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Economy. Gedge's price current for Dec. 1800. Catalogue of genuine teas, coffees, chocolate, sugars, spices, Rices, Sago, Fruits, and a variety of other articles, With the several Prices affixed, sold at R. C. Gedge & Co.'s Tea and Grocery Warehouse, The Grasshopper, No. 149, Cheapside, opposite the Old Change, near St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, with an allowance of I Ounce over Weight, given to every pound of tea. The Nobility, Gentry, and Families in general, who will honour R. C. Gedge and Co. by calling or sending for this Pamphlet, will find, on perusal, that the Goods are sold on lower terms than at most other Warehouses in the Kingdom. To which is annexed, The Family companion; or, The Art of making British Wines, Vinegars, &c. Mostly from Fruits and Flowers, the natural Growth of England. Which are equally wholesome, pleasant, and useful, as Foreign Wines, and may be made at one half the price that English made Wines are usually sold at by the Wholesale-Venders thereof, who are compelled to pay a high Duty for the same, which does not attach on private Families.
R. C. Gedge & Co.Date: [1800]- Pictures
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A leopard facing left surrounded by various named flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1662, after himself.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: [1674]Reference: 24374i- Books
The marshmallow test : mastering self-control / Walter Mischel.
Mischel, WalterDate: 2014- Digital Images
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Robber fly (Asilidae)
Macroscopic Solutions- Pictures
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Two insects of the order orthoptera surrounded by parts of their bodily structure. Etching by Lebrun after Blanchard.
Blanchard.Reference: 41151i- Digital Images
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Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Chekhov's doctors : a collection of Chekhov's medical tales / edited by Jack Coulehan ; foreword by Robert Coles.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.Date: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
Pope Clement XI issuing an Apostolic Constitution (decree) in the form of the papal bull 'Unigenitus' of September 1713, condemning the principles of Jansenism. Etching attribued to J. Folkema, ca. 1724.
Date: [between 1720 and 1729]Reference: 2136961i- Books
Animals on display : the creaturely in museums, zoos, and natural history / edited by Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader, and Adam Dodd.
Date: [2013]- Ephemera
Retail pharmacy ephemera : Pre-1850, M-Z.