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Le Bioscope : first amusement park in Europe based on the theme of life and health.
Date: 1998- Pictures
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A manager of a penny show in conversaton with one of the characters whom he is exhibiting. Wood engraving.
Reference: 3874i- Books
Adventures of perfect difference 5 : life on Planet Parklands / Nina Edwards ; Illustrations by Mark Jinks.
Edwards, NinaDate: 2015- Books
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A chemical catechism, with copious notes, a vocabulary of chemical terms, useful tables, and a chapter of instructive and amusing experiments / By Samuel Parkes.
Parkes, Samuel, 1759-1825.Date: 1807- Pictures
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
Reference: 33084i- Pictures
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths, eating, etc.: the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible in the background. Wood engraving by [I.B.] after Findlay.
Reference: 33083i- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea; and the Rotunda at Ranelagh: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
Maurer, John, 1696?-1761.Date: 1744Reference: 20604i- Pictures
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Crowds at Greenwich Park, dancing, watching side shows, etc. Engraving by A. H. Payne after A. Wray.
Wray, A. W., active 1840.Reference: 33082i- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds, looking from the Surrey side of the river. Engraving, c.1761.
Date: 1761Reference: 20252i- Books
Heilübung und Amüsement : das Wilhelmsbad des Erbprinzen / Gerhard Bott.
Bott, Gerhard.Date: 2007- Books
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Gale's cabinet of knowledge; or, miscellaneous recreations. Containing moral and philosophical essays, Propositions, Natural and Metaphysical Maxims, And Observations on select subjects of general Utility. With a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting, mechanical, magnetical, & magical experiments. Including the most celebrated card deceptions ever exhibited. Together with about seven hundred serious, comical, and humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. with pertinent and Ingenious answers. Being the Essence taken from The Lady's, Gentleman's, & Carnan's Diaries-Martin's Philosophical Magazines-Ozanam & Hooper's Recreations, &c. &c. (illustrated with Copper-Plate Engravings). To which are added a great number of Originals. Likewise, An Appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove Light and Heat two distinct beings. With some curious Definitions in optics.
Gale, John, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1796- Pictures
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
Date: 1750Reference: 20384i- Pictures
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds looking from the Surrey side of the busy river. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles the younger after himself.
Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.Date: 1744Reference: 20235i- Ephemera
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Welcome to the world of sex : the safer you play the longer you stay / AIDES ; artwork by Rod Hunt.
Date: [between 2000 and 2009?]- Books
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The Lilliputian library; Or, Gulliver's museum. Containing, lectures on morality. Historical pieces, interesting fa[b]les. Diverting tales. M[ira]culous voyages. Surprising adventures. Remarkable lives. Poetical pieces. Comical jokes. Useful letters. The whole forming a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses. By Lilliputius Gulliver. The second edition. In ten volumes. Vol. I.
Date: 1788- Books
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The royal tour; or, Weymouth amusements; a solemn and reprimanding epistle to the laureat. Pitt's Flight to Wimbledon, an ode. An ode to the French. Ode to the charity mill in Windsor-Park. A hint to a poor democrat. Ode to the queen's elephant. The sorrows of Sunday, an elegy. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: 1796- Books
Risk : negotiating safety in American society / Arwen P. Mohun.
Mohun, Arwen, 1961-Date: 2013- Pictures
A bull snorts angrily as it tosses a Spaniard in the air and is restrained by three men pulling its tail behind, a native American and a well-dressed French gentleman cower in fright to the right and a Dutchman sitting on a barrel of gin and smoking a pipe looks on in amusement. Coloured etching by James Gillray, 1780.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Jan 4 1780Reference: 585026i- Books
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Sterne's witticisms, or Yorick's convivial jester; containing a variety of pleasing bon mots, humourous and sentimental anecdotes, diverting Tales, funny Jokes, and smart Repartees, of Laur. Sterne, Hogarth, Chesterfield, Garrick, Foote, Sheridan, Mansfield, Dunning, Burke, Townsend, Graham, Ward, Fothergill, Cunningham, Madan, Lady W-r, Dutch of K-n, Parker, Rodney, Hawke, &c. &c. To which are added in the Poets Corner Select Poems, Verses, Songs, Epigrams, and Toasts, humourous and sentimental, for The Amusement of Convivial Assemblies.
