Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
- Article
Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
- Article
Devilry and doom in 1666
Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom. St. George of England. St. Dennis of France. St. James of Spain. St. Anthony of Italy. St. Andrew of Scotland. St. Patrick of Ireland. And St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battles by sea and land: Their Tilts, Justs, Tournaments for Ladies: Their Combats with Giants, Monsters and Dragons: Their Adventures in Foreign Nations: Their Enchantments in the Holy Land: Their Knighthoods, Prowess and Chivalry in Europe, Asia and America: With their Victories against the Enemies of Christ. Also, the true manner and places of their deaths; being seven tragedies: And how they came to be call'd, the Seven Saints of Christendom.
Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?.Date: [1735?]- Books
- Online
The dancing devils: or, the roaring dragon. A dumb farce. As it was lately acted at both houses, but particularly at one, with unaccountable success.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
- Online
Chirurgia curiosa: or, the newest and most curious observations and operations in the whole art of chirurgery Regularly Methodized, Explained and Rendred Intelligible and Easie to every Practitioner: whether relating to Manual Operations, or the Choice and Application of Proper Remedies. Not to be found in others Authors. Written originally in High-Dutch, by the Learned Matthæus Gothofredus Purmannus, Chief Chirurgeon of the City of Brestaw in Germany, and of the Hospitals of St. Job and All-Saints. Illustrated With Large Chirurgical Figures, Of Patients as well as Instruments, Invented by Dr. Solingen. Curiously Engraven on Copper Plates. To which is added Natura morborum medicatrix: Nature Cures Diseases. Wherein The Energy of Nature is demonstrated, her Operations explained, and her various Steps rendred Intelligible. by Conrade Joachim Sprengell, M. Physiodidactus.
Purmann, Matthias Gottfried, 1649-1711.Date: 1706- Books
- Online
De viribus medicamentorum: or, a treatise of the virtue and energy of medicines. Containing An ample Account of all Medicines whatsoever, whether Physical or Chirurgical, Internal or External; with their several Qualities, and proper Doses: As also Mathematical Observations on the Nature of Solids and Fluids, with respect to Human Bodies, with an accurate Account of the Properties of the Blood, of its Consistency, and Laws of Motion: The whole being interspers'd with many curious Remarks never before Publish'd. Written in Latin by the learned Hermann Boerhaave, Now Professor of Physick in the University of Leyden.
Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
- Online
A critical commentary on such books of the Apocrypha, as are appointed to be read in churches, viz. Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, History of Susanna, and Bel and the dragon. With Two Dissertations on The Books of Maccabees and Esdras. Being a Continuation of Bishop Patrick and Mr. Lowth. By Richard Arnald, B. D. Rector of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. Communicated to the Author by a learned Friend.
Arnald, Richard, 1700-1756.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]