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Fig (Ficus carica L.): leaf and fruit. Coloured aquatint by G. Pera, c.1825, after O. Muzzi.
Muzzi, Ottavio.Date: [1825]Reference: 20352i- Pictures
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A fig plant (Ficus carica var.): fruiting stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph, c. 1869, after W. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 1869Reference: 28089i- Pictures
A naked woman standing up with a fig leaf covering her crotch. Pencil work and watercolour by Mary Lorraine, 1967.
Lorraine, Mary, active approximately 1967.Date: 8.4.67 [8 April 1967]Reference: 3001752iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Adam's fig-leaf righteousness. The following composition took its rise from a serious consideration of one single expression, made use of in the pulpit of the outer kirk of Glasgow, by a young probationer, Mr James Galloway, when lecturing on the xxvth Psalm. The expression was, Adam's fig-leaf righteousness; from which expression this paraphrase has its title. By George Frazer.
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Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.
Date: 20 June 1801Reference: 578678i- Digital Images
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Carpobrotus acinaciformis (L.) L.Bolus Aizoaceae. Eland's Sour fig. Sally-my-handsome, its other common name is a corruption of Mesembryanthemum (acinaciforme) which was the genus ascribed to it by Linnaeus (1753) Succulent perennial. Distribution: South Africa. Antibacterial compounds have been isolated from it, it is rich in tannins. The leaf sap is used to treat infections of the mouth and throat. In South African ‘muthi’ medicine, the sap is used as a gargle for sore throats
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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A catalogue of the entire library of the Rev. Ellis Jones, The Rev. Ellis Jones, Late of Christ-Church, Oxford, and vicar of Staverton, Northamptonshire. And of several other valuable Collections of Books; The whole forming a curious Assortment in every Branch of Literature, and containing many Articles in Superb Bindings. Caesar, a Clarke, Ch. Max. 2 vol. cor. Turc. Pindar, Oxon. charta maxima. Homer, Glasg. 4 vol. chart. max. cor. Russ. Xenophon, Paris. charta max. corio Turc. Xenophon, Hutchinsoni, 2 vol. charta mag. Diogenes Laertius, Meibomii, 2 vol. ch. max. Aeschylus, Stanleii, corio Russico. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. ap. H. Steph. Plutarchus, Rualdi, Gr. & Lat. 4 vol. Ptolemaeus, Serveti, liber rariss. cor. Russ. Salustio, por el Insante Don Gabriel. A Set of Elzevir Classics, 52 vol. in Morocco. H. Steph. Thesaurus Gr. 5 vol. ch. max. cor. T. Plautus, Lambini, charta max. corio Turc. Virgilius, Servii, charta max. corio Turc. Suldae Lexicon, Kusteri, 3 vol. charta max. Diccion. Espan. de la Acad. Reale, 6 vol. Russ. Encyclopedie & Supplement, 35 tom. Par. Corpus Historiarum & Antiquitatum, 78 vol. Corpus Historicorum Byzantinorum, 29 vol. Rymeri Foedera, 20 vol. edit. opt. cor. Turc. Thuani Historia Buckleli, 7 vol. charta mag. Bouteroue, Monnoyes de la France. Chroniques de Froissart, a tom. lettres Goth. Voyages de M. Le Burn. 3 tom. grand papier. Harris's Collect. of Voyages, 2 vol. bested. Russ. Edmondson's Baronag. 5 vol. large pap. Mor. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglican. 3 vol. cor Russ. Dugdale's Monasticon, & Stevens's Con. 3 vol. Holingshed's Chronicles, 3 vol. with Illumin. Hortus Elthamensis, Dillenii, 2 vol. fig. depict. Hortus Eystettensis, 3 vol. fig. despictis. Jacquin, Hort. Vind. & Flora Aust. 9 vol. fig. d. Flora Danica, 15 Fascic. 