Date: [1782]- Books
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The Ladies' complete pocket-book; or, Memorandum repository for the year 1781, designed as an useful register for business, and amusement. Containing besides 52 double pages of ruled paper, I. Seven fashionable head dresses for 1780. II. An excursion to the camp in Hyde Park. III. Eclipses for 1781. IV. A table of the sun's rising and setting every third day. V. New and full moons, &c. VI. Holydays, and birthdays VII. Abstract of the late window act. VIII. A table of interest. IX. A table of the roads. X. A marketing table. XI. Answers to last year's n̆igmas and rebuses. XII. New n̆igmas. XIII. New rebuses. XIV. Original pieces on miscellaneous subjects. XV. The favourite new songs, sung at Vauxhall and Ranelagh. XVI. New country dances for 1781. XVII. Fares of the chairmen of Newcastle. XVIII. Places where chairmen stand with their chairs. XIX. Births of the Sovereigns of Europe.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A trip from St. James's to the Royal-Exchange. With remarks serious and diverting, on the manners, customs, and amusements of the inhabitants of London and Westminster. An Account of a City Entertainment in Christmas Holidays, with lively Conversation there. Wrangle between a Barrister at Law and a Foot-Soldier on the first Day of Term. Description of an Infant-Office, for letting out Children to Beggars. Proceedings of a Society of Affidavit-Men, Watch-Takers, &c The Management of Undertakers for Funerals; with their Method of getting Intelligence. Observations on the Behaviour of Maid-Servants, and Characters of several. Cavalcade from Newgate to Tyburn, with the Behaviour of Jailors and Prisoners. Modern Conversation at Coffee-Houses and Ordinaries. Ludgate, and its Inmates describ'd. The peculiar Talent of the City-Beaus, for Disputation. On the Antiquity of Lace Russles. On Constitution-Hill, St. James's-Park, and the Company there. Remarks on News-Writers, and their Works; with a sure Method of promoting the Sale of Pamphlets. &c. &c. &c.
Date: [1744]- Books
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A journey from London to Scarborough, in several letters from a gentleman there, to his friend in London. Letter I. The Passage to Scarborough by Sea. An Account of what is most remarkable in the Way thither by Land, and a Description of the several Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, &c. on the Road, particularly Edmonton, Cheshunt, Ware, the New-River Head, Puckeridge, Gogmagog-Hills and Cambridge. Letter II. St. Ives, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Stilton, Burleigh-House and Park, Stamford, Lord Gainsborough's Seat, the Roman Fosseway, Grantham, Lord Tyrconnel's Seat and Park, Ancaster, Lincoln, the Cathedral and Castle. Letter III. Lincoln-Heath, Spittle, the Wolds of Lincolnshire, Redbourn, Hibberstow, Barton on the Humber, Hull, the Garrison, &c. Letter IV. Beverley, the Minster; Driffield, Foxhole and Seymore; thence to Scarborough. Letter V. Scarborough, the Description of it towards the Sea, and its lofty Situation; the Harbour and Piers; the Shipping; great Plenty and Variety of Fish; the beautiful Parterre on the Sands; Sports and Exercises there; of the Spaw, the Resort thither of late Years; a humorous Description and Character of Dicky Dickinson, Keeper of the Wells; the manner of Gentlemen and Ladies bathing in the Sea, Verses on a Lady bathing in the Sea. The Town and Buildings described, Ledgings, and Provisions, number of Inhabitants, Hackney-Chairs. Long-Room, its pleasant and lofty Situation, Balls and Assemblies, the Phar? Bank, Billiard-Tables, &c. The Ordinaries, and the Custom of them; the Play-House, Booksellers Shop, the Coffee-House; with an Account of the various Diversions and agreeable Amusements of the Place. With a list of the nobility, quality, and gentry at Scarborough, during the spaw season, in the year 1733 . Taken from the Subscription-Books at The Spaw, and The Long-Room, The Booksellers Shop, and The Coffee-House. To which is annex'd an account of the nature and us of the Scarborough spaw-water, interspers'd with some Observations and Remarks.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/09/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Packaged pleasures : how technology & marketing revolutionized desire / Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor.
Cross, Gary S.Date: [2014]- Pictures
A young woman and a young man in the reign of King Charles II having a quarrel: they prepare to surrender each other's portrait miniature. Engraving by C. Heath, 1824, after G.S. Newton.
Newton, Gilbert Stuart, 1794-1835.Date: May 15 1827Reference: 3162392i