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Catalogue
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Arte Dei Medici E Speziali, Florence
Arte Dei Medici E Speziali, FlorenceDate: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.5986- Books
The conflict between the 16th century physicians and antiquity / by Dr Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957.Date: 1923- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine collection of coins and medals, various antiquities, fossils, and other curiosities, Together with The remaining Copper-Plates, some Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Of the late Revd. and Learned William Stuckeley, M.D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, Deceased; Which will be sold by Auction, By Samuel Paterson, At Essex House in Essex Street, in the Strand, On Thursday and Friday, the 15th and 16th of May, 1766; To begin each Day exactly at Twelve O'Clock. To be viewed on Tuesday the 13th Instant, and to the Time of Sale. Catalogues may be had gratis at Essex House aforesaid.
Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802.Date: 1766]- Archives and manuscripts
Richard Master (d.1588), physician to Queen Elizabeth I
Date: 16th centuryReference: MS.7382/2Part of: Miscellany: English, 16th-17th centuries- Books
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The royal Kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1790; Including a complete and correct List of the 16th Parliament of Great Britain, summoned to meet for their first Session on the 18th of May 1784. Upon a new and more extensive Plan than any hitherto offered to the Public: containing, England. I. Complete and correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; all the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets; State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law; State, Revenue, and Public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c. Corrected at the Respective Offices.
Date: [1790]