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The history of England, from the Norman conquest to the present time; or, a tragi-comic song, in four parts, to the tune of - When Troy town for ten years war, &c. AN Useful, Instructive, and Diverting Lesson for those who have not Time to read Large Books. He that delights in Hist'ry, soon may find Something to please, and edify the Mind. A true Historic Tale, when rightly told, Will please the Young, and can't displease the Old: Such is my Theme, 'tis founded on the Truth, Meant chiefly to persuade vain thoughtless Youth To let the Hist'ry of strange Lands alone, Till they get thorough Masters of their own: This my Advice -- and he that likes to look At what I've done, pays Three-Pence for this Book; And when he's learn'd the Song through ev'ry Part, And can with Ease repeat it all by Heart, If it should chance to enter in his Thought That its too dear, I'll give him back a Groat. To which is added, the multiplication table in a song. By N. Withy, of Hagley, Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: 1785- Books
To the Kwai - and back : war drawings, 1939-1945 / Ronald Searle.
Searle, Ronald, 1920-2011Date: 2006- Books
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The black box broke open. The Roguery's Discovered and Robin will be hang'd at last. In a letter from -P. - T. Esq; to his Friend in the Country.
P. T., Esq.Date: MDCCXXIX [i.e.1729]- Books
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A catalogue of scarce and valuable books in most languages, and all parts of learning, being the libraries of a late learned and eminent Prelate of the church, and a certain Member of Parliament lately deceas'd, as also the best part of the late Dr. Archer's Archdeacon of Wells. Amongst which are, the scarcest and best editions of almost all the Greek and Roman historians, andiquaries, philosphers, mathematicians and poets: the fathers, councils, annalists, law, civil and ecclesiastick, rites, ceremonies, history and antiquity of the churches of all nations, with many polemical theological commentators, lexicographers &c. Which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 2nd of April 1740at 11 o' clock in the morning, at Ben Hickey's in Cock-Lane, Bristol.-The lowest price of each book being printed in the catalogue, that gentlemen at any distance may be purchasers, by sending timely commissions. Catalogues to be had at the place of sale, price 6d. - where the full value is given for any library or parcel of old books,
Hickey, Benjamin.Date: 1740]- Books
Labours of love : the crisis of care / Madeleine Bunting.
Bunting, MadeleineDate: 2020- Books
The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan.
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724Date: [2012]- Student dissertations
James Graham : 'doctor of medicine and lover of his species..' or simply a quack? / Hannah Baynes.
Baynes, Hannah.Date: 1997- Books
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A catalogue of a neat collection of books, In Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, Chiefly in very good Condition, and many of them in Russia, Morocco, and other elegant Bindings. Among which are Folio. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Cumyns's Digest, 5 vol. Lord Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 2 vol. Coke an Littleton, best Ventries, best Vernon, 2 vol. Strange, 2 vol. Rapin, 5 vol. Heads and Maps Biograph. Brit. 7 vol. Biograph. Brit. 7 vol. l. p. Russia. Camden's Britannica, 2 vol. - 1722 Dugdale's St. Pauls, largest paper. Drake's York. Bp. Nicholson's Hist. Library 1736 Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Pocock's Travels, 2 vol. Russia. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Diction. de Bayle, avec. le Sup. 8 t. Chambers's Dictionary, 2 vol Postlethwaite's Dictionary, 2 vol. Duncan's Caesar. Hill's Fossils, large paper, cuts colour'd. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Russia. Ship of Fools, black letter. Baskett's Bible, 2 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. l. p. Stackhouse's Bible, 2 vol. A.Bp. Tillotson's Works, 3 v. best. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitbey, 6 v. Clarke's Works, 4. vol. Russia. Barrow's Works, 2 vol. best. Caesaris Comment. Clarke. Thucydides Duckeri. Hoffmanni Opera Omnia, 6 vol. Quarto. Camb. Classics, 4 vol. Ciceronis Opera Oliveti, Par. 1740 Zenophon Hutchinsoni, 2 vol. Tacitus Gronovii, 2 vol. Suetonius Pitici, 2 vol. Virgil Masvicii, 2 vol. Juvenal, Virgil, Terence, &c. Delp. Harlian Miscellany. 8 vol. Russia. Sully, 3 vol. Hook, 3 vol. Russia. Bp. Newton's Milton, 3 vol. Mor. Jarvis's Don Quixote, 2 vol. Mor. Carter's Epictetus, Morocco. Doddridge, 6 vol. Oeuvres de Moliere, 6 tom. 1734 Don Quixote, 4 tom. Octavo. Ancient and Modern Hist. 64 vol. Parliament. History, 24 vol. Hooke's Roman Hist. 9 vol. Tillotson, Atterbury, Sherlock, Reading, Seed, Sharp, Sermons. Livius, Polybius, Ovidius. Catull, &c. Statius, Plautus. Terentius. &c. &c. Not. Var. Which will begin Selling (for Ready Monly only) on Monday the 21st. of March 1768; and continue on Sale 'till all are Sold, By Joseph White, Bookseller, At the Corner of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London; who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Joseph, -1791.Date: 1768]- Books
