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Georg Letham : physician and murderer / Ernst Weiss ; translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.
Weiss, Ernst, 1882-1940.Date: 2010- Books
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Fair warnings to murderers of infants : being an account of the tryal, codemnation [sic] and execution of Mary Goodenough at the assizes held in Oxon in February, 1691/2 together with the advice sent by her to her children, in a letter sign'd by her own hand the night before she was executed, with some reflections added upon the whole : printed for the publick good.
Date: 1692- Books
Mary, the maid of the inn; : an interesting narrative; detailing the singular way she discovered her lover to be a robber and murderer; his conviction and execution; with her forlorn and destitute wanderings, and unhappy death.
Date: [1840?]- Books
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Bloody news from Carolina: Or, The English sailors, tragedy. Being a full and true account of the horrid, bloody, barbarous and inhuman murder, committed on the body of James Radford, a sailor on board the ship Casar, in South Carolina; by the hands of a desperate press-gang. How they were found guilty of willful murder, by the Coronor's inquest how the ghost of the unfortunate sailor James Radford, appeared between the hours of twelve and one, in the dead of the night, on the 17th of August last, to a certain great personage, not far from Sackville-Street, who had willfully endeavoured to screen the said murderers from justice; and how the said great personage was so mortally terrified, that he has not been in his right wits ever since. With many other curious horrid and memorable circumstances, as the following true and impartial narrative shall make appear.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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Bibliotheca Gordoniana: or, a catalogue of valuable and scarce books, chiefly collected by Mr. Gordon, in his Travels through France, Italy, &c. with some curious Manuscripts. To which is Added, The Library of a Student at Cambridge (both Deceas'd.) Many curiously bound in French, &c. binding; all gilt Back or Letter'd. Among many valuable ones are the following, viz. Folio's. Antoniana Margarita, par Peireiram Corio Tursico, Lib. rariss. 2 tom. Postelli de Concordia. Buxtorf's Heb. Bible, 2 vol. Baronii Annales & Ozovio Continuatio, 17 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 4 vol. with fine Cuts, royal Paper, finely bound. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. compleat. Whitby, Burkitt, Burnet, Barrow, &c. Works. D'achery Spicelegium, 3 vol. Several of the Byzantine Historians, Paris Edit. Antonio Bib. Vetus Hispana, 2 tom. Mattair's Marmora - Oxon. Reyneri de Antiquitate Benedictionorum in Anglia. Father Montsaucon's Antiq. 10 vol. in French, royal Paper, finely bound. Voyages de la Motraye, 2 Tom. grand & petit Papier, avec fig. Sandford's Coronation of K. James II. with the Cuts, beautifully colour'd. Capt. Johnson's Hist. of all the Pyrates Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. with 26 curious Cuts. Quarto. Albin's Spiders and Insects, colour'd. Six Volumes of Manuscripts wrote by the famous Comte de Boullainvilliers (author of the Etat de la France, 3 vol. Fol.) very fairly wrote, well preserv'd, and bound exceeding neat. Six Vols. of Mss. relating to Magick, raising the Devil, &c. &c. &c. well preserv'd, suppos'd to have belong'd to the K. of France's Library. Which will begin to be sold very cheap, on Wednesday the 8th of this instant Sept. and to continue till all are sold. by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head, in Round-Court, in the Strand, opposite York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of Sale. Where may be had most Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, particularly Foreign, in any Language.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Books
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A warning piece against the crime of murder: or, an account of many extraordinary and most providential discoveries of secret murders. ... Collected from several authors, ... with an intent to deter ...
Date: [1752]- Pictures
A man and a woman encounter each other in a wood: they are attacked by a bat and a snake, while a murdered woman lies in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: 18.3.66 [18 March 1966]Reference: 2913426iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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God's revenge against murder and adultery; remarkably displayed in a variety of tragical histories, containing examples, historical and moral: The whole exceedingly Entertaining and Instructive; and very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions and irregular Appetites.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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God's revenge against murder. Remarkably display'd in thirty tragical histories. Containing Great Variety of Examples, Historical and Moral, many strange and most lamentable Events: The Whole uncommonly Useful, Entertaining and Instructive; very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions, and irregular Appetites. Each history introduced with a copper-plate of the principal passages.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. To which is added, a genuine account of the voyages and plunders of the most noted pirates. Interspersed with several remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London. Adorn'd with the effigies, and other material transactions of the most remarkable offenders, engraved on copper-plates. By Capt. Charles Johnson.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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A catalogue of a small parcel of books, In very good Condition. Many of them Curiously Bound, and all the rest Gilt on the Back or Letter'd, to be sold very cheap, On Tuesday the 13th of this Instant July, and to continue till all are sold, By Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head, in Round-Court, in the Strand, opposite York-Buildings. Among which are, in Folio. Montsaucon's Antiq. French, fine Cuts, 10 vol. Poli Synopsis, 5 vol. Kennet's Hist. of Engl. 3 vol. Heads. Breval's Travels, 2 vol. Cuts. Bib. Polyglott. Montani, 2 tom. Peck's English Antiq. 2 vol. Cuts. Jebb's Life of Mary Q. of Scots, 2 vol. Spon's Miscel. Erud. Antiq. Fig. Mattaire's Marmora, Oxon. Fig. Religious Ceremonies, Cuts, 4 vol. Ciceronis Opera Gruteri, 2 tom. Bingham, 2 vol. compleat. Several of the Byzantine Historians. Buxtorf's Heb. Bible, best Edit. 2 vol. Reyneri de Antiq. Benedict. in Anglia Ovid, 3 vol. 1480. Hist. of Scotl. in Morocco, large Pap. Hist. of Ireland and Scotland. Fischer's Architecture, in German, French and English, 100 fine Cuts. Ovid in French, fine Cuts. Domat's Civil Law, 2 vol. large Pap. Capt. Johnson's Hist. of all the Pyrates Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. with 26 curious Cuts. Mabillon & D'achery Spicelegium, 2 vol. Beveridge's Works, 2 vol. Several Good Reports. Salmon's and Parkinson's Herbals. Livy in Latin, a beautiful Copy, ... - in English, best Edit. Anderson's Genealogical Tables, larg and small Paper. Winwood's and Cole's State Papers, vol. Crawfurd's Scotch Lives. Guillim, York, &c. Heraldry. Du Valle's Aristotle, 4 vol. Gr. La Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Burnet's Reformation, 3 vol. Quarto. Pope's Shakespear, 6 vol. St. Evremond & Rousseau's Works in French. Albin's Spiders and Insects, colour'd Octavo. State Tryals, 9 vol. compl. Clarendon, 6 vol. Field's Bible. Corpus Juris Civilis, 15 vol. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of Sal Where may be had most Money for any Library or Parcel of Book: particularly Foreign, in any Language. N. B. At the same Place continues the Sale of the Library of W. Grainger, Es deceased, late Envoy at Stockholm, consisting of several thousand Volumes.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Books
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God's revenge against murder and adultery: Remarkably displayed in thirty tragical histories: shewing the justice and power of divine providence in punishing such atrocious offences. The whole extremely interesting, entertaining, and instructive; very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a loose to our passions and irregular appetites. Each history introduced with a copper plate, representing the most striking passages. A new edition revised and corrected, with a recommendatory preface, by the Rev. Philip Batteson, B.A.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The patient's eyes / David Pirie.
Pirie, David, 1946-Date: 2004- Pictures
The bleeding head of a murdered person on a woodworking bench. Gouache by N. Goullet, ca. 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 4th Jan. [4 January 1955?]Reference: 2952394iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Life, trial, confession & conviction of John Hanlon : for the murder of little Mary Mohrman, containing Judge Ludow's charge to the jury, & the speeches of the ... counsel on both sides.
Hanlon, John Francis, -1871Date: 1870- Pictures
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An episode in 'The country curate' by G.R. Gleig: John Bushell the smith murders Noah, a Jewish pedlar; Bushell's wife Martha rushes into the room. Engraving by H. Rolls after F. Pickering, 1834.
Pickering, F. (Ferdinand), 1810-1889.Date: 1834Reference: 42884i- Books
When men murder women / R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash.
Dobash, R. EmersonDate: [2015]- Books
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The trial of George Robert Fitzgerald, esq. Timothy Brecknock, esq. barrister at law, and others : for the murder of Patrick Randal McDonnel, esq. and Mr. Hipson / Taken in short hand by Patrick Murphy, gent.
Fitzgerald, George Robert, 1746-1786Date: [1786?]- Books
A history of murder : personal violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present / Pieter Spierenburg.
Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis.Date: 2008- Books
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The life and singular adventures of Jack Shepherd. This extraordinary youth, who was executed at the Old Bailey on the 22d of November, 1786, was no less than nine times in confinement! ... His various robberies, escapes, and different contrivances, exceed credibility; however, the author of these interesting memoirs begs leave to assure the public they are all established facts. ... To which is added an appendix, ... relative to the three murderers, ... with the confession of Richard Payne.
Date: 1787- Pictures
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China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663450iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Books
Murder : a Home Office Research Unit report / by Evelyn Gibson and S. Klein.
Gibson, Evelyn.Date: 1961- Ephemera
An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.
Date: 1820- Books
Der "Mord" : Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten = "Murder" : reproduction and interpretaion [i.e. interpretation] in sciences and arts / Dietrich v. Engelhardt und Manfred Oehmichen (Hrsg.).
Date: 2007- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663451iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband