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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Healing hard-working hands
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The joys and failures of audio description
Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 22
Date: September 1904 - March 1906Reference: WF/E/03/22Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
070601/Z/03/Z: Anatomy Lessons
Date: 2004Reference: WT/C/6/1/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- Books
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J. Todd's catalogue for 1795. A catalogue of valuable books, ancient and modern, in various languages, and in every class of Literature. Including the entire Library of The Rev. and Learned Anth. Temple, M. A. Late Master of the Grammar-School at Richmond, and Vicar of Easby. And several other Libraries and Parcels of Books lately purchased. Amongst which are the following scarce and curious Articles: Bill's Vegetable System, 26 vol. Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, 2 vol. Dugdale's Antiquities of York Thoresby's History of Leeds Parkinson's theater of Plants - - Russia gorrarde's Herbal, by Johnson. - - Russia Rapin's History of England, 5 vol. Gardnor's Views on the Rhine Raphael's Ceilings in the Vatican Stubbs's Anatomy of a Horse Philosophical Transactions, 56 vol. Capt. Cook's last voyage, fine impressions, 4 vol. Monthly Review and index, 86 vol. Johnson's Works of English Poets, 75 vol. Gilpin on Ornamental Landscape, &c. 9 vol. Codex T. Bezae, Cantabrigiensis, 2 vol. Sebae Thesaurus Retum Nat. 4 vol. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, 8 vol. Diodoras Siculus, Gr. Lat. Wesselingli, 2 vol 2 Constantini Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Encyclopedic, public par Diderot, 25 tom. Scapulae Lexicon, Gr. Lat. edit. opt. Ciceronis Opera-Omnia, 10 vol. Reaumur, Histoire des Insectes, 6 tom. Salustio en Espanol . . . . Madrid 2772 Histoire dea Ordres Monastiques, 8 tom. Virgilii Opera, Burmanni, 4 vol. Principales Avantures de Don Quichotte Decameron de Jean Boccace, 5 tom. Buffon Oeuvres Completes, 58 tom. Anacreontis Carmina, Graece. Parma 1791 The Books will begin to be sold, at the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 12th of October, and continue till Christmas next, By J. Todd, Bookseller, Stationer, and Printseller, In Stonegate, York. - The full value for Libraries, Parcels of Books, and Prints. Catalogues, Price 1s. may be had of Mr. Faulder, Bookseller, New Bond-Street, Mr. Baldwin, Bookseller, Pater-Noster-Row, London, and at the Place of Sale.
Todd, John, -1811.Date: 1795]- Pictures
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A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by a midwife who works beneath her skirts. Woodcut.
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