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English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Archives and manuscripts
Stanhope, Philip, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (1584-1656)
Stanhope, Philip, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (1584-1656)Date: Mid 17th century - late 17th centuryReference: MSS.761-762- Books
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An impartial and authentic narrative of the battle fought on the 17th of June, 1775, between His Britannic Majesty's troops and the American provincial army, on Bunker's Hill, near Charles Town, in New-England. With a True and Faithful Account of the Officers who were killed and wounded in that memorable Battle. To which are added, Some particular Remarks and Anecdotes which have not yet transpired. The whole being collected and written on the Spot. By John Clarke, First Lieutenant of Marines.
Clarke, John, active 1767-1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Concerning beards : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / Alun Withey.
Withey, AlunDate: 2021- Books
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Englands monethly observations and predictions, for the yeare of our blessed Saviour, 1653 : Fore-told by those two famous astrologers of our age, Mr. William Lilly, and Mr. Culpeper. The tune is. Faire angel of England.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681Date: [1653]- Books
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J. Robson's catalogue, 1775, Of a Valuable collection of books, In all Languages and Sciences, Many Capital books of Prints, and in Natural History, Finely Illuminated. A great Number upon Large Paper, in the most Elegant Bindings, and the whole in fine Condition: amongst which are, Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured, morocco Harris's Aurelian, coloured, Russia Knor Deliciae Naturae, 2 tom coloured, Russia Edward's Natural History, 7 vol col. morocco. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol morocco, coloured Seba's Natural History, 4 vol. elegant Knor Deluvii Testes, 3 tom coloured Petiver's Natural history, 3 vol elegant Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol finely coloured Sloane's Jamaica, 2 vol. fine copy Physica Sacra, 4 vol lar. & sm. pap. elegant Museum Florentinum, 11 tom extra. Russia Graevii & Gronovii Antiquit. &c. 33 tom Heads of illustrious Persons, l. p. first impres. Piranesi's Works, 11 vol fine set Clarke's Caesar, fine copy, Russia Ruins of Palmyra, Balbeck, Spalatto, Ionia, Grece, Athens, Paestum, &c. &c. Dart's Westminster, 2 vol. lar. pap. Cheseldon on the Bones, lar. pap. Russia Cowper on the Muscles, lar. pap. ditto Cowper's Anatomy, lar. pap. ditto. Edmondson's Peerage, 5 vol. lar. pap. extra. Passerii picturae Etruscor. 2 tom. fig depict Picart's Relig. ceremonies, 6 tom l. p. Rus. Pembroke's Medals, large paper, Russia Biographia Britan. & Bayle, 11 vol lar. pap. Strafford's Letters 2 vol l. p. Russ ditto sm. Arts & Metiers, 13 tom extra. Auteroche, Voyage en Siberie, 4 tom g. p. Worlidge's Gems, 2 tom mor. extra. Works of Captain Railie, fine impressions Dactyliotheca Smithiana, 2 tom fine cuts Galerie de Dresde, grand pap. Chevillard, Tableau D'honneur, illuminees Ridinger's Works, 3 vol first impres. Vernet's Works compleat, 2 vol elegant Gallerie de Versailles, grand pap. - de Boyer D'aguilles, gr. & p. pap. Vandermulen's Works, first impres. Hogarth's Works. Crozat's Collection, 2 vol. lar. pap. Views of Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 3 tom. morocco Claude Lorrain's Drawings, by Erlom, fine Various curious Missals, finely illuminated Bleau grand Atlas, 12 tom illuminees Robert's Atlas, g. p. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vol Kent's Inigo Jones, 2 vollar. pap. Dugda-'s Monasticon, 3 vol Russia Hollinshed's Cronicle, 2 vol Horsley's Britannia Romana King's Vale Royal. Rymer's Foedera, 20 vol State Tryals, 10 vol Stukeley's Itinerary and Aubery, 2 vol Tanneri Notitia monastica Dictionaries, all the best Editions, Eng. Lat. Fren. and Italian, &c. Corpus Byzantinae historiae, 23 tom Biblia Polyglotta, 8 tom Medicae Artis Principes Thuani Historia, 7 tom L'antiquitees par Montfaucon, 15 tom Corps diplomatique, 24 tom Ramusio, le navigazione, 3 tom Herrera Historia, 5 tom With many Others equally Valuable, Which will begin to be Sold this Day, 1775, and continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller, in New Bond-Street, Who gives the full Value for any Library, or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had at Mr Dodsley's, Pall-Mall; Mr Cadell's, in the Strand; Mr Cater's, Holbour; Mr Law's Ave Mary-Lane; and Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal-Exchange; Also, Mess. Merrill, Cambridge; Prince, and Fletcher, Oxford; and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1775]- Books
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The Greeks and Trojans vvarres : Caus'd by that wanton Trojan knight Sir Paris who ravishes Hellen and her to Troy carries the Greeks in revenge (and to fetch her again) a mighty great army do quickly ordain. Imagine you see them besiedging old Troy, which after ten years they at th'last destroy, with a fit allusion, before the conclusion. Tune is, A conscionable caveat.