5 vol. fig. depict. Buchoz, Histoire Naturelle, 9 tom. fig. enlum. Sepp's Birds and Insects, beautifully coloured. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. finely coloured. Knorr's Natural History, 12 vol. finely col. Martyn's Shells, most elegantly coloured. Baron Born's Shells, finely coloured. K. of Denmark's Book of Shells, finely col. Petiver's Works of Nat. History, 2 vol. Mor. Linnaei Museum Adolphi Frederici Regis. D'argenville, Conchyliologie, 3 tom. nouv. ed. Pennant's Works in N. Hist. &c. 14 vol. gr. Mor. Annibal, Aug. & Lud. Caraccis, Works, 3 vol. Crozat's Collection of Prints, 2 vol. first imp. Habits du Levant, avec figures enluminees. Fables & Contes de M. La Fontaine, les belles ed. Montfaucon, Antiq. & Supp. 15 tom. la meill. ed. Museum Florentinum, 10 vol. impressio eleg. Baleu's Atlas. 11 vol. fine copy, gilt leaves. Andersoni Diplomata & Numismata Scotiae. Blomsield and Parkyns's Norfolk, 5 vol. Russ. Sir Henry Chauncy's Hertfordshire. Carew on the Rights of Elections. Caxton's Siege and Conquest of Jerusalem. Capt. Cook's last Voyage, 3 vol. first impress. Walpole's Painters, &c. 5 vol. Str. Hill, gr. M. Parliametary History and Debates, 100 vol. The Sale will begin on Wednesday, February 1, 1786. By Benjamin White and son, Booksellers at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. N. B. The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of every Book. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; also of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Faulder, in New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cronhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England.
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A nude man posing as a classical statue. Photograph by Henry, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 2046173iPart of: James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.- Books
Ex gemmis et cameis antiquorum aliquot monumenta / ab Aenea Vico ... incis.
Vico, Enea, 1523-1567Date: [1700?]- Pictures
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Adam and Eve committing the primal sin; representing the origin of AIDS. Colour lithograph after Pavel Beneš, 1991.
Beneš, Pavel, 1960-Date: 1991Reference: 668102i- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A man posing naked in a boxing stance with his fists raised, on a deserted beach.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 532537iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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Recueil de testes de caractère et de charges / dessinées par Leonard de Vinci ... et gravées par M. le C. de C. [i.e. le comte de Caylus].
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Date: 1730- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Gemma Sapientiae et Prudentiae
Date: c. 1735Reference: MS.2492- Books
Monstrorvm historia memorabilis, monstrosa hvmanorvm partvvm miracvla, stvpendis conformationvm formvlis ab vtero materno enata, viuis exemplis, obseruationibus, & picturis, referens. Accessit analogicum argumentum de monstris brvtis / Svpplementi loco ad Observationes medicas Schenckianas edita à Ioanne Georgio Schenckio a Grafenberg filio.
Schenck, Johann Georg, -approximately 1620.Date: 1609- Pictures
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An emaciated naked man, displaying large swellings on his neck and groin, with smaller swellings visible on his chest, arms, abdomen and thigh. Process print, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 576912i- Archives and manuscripts
Plant Disease
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/08/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The lady anatomist : the life and work of Anna Morandi Manzolini / Rebecca Messbarger.
