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The hidden history of homesickness
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The trouble with too many things
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
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Catalogue
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Russian-English biological & medical dictionary / [Eugene A. Carpovich].
Carpovich, Eugene A., 1905-Date: 1958
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General English and French dictionary : newly composed from the English dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Richardson, etc., from the French dictionaries of the French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, etc., and the special dictionaries and works of both languages.
Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869.Date: 1850- Books
Discovery in haste : English medical dictionaries and lexicographers 1547 to 1796 / Roderick McConchie.
McConchie, R. W. (Roderick W.)Date: [2019]
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Court-hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc., neatly engraved on twenty-three copper plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries / by Andrew Wright.
Wright, Andrew, of the Inner Temple.Date: 1912- Books
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A catalogue of the entire libraries of Dr. Rathbone and Mr. A. Geekie, surgeon, (both deceas'd.) Consisting of the choicest and most valuable books in almost all languages and faculties, viz. Physick, Surgery, Chymistry, Mathematicks, Trade, Gardening, Voyages, History, Antiquity, Divinity, Poetry, Dictionaries, Lexicons, &c. in Greek, Latin, Italian, French, &c. Among many other equally good are, Folio. Biyle's Dict. 5 vol. Collier's Dict. 4 vol. Dictionaire de Morery, avec la Supplement, 6 vol. Rapin's Hist. of Engl. 2 vol. Kennet's Hist. of Engl. 3 vol. Fuller's Worthies. S. Chrysostomi Opera Gr. 8 tom. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Tillotson's Works, 3 vol. Pozzo's Perspective. Religious Ceremonies, 5 vol. Bloome's Hist. of the Bible. Quarto. Atlas Geographus, 5 vol. Philosoph. Transactions, 12 vol. Treatise of Monies, &c. Pomet of Druggs. Thesaur. Ling. Sanctae, per Robertson. Del Tesoro Britan. di Haym. Versailles Imortalise de Monicart. avec fig. Tyson's Anatomy of a Pygmie, &c. Octavo, &c. Tillotson's Works, 21 vol. Plutarch's Lives, 5 vol. South's Sermons, 7 vol. Hutchinson's Works, 8 vol. Medical Essays, 4 vol. Edinburgh Drake's Anatomy, 3 vol. Ashmole's Antiq. of Berkshire, large Paper, 3 vol. Prideaux's Connection, 4 vol. Nature display'd, 4 vol. Spectator, 3 vol. Cleopatra, 8 vol. Seneca Opera Gronovij, 4 tom. Which will begin to be sold, (the Prices being mark'd to each Book in the Catalogue) on Thursday the 16th, of this instant October 1740, by William Sare, bookseller, opposite the Bagnio in Long Acre.
Sare, William.Date: 1740]