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Morse's Geography. This day is published, in one large volume octavo, illustrated with maps, a new edition, price 8s. in boards, or 9s. bound. The American geography; or a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - Geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their boundaries; mountains; lakes; bays and rivers; natural history; productions; population; goverment; agriculture; commerce; manufactures; and history.-A concise account of the war, and of the important events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory, and Vermont.-Of their extent; civil divisions; chief towns; climates; soils; trade; character; constitutions; courts of justice; colleges; academies; religion; islands; Indians; literary and humane societies; springs; curiosities; histories; &c. To which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West-Indies.-Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiaii Morse.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Date: 1792- Books
Pearls before poppies : the story of the Red Cross pearls / Rachel Trethewey.
Trethewey, RachelDate: 2018- Books
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The history and antiquities of the four Inns of Court; namely, The Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn; and of the nine Inns of Chancery; to wit, Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, Lion's Inn, New Inn, Strand Inn, Furnival's Inn, Thavies Inn, Staple Inn, and Barnard's Inn; also of Serjeant's Inn in Fleet-Street and Chancery-Lane, and Scroop's Inn: Containing Every particular Circumstance relative to each of them, comprized in the well-known and justly celebrated work, written by Sir William Dugdale, and published in Folio in the Years 1666, 1671, and 1680, under the title of Origines juridiciales, &c. To which is subjoined an appendix, containing Several Modern Orders made by the Society of Lincoln's Inn; namely, For appointing a Preacher, &c. - Their summary Method of proceeding by Padlock, Bar, and Watch, against a Member who suffers an Inmate to inhabit his Chambers, &c. Order against the Benchers nominating Objects for the Sacrament Money, &c. Also lists of the present benchers of the four Inns of Court. The whole is published by Desire of some Members of Parliament, in order to point out the Abuses in the Government of the Inns of Court and Chancery, and to propose such Expedients for remedying them, and regulating the Study and Practice of the Law, by Act of Parliament, as shall be judged necessary.
Dugdale, William, 1605-1686.Date: 1780- Books
A sewer is the best medicine : through plague, wars, famine and flood : Sir Robert Rawlinson and the nineteenth century public health revolution / J. Andrew Charles.
Charles, J. AndrewDate: 2022- Books
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Resilient & resisting : come together at Arcola Theatre.
Moon, JetDate: [2019]- Books
Empireland : how imperialism has shaped modern Britain / Sathnam Sanghera.
Sanghera, Sathnam, 1976-Date: 2021- Books
Backroom boys : the secret return of the British boffin / Francis Spufford.
Spufford, Francis, 1964-Date: 2003- Books
"I will not be erased" : our stories about growing up as people of colour / gal-dem ; with illustrations by Jess Nash.
Date: 2019- Books
Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney.
Date: 2012- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]- Archives and manuscripts
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Date: 1953-1977Reference: SA/MSS- Pictures
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i- Books
John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the Great War : with an illustrated selection of his writings / Jeffrey S. Reznick.
Reznick, Jeffrey S. (Jeffrey Stephen)Date: 2009- Books
The poison line : a true story of death, deception and infected blood / Cara McGoogan.
McGoogan, CaraDate: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
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The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1992-2004Reference: GC/253/A/42/7/25Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Videos
A woman's fight to choose.
Date: 1997- Books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]