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A selection of boring and carving tools. Etching by Bénard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 34840i- Pictures
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A selection of boring, cutting, carving, moulding and filing tools. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 34849i- Videos
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Stone age tools : prehistoric stoneworking techniques.
Date: 1947- Pictures
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An ornate vase and pedestal with gardening tools carved on the base, in a classical garden. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
Schijnvoet, Simon, 1653-1727.Reference: 26606iPart of: S Schynvoet's Voorbeelden der lusthof-cieraaden zynde vaasen, pedestallen, orangiebakken, blompotten en andere bywerken & c.- Books
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A catalogue of the valuable museum, comprising An elegant Assemblage of Antique Morble Figures and Bustos, Bronzes, Models in Terra Cotta, Capital Chimney Pieces and Slabs, Mathematical and Musical Instruments, antiquities, rare articles of crystal, carvings in Ivory, Valuable Jewels, Coloured Stones, Curious Cabinets, Armour, Fire Arms, Swords, and Innumerable scarce Articles, collected with scientific Knowledge, at a great Expence. Also several Turning Lathes, A large Quantity of excellent Working Tools, &c. &c. which will be sold by auction By Mr. Christie, At his Great Room, Pall Mall, On Saturday January 11th, 1794, and Monday and Tuesday following at twelve o'clock. To be Viewed Two Days preceding the Sale; when Catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill; and in Pall Mall.
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803.Date: 1794]- Books
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The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences; or, an universal system of useful knowledge. Containing A full Explanation of every Art and Science, whether liberal or mechanical, in which the Difficulties attending a thorough Knowledge of them are clearly pointed out, and such Directions given as cannot fail of making their Acquisition easy and familiar to every Capacity Exhibiting, among the various other Branches of Literature, a copious Elucidation of the following, viz. Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetick, Astronomy, Book-Keeping, Botany, Carving, Catoptricks, Chemistry, Chronology, Commerce, Conicks, Cosmography, Dialing, Dioptricks, Ethicks, Farriery, Fluxions, Fortification, Gardening, Guaging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Heraldry, History, Horsemanship, Husbandry, Hydraulicks, Hydrography, Hydrostaticks, Law, Levelling, Logick, Maritime and Military Affairs, Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Medicine, Merchandize, Metaphysicks, Meteorology, Musick, Navigation, Opticks, Oratory, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philology, Philosophy, Physick, Pneumaticks, Rhetorick, Sculpture, Series and Staticks, Statuary, Surgery, Surveying, Theology, Trigonometry, &c. The Whole upon an improved Plan, the Marrow and Quintessence of every other Dictionary and Work of the Kind being preserved, and their Superfluities and Obscurities entirely omitted. Particular Attention has been given to every Thing valuable in Chambers, The Encyclopedie, printed at Paris; The Encyclopediae Britannica, and other Publications of later Date. Including not only all the valuable modern Improvements which have been made by several eminent Members of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy, and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, but also a great Variety of other important Discoveries; which have been made and communicated to the Authors of this Work, by some of the most distinguished Characters of this and other Nations. Eminent Engravers and Designers in the several Departments have been engaged at a very great Expence to unite their Abilities in producing the most masterly and superb Set of Copper-Plates, representing upwards of One Thousand exact Figures, such as Machines, Instruments, Implements, Tools, Plans, Schemes, Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Fossils, and other Articles relative to the Subjects treated of in a Work of the utmost Consequence to Mankind. The Theological, Philosophical, Critical, and Poetical Branches, By the Rev. Erasmus Middleton, Lecturer of St. Bennet's, Grace-Church-Street, and of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-Street; The Medicinal, Chemical, and Anatomical, By William Turnbull, M. D. Of Wellclose-Square, London; The Gardening and Botanical, By Thomas Ellis, Gardener to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, and Author of The Gardener's Pocket Calendar; The Mathematical, &c. By John Davidson, Author of A Complete Course of Mathematicks; And the other Parts by Gentlemen of approved Abilities in the respective Branches which they have engaged to illustrate.
Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
Numbers and the making of us : counting and the course of human cultures / Caleb Everett.
Everett, CalebDate: 2017