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Reframing Darwin : evolution and art in Australia / edited by Jeanette Hoorn.
Date: 2009- Books
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Healthful amusements, and ingenious exercises: or the nobleman's pocket companion in sports & recreations. Containing the art and cunning in hunting, The Names and Descriptions of the Beasts of Chace; the Choice of Hounds, &c. The managing of Horses, Racing, &c. The method of Hawking. Of Bowling. Of Tennis. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Fowling. How to take all manner of Fowls and Birds; The Art of Fishing, and sundry curious baits, and how to procure and keep them for Fishing.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The pen's dexterity; or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates, (curiously engraved in the Author's Life-Time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters, and Contractions used therein. - With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruit, Vermin, &c. By Jeremiah Rich.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1792]- Books
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Fishing and hunting. The art and cunning of hunting the hart, stag, hare, Fox, Otter, wid Goat, &c. The management of a horse, Riding, &c. The method of hawking and how to take all manner of game Fowls, Birds, &c. Of cock-fighting. To play on bowling greens, tennis, &c. The art of fishing and sundry curious Baits, viz. Worms, Flies, Pastes, &c. and how to procure and keep them for Fishing; how to bring the Fish to any Part of the Pond: to make Worms for Baits come out of the Ground; the artificial Cad-Fly: How to take the Fish in the night; the best Time to Angle in, &c. Price 6d.
Date: [1720?]- Books
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The artist's vade-mecum; being the whole art of drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper-plates; Containing Great Variety of Examples in every Branch of that noble Art; AS Parts of the Face, Heads, Hands, Feet, Academy, Antiques, And Groups of Figures, Beasts, Birds, Insects, Flowers, Fruit, Shells, Ornaments, Buildings, Landscapes, &c. &c. &c. Collected from the Works of the greatest Masters. To which is prefixed, an essay on drawing: With Introductory Rules for the Use of Learners: In Which The First Principles of that useful and noble Art are explained in such Manner that it may be attained in a short Time without a Master.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The pen's dexterity: or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates (curiously Engrav'd in the Author's Life-Time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters and Contractions us'd therein. With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruits, Vermin, &c. Approv'd by both Universities, practis'd by Honourable Persons, Reverend Divines, Eminent Lawyers and Gentlemen; and is of special Use for Travellers, &c. By Jeremiah Rich, To whom the Publick is so much oblig'd for the Psalms and New Testament done by him in the same Character.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1735?]- Books
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The pen's dexterity: or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates (curiously Engrav'd in the Author's Life time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters and Contractions us'd therein. With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruits, Vermin. &c. Approv'd by both Universities, practis'd by Honourable Persons, Reverend Divines, Eminent Lawyers and Gentlemen; and is of special Use for Travellers, &c. By Jeremiah Rich, To whom the Publick is so much oblig'd for the Psalms and New Testament done by him in the same Character.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1735?]- Books
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The art of heraldry. Containing I. The original and universality of arms and ensigns, with their Use and Necessity; their Blazon, Distribution, Abatements, and Rewards of Honour. II. Of diverse Kinds of Escotcheons, and of the Bearing or Using the Ordinaries in Coat Armour. III. Of Coat Armour form'd of Artificial Things, whether Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military or Marine, such as are made by Man, or for his Use. IV. Of Charges in Coat Armour form'd of Coelestials, as, the Sun, Moon, Stars, Angels, &c. Of Vegetables, as Trees, Flowers, Plants, Fruits, &c. Of the Parts of Man's Body, as the Hands, Legs, Arms, Heart, &c. Of Animals, as Lyons, Tygers, Horses, Stags, &c. in Whole and in Parts. V. Of Charges from Fowls and Birds of all Sorts, in Whole and in Parts. VI. Of Charges from Fishes of all Kinds, in Whole and in Parts. Vii. Of Charges from Monstrous Animals, in Whole and in Parts. Embellish'd with forty copper plates, containing above 900 Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, curiously engraven, with their particular Descriptions, and by whom borne. Interspers'd with the Natural History of the several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Vegetables, &c. comprehended therein. Together with Occasional Explications of all the Terms used in the Science of Heraldry, and peculiar thereto. To which is prefix'd, An Alphabetical list of the Names of the Families whose Coats are delineated in the Book, with References to the Pages where they are to be found.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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The school of wisdom and arts; being a complete repository of what is most curious in art and nature. Containing, I. A survey of man, with sublime Reflections on his most noble Part, the Soul. II. A particular Description of the Structure of the Human Body; and the wonderful Properties of the Eye described. III. Astronomy, Oratory, Politeness, and Morality. IV. A Review of the Creation, viz. Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insect; their Industry, Sagacity, &c. V. Of the Globe: Gravity, Air, Light, Sound, Water, Clouds, Pain, Hail and Snow, with their Properties and Use. VI. Nations compared with each other. Vii. Drawing, Painting in Water and Oil Colours; Gilding, Etching, Engraving, Painting upon Glass, and Bronzing. Viii. Dying Silk, Linnen, Woolen and Leather. IX. Impressions from Figures, Busts, Casts, Medals, Leaves, &c. X. The Arts of Painting Marble and Glass; of Staining Wood, Bones, Horn, Ivory, Paper, Parchment, &c. XI. The whole art of Pyrotechny or Fire-Works. XII. The art of making porcelain after the Chinese manner, with many curious particulars, equally amusing and instructive to the Ingenious. Compiled from different authors.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
Drawn from paradise : the discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise / David Attenborough and Errol Fuller.