Messbarger, Rebecca Marie.Date: 2010- Books
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A catalogue of the entire libraries of the Right Rev. John Thomas , D. D. late Lord Bishop of Salisbury; Sir William Calvert, Late one of the Members for the City of London; and of an eminent physician and naturalist, retired from Practice: To which are added, Several smaller Libraries and Parcels of Books lately purchased. Many of the Books are bound in the finest and most elegant Bindings. And among them are Dugdale Monasticon Anglican. 3 vol. Dugdale on Fens, Hollar's cuts. Philipot's Survey of Kent. Borlase's Antiq. &c. of Cornwall, 2 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. ... Patrick, Lowth, Arnald & Whitby, 7 vol. Lord Somers's Tracts. 16 vol. 4to. Louvre Classics, 4 vol. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. Dionysius Halicarn. Hudsoni, 2 vol. ch. max. Plinii Hist. Nat. Harduini, 3 vol. ch. max. Dion Cassius, Reimari, 2 vol. Herodotus, Wesselingii, cor. Russ. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnesii. Strabonis Geographia, 2 vol. ch. opt. Foetae Graeci Heroici, H. Steph. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vol. Paris. Classicl, notis Var. 117 vol. 8 vo. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured, Moroc. ... col. Philos. Transact. at large, compleat. Rumphii Herbarium Amboinense, 7 vol. Dillenii Hortus Elthamensis, 2 vol. Flora Danica, fig. depictis. Campbell's Vitruvius Britan. 3 vol. R. P. Anderson Diplomata Scotiae. Voyage D'egypte, par Norden, 2 tom. Atlas par De Lisle & Robert. Spence's Polymetis, Morocco. ... De Bry India Orient. & Occid. 4 vol. Russ. Golii Lexicon Arabicum. Giggei Lexicon Arabicum, 4 vol. Da Fresne Glossar. & Supplement. 10vol. Antoniana Margarita, 2 vol. cor. Turc. The Prices are printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book. And, the sale will begin on Tuesday the 24th of February, 1767, and continue till all the Books are sold. By Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London, (no. 63.) Who gives the utmost Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1767]- Books
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A catalogue of the library of the Rev. John Bowle, M. A. F. S. A. Late of Idmiston, near Salisbury, and Editor of Don Quixote in Spanish, with Notes and various Readings: with several other collections, Containing the most valuable Books in every Language and Class of Learning. Jacquin, Stirpes Americanae, finely coloured. Jacquin, Icones Plant, rar. 11 fascic. dep. Jacquin, Flora Austr. 5 vol. c. m. depict. Plenck, Plantae Medicinales, 6 fascic dep. Flora Rossica, cura Pallas, vol. 1, 2 pts dep. Flora Danica, Oederi, &c. 16 fas. cleg. dep. Kniphosii Botan. in Orig. 4 vol. 1200 fig. Weinmanni Phytantheza, 8 vol. fig. dep. Hedwig, Plantae Cryptogamicae, 8 fas. dep. Herbarium Black wellianum, 6 vol. depict. Herbarium Amboinense, Rumphii, 7 vol. Hortus Eystettensis, cura Besleri, 3 vol. Robert, Plant. grav. par Ordre de Louis XIV Mr. Pennant's British Zoology, coloured. J. F. Miller's Non-Des. Anim. Plants, &c. Catesby's Nat. Hist. of Carolina, 2 vol. col. ... Thesaurus Rerum Naturalium, 4 vol. Aldrovandi Opera omnia, 13 vol. Fritsch's Nat. Hist. of Birds, coloured. Bloch's Fishes, 6 vol. beautifully coloured. King of Denmark's Book of Shells, col. Bar. Born's Shells, and Martyn's Shells, col. Martini's Shells, and Buonanni's Shells, col. Knorr's Petrifactions, and his Museum, col. M. Merian's Surinam Insects, orig. ed. col. Zoolog. Danica, Mulleri, 3 vol. c. m. dep. Sloane's & Browne's Nat. Hist. of Jamaica Mr. Pennant's Works, 16 vol. compl. eleg. Buffon, Oiseaux, & Planches col. 10 tom. Edwards's, Brown's and Albin's Birds, col. Ernst, Papillons D'europe, 6 tom. enlum. Cramer, Papillons Exotiq. 4 tom. enlum. Schaefferi Insecta & Fungi, 8 vol. depict. Luffon, Oeuvres, 37 tom. 4 to. complets. Piranesi's Works, complete, 19 vol. fine. G. Duke of Tuscany's Gallery of Paintings. La Galerie de Luxembourg, first impress. Crozat's Collect. of Paint. 2 vol. first im. