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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
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Sex in graphic novels
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Devilry and doom in 1666
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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
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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
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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
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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]- Books
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The great mystery of the little whore unfolded, and her witchcrafts (by which she hath Deceived Nations) discovered. Whereby the Quakers are once more set in their true light. By way of dialogue between first, a Church of England-Man. Secondly, a Protestant dissenter. Thirdly, a right-bred Quaker. By a Servant of the Church, Francis Bugg. All which is humbly submitted to Authority
Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?.Date: 1705