Attenborough, David, 1926-Date: 2012- Books
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School of wisdom, or, new preceptor: a general system of the works of art and nature, calculated for advancing the instruction of youth, Containing I. Definition of the Soul, and Description of the Human Body. II. Astronomy, Oratory, Morality, and the Principals of Politeness. III. General Review of the Works of the Creation, viz. Birds, Beasts, Fishes and Insects. IV. On the Terraqueous Globe, Vegetable Creation & Elements. V. Comparative View, and Reflections on Nations, Manners and Men. VI. On Drawing, Designing, Painting, Limning and Gilding. Vii. On Etching, Engraving, Bronzing, Staining different Substances, &c. Viii. On Dying, with general Rules for the different Colours. IX. On Fire-Works, with Directions for making the different Sorts. X. Of the Art of making Porcelain, after the Chinese Manner, Secrets in Metals, &c. Compiled from various authors.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation: or, the whole art of husbandry; Containing. I. Directions to Cure all Diseases in Horses, which are almost 300, with 12 Medicines only not of 12d cost. Also to Cure Oxen. Kine. Bulls. Calves, Sheep. Lambs. Goats. Swine. Dogs. Conies. Hares. Poultry. Geese. Ducks. Swans, &c. Pigeons. Singing Birds. Hawks. Deer, &c. To teach Dogs. II. Directions to Improve Land. Arable and Pasture. to Order Flax. Hemp. Saffron. Liquorice. Bees. Silk-Worms. and to make some new Invented Plows. III. To Brew Pale Ale and Beer, make Cyder equal to Canary, and not stand in 4d. charge per Quart, and to make Mead and Metheglin. IV. Of Planting and Raising Trees for Timber and Fruit, Grafting and Gardening, to order Clover and St. Foin. V. To destroy Moles, Foxes and other Vermin. VI. To Heal all diseases in Men or Women with Chew'd white Bread. Also a Pleasant and wholesome Drink for a Family, which will not cost a Farthing a Gallon, best for Young and Old, Rich and poor Sick and Well. VII. Directions in Angling. Fowling. Hawking. Hunting. Ringing, &c. By G. Markham Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1707- Pictures
Two men painting easel pictures in the art studio at Netherne Hospital; with studies of birds. Drawing by H. Campbell, 1968.
Campbell, Hugh, active approximately 1968.Date: 25.7.68 [25 July 1968]Reference: 2917950iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
The plague of birds. Wood engraving by Hermann Fechenbach, ca. 1930.
Fechenbach, Hermann, 1897-1986.Date: [1930?]Reference: 525615i- Books
The ornithology of Francis Willughby ... In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by ... LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry / By John Ray.
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.Date: [1678]- Pictures
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Roman augurs interpreting the flight of birds. Etching by J. Goupy, 1724, after S. Rosa.
Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.Date: 1724Reference: 37816i- Books
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A Catalogue of several valuable collections of books, lately purchased; The Whole forming a general Assortment of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature. Many of them in the most elegant Bindings. Amongst which are Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, 25 tom. Coypell's Works. Berghem's Works, mor. Salvator Rosa's Works, mor. Vandermeulin's Works, 3 vol. mor. Oeuvres de Redinger. Sacre de Louis XV. mor. Estampes de Caylus, mor. L'art de Verifier les Dates, sur Velin Tableau de Suisse, 2 tom. Walpole's Painters, 5 vol. Museum Florentinum, 10 tom. Fontaine Fables, 4 tom. grand. pap. Houbraken's Heads, L. P. Hunter's Gravid Uterus. Hamilton's School of Painting. The Luxembourg Gallerie. Montfaucon L'antiquite, 15 tom. La Gallerie de Dussledorff, 2 tom. Adams's Architecture. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec. Stuart's Athens. Cameron's Baths of the Romans. Adams's Dioclesian's Palace. Cleresseau Antiq. des Nismes, L.P. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Hollingshed's Chronicle, l. p. 3 vols. Troyssart's Chronicle. Blomfield's Norfolk, 5 vol. Dugdale's Baronage. Dugdale's Warwickshire. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Hutchins's Dorsetshire, 2 vol. Horsley's Britannia Romana. Tanner's Notitia Monasticon. Chauncy's Hertfordshire. Drake's York. Thorsbey's Leeds. Caesaris, per Clarke. Dionis Cassii Reimari, 2 tom. Diodorus Siculus Wesslingii, 2 tom Dionysius Halicarnass. Hudsoni, 2 tom. Oxon. Maittaire Corpus Poetarum, 2 tom. chart. max. Plinii Hist. Nat. Harduini, 3 tom. Platonis Serrani, 3 tom. Poetae Graeci Principes, 2 tom. Thucydidis Dukeri. Aeschylus Stanleii. Pindarus, per West Gale Scriptores, 3 tom. russia. Borlase's Cornwall, 2 vol. Miller's Plants, 2 vol. col. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. col. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. col. Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. Plott's Staffordshire. Ovid by Banier, 2 vols. Voyages by Harris, Hackluyt, Pocock, Purchase, &c. &c. Dictionaries by Johnson, Chambers Postlethwaite, Bayle, &c. Mininski Thesaurus, 5 tom. Stephani Thesaurus, Gr. 5 tom. Encyclopedie, 28 tom. Regenfuss Recueil de Coquillage, col. Merian's Insects, in Dutch, col. Hill's Eden, coloured. Hayes's Birds, coloured. Harris's Insects, coloured. Drury's Insects, coloured. Edwards's Birds, 7 vol. coloured. Albin's Birds and Insects, 4 vol. Philosophical Transactions at large, complete. Which will begin to be Sold This Day, 1785, By Robert Faulder, Bookseller to his Majesty. No. 42, New Bond-Street, the Corner of Maddox-Street, who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books. N. B. Books Exchanged. Catalogues to be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Blamire, Strand; Mr. White, Fleet-Street; Mr. Law, Avemary-Lane; Mr. Sewel, Cornhill; Mr. Cater, Holborn; of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and principal Towns in England.
Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815.Date: 1785]- Books
Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge : natural history in North America, 1730-1860 / Sue Ann Prince, editor.
Date: 2003- Books
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The new handmaid to arts, sciences, agriculture, &c. Containing 1. Monthly observations in the orchard, Kitchen and Flower Garden. 2. Observations in Husbandry. 3. The Art of Breeding and Managing Canary Birds, &c. 4. Complete Farriery, or Rules for the Management of Horses. 5. The Vermin Killer, containing Methods to prevent and destroy Bugs, Fleas, Lice, Pismires, Files, and all other Kinds of Vermin: also, the most rare, Secret how to catch Fish; and the method to make Bird-Lime. 6. The whole Art of Painting in Oil and Water Colours: also, the whole Art of Gilding with Gold and Silver, and mixing water colours, &c. 7. Directions for making of, Colours for divers purposes, in the Art of painting Prints with Water Colours. 8. The mystery of dying silks, Stuffs, Cloth, Thread, Nankeen, Turkey Red on Cotton and other Things. - To stain Wood, Horn, Bone, Leather, &c. of various Colours. To extract Lake, and other curious Colours from Flowers, Herbs, Seeds, &c. together with many curious Receipts to take Spots or Stains, Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Wax and Ironmoulds out of Silks, Stuffs, Linen or Woollen, and to recover faded Silks; with many other Things worthy of Note. To which are added, a curious collection of miscellaneous articles.
Date: 1790- Books
Performing arts medicine in clinical practice / Howard A. Bird.
Bird, H. A. (Howard Anthony), 1945-Date: [2016]- Books
The pattern of a bird : seven hundred and thirty-one days of a hospice art project / by Marielle MacLeman and Jeni Pearson.
MacLeman, MarielleDate: 2008- Books
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The ornithology of Francis Willughby ... In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by ... LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry / By John Ray ...
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.Date: 1678- Books
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American ornithology; or the natural history of the birds of the United States / By Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Edited by Robert Jameson.
Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813.Date: 1831- Archives and manuscripts
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Joanna Hutton - Bird Study
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/48Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital