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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
Date: 1831-1848- Books
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Bibliotheca elegans. A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Sir Robert Baylis, Knt. and Alderman, deceas'd. Containing a fine Collection of the best Editions of the Classics, printed by the most celebrated Printers; also the most approved Authors relating to the History and Antiquities of divers Nations, particularly Great-Britain and Ireland. And a curious Collection of Voyages and Travels. Which will be sold by auction, at the Rose Tavern near Temple-Bar, on Monday, November 20, 1749. and the Eleven following Evenings, (sunday excepted) beginning each Evening at Five O'Clock. N. B. The Books are very fine Copies, and most of them elegantly bound. Among many other valuable Articles are, Folio. De Bry's East and West Indies, 25 Parts, 12 vol. compleat Antiquite expliquee, par Montfaucon, 15 vol. 1st Impr. R. P. finely bound Dr. Clarke's Caesar, fine Prints Cicero, by Vascosan 70 vol. 410 - C. Steph. 2 v. beautiful Copy - Manutius, 4 vol. folio Dugdale Monasticon Angl. 3 vol. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. exemp. elegans Overbeeke's Antiq. of Rome Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. fine Copy Hakluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 4 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary Madox's History of the Exchequer Somner's Saxon Dictionary. Octavo. Classics, notis variorum, 34 vol. Elzevir Classics, 35 v. very fair and neat Hearne's Antiquities, 24 vol. Together with some curious single Prints, and eight handsome Book Cases with Glass Doors; which will be Sold in the 12th Days Sale at Noon. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Whiston in Fleetstreet, Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Millar in the Strand, Mr. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, Messrs. Thurlbourn and Merril at Cambridge, Mr. Fletcher in the Turl, Oxford, And at the Place of Sale. - The Books may be viewed on Thursday, November 16, Friday 17, and Saturday the 18th.
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711-1778.Date: 1749]- Books
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of print being the libraries of the Late Rev. Doctor Usher, F.T.C.D. Mr. Clarendon, and another gentleman which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1796, by James Vallance, at his Sale-Room, No. 6, Eustace-Street, the collection consists of a number of excellent books in various branches of literature; among which are the following: folio. Montsaucon's Grecian and Roman antiquities, with the supplement, 15 vol. first impressions of the plates. - Antiquities of France, 5 vol. with plates, Boydel's Shakespeare, with large and small plates, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Hodges's views in India fine impressions, bound in Russia. Miller's illustration of the sexual system of linnŭs, 3 vol. with plates coloured and plain, Rubens's landscapes, engraved by Bolswert. Kirby's perspective, fine plates, large paper. Overbeke's antiquities of Rome, 3 vol. impressions, large paper. Trajan and antonine columns, fine impressions, Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. with plates best edition. Ancient and modern universal history 12 vol. Cooke's voyages, 10 vol. compleat, fine plates pressions of the plates, bound in green tu Pope's works and translations, 14 vol. copy. Spenser's fairie queene, 3 vol. with many designs, elegant. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vol. elegant. Doddridge's family expositor, 6 vol. plates, fine copy. With many others equally good. Most of the prints are fine impressions.
Vallance, James.Date: 1796]- Books
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A catalogue of prints and books of prints, both ancient and modern, after the most eminent masters. Among them are the following Books of Prints. The Works of Capt. Baillie Oeuvres de Phil Wovermans Oeuvres de Pillement, half bound Scenographia Americana Sadelar's Landscapes Oeuvres de F. K. Wierotter Perelle's Landscapes, Worlidge's Gems, 3 vols. Hayes's British Birds finely coloured Edwards's Flowers on 100 plates, do. Harris's English Insects, Moths and Butterflies Redinger's various coloured Horses Miller's Plants, done at Nuremberg Ovid's Metamorphoses The Life of Massachio, by Patch - Fra. Bartolomeo, ditto - Giotta ditto Barry's Charts of Nova Scotia, &c. The North American Pilot The American Atlas, by Jefferies The West Indian Atlas De L'isle's Atlas Dunn's Atlas Piranesi's Views of Rome Books bound in Russia, &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Johnson's Dictionary in 2 vols. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of Trade Beauwe's Lex Mercutoria Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vols. Harris's Collection of Voyages, 2 vols. Anderson's History of Trade, 2 vols. Hawkin's History of Music, 5 vols. Grose's Antiquities of Eng. and Wales Strut's Customs and Manners of the Ancient Inhabitants of Eng. 3 vols. Pennant's Tour to Scotland, 3 vols. Anson's Voyage Blackwel's Courtof Augustus, 3 vols. Hume's History of England, 8 vols 4 to Robinson's History of Scotland, 2 vols. Hooke's Roman History, 4 vols. Locke's Works, 4 vols. Bolingbroke's Works, 5 vols. Thompson's Description of the Royal Palace of the Escurial with plates Philosophical Transactions, complete Wards Justice, 4 vols. Lexembourg Gallery half bound. A Choice Collection of Metzotintos, First Impressions; many of them Proof Prints; all in fine Preservation and many very scarce. Likewise A Collection of fine Paintings. With an Appendix, containing. A Collection of Books, most of them in elegant Bindings, the lowest Price of each Article printed in the Catalogue By Hooper and Davis, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Catalogues to be had gratis, as above; at Mr. Ridley's, St. James's Street; Mr. Shropshire's, New Bond Street; Mr. Millan's, Charing-Cross; and at Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill.
Hooper and Davis (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1779?]- Books
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The water works of the ancient Romans : the natural springs, aqueducts, reservoirs, baths, and drains of Rome / by Alexander Thomson.
Date: 1859