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Marriage customs and modes of courtship of the various nations of the universe. With remarks on the condition of women, Penn's maxims, and counsel to the single and married, &c, &c / by Theophilus Moore, esq.
Moore, Theophilus.Date: 1820- Books
De veteri ritu nuptiarum et jure connubiorum / Barnabas Brissonius, Antonius [et] Franciscus Hotmanus.
Brisson, Barnabé, 1531-1591.Date: 1641- Pictures
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A celebration party is given in honour of a newly-married couple. Engraving by B. Picart after himself.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 28432i- Pictures
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Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.
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The medieval idea of marriage / Christopher N.L. Brooke.
Brooke, Christopher N. L. (Christopher Nugent Lawrence)Date: 1989- Books
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Medieval marriage : two models from twelfth-century France / by Georges Duby ; translated by Elborg Forster.
Duby, GeorgesDate: [1991], ©1991- Books
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The medieval idea of marriage / Christopher N.L. Brooke.
Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015Date: 2002- Books
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Sex problems in India : a scientific exposition of sex life and some curious marriage customs prevailing in India from time immemorial to the present day / by N.S. Phadke ; foreword by Margaret Sanger.
Phadke, Narayan Sitaram.Date: [1929], ©1929- Pictures
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A wedding in Brittany: the women of the family adjust the young bride's dress as music is played and the groom and guests wait on the stairs to enter the room. Etching by C.O. Murray after Henry Mosler.
Mosler, Henry, 1841-1920.Date: [1885]Reference: 28396i- Books
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Marriage ceremonies; as now used in all parts of the world. Very diverting, especially to the Ladies. Written originally in Italian, by Seignior Gaya The third edition. To which are added, large animadversions, and some remarks upon marriage. As also, A looking-glass for married people: Or, The Fantastick Adventures of Sir E-H-With his Seven Wives. Written by himself, in the time of his Confinement. Put into Modern English, by Mr. Tho. Brown.
Gaya, Louis de.Date: 1704- Books
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Marriage ceremonies, as now used in all parts of the world. With remarks upon matrimony critical and humourous. Very diverting, especially to the ladies. To which is added, The adventures of Sir Harry *****, with his seven wives.
Gaya, Louis de.Date: [1744]- Books
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Matrimonial ceremonies display'd: wherein are exhibited, the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprizing Practices of near One Hundred different Kingdoms and People in the World, now us'd in the celebration and consummation of matrimony. Collected from the papers of an old rich bawdy batchelor; With great Variety of Remarks by him, Serious and Humourous. To which is prefix'd, The comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven Wives; with the Character of each: A genuine Story. Also an Epigram on Matrimony, in Latin and English, and an Alphabetical Index. Publish'd for the Information and Entertainment of the Ladies and pretty Girls of Great-Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary.
Gaya, Louis de.Date: [1748]- Books
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Matrimonial ceremonies display'd: wherein are exhibited, the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprizing Practices of near One Hundred different Kingdoms and People in the World, now us'd in the celebration and consummation of matrimony. Collected from the papers of an old rich bawdy batchelor; With great Variety of Remarks by him, Serious and Humourous. To which is prefix'd, the comical adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives; with the Character of each: A genuine Story. Also an Epigram on Matrimony, in Latin and English, and an Alphabetical Index. Publish'd for the Information and Entertainment of the Ladies and pretty Girls of Great Britain, not forgeting those of Dublin and Tipperary.
Gaya, Louis de.Date: 1748- Books
Untersuchungen über die römische Ehe / von Dr. August Rossbach.
Rossbach, August, 1823-1898Date: 1853- Books
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Marriage and inequality in Chinese society / edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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An accurate discription of the marriage ceremonies used by every nation in the world: Shewing, the oddity of some, the absurdity of others, the drollery of many; and, the real or intended piety of all.
Date: 1782- Books
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Cupid and Hymen; a voyage to the isles of love and matrimony. Containing A most Diverting Account of the Inhabitants of those Two Vast and Populous Countries, their Laws, Customs, and Government. Interspersed With many useful Directions and Cautions how to avoid the dangerous Precipices and Quicksands that these Islands abound with, and wherein so many Thousands, who have undertaken the Voyage, have miserably perished. By the facetious H. C. and T. B. To which are added, a map of the island of marriage; The Batchelor's Estimate of the Expences attending a Married Life. The Married Man's Answer to it; None but Fools Marry, a Vindication of the Estimate; and a Boulster Lecture, &c. By Simon Single, Esq; The fourth edition.
Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743.Date: [1772]- Books
Medieval marriage : symbolism and society / D.L. d'Avray.
D'Avray, D. L.Date: 2008- Pictures
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The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.
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Matrimonial ceremonies display'd: wherein are exhibited, the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprizing practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people in the world, now us'd in the celebration and consummation of matrimony. Collected from the papers of an old rich bawdy batchelor; with great variety of remarks by him, serious and humourous. To which is prefix'd, The comical adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives; with the character of each: a genuine story. Also an epigram on matrimony, in Latin and English, and an alphabetical index. Publish'd for the information and entertainment of the ladies and pretty girls of Great Britain, not forgetting those of Dublin and Tipperary.
Gaya, Louis de.Date: 1748- Pictures
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A young woman has the laces of her bodice loosened by her new husband on their wedding night. Coloured lithograph by Bettannier brothers, 1851, after L.-F. Corréard.
Corréard, Louis Frédéric, 1815-1858.Date: 1851Reference: 28433iPart of: Galerie pour rire.- Books
'Into their company' : a book for a modern girl on love and marriage / by a medical woman, a girl, and a wife [anonymous] ; with an introduction by C. C. Martindale.
Date: 1931- Books
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The Welsh wedding, Shewing how Shon-Ap-Morgan, rode to London upon a goat to get a wife, with his comical courtship and marriage: how he was. Married to a cotton-twister, by an old small-coal man in a barn, tasty thinking it an English Church. Also the comical wedding dinner, 65 dishes of buttered leeks, 300 red Herrings some baked, some boiled, some shew'd and some fry'd; with 20 gallons of leek pottage, 25 tubs of butter-milk and whey, with a sack posset for tasty. How tasty was choak'd with eating a plate of toasted-cheese, and how he was buried in Tom turd's field. With his last legacy's where he leaves something for every body.
Date: Printed in the year, 1766- Pictures
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A newly-wed couple (Barkis and Clara Peggotty) set off in a cart from the beach, accompanied by David Copperfield and Emily: Mr Peggotty tries to persuade Mrs Gummidge to throw a shoe after them. Etching by Hablot K. Browne, 1849.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: [1849]Reference: 36703i- Books
A king's daughter married / by Sylvia M. Hill.
Hill, Sylvia MDate: [date of publication not specified]