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The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26679i
Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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Counter fraud good practice for food and drink businesses : improve fraud resilience and reduce the financial cost of fraud / Written by Eoghan Daly, Jim Gee ; with contributions from Andy Morling, Ron McNaughton.
Chartered Institute of Environmental HealthDate: 2016
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A woman being exhibited, supposedly with no lower half of her body. Wood engraving.
Reference: 2912i
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Scientific deception : an overview and guide to the literature of misconduct and fraud in scientific research / by Lesley Grayson.
Grayson, Lesley.Date: [1995], ©1995
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Laurent. Joann. Nepomucenus Reen ... plagii literarii in Regiae Fridericianae Parnasso graviter accusatus convictus atque Halensium musarum decreto condemnatus / interprete Michael Gottlieb Agnethlero.
Agnethler, Michael Gottlieb, 1719-1752.Date: 1750
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A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
Tilly, E. A.Reference: 86i
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The poisons in our food, or, Guide to health / by a physician.
Date: 1855
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Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.
Date: 1818
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[Letter from John Howard to the Duke of Roxburghe].
Date: [c.1851]
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Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
Date: 1 June 1822Reference: 910i
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Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Coloured stipple engraving by Maddocks, ca. 1819.
Date: 1819Reference: 1883i
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Mary Tofts, a woman who pretended that she had given birth to rabbits. Stipple engraving by Maddocks.
Date: 1819Reference: 1884i
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An advertisement occasion'd by some passages in Sir R. Manningham's diary lately publish'd. / By J. Douglas.
Douglas, James, 1675-1742.Date: 1727
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St. A-d-è's miscarriage, or, a Full and True account of the Rabbet-Woman.
Date: 1727. [i.e. c.1851]
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An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey, from Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. : Together with an account of her confession of the fraud. / By Sir Richard Manninghan.
Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.Date: 1726
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The penalty charge for patients : an easy guide / NHS ; Dept. of Health.
Date: 2002
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Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Etching by J. Ward, 1812.
Ward, James, 1769-1859.Date: 1 June 1813Reference: 4091i
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[Extracts from periodicals].
Date: [c.1851]
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The anatomist dissected: or the man-midwife finely brought to bed. : Being an examination of the conduct of Mr. St. Andre. Touching the late pretended rabbit-bearer; as it appears from his own narrative. / By Lemuel Gulliver.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1727
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By the King and Queen, a proclamation, by and with the advice of Their Majesties Privy Council, for preventing of false musters and injuries which may be done, either to the soldiery or subjects ... / William R.
William III, King of England, 1650-1702.Date: 1689
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A shorter and truer advertisement by way of supplement, to what was published the 7th instant, or, Dr. D--g--l--s in an extasy, at Lacey's Bagnio, December the 4th, 1726.
Flamingo.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [i.e. c.1851]
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Some observations concerning the woman of Godlyman in Surrey. Made at Guilford on Sunday, Nov. 20. 1726. : Tending to prove her extraordinary deliveries to be a cheat and imposture. / by Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to His Majesty.
Ahlers, Cyriacus.Date: 1726
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An account of the rabbets, &c.
Date: [1726?]
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Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [22 December 1726]Reference: 17342i
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The wonder of wonders, or, A True and Perfect Narrative of a Woman near Guildford in Surrey, who was Delivered lately of Seventeen Rabbets, and Three Legs of a Tabby Cat, &c. In a Letter from a Gentleman at Guildford, to his Friend a Physician in Ipswich, Suffolk. With Remarks upon the same by Way of answer. To which is added, an Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Howard, who was the Man-Midwife that Deliver'd her.
Date: 1726 [i.e. c.1851]