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Vesalius at 500 : an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius / exhibition and catalogue by Philip Oldfield.
Oldfield, PhilipDate: [2014]- Books
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The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry : with divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof, faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience / by Sir Hugh Plat ... ; whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins, with the vertues and use thereof, by D.B., Gent.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1653- Books
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The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening : in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art.
Date: 1640- Books
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Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis : adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield.
Bayfield, Robert, 1629-Date: 1663- Books
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Grana angelica: or, The rare and singular vertues and uses of those angelical pils : discovered and left to posterity, by Doctor Patrick Anderson, late physician of Edinburgh.
Anderson, Patrick, active 1618-1635Date: Printed in the year, 1681- Books
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Jack Adams his perpetual almanack : with astrological rules and instructions, directing to an exact knowledge of all future things till the morrow after doomsday. Together with his rare art of fortune-telling, and interpretation of dreams. The second edition corrected and amended. A work much desired, and by a strange accident preserved, and now published for the illumination of posterity.
Adams, Jack, active 1664Date: 1663- Books
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The queen-like closet: or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. To which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1684- Books
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The queen-like closet, or Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. To which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen. By Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1675- Books
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Rare and excellent receipts : Experienc'd, and taught by Mrs. Mary Tillinghast. And now printed for the use of her scholars only.
Tillinghast, MaryDate: printed in the year, 1690- Books
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The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. By Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1670- Books
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Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy : with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby.
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665Date: 1683- Books
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The queen-like closet, or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying, and cookery : very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex : to which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen / by Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1681- Books
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At the [blank] this present day shall bee showne rare dancing on the ropes, acted by His Maiesties servants : wherein an Irish boy of eight yeares old doth vault on the high rope, the like was never seene: and one mayd of fifteene yeares of age, and another girle of foure yeares of age, doe dance on the low rope; and the said girle of foure yeares of age doth turne on the stage, and put in fourescore threds into the eye of an needle. And other rare activityes of body, as vaulting and tumbling on the stage, and egges dancing upon a staffe, with other rare varietyes of dancing, the like hath not beene seene in the realme of England. And the merry conceites of Iacke Pudding.
Date: [1635?]- Books
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The good husvvifes ievvell : VVherein is to be found most excellent and rare deuises for conceits in cookerie, found out by the practise of Thomas Dawson. Whereunto is adioyned sundry approued reseits for many soueraine oyles, and the way to distill many precious waters, with diuers approued medicines for many diseases. Also certaine approued points of husbandry, very necessarie for all husbandmen to know.
Dawson, ThomasDate: 1587- Books
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The vvonderfull and strange effect and vertues of a new Terra sigillata lately found out in Germanie : with the right order of the applying and administring of it: being oftentimes tried and experienced by Andreas Bertholdus of Oschatz in Misnia.
Bertholdus, AndreasDate: 1587- Books
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The iewell house of art and nature : Conteining diuers rare and profitable inuentions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation, and moulding. Faithfully and familiarly set downe, according to the authors owne experience, by Hugh Platte, of Lincolnes Inne Gentleman.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1594- Books
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Cosmography: or, A description of the whole world : represented (by a more exact and certain discovery) in the excellencies of its scituation, commodities, inhabitants, and history: of their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used amongst them. Enlarged with very many and rare additions. Very delightful to be read in so small a volum. By Robert Fage Esquire.
Fage, RobertDate: 1666- Books
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The marrow of chymical physick, or, The practice of making chymical medicines : divided in three books, viz. shewing the true and perfect order to distil, or draw forth from vegetables, minerals and metals, their spirits, oyls, vinegars ... &c. : whereunto is added at the end of every such preparation its vertue and medicinal use for the preservation of health and restoring the diseased to sanity, a rare way of making metaline glass of any colour whatsoever ... / by Will. Thraster.
Thrasher, WilliamDate: 1679- Books
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The queen=like closet, or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying, and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. / by Hannah Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1672- Books
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A choice manuall, or rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery: collected, and practised by the Right Honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the virtue of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam, by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite waies of preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651Date: 1661- Books
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Philosophical and astrological rare secrets brought to light for the good of mankind : whereby wonderful effects may be performed by simpathy in easng pains and aches and curing the most difficult and desperate diseases, distempers or wounds incident to the bodies of mankind ... : with directions for the best times to gather herbs for seven years beginning April 1693 and ending October 1700.
Axford, JohnDate: 1693- Books
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The good husvvifes iewell : VVherein is to he [sic] found most excellend [sic] and rare deuises for conceites in cookery, found out by the practise of Thomas Dawson. Wherevnto is adioyned sundry approued receits for many soueraine oyles, and the way to distill many precious waters, with diuers approued medicines for many diseases. Also certain approued points of husbandry, very necessary for all husbandmen to know.
Dawson, ThomasDate: [1596]- Books
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A choice manuall, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery: collected, and practised by the Right Honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the virtues of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam, by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite waies of preserving, conserving, candying &c.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651Date: 1663- Books
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The good husvvifes iewell : Wherein is to bee found most excellent and rare deuises, for co[n]ceits in cookery, found out by the practise of Thomas Dawson. Whereunto are adioyned sundry aproued receits for many soueraigne oyles, and the way to distill many pretious waters, with diuers approued medicines for many diseases. Also certaine approoued points of husbandry very necessary for all husbandmen to know.
Dawson, ThomasDate: [1610]- Books
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Archimagirus anglo-gallicus: or, Excellent & approved receipts and experiments in cookery : Together with the best way of preserving. As also, rare formes of sugar-works: according to the French mode, and English manner. Copied from a choice manuscript of Sir Theodore Mayerne Knight, physician to the late K. Charles. Magistro artis, edere est esse.
Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655Date: 1658