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A man on a stage at a fair eating fire, watched by a crowd. Colour process print.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32452i- Pictures
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Mr. Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 18187i- Pictures
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Mr Punch wrapped up in blankets in front of the fire, eating gruel and suffering from influenza. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 15628i- Books
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The whole art of legerdemain: or hocus pocus in perfection. ... To which are added, several tricks of cups and balls, &c. as performed by the little man without hands or feet. The wonderful art of fire eating.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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Round about our coal fire, or, Christmas entertainments. Wherein is deseribed, Chap. I. The mirth and jollity of the Christmas holydays; viz. Christmas gambols, eating, drinking, kissing, and other diversions. Chap. II. Of hobgoblins, rawheads and bloody-bones, buggybows, tom-pokers, bullbeggars, and such like horrible bodies. Chap. III. Of witches, wizzards, conjurers, and such trifles; what they are, and how to make them; with many of their merry pranks. Chap. IV. Enchantment demonstrated, in the story of Jack Spriggins and the enchanted bean; giving a particular account of Jacks arrival at the castle of giant gogmagog; his rescuing ten thousand ladies and knights from being broiled for the giant's breakfast; jumping through key-holes; and at last how he destoryed the giant, and became monarch of the universe. Chap. V. Of spectres, ghosts, and apparitions; the great conveniences arising from them; and how to make them. Chap. VI. Of fairies their use and dignity. Together with some curious memoirs of old father Christmas; shewing what hospitality was in former times, and how little there remains of it at present. Illustrated with many diverting cuts.
Merryman, Dick.Date: [1734]- Pictures
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Two fire eaters in southern India: a man and a woman. Gouache painting.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 728658iPart of: Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.- Pictures
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Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Reproduction of an engraving.
Reference: 308i- Pictures
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Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.
Date: 1 May 1823Reference: 309i- Pictures
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Robert Powell, a fire-eater. Engraving, 1813.
Date: 25th June 1813Reference: 1760i- Pictures
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Xavier Chabert, a fire eater. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1829, after A. Wivell.
Wivell, Abraham, 1786-1849.Date: 26 December 1829Reference: 221i- Pictures
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A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.
Cappiello, Leonetto, 1875-1942.Date: 1909Reference: 41333i- Books
Irons in the fire : a history of cooking equipment / Rachael Feild.
Feild, Rachael.Date: 1984- Pictures
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A donkey carries wood while people shelter and eat near a fire; representing winter. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.
Bassano, Francesco da Ponte, 1549-1592.Date: Between 1700 and 1799Reference: 26434i- Books
Consider the fork : a history of how we cook and eat / Bee Wilson ; with illustrations by Annabel Lee.
Wilson, Bee.Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
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A woman cooks in a flat pan on the fire as a man and a boy wait at the table for something to eat. Engraving.
Reference: 29280i- Books
Good things to eat.
Date: [1939], ©1939- Books
The land of the five flavors : a cultural history of Chinese cuisine / Thomas O. Höllmann ; translated by Karen Margolis.
Höllmann, Thomas O.Date: [2014]- Pictures
Donald Duck trying to hold up a wall in order to assist Horace Horsecollar who is firing nails into it with a nail gun; representing the need for manual workers to eat a good breakfast. Colour lithograph by Walt Disney, 1943.
Date: [1943]Reference: 659691i- Books
Scorpio moon. #5.
Mars, Jade IoDate: 2017- Pictures
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The Buddhist guardian deity, Fudô Myôô, reading a government propaganda publication, enthusing about Western customs and modernisation: one attendant prepares meat, another warms sake in the sacred flame. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1874.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: 1874Reference: 37709i- Books
Tasty : the art and science of what we eat / John McQuaid.
McQuaid, JohnDate: 2015- Pictures
The healthy lifestyle of Soviet Young Pioneers. Colour lithograph after Milʹman, 1932.
Milʹman, fl. 1932.Date: 1932Reference: 668660i- Books
Let them eat dirt : saving your child from an oversanitized world / B. Brett Finlay, PhD, Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD.
Finlay, B. Brett, 1959-Date: 2016- Books
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The history of Sawney Beane and his family, robbers and murderers, who took up their abode in a cave near to the sea-side, where they lived twenty-five years without so much as once going to visit any City, Town, or Village. How they robbed above one thousand persons, and murdered and eat all whom they robbed. How at last they were happily discovered by a Pack of Blood-Hounds, and how Sawney Beane, his Wife, Eight Sons, Six Daughters, Eighteen Grand-Sons, and Fourteen Grand-Daughters, were all seized and executed, by being cast alive into three Fires, and there burnt to Death.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]