Crouch, Humphrey, active 1635-1671Date: [1650?]- Books
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Shakspere's family as patients.
Griffiths, L. M. (Lemuel Matthews)Date: [1891]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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The phantastick age: or, The anatomy of Englands vanity : in wearing the fashions of severall nations, with good exhortations, against transmutations. To the tune of, O women monstrous &c.
Date: [1634]- Books
Buried alive not just once - but twice! / I.A. Girvan.
Girvan, I. A.Date: 1996- Books
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The maids comfort: or, The kinde young man, who, as many haue said, sweet comfort did yeeld to a comfortlesse maid : To a pleasant new tune.
Date: [1629]- Books
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The two inseparable brothers. Or A true and strange description of a gentleman (an Italian by birth) about seventeene yeeres of age : who hath an imperfect (yet living) brother, growing out of his side, having a head, two armes, and one leg, all perfectly to be seen. They were both baptized together, the imperfect is called Iohn Baptist, and the other Lazarus. Admire the Creator in his creatures. To the tune of The wandring Iewes chronicle.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1637]- Books
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New copper-plate magazine. Published by J. Walker, no.44, Paternoster-Row. This day is published, number C. To be continued monthly, price one shilling and sixpence only, of the Copper-Plate Magazine; or, Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Engravings. Intended to Comprise. All the most interesting, sublime, and beautiful Views of Principal Cities, Sea-Ports, Forests, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Royal Palaces, Seats of Nobility and Gentry, Curious Remains of Antiquity, Public Edifices, Parks, Gardens, &c. &c. in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Each Number contains Two exquisite Prints, engraved in a very superior Style, from Original Paintings and Drawings by the first Masters. with Letter-Press Descriptions. The Whole is printed in Quarto; and the Prints are all taken off after the Manner of Proofs, on Superfine Paper. London: Printed for J. Walker, No. 16, Rosoman's Street, Clerkenwell; and sold by J. Walker, No. 44, Paternoster Row; W. Clarke, New Bond Street; T. Knott, No. 47, Lombard Street; and all other Booksellers, Printsellers, Stationers, and Newsmen, in Great Britain and Ireland. *-* Correspondents are requested to address their favours, post paid, to Mr. Walker, Engraver, No. 16, Rosoman's Street. N. B. A few selected First Impressions, hot-pressed, may be had in Boards, price 71. 10s. the One Hundred Numbers already published. - Those Gentlemen who have Proofs of the former Part of the Work, are recommended to perfect them soon, as the Price will be raised.
Date: [1792?]- Books
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Anatomical and practical observations in St. Thomas's Hospital, 1674-1677 / by James Molins ; edited, with an introduction and notes from the MS. in the British Museum, by J.F. Payne.
