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Fuji seen from Eitaibashi, the last bridge over the Sumida river in Edo, Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1851.
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858.Date: 1851Reference: 37283i- Books
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The life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, lying near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque: Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men were drowned, but Himself: As also a Relation how he was wonderfully deliver'd by Pyrates. The whole three volumes faithfully abridg'd, and set forth with Cuts proper to the Subject.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1724- Books
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The life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, lying near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque: Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men were drowned, but Himself: As also a Relation how he was wonderfully deliver'd by Pyrates. The whole three volumes faithfully abridg'd, and set forth with Cuts proper to the Subject.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1726- Pictures
A hilly landscape with a river running through; a traveller on horseback crosses a bridge. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige II, 1861.
Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826-1869.Date: 1861Reference: 37340i- Pictures
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Above, two deities (?), one of whom is holding a red ball which has rays and the image of a fox emanating from it; below, two women lying on the grass with a cat, with the Hashiba ferry seen crossing the Sumida river between Asakusa and Mukōjima, in the background. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, botom image by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: [1870?]Reference: 567433i- Books
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Remarks on a passage from the River Balise, in the Bay of Honduras, to Merida; the Capital of the Province of jucatan, In the Spanish West Indies. By Lieutenant Cook, Ordered by Sir William Burnaby, Rear Admiral of the Red, in Jamaica; With Dispatches to the Governor of the Province; Relative to the Logwood Cutters in the Bay of honduras, In February and March 1765.
Cook, James, Lieutenant.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Poems on the following subjects: Abram and Lot. Manoah and his wife. Naomi and ruth, part i. Life of David-Part 1. Flood of formosa, and fire of cliffden. Vale of Wycombe. Detached pieces, chiefly wrote on particular occasions, and to particular persons. Lucinda. Rosalinda and the Lark The River Jordan. The Nuptial Day. Emma and Melinda, or the Recluses. The Invitation, or the May-Blown Bower. Silvia and her Robbin Red-Breast. The Anticipation. Clapham Common. An Elegy. The Congratulation. Resignation. By William Lane, A poor labouring man, of Flackwell-Heath, High Wycombe, Bucks. Price Two Shillings.
Lane, William, 1744-Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Pictures
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Shiva, the Hindu deity, seated in the lotus position on a deerskin. Gouache painting.
Reference: 566450i- Books
Love and war : the Civil War letters and medicinal book of Augustus V. Ball / edited by Donald S. Frazier and Andrew Hillhouse ; transcribed by Anne Ball Ryals ; introduction by Donald S. Frazier.
Ball, Augustus V. (Augustus Valerius)Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
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An account of the ornithichnites or foot marks of birds, on the new red sandstone of the valley of the Connecticut / by Edward Hitchcock.
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]- Pictures
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Boer War: volunteer ambulance at work. Process print after A. Kemp Tebby after a photograph.
Tebby, Arthur Kemp, 1866-1957.Reference: 22159i- Books
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An Act for making perpetual several Acts therein mentioned, for preventing theft and rapine on the northern borders of England; for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of His Majesty's subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice; and also two clauses to prevent the cutting or breaking down the bank of any river, or sea bank; and to prevent the malicious cutting of hop binds; for the more effectual punishment of persons maliciously setting on fire any mine, pit, or delph of coal, or canal coal; and of persons unlawfully hunting or taking any red or fallow deer in forests or chases; or beating or wounding the keepers or other officers in forests, chaces, or parks; and also so much of an Act as relates to the power of appealing to the circuit courts in civil cases, in Scotland.
Great Britain.Date: 1758]- Books
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An Act for making perpetual several Acts therein mentioned, for preventing theft and rapine on the northern borders of England; for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of His Majesty's subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice; and also two clauses to prevent the cutting or breaking down the bank of any river, or sea bank; and to prevent the malicious cutting of hop binds; for the more effectual punishment of persons maliciously setting on fire any mine, pit, of delph of coal, or canal coal; and of persons unlawfully hunting or taking any red or fallow deer in forests or chases; or beating or wounding the keepers or other officers in forests, chaces, or parks; and also so much of an Act as relates to the power of appealing to the circuit courts in civil cases, in Scotland.
