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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a new Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and Two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases: with many other important Articles and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with Explanations to each. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1799- Archives and manuscripts
Postcard: RDS shop front with literature in window advertising sale of Report of the Royal Commission for Vivisection March, c.1912
Date: c.1912Reference: SA/RDS/P/8/5Part of: Research Defence Society- Digital Images
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John Bell's Pharmacy, circa 1820. Reconstruction in the main hall of the Wellcome Building
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John Bell's Pharmacy, circa 1820. Reconstruction in the main hall of the Wellcome Building
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The shop front of George Woolliscroft, seller of ironmongery, ceramics and cleansing products in West Kirby, Wirral. Photograph by G. W. Webster, ca. 1890.
Webster, G. Watmough, active approximately 1879-1902.Date: [1890?]Reference: 2043345i- Books
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The blue shop; or, Impartial and humorous observations on The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine, with the real motives which gave rise to his abuse of our distinguished patriotic characters; together with a full and fair review of his late Scare-crow. By James Quicksilver.
Puglia, James Philip.Date: August 1796- Pictures
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The pharmacy of C. Hersbrunnen (?), Lucerne, Switzerland: a reconstruction of the 18th century shop showing pharmacy equipment and decorations: front view. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 564989i- Digital Images
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Outside view of an open shop
Lillias Anna Hamilton- Pictures
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A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 1 March 1772Reference: 29464i- Books
The compleat practice of physick, in eighteen several books. Wherein is plainly set forth, the nature, differences, diagnostick, and prognostick signs. Together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / By Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... And William Rowland ... Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ... The eighteenth book is a physical dictionary.
Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.Date: 1655- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: plants and flowers in the front and back garden and shops over the road (February-March 1992).
Date: 13/02/1992-05/03/1992Reference: PP/AMI/B/438Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
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The carpenter and joiner's assistant; containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: 1797- Books
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Physicall Rarities Containing The most choice Receipts of Physick, and Chyrurgerie : For The cure of all Diseases incident to Mans Body. Being a rich Jewell kept in the Cabinet of a famous Doctor in this Nation; stored with admirable Secrets and approved Medicines / [by] Ralph Williams.
Williams, RalphDate: 1656- Ephemera
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A. J. Bateson : family butcher, 271 Dunstable Road, Luton : cooked ham, pressed beef etc. : always in cut.
Bateson, A. J.Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004567: The spectacle seller, a scene before a shop
Date: March 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/36/85Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Late 19th century chemist's shop formerly owned by N.F. Tyler. At 87 Abingdon Road, Kensington W 8. Photograph by Mr Michieli showing the view of the front window and door with carboys in position.
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Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph.
Reference: 36933i- Books
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The practical expositor: or, an exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase; with occasional notes In their proper places for further explication, and serious recollections At the Close of every Chapter. To which is added, An alphabetical table of The principal things contained in the paraphrase, especially in the notes. For the Use of the Family and Closet. By John Guyse, D.D.
Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Digital Images
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People in front of an eating house
Lillias Anna Hamilton- Pictures
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Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph after G.E. Chauffourier, 1928.
Chauffourier, Gustave Eugène, 1845-1919.Reference: 36931i- Pictures
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A monkey barber's shop. Engraving after P. van der Borcht.
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.Reference: 17887i- Books
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Il convito amoroso! or, a serio-comico-philosophical lecture, on the causes, nature, and effects of love and beauty, At the different Periods of Human Life, in Persons and Personages, Male, Female, and Demi-Charactêre; And in Praise of the Genial and Prolific Influences of the Celestial Bed! As delivered by Hebe Vestina! The Rosy Goddess of Youth and of Health! from the Electrical Throne! in the Great Apollo-Chamber, At the Temple of Hymen, in London, Before a Glowing and Brilliant Audience of near Three Hundred Ladies and Gentlemen, who were commanded by Venus, Cupid, and Hymen! to assist, in joyous Assembly, at the Grand Feast of very Fat Things, which was held at their Temple, on Monday Evening, the 25th of November, 1782; but which was interrupted by the rude and unexpected Arrival of his Worship, Midas Neutersex, Esq; and his Bum-Possé, just as the Dessert was about to be served up. Published at the earnest Desire of many of the Company, and to gratify the impatient and very intense Longings of Thousands of Adepts, Hibernian and British;-of the Cognoscenti;-et de les Amateurs ardens des delices exquise de Venus! To which is subjoined, a Description of the stupendous Nature and Effects of the Celebrated Celestial Bed!
Hebe Vestina.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Ephemera
Hammond's Optical Service Ltd. : 248 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E.17 (adjoining Lyons Tea Shop).
Hammond's Optical Service.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Pictures
Two bodybuilding posters in front of health supplement shelf.
Date: [between 1970 and 1990?]Reference: 3289246iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a coppersmith at work in his shop. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19848i