Molins, James.Date: 1896- Books
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A catalogue of upwards of twenty thousand volumes of books including the remaining part of the valuable library of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle; and the entire Collection of a Person of Distinction, lately deceased: With some very capital Books of Prints, just imported from France and Italy, and many large Parcels, lately purchased. The whole forming a Curious Variety of the best Books inall Languages, Arts and Sciences, in fine Condition, and many upon Royal Paper, in elegant Russia and Morocco Bindings. Amongst which are, Seba Thesaurus eorum nat. 4 tom. Rus. Deliciae nat. selectae, 2 tom. fig. col. Mor. Merian de Insectis Surinam, fig. col. M. Hill's Nat. Hist. Gard. & Herb. roy-pap. 5 vol. coloured, Russia Weinmani Phytantheza Iconograp. 4 tom. coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 tom. Rus. col. Edward's Nat. Hist. 7 vol. Mor. col. Trew Hortus Nitidissimus, fig. colorat Physica Sacra, 8 tom. Ornithologie par Martinet, 3 v. fig. illu. Wilkes and Harris's Moths and Butterfl. coloured Pitture D'ercolano, 5 tom. Estampes de la Gallerie de Dresda, 2 tom. Vandermulen's capital Works, Mor. Oeuvres de Basan, 3 tom. - complet de Vernet, gr. pap. Statute Grece & Romane di S. Mar. R. Illustrious Heads, first Impressions, 1. pap. Fables, & Contes de Fontaine, bel. fig. Pitture di Pelligrino Works of Salvator Rosa - of Ostade. Estampes du Cabinet du Roy, Mor. fine. Halleri Icones Anatomicae, 2 tom. Voyages de Le Brun, 3 tom. General Dictionary, 10 vol. Vocabolario della Crusea, 6 tom. Flor. Dictionaries by Johnston, Chambers, Ainsworth, Bayle, James, Postlethwayte, Richlet, &c. &c. L'antique explique par Montfaucon, 15 tom. gr. pap. Views of the Palace and Gardens at Versailles, Mor. Teniers's Gallery, fine Impressions Stoch, Pierres Antiques par Picart, g. p. Ruins of Balbeck Palmyra-Dioclefian's Palace, de la Grece par le Roy, &c. &c. D. of Newcastle's Horsemanship, 2 v. Imp. paper; Morocco. Clarke's Caesar, Russia leather. Rymer's Foedera, 21 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Pembrochiae Numismata, ch. max. Robert and De L'isles Atlas, gr. pap. Piranesi Antichita Romane, 4 tom. Guichiardini & Davilla Istoria, ch. max. Clarendon's Rebellion, 4 vol. roy. pap. Inigo Jones's Designs, by Kent. Rapin's History, 2 vol. large pap. Mor. Norden and Pocock's travels, large pap. Strafford's Letters, by Knowler, 2 vol. large paper, Morocco. Diodorus Siculus Wesselingii, 2 vol. Demosthenis Wolfii. Homeyns, 4 tom. ch. max. Glasgow. Dionysius Halicarnasseus Hudson, 2 v. Euripides Barnesii. Pindarus, per West. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts. Missals, finely illuminated. Voyage en Siberie, 2 tom, Mor. With many Hundreds more, equally valuable. Which will begin to be Sold very reasonable, this Day, 1770, (for ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, to continue on Sale till all are Sold, By James Robson, Bookseller at the Feathers in New-Bond-Street. Who gives the utmost Value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues (price 6d. to be allowed in the Purchase) to be had of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Blamire, corner of Craven-Street, Strand; Mr. Cater, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Law, Ave-Mary-Lane; and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal-Exchange; also of the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and all the great Towns in England.
Robson, James, 1733-1806.Date: 1770]- Books
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Doctors out of practice / by J. Cordy Jeaffreson.
Jeaffreson, John Cordy, 1831-1901.Date: [1884]- Books
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Geschichte der Forschungen über den Geburtsmechanismus / bearbeitet von C. Stammler, G. Knoes und M. Fresenius ; fortgesetzt von Gustav Brüel.
Brüel, Gustav.Date: 1855- Books
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Republic of women : rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth century / Carol Pal.
Pal, CarolDate: 2012- Ephemera
Price & Co. : chemists and druggists, nos. 1 & 2, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden : physicians prescriptions and family recipes accurately prepared.
C.J. Price & Co.Date: [179?-?]- Pictures
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People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1638Reference: 26945i- Books
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Naturhistoriens studium i Finland under sjuttonde och adertonde seklet / tecknadt af Otto E.A. Hjelt.
Hjelt, Otto E. A. (Otto Edvard August), 1823-1913.Date: 1868- Books
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A description of a strange (and miraculous) fish : cast upon the sands in the meads, in the hundred of Worwell, in the county Palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere. The certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish. To the tune of Bragandary.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1635?]- Books
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Dr. Karl Stammler's Geschichte der Forschungen über den Geburtsmechanismus von der ersten Zeit bis zur Mitte des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts, fortgesetzt bis zur Mitte des siebenzehnten Jahrhunderts / von Gustav Knoes.
Knoes, Gustav.Date: 1854