Great Britain.Date: 1758- Pictures
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The Qudsia Bagh, Delhi: eastern view. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.Date: March 1795Reference: 27327iPart of: Oriental scenery- Pictures
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Boer War: sick and wounded soldiers arriving at Modder River Camp. Reproduction after a sketch by F. de Haenen after R. Thiele.
Thiele, Reinhold.Reference: 22329i- Books
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A short relation of the River Nile: of its source and current; or Its Overflowing the Campagnia of Egypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean; and of other curiosities. With a new preface. Written by an eye witness, who lived many years in the chief kingdom of the Abyssine empire.
Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.Date: [1798]- Pictures
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Franco-Prussian War: wounded brought to Paris by canal boats. Wood engraving, 1871.
Date: [1871]Reference: 21799i- Books
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A voyage to Abyssinia. By Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit. Containing, A Narrative of the Dangers he underwent in his first Attempt to pass from the Indies into Abyssinia; with a Description of the Coasts of the Red-Sea. An Account of the History, Laws, Customs, Religion, Habits, and Buildings of the Abyssins; with the Rivers, Air, Soil, Birds, Beasts, Fruits and other natural Productions of that remote and unfrequented Country. A Relation of the Admission of the Jesuits into Abyssinia in 1625, and their Expulsion from thence in 1634. An exact Description of the Nile, its Head, its Branches, the Course of its Waters, and the Cause of its Inundations. With a continuation of the history of Abyssinia down to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Differtations on various Subjects relating to the History, Antiquities, Government, Religion, Manners, and natural History of Abyssinia, and other Countries mention'd by Father Jerome Lobo. By Mr. Legrand. From the French.
Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Digital Images
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Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
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Familiar medicine : everyday health knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam / David Craig.
Craig, David, 1961-Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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The mystery reveal'd; or, truth brought to light. Being a discovery of some facts, in relation to the conduct of the late M-y, which however extraordinary they may appear, are yet supported by such Testimonies of authentick Papers and Memoirs; as neither Confidence, can out-brave; nor Cunning invalidate. By a patriot.
Patriot.Date: 1759- Pictures
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Boer War: five sketches of the ambulance service and Langman Field Hospital within the Orange River Colony. Pen and ink drawing by Oliver Paque, 1900.
Paque, Oliver.Date: 1900Reference: 22318i- Books
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A speech spoken by His Excellence Prince Rupert to his sacred Majesty, and the Lords of his Privie Councell, at his returne from Redding to Oxford : wherein is freely delivered his opinion concerning the present warre, with his advise for the erecting of forts and garrison townes in this Kingdom, and calling in the old English regiments out of Holland.
Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682Date: 1642- Books
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A new view, and observations on the ancient and present state of London and Westminster. Shewing, the foundation, walls, gates, towers, bridges, churches, rivers, wards, palaces, hal[l]s, companies, inns of court and chancery, hospitals, schools, government, charters, courts and privileges thereof. Also historical remarks thereon. With an account of the most remarkable accidents, as to wars, fires, plagues, and other occurrences, which have happened therein for above 1400 years past, brought down to the present time. Illustrated with cuts of the most considerable matters: with the arms of the sixty six companies of London, and the time of their incorporation. By Robert Burton, author of the history of the Wars of England. Continued by an Able Hand.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1730- Books
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An Act to continue the several laws therein mentioned for preventing theft and rapine on the northern borders of England; for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of His Majesties subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice; for continuing two clauses to prevent the cutting or breaking down the bank of any river, or sea bank, and to prevent the malicious cutting of hop-binds; and for the more effectual punishment of ersons maliciously setting fire any mine, pit, or delph of coal, or cannel coal; and of persons unlawfully hunting or taking any red or fallow deer in forests or chaces, or beating or wounding the keepers or other officers in forests, chaces, or parks; and for granting a liberty to carry sugars of the growth, produce, or manufacture in any of His Majesty's sugar colonies in America, from the said colonies directly to foreign parts in ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to law; and to explain two Acts relating to the procesution of offenders for embeziling naval stores; or stores of war; and to prevent the retailing of wine within either of the universities in that part of Great Britain called England without licence.
Great Britain.Date: 1744]