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A new garland, Containing three Excellent New Songs. 1. King James and the Tinker 2. The Trooper, Nan, and the little Pig. 3. Duke of Ormond.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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An excellent garland, containing four new songs. 1. Lament for General Wolf. 2. The siege of Belleisle. 3. Adm. Russel's Defeat of the French Fleet 4. Cheshire Chamber Maid.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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An excellent garland, containing I Additional songs in Inkle and Yarico. 2. The revolution and gun powder plot. 3 God save the King. 4 The top-sails sliver in the wind
Date: [1790?]- Books
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Miscellaneous poems.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The wonders of God in the wilderness; or, the lives of the most celebrated saints of the oriental desarts; faithfully collected out of the genuine works of the holy fathers, and other ancient ecclesiastical writers.
Date: 1786- Books
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The voyages, adventures, and miraculous escape, of George Barton, of Maidstone, in Kent. Giving a particular Account of his Departure from Home. The Kindness he received from Capt. Irwin, and his young Friend the Midshipman; His Shipwreck, And dwelling on an Uninhabited Island, with the Fair Selima, Their Algerine Captivity, And Providential Escape; With their safe Arrival in England, after he had been absent from thence twelve Years, being supposed to be dead by his father and Relations.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The new British songster, or, a complete vocal pocket companion; being a collection of the latest and most approved songs: including all the vocal pieces of merit sung at the theatres, and other places of public amusements, embellished with an elegant engraved frontispiece.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Narrative of the singular adventures and captivity of Thomas Barry, among the Monsipi Indians, in the unexplored regions of North America, during the years 1797, 1798, & 1799: including the manners, customs, religion, &c. Of that Tribe; Also a particular account of his escape, accompanied by an Indian female; The extraordinary hardships they encountered; and their safe Arrival in London.
Barry, Thomas, active 1800-1802.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The astonishing history, and Adventures of Miss Betsey Warwick, the Female Rambler. With the History of Miss Fanny Nugent.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Laugh and be fat, or The merry Jester, Containing the newest, drollest, queerest, completest, most commical, most facetious, and best collection, over offered to the inhabitants of Great-Britain, and Ireland, of diverting jests funny jokes frolicsoms stores humourous sayings entertaining tales lively bonmots pleasant adventures keen repartees merry waggeries excellent puns curious buils, English, Irish, and Scotch smart quibbles agreeable humbugs witty gibs, and other flashes of merriment. To which are added, the following humourous and agreeable articles, viz. new, merry, and ingenuous conundrums, rebuffes, riddles, epigrams, epitaphs, poems, acrosticks and other witticisms. Together with an entire new selection of toasts, sentiments, hobnabs. &c. at this time used in the best companies in London and Westminster. Calculated for both sexes, to kill care, to banish sorrow, and promote mirth, fun, jolity, and good humour: almost the whole of this work being really new, and written on purpose. To which is perfixed, the bad bargain on both sides.
Date: [1797?]- Books
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The life, voyages, and travels, of Thos. Jenkins, & David Lowellin, through the unknown tracts of Africa. With the manner bow Lowellin lived eight years on an uninhabited spot; and, having sustained many dangerous attacks form the wild bears and savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1784, after having been fourteen years in those extensive regions.
Lowellin, David, 1726-Date: [1795?]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions salutary hints and observations whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The carpenter and joiner's assistant; containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: 1797- Books
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Judicial hanging.
Marshall, John James de Zouche.Date: 1913- Books
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The Life and adventures of Maria Knowles, The only daughter of Mr. John Knowles, a reputed, farmer, in the parish of Budworth, and county of Cheshire, who eloped from her father's house, went to London, and enlisted into the 44th Regiment of Foot, for the sake of a young man of the name of Cliff, after which she went to Holland, and from thence to French flanders, where she was wounded, and her sex discovered, and was afterwards married. Also, an account of her going to the West Indies, where her husband died, & her return to England.
Date: [1800?]- Books
Cardiac action after "death" by hanging / Jessie Dobson.
Dobson, Jessie, 1906-1984.Date: 1951]- Books
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The life, voyages, and travels, of Thos. Jenkins, & David Lowellin, through the unknown tracts of Africa. With the manner how Lowellin lived eight years on a uninhabited spot; and, having sustained many dengerous attacks from the wild beasts and savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1784, after having been fourteen years in those extensive regions.
Lowellin, David, 1726-Date: [1800?]- Books
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The shepherdess of the Alps, a very interesting, pathetic, and moral tale. Published at the request of several ladies of distinction.
Marmontel, Jean-François, 1723-1799.Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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The hanging of Hassan Bey in Constantinople. Wood engraving, 1876.
Date: [1876]Reference: 582405i- Pictures
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The execution of Father Garnet by hanging. Wood engraving.
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A public hanging in Trebizond. Wood engraving by Ch. Barbant after Th. Deyrolle.
Deyrolle, Théophile, 1844-1923.Date: [1875]Reference: 582014i- Digital Images
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Human skin hanging in frame.
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Washing hanging on drying green
Date: early 20th centuryReference: HB13/15/195Part of: Records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
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Plovdiv (Philippopolis), Bulgaria: the hanging of Bulgarians by Turks. Wood engraving after C.R., 1876.
C. R.Date: [1876]Reference: 582404i- Pictures
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Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
Childs, W. H.Date: 1863Reference: 677114i