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- Archives and manuscripts
Recipe Book Collection, 18th-19th century
Date: 18th-19th centuryReference: MSS.7722-7731- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, 17th-18th century
Date: c.1675-c. 1800Reference: MS.7721- Archives and manuscripts
Shrapnel, Henry (1761-1842), soldier, inventor of the shrapnel shell
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7606/32Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, John William (1790-1835), surgeon
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/16-17Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Turnbull, William [junior], M.R.C.S. (fl. 1779-1806), surgeon, director of Institution for the Relief of the Ruptured Poor
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/8Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Archives and manuscripts
Hewett, Anthony (& others)
Hewett, AnthonyDate: Mid 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.348- Archives and manuscripts
Commonplace book
Holden, Henry, 1662-1710Date: Late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.2863Part of: Holden, Henry (1662-1710)- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Archives and manuscripts
Secreta Secretorum, France, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7298- Archives and manuscripts
Sales catalogue: Curtis & Henson
Date: 01 May - 03 May 1933Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/430Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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The life and heroick actions of the Eighth Champion of Christendom. With a particular account of his combat with the man in the moon; of the Reception he met with from the Knights of the Golden Flecce; and of the Great Reward he received from Don Roberto, for his Faithful Services to that Doughty Knight. By James Gurthie, biographer.
Gurthie, James, active 18th century.Date: 1739- Books
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The life and heroick actions of the eighth champion of Christendom. With a particular account of his combat with the man in the moon; of the Reception he met with from the Knights of the Golden Fleece; and of the Great Reward he received from Don Roberto, for his Faithful Services to that Doughty Knight. By James Gurthie, biographer.
Gurthie, James, active 18th century.Date: [1739]- Books
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The literary census: a satirical poem; with notes, &c. Including free and candid strictures on The pursuits of literature, and its anonymous author. By Thomas Dutton, A M. Translator of the Life and Opinions of Sebaldus Noth-Anker.
Dutton, Thomas, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1798- Books
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A miscellany on taste. By Mr. Pope, &c. Viz. I. of taste in architecture. An epistle to the Earl of Burlington. With notes variorum, and a compleat key. II. Of Mr. Pope's taste in divinity, viz. the fall of man, and the first Psalm. Translated for the use of a young lady. III. Of Mr. Pope's taste of Shakespeare. IV. - His satire on Mrs. P-y. V. Mr. Congreve's fine epistle on retirement and taste. Address'd to Lord Cobham.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1732- Books
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Unanimity. A poem. Most respectfully inscribed to that truly patriotic nobleman, the Duke of Leinster.
Macaulay, John, active 18th century-19th century.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The Tuner.
Hiffernan, Paul, 1719-1777.Date: M DCC LIV. [1754]-1755- Books
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Fragments of the history of John Bull. By Sir Humphry Polesworth, Bart.
Polesworth, Humphry, Sir, active 18th century.Date: 1792- Books
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The history of John Bull. Part III. Containing, among many other curious particulars, a faithful narrative of the most secret and important transactions of the worshipful and ancient family of the Bulls, from August 1, 1714, to June 11, 1727. Publish'd from the manuscripts of that learned and celebrated biographer, the late Sir Humphry Polesworth, Author of the First and Second Parts of this Work, publish'd in 1712. By Nathan Polesworth, Sir Humphry's Nephew, and sole Executor.
Polesworth, Humphry, Sir, active 18th century.Date: [1744]- Books
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The Tickler.
Date: <1719>- Books
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The important triflers. A satire: set forth in a journal of pastime a-la-mode, among young-people of fashion, in the spring-season of the year. And Address'd, as a Trifle, to the Polite Ladies in Town, and to the Beau-Monde in General. (to which is added, a whimsical piece of poetry.) By Captain Cockade.
Brecknock, Timothy, -1786.Date: 1748- Books
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For one night only. At the theatre, Wisbech: Mr. Scriven presents his most respectful Compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wisbech-Begs Leave to inform them he has at a great Expence purchased a Correct Copy of that truly admirable and entertaining Poetic and Prosaic Composition, called Collins's Evening Brush, Exhibited by the Author, in London and several of the Principal Cities and Towns in this Kingdom, to the most elegant and crowded Audiences-A Piece, allowed by all who have honoured it by their Attention to be replete with Wit, Humour, Satire, and Food for Laughter. On Friday Evening August 27th. 1790, will be presented a pasticcio, call'd Collins's Evening Brush. For Rubbing off the Rust of Care: Divided into four parts. Part I. An Exordium to the Audience, wherein the Author shews his wish to please, with a particular Attention to avoid giving Offence to any Individual, by a Sacrifice to the Shrine of Ill Nature, or the slightest Stab to moral Virtue Then follows as an Introduction to the Piece itself. The Brush Song. After which A Dissertation on Actors and Acting. The humorous contrast between Jack Sly and John Bull, the late David Garrick and Snip the Taylor. Hamlet and the Scot's Pedlar. The Tragedy Belwether, and Tragedy Bantam Cock. Concluding with a Comic Song, called Shakespear's seven Ages, In which will be Introduced The Infant, The Schoolboy, The Lover, The Soldier, The Justice, The Old Man, And Second Childhood. Part II. A Humorous Description of Parish Clerks. A critical dispute, Whether a Hedge Hog is an Animal, or a Vegetable; an Artifical or a Natural Curiosity. The Political Barber. The Learned Irish School-Master, teaching the Little Puny Whipsters their Cris-Cross-Row. Darby Logan, the Irish Bull-Maker. Concluding with an Irish Song. in which he gives a humorous Description of his Voyage from Dublin to London. End of Act II. - The Lass of Richmond Hill, by Mrs. Scriven: Part III. The Imperfect Norwich Actor, Dryden's Pegasus, The English Aristophanes The One armed Tragedian. And the Raw-Boned Actresses. Concluding with the Comic Song of, Ancient Rome contrasted with Modern London. A Hunting Song, by Mrs. Scriven. Part IV. A song, called the disgraced Roman General Bellisarius. The Puny Richard the Third. Concluding with a new comic song. During the evening The New Four & Twenty Fidlers. The Whole to Conclude with A Hornpipe by Mr. Sriven. Doors to be open'd at Six, and begin precisely at Seven O'Clock. - Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had at the Inns, Printing-Office, and of Mr. Scriven at Mr. Friend's in Deadman's-Lane.
Scriven, Mr.Date: 1790]- Books
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Harlequin's metamorphoses.
Date: [1780]- Books
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The french family cook: being a complete system of French cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of moderate Fortune and Condition. Containing Directions for choosing, dressing, and serving up all Sorts of Butcher Meat, Poultry, &c. The different Modes of making all kinds of Soups, Ragouts, Fricandeaus, Creams, Ratafias, Compôts, Preserves, &c. &c. - as well as a great Variety of cheap and elegant Side Dishes, calculated to grace a Table at a small Expence. Instructions for making out Bills of Fare for the four Seasons of the Year, and to furnish a Table with few or any number of Dishes at the most moderate possible Expence. Necessary for Housekeepers, Butlers, Cooks, and all who are concerned in the Superintendence of a Family. Translated from the French.
Menon, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Night, a satire, on the manners of the rich & great, by the late Charles Churchill: with notes (by the shaver.)
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764.Date: [1786]