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The art of practical measuring easily perform'd, by a two foot rule, which slides to a foot; on which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also The true Measure of round, square, or other Timber or Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, Wainscot, &c. Gauging of Cask, and gauging and inching of Tuns. Containing brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The Use of a new diagonal Scale, of 100 Parts in a quarter of an Inch, applied to Gunter's Chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto published. The third edition corrected and amended by Henry Coggeshall, gent.
Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.Date: 1722- Books
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Address of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew : at the laying of the corner-stone of the college building given by William H. Vanderbilt to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, April 24th, 1886.
Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928.Date: 1886- Books
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The carpenter's rule made easy: or, the art of measuring superficies and solids. Also a second way, being the Ground-Work of Measuring Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, &c. With a table of account, much enlarged; performing Multiplication, Division, the Golden Rule, and Rule Reverse, by Inspection. Being of Excellent Use for Carpenters, Joyners, Masons, Glasiers, Painters, Sawyers, &c. By John Darling. And also a treatise of practical gauging. By Heber Lands. The eighth edition, carefully revised and corrected; with an Addition of the Use of the Sliding-Rule, and of Gunter's Line with Compasses, in Measuring Plank and Timber; which renders this Book of more general Use than heretofore. By Thomas Haselden, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Darling, John, active 17th century.Date: 1727- Books
Paracelsus his Aurora, and Treasure of the Philosophers. As also the Water-stone of the wise men [by J.A. Siebmacher]; describing the matter of, and manner how to attain the universal tincture / Faithfully Englished. And published by J.H. Oxon [i.e. John Harding].
Paracelsus, 1493-1541.Date: 1659- Pictures
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The slave market in Cairo. Lithograph by J.C. Bourne after O.B. Carter and H. Warren, ca. 1840.
Carter, Owen Browne, 1806-1859.Date: [1840]Reference: 578851i- Pictures
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Eglinton Tournament: knights performing jousts. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
Hardiviller, Charles Achille d', 1795-approximately 1835.Date: [1839?]Reference: 664348i- Pictures
Generals and others in the British Army who fought in the Peninsula War, discussing the battle of Vittoria. Wood engraving after F. Bromley after J.P. Knight, ca. 1847.
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881.Date: [1847?]Reference: 2885019i- Books
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Paracelsus, his Archidoxis, or, chief teachings; comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c. Together with his books of renovation & restauration. Of the tincture of the philosophers. Of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone. Of the virtues of the members. Of the three principles. And finally his seven books, of the degrees and compositions of receipts, and natural things. Englished, by J.H. Oxon.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541Date: 1663- Pictures
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Eglinton Tournament: front of Eglinton castle, a herald on horseback blowing a bugle. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
Hardiviller, Charles Achille d', 1795-approximately 1835.Date: [1839?]Reference: 664307i- Pictures
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Eglinton Tournament: guests in the banqueting hall and ballroom in Eglinton Castle. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
Hardiviller, Charles Achille d', 1795-approximately 1835.Date: [1839?]Reference: 664360i- Pictures
The plain of Troy. Lithograph by E. Rey, 1867, after E. Rey, 1843.
Rey, Etienne, 1789-1867.Date: [1867]Reference: 2150138i- Pictures
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Eglinton Tournament: Baron Glenlyon as the Knight of the Gael, with the Atholl Highlanders. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
Hardiviller, Charles Achille d', 1795-approximately 1835.Date: [1839?]Reference: 664495i- Pictures
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Eglinton Tournament: the procession of knights to the Pavilion of the Queen of Beauty. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
Hardiviller, Charles Achille d', 1795-approximately 1835.Date: [1839?]Reference: 664347i- Books
Marbode of Rennes' De lapidibus : considered as a medical treatise with text, commentary, and C.W. King's translation, together with text and translation of Marbode's minor works on stones / by John M. Riddle.
Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1035?-1123.Date: 1977- Pictures
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Booksellers' Provident Retreat rest home, Abbots Langley: the facade. Lithograph after W.H. Cooper.
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Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: at the end of its life, in use as a kinematograph. Reproduction of a drawing by E. H. Oliver, [c.1905].
Oliver, Ernest Hicks, active 1905.Reference: 40310i- Books
Review of hemodialysis for nurses and dialysis personnel / C.F. Gutch, Martha H. Stoner.
Gutch, C. F., 1920-2009.Date: 1975- Pictures
Henry Forster Burder. Lithograph by C. Baugniet, 1845.
Baugniet, Charles, 1814-1886.Date: [1845?]Reference: 46007i- Books
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La theorie et la pratique de la coupe des pierres et des bois, pour la construction des voutes et autres parties des bâtimens civils et militaires, ou traité de stereotomie à l'usage de l'architecture / Par m. Frézier.
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773.Date: 1737-1739- Books
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The traveller's pocket-book: or, Ogilby and Morgan's book of the roads improved and amended, in a method never before attempted. Containing, I. The distances in measured miles from London to all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages, in England and Wales, according to the new erected Mile Stones: And an Account of such Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats as lie near the road Side. II. The Cross-Roads in England and Wales. III. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages, shewing in what Road they are situated. IV. A whole Sheet Map of the Roada in England and Wales, fitted to bind with the Book. V. The Post-Master-General's Account of the Nights that Post-Letters are dispatched to the several trading Towns; and the Expence of sending a Letter or Packet by Express to any Part of the Kingdom. VI. A list of the fairs in England and Wales, regulated according to the New Style.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: 1761?]- Pictures
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National Orphan Home, Ham, Surrey: side view. Lithograph, c. 1856.
Blake, Edward Collier Scott, approximately 1823-1868Date: 1856Reference: 23684i- Pictures
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Geography: the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park. Coloured lithograph after T.H. Thomas.
Thomas, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1839-1915.Reference: 46924i- Pictures
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Five plums (Prunus domestica) in a bed of leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after W. H. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 15 September 1877Reference: 26164i- Pictures
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A peach plant (Prunus persica): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: [1862-84]Reference: 28082i- Books
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A werke of preparacion, or of ordinaunce vnto communion, or howselyng : The golden pystle, an alphabete or a crosrowe called an .A.B.C. and the werke for housholders with a dayly exercyce and experience of dethe all duely corrected and newly prynted.
Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?Date: [1537?]