynes powder, the royal styptich water, which stops blood in an instant, also good for watery eyes, rheumatick eyes, inflamations in your eyes, pin, or web, and strengthens them to admiration; with many other things worthy of note. By John Durant, student in physick.
Durant, John, student in physickDate: 1697- Books
Love birds : unlocking the secrets of the Emperor's bird scroll / Dan Brooks.
Brooks, Dan (Daniel)Date: [1995]- Pictures
Game and wild animals disporting themselves. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after Moritz Müller, 189-.
Müller, Moritz, 1841-1899.Date: [between 1892 and 1895]Reference: 2897689i- Books
Japonica : the study and appreciation of the art of Japanese paper / by Henry Morris.
Morris, Henry, 1927-Date: 1981- Books
The birds of ancient Egypt / Patrick F. Houlihan ; with the collaboration and a preliminary checklist to the birds of Egypt by Steven M. Goodman.
Houlihan, Patrick F.Date: [1986], ©1986- Pictures
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A village ale-house, in which the landlord is offering a watch as the prize in a raffle. Engraving by G. Greatbach after E. Bird.
Bird, Edward, 1772-1819.Date: [1852]Reference: 33361i- Pictures
An artist's impression of an Alaskan drum in which a circle embodies birds heads with large eyes with a dotted inner circle representing a warning sound about the need to inform people about AIDS; advertisement by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Sam Kimura, 1992.
Date: 1992Reference: 667953i- Books
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The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: 1692- 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
Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) / by Averil Lysaght.
Lysaght, A. M. (Averil M.)Date: 1959- Books
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The farmer's wife; or the complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds: Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars, well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
Olof Rudbeck's Book of birds : a facsimile of the original watercolours (c. 1693-1710) of Olof Rudbeck the Younger in the Leufsta Collection in Uppsala University Library / English version edited by Björn Löwendahl.
Rudbeck, Olof, 1660-1740.Date: 1986- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
The vermin-killer being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders and some useful directions for gardening and husbandry. And likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c., with many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese, &c. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Farmer's Wife and Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds in General: Likewise a Variety of receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]