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Vases, 4 vol. Passeri's Etruscan Vases, 3 vol. coloured. Antichita di Ercolano, 8 vol. eleg. bound. Ruins of Rome, Ath. Palm. &c. 11 vol. eleg. Montfaucon, Antiquites, 15 tom. best edit. Museum Florentinum, 12 vol. fine impr. Museum Capitolinum, 4 vol. comp. eleg. Ceremonies Religieuses, 7 tom. gr. pap. Blaeu's Great Atlas, 11 vol. coloured. D'anville's and Robert's Atlas, coloured. Cowper's Anatomy, Oxford, L P. red lett. Plinii Historia Nat. Harduini. 3 vol. c. m. Virgilius, 2 vol. MS. on Vel. with Illum. Apollonius Rhodius, Gr. editio princeps. Anthologia Gr. editio princeps. Diogenes Laertius, 2 vol. charta max. Barbou's Claslics, 70 vol. Morocco. Meninski, Thesaurus Ling. Orient. 4 vol. Mabillon, Carpen. & Walther, de Re Dipl. Corps Diplomatique, 20 tom. complets. Encyclopedie, 35 tom. complets. Par. edit. Traite des Arts & des Metiers, 26 tom. com. Blomefield's and Parkins's Norfolk, 5 vol. Holingshed's Chronicles, 3 vol. with Castr. Froissart's Chronicle, by Ld. Berners, Russ. Grafton's Chronicle, very fine copy, Russ. Philosophical Transactions, 59 vol. T. Hearne's Works, complete, 63 vol. Monthly Review, 82 vol. complete. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. comp. The Sale will begin on Tuesday, January 19, 1790. By Benjamin White and Son, Booksellers, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. N. B. The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of every Book. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Faulder, New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cornhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England: also of Mr. Richard White, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, No 76, Oxford-Street, opposite the Pantheon.
Benjamin White and Son.Date: 1790]- Books
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A catalogue of a large and elegant collection of books, including the libraries of the late learned and Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, Editor of Xenophon; the Rev. Mr. Mudge, of Plymouth; and several other curious libraries, lately purchased. Among them are Sebae Museum, 4 vol. many cuts. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured. Mrs. Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. coloured. Knorr Deliciae Naturae, 2 vol. coloured. Meyer's Animals, 2 vol. coloured. Schefferi Fungi, 2 vol. coloured. Roesel's Frogs and Insects, coloured. Gleichen Nouvelles Decouvertes, coloured. Parkinson's Herbal, 2 vol. L. P. Turkey. Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. Miller's Figures of Plants, 2 vol. coloured. British Zoology, compleat, coloured. Gerrarde's Herbal, by Johnson, coloured. Rumphii Herbarium Amboinense, 7 vol. Edward's Birds & Gleanings, 7 v. 4to, col. Oederi Flora Danica, 8 Fasciculi. Raii & Bauhini Hist. Plant. 6 vol. Plukenetii Opera omnia, 4 vol. 4to. ... Poetae Graeci, H. Stephani, 2 vol. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. Aristophanes, Ammianus, Dionys. Halicarn. Diodorus Siculus, Dion Cassius, Josephus, Pindar, Polybius, Plutarch, Pausanias, Ptolemaei Geog. Strabo, Thucydides, Vitruvius, & alii, edit. opt. Ld. Burlington's Palladio. Edmondson's Baronagium, 5 vol. L. P. Desgodetz Edifices Antiques de Rome. Galleria Giustiniana, 2 vol. edit opt. ... Voyage par Norden, 2 tom. Saurin sur la Bible, 6 tom. fig. Calmet, Comment. sur la Bible, 9 tom. Calmet, Diction. de la Bible, 4 tom. G. P. Biblia Polyglotta, &c. Waltoni, 8 v. ruled. Critici Sacri, &c. 13 vol. edit. op. Sixti V. Septuaginta Gr. Romae. S. Augustini Opera, 12 vol. edit. bened. S. Hieronymi Opera; 5 vol. edit. bened. Field's Bible, 2 vol. cuts, Russia. Bartoloccii Bibliotheca Rabbin. 5 vol. ... R. Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vol. Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Bacon's Abridgment, 5 vol. new edit. Coke on Littleton, last edit. And a great Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Learning. The lowest Prices are printed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of every Book: And the sale will begin on Tuesday, the 13th of February, 1770, and continue till all the Books are sold, by Benjamin White, At Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. Who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794.Date: 1770]- Archives and manuscripts
Plant Disease
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/08/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd