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Photograph of a painting of Erasmus Darwin
Date: Late 18th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/1/4/7/5Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Dalton
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7848/9-10Part of: Dalton, John (1766-1844), chemist, originator of modern atomic theory of matter- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of a painting of Erasmus Darwin
Date: Late 18th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/1/4/7/4Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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The development of narrative practices in medicine c.1960 - c.2000 : the transcript of a witness seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 18th June 2013 / edited by E M Jones and E M Tansey.
Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Books
The artist's assistant : oil painting instruction manuals and handbooks in Britain, 1800-1900 : with reference to selected eighteenth-century sources / Leslie Carlyle.
Carlyle, Leslie.Date: 2001- Books
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A catalogue of all the entire and well-chosen library of the late Mrs. Letitia Wiggett, deceased, At her late Dwelling-House, in St. George's Colgate, Norwich: which will be sold by auction, by Edward Crane, on Wednesday the 28th inst. and two following days: Consisting of an Air Pump, Mathematical, Philosophical, and other Instruments. - Amongst the books are Picart's Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Spence's Polymetis, best Edition-Rapin and Continuation, 5 vol. - Montfaucon's Antiquities and Supplement, 7 vol. - Ancient and Modern Universal History, 27 vol. - Hill's Natural History of Fossils-Hook's Micographia, best Edition-Pennant's British Zoology, Elegant-Pitt's Atlas, 4 vol. Catalogues may be had at the Auctioneer's Upholstery Warehouse, White-Lion-Lane, Norwich, at 3d. each, which will be returned to every purchaser to the amount of five shillings. The whole to be viewed on Tuesday next from Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon 'till Three in the Afternoon. The Sale begins each Morning precisely at Half past Ten.
Crane, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]- Pictures
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Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
Date: [approximately 1650]Reference: 3001072i- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- Books
The Art of the first fleet : and other early Australian drawings / edited by Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler.
Date: 1988- Books
The art of describing : Dutch art in the seventeenth century / Svetlana Alpers.
Alpers, Svetlana.Date: 1989, ©1983- Books
The child in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / by Mary Frances Durantini.
Durantini, Mary Frances.Date: [1983], ©1983- Books
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A select collection of modern poems. By several Hands.
Date: M DCC XIII. [1713]- Books
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A collection of poems, moral and religious, selected chiefly from the most admired authors, both ancient and modern; interspersed with some original pieces, never before printed. By Thomas Matthews, of Bath.
Matthews, Thomas, of Bath.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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A candid review of the exhibition (being the twelfth) of the Royal Academy, MDCCLXXX. Dedicated to His Majesty. By an artist.
Artist.Date: [1780]- Books
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The pigeon-Pye, or, a King's coronation, proper materials for forming an oratorio, opera, or play, according to the modern taste: To Be Represented in Opposition to the Dragon of Wantley. By an admirer of bad composition, and author of - nothing.
Columbario, Christopher.Date: [1738]- Books
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New poems on several occasions, I. A short essay on the progress of English poetry. II. On the Rotund erected by Mervyn Pratt, Esq; III. To a Gentleman of Fortune, on commencing Holy Orders. IV. To a Friend in Sickness. V. To a Gentleman, who promis'd his Letter of Recommendation. VI. To a Gentleman, who promis'd me Mr. Addison's Works. Vii. A short Pastoral. Viii. On Christmas Day. IX. On Painting. X. To the Rt. Hon. the Lord Kingsland. XI. To the Hon. Thomas Coote, Esq; XII. An Epitaph on Steven Taffe, Esq; XIII. From a Gentleman to a Lady. XIV. An Elegy on Little Meredy. XV. On the Sawyers Procession. XVI. On the Boyn Rock. XVII. Verses, to the Air of Tweed-Side. XVIII. - to the Air of Bonny Jane. XIX. - to the Air of Bonny Broom. XX. A Valentine to a Girl, whose Mother makes Pyes and Tarts. XXI. To Mr. Stanley, apothecary. By Henry Jones.
Jones, Henry, 1721-1770.Date: 1735/6- Books
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Love a la mode: or, the amours of Florella and Phillis. Being the memoirs of two celebrated ladies under those names: in which the whole circle of modern gallantry is display'd. Containing particularly, The Life of Florella from the time the Atalantis leaves her. Her Marriage to Lord Gratian. Her Intrigues after his Death. Her keeping an Irish Secretary who could not write. Her Marriage and extraordinary Proposal to-whom she sell in love with at the Masqu. Her Amour with the D. of W---- An original Song by the Duke. Her Husband's treatment of her. A Song on that occasion by Mr. K-n. The Family of Phillis. Her being stole by Mr. D---th of the Temple. Her Flight. Her Amour with Mr. D---ch who kill'd himself. - with G-l W-h. - Col. J-n. Her manner of meeting with L- L-rn. -Remarkable Trial for a Settlement. Her Marriage, Misfortunes, and Death.
Date: [1732]- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Books
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A pacquet from Parnassus: or, a collection of papers, Viz. I. An Essay on Variety. II. Advice to the Unfortunate. III. An Encomium on Prince Eugene, Dedicated to the French King, for the use of the Dauphin. In Latin. IV. The Whim, dedicated to a Kings, &c. V. The Modern Lawyer, in Imitation of Erasmus. VI. On the Descent of the Germans from the Alps to Verona, and their Ascent from the Aquaduct into Cremona. Vii A Prologue design'd for Tamerlane, but never spoke. Written by Doctor G. Viii. An Ode, in Imitation of Horace's 14th of the 2d Book, &c. By J. H. IX. A Bombastical Letter to a Bombastical Parson. X A Paradox in praise of War. XI. On the Art of Painting. XII. The Play-House: A Satyr. By T. G. Gent. XIII. On the Advancement of Poetry. XIV. On the Preference of Oronoko Tobaco by the Dutch. XV. The Dawn. Done out of Latin. XVI. On Content. In Latin and English XVII. On Eternity. XVIII. On the French King. In French, and English. XIX. On his late Majesty. Vol.I. Numb.II.
H. D.Date: 1702- Books
Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797 : an introduction to the work of Joseph Wright of Derby with a catalogue of drawings held by Derby Museum and Art Gallery published on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of the artist's death 21 June - 28 September 1997 / Jane Wallis.
Wallis, Jane.Date: [1997]- Books
Gothic nightmares / Martin Myrone ; with essays by Christopher Frayling and Marina Warner.
Myrone, Martin.Date: 2006- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i- Books
Boucher & Chardin : masters of modern manners / edited by Anne Dulau ; with contributions by Christoph Martin Vogtherr [and] Ann Eatwell.
Date: 2008- Books
Captain James Cook and his times / edited by Robin Fisher & Hugh Johnston.
Captain James Cook and His Times (Conference) (1978 : Simon Fraser University)Date: 1979