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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Le diable dans un benitier, & la métamorphose du gazetier cuirassé en mouche. Ou tentative du Sieur Receveur, Inspecteur de la Police de Paris, Chevalier de St. Louis; pour établir à Londres une police à l'instar de celle de Paris. Dédié á Monseigneur le Marquis de Castries, Ministre & Secrétaire d' Etat au Département de la Marine, &c. &c. &c. Revú, corrigé & augmenté, par Mr. L'Abbé Aubert, Censeur - Royal. Pa Pierre Le Roux, Ingénieur des Grands Chemins.
La Fitte, Anne-Gédéon, marquis de Pellepore, 1755?-1810?.Date: [1784?]- Books
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The universal masquerade: or, the world turn'd inside-out. Delineating and detecting the virtues and vices of mankind, From The Court to the Cottage, In all Professions, for the benefit of both sexes. Representing, I. A Perspective View of the Court and Courtiers; their Gallantries, Promises, and Entertainments display'd; as Gaming, Intriguing, Balls, Ridotto's and Assemblies. II. City Pride and Luxury; Fraud and Impositions of Vintners, Exchange - Brokers, Discounters, Lottery-Mongers, Insurers, &c. with the Trick practised by a Jew of the Alley on the D-ss of M-lb-b. III. The Foppery of Freemasonry, &c. IV. The Corruption of Magistracy exemplified, in a True Secret History of some Tr-Ing J-st-s, &c. V. Literary Bites; or, The Tricks of Author, Printers and Booksellers: with the Trials of many Criminals in Elysium, &c. VI. The two Temples of True and False Fame; the Pretensions of many Writers; with the Remarkable Receptions of Mr. Pope and Dr. Young. Vii. Fops, Epicures, &c. justly ridicul'd; and the notorious Impositions of Lawyers, Physicians, and Apothecaries detected. Viii. Fornication no Sin; or, Adultery a la Mode, defended in the Case of a First - Rate Keeper and a New-Made C-nt-Ess, &c. IX. A Sketch of the Last Judgment, whereat strict Justice is administred, and many Offenders now first brought to Light. By O. Sedgewick, Gent. ...
Sedgewick, O.Date: 1742- Books
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The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1765- Books
Mr Loverman / Bernardine Evaristo.
Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-Date: 2020- Books
Mr Foote's other leg / Ian Kelly ; introduced by the author.
Kelly, Ian, 1966-Date: [2015]- Books
Children of wrath : possession, prophecy and the young in early modern England / by Anna French.
French, AnnaDate: [2015]- Books
The lonely Londoners / Sam Selvon ; with an introduction by Nasta Susheila.
Selvon, SamuelDate: 2021- Books
The English breakfast : the biography of a national meal, with recipes / Kaori O'Connor.
O'Connor, Kaori.Date: 2013- Books
Accidents and violent death in early modern London, 1650-1750 / Craig Spence.
Spence, CraigDate: 2016- Books
Queer St Ives and other stories / Ian Massey.
Massey, Ian (Art historian)Date: 2022- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
England : a play for galleries / by Tim Crouch.
Crouch, Tim, 1964-Date: 2007- Books
Red Prometheus : engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Dolores L. Augustine.
Augustine, Dolores L.Date: [2007]- Books
Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake / Leo Damrosch.
Damrosch, LeopoldDate: [2015]