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Religious and loyal thankfulness. A sermon preach'd at Long Combe, in the county of Oxon, January 20, 1714/15. being the day of solemn thanksgiving for His gracious Majesty King George's happy accession and safe arrival to the throne of Great-Britain and Ireland. By H. Sanders, V. D. M.
Sanders, H.Date: 1715- Books
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The English register: For the year of our Lord, 1796. Alexander Stewart bookseller. Being leap-year, and thirty-sixth of the reign of King George III. till the 25th of October or collection of English lists; containing I. His Majesty's most Hon. privy council, the Lords spiritual and temporal, with their usual places of abode, exployments, &c. II. An alphabertical list of the counties, cities, boroughs and mem...ers, for each; with their connections, employments. &c. III. A list of the baronets of Great Britain; knights of the garter, bath and thistle; also the royal housholds and state officers. IV. A new correct list of the Royal navy of England; also the captains and commanders of the navy; lieutenants, &c. V. The general and staff officers in Great-Britain, army agents, list of the officers of the tower of London, &c. VI. Judges and officers of the law; revenue department; ecclesiastical department; universities; trading companies, &c. With the present state of Scotland and America. The whole compiled and digested from the most authentic lists, carefully corrected at the proper offices, and from the best information. Printed to be bound up with Stewart's Irish Merlin, and making with it a perfect view of the present state of both kingdoms.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The ladies complete pocket-book, for the year of our Lord 1760. Being bissextile or leap-year. The thirty-third of King George II. And the ninth of the new stile used in Great Britain containing, I. An index to the present year, and a chronicle of the most remarkable events in the past. II. A methodical memorandum book, dispos'd in fifty-two weeks, for keeping a regular account with the greatest ease and propriety, of all monies, receiv'd, paid, lent, or expended; and of all appointments, engagements, or visits, that have been made, paid, or receiv'd; and a separate column for all occasional memorandums &c. To which are added, for the use of the fair sex. III. The precedency due to women; of doing the honours of a table; of the oeconomy of a table, or placing the dishes; proper seasons for all sorts of provisions; messes for suppers; and some useful receipts; particularly, one for love. IV. The favourite new songs sung at Vauxhall Gardens, Ranelagh house, and other polite concerts; and 24 country dances for the year 1760. V. A familiar account of the sun and moon, their nature and progress; for the information of the ladies of Great Britain. Chronological account of events, before and since the birth of Christ; and explanation of the stocks &c. (To be continued annually.)
Date: M DCC LX. [1760]- Books
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The ladies new and polite pocket memorandum-book, for the year of our Lord 1789. Being the Twenty-Ninth of King George III. the Thirty-Eighth of the New Style in Great-Britain, and the First after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Embellished with a beautiful copper-plate, representing two ladies in the most fashionable dresses now worn; also an elegant Engraving of Somerset-Place from the Water. Containing, I. A Useful Memorandum-Book, &c. &c. II. Marketing Tables. III. Table of Interest. IV. The Chronologist for 1788; enumerating every remarkable and interesting Occurrence. V. A Table to cast up Wages. VI. Select Pieces of Poetry. VII. The most esteemed new Songs sung at Vaux Hall. VIII. New Country Dances for 1789. IX. Marriages and Deaths of the Nobility, &c. in the Year 1788. X. Holidays, Birth-Days, &c. for 1789. XI. Wealth, Wisdom, and Virtue, an Eastern Tale. XII. The Force of Love, an interesting Tale. XIII. Hackney-Coach Fares. XIV. Rates of Watermen.
Date: [1789]- Books
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The Ladies complete pocket-book, for the year of our Lord 1762. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year, the second of King George III. And the eleventh of the new-style used in Great-Britain. Containing, I. An account of the several feasts, fasts, and holidays throughout the year. II. A methodical memorandrum-book, for keeping a regular account, with great ease and propriety, of all moneis receiv'd, paid, lent, or expended; and of all appointments, engagements, or visits, paid or receiv'd; and a separate column for occasional memorandums, &c. III. Some necessary observations on exercise, temperance, and diet. IV. Some useful receipts in confectionary, and other arts, necessary for the fair-sex. V. The manner of dressing in the year 1761, with some directions relating thereto. By a lady of fashion. VI. The favourite new songs sung at Vauxhall-Gardens, Ranelagh-House, and other polite concerts. VII. An address to the ladies of Great-Britain on the subject of gaming; with a tale adapted thereto, intitled, Piquet, or virtue sacrificed. VIII. An account of the House of Mecklerburg, from which Her Present Majesty is descended. To which is added, a list of Her Majesty's Houshold; and her picture, curiously engraved from an original painting, extremely like. IX. Twenty-four country dances, for the year 1762, table of stocks and transferable annuities; marketing tables; table of expences and wages, &c.
Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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The Complete pocket book, or, Gentleman and tradesman's daily journal for the year of Our Lord 1775, Being the third after Bissextile, or leap-year, the fifteenth of the reign of King George the Third, and the twenty-fourth of the new style in Great-Britain. Containing a plain and concise method for keeping account of all monies received, paid, lent, or expended, every day in the year, comprised in fifty-two pages properly ruled: also, fifty-two pages, ruled for entering all appointments, memorandums, observations, or engagements. Together with the following useful particulars. I. Holidays, birthdays, and other remarkable days in the year, 1775. II. Table of the moon. III. List of bankers. IV. An alphabetical list of the merchants and principal traders of the city of London. V. A valuable table, explaining the collateral value of landed and monied property, interest tables, &c. VI. Useful tables of interest. VII. Rates of watermen. VIII. Rates of Hackney coachmen and chairmen. IX. Rates of postage of inland and foreign letters.
Date: [1774?]- Pictures
King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Engraving by M. van der Gucht, 1715.
Date: [1715]Reference: 2045625i- Books
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The Daily journal; Or, the gentleman's and tradesman's complete annual accompt-book for the pocket, or desk. For the year of our Lord 1769. Being the first after bissextile or leap-year, the ninth of the reign of King George III. and the eighteenth of the new-style used in Great-Britain. Containing fifty-two double pages, exactly ruled on fine writing paper, for appointments, memorandums, and accompts, every day in the year. 1. To which is prefixed an index to the year 1769, pointing out the holidays, festivals and fasts, and other remarkable day therein. 2. The Attorney's and solicitor's term table, table of lunations and sun's rising and setting, new table of the year, shewing every day therein at one view. And at the end are added the following useful particulars, I. On the use and abuse of time. Table of time, by which we may learn to lengthen our days. Table of all the counties in the Kingdom, shewing the Bishopricks and valuations, with the parishes, market and chief towns, number of members of parliament they send, situation and noted rivers, &c. ... V. List of the house of peers, bishops and deans of the several dioceses throughout the kingdom; alphabetical list of the House of Commons; Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and their terms. Lord Mayor and court of Aldermen of London, and other useful particulars.
Date: M.DCC.LXIX [1769]- Books
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The Ladies compleat pocket-book, for the year of our Lord, 1753. Being the first after bissextile, or leap year, the twenty-sixth of King George II. and the second of the new style used in Great Britain. Containing, I. A memorandum book, exactly rul'd for every day, week, and month in the year, so dispos'd as to shew at one view, a whole week's account of what has been receiv'd, paid, or expended; what appointments, engagements, or visits, have been made, receiv'd, and paid, and other occasional memorandums of businness, &c. II. An account of the feasts and fasts, fix'd and moveable; holydays and other remarkable days in the year 1753. III. Of rank and precedence, and how to address in writing or discourse. Rules of Bath, Tunbridge, and Long Room at Scarborough. IV. Laws of the game of whise. Bill of fare of every season of the year. Instructions for carving, and terms made use of therein. V. Rates of Hackney coachmen, charimen, and watermen. VI. Directions for dancing twenty-four new country dances for the year 1753. Tables for casting up expences or wages by the day; week, month, or year; tables for marketing; pence table; significancy of colours, and other particulars, extremely useful for the pocket of the fair sex. To be continued every year: and, if preserved, will enable any lady to tell, what business she has transacted, and what visits she has receiv'd or paid every day, during and period of her life.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The King Emperor and his dominions : souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I.M. George V, Delhi, December 1911.
Date: [1911?]- Books
The King Emperor and his dominions : souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I.M. George V, Delhi, December 1911.
Date: [1911?]- Books
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Crown and realm : a review of the British empire, its builders and rulers / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. ; introduction by Sir Henry S. Wellcome.
Burroughs Wellcome and Company.Date: [1911]- Books
Crown and realm : a review of the British empire, its builders and rulers / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. ; introduction by Sir Henry S. Wellcome.
Burroughs Wellcome and CompanyDate: [1911]- Pictures
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King George V and Queen Mary seated. Photogravure by Rembrandt Photogravure after Hughes and Mullins.
Date: 1890-1899Reference: 569578i- Pictures
World War I: album of R.P. Humphreys. Photographs, 1914/1918.
Humphreys, R. P., active approximately 1918.Date: 1914-1918Reference: 678085i- Pictures
King George V with the rajahs and ruling princes of India. Colour process print, 1911.
Date: [1911?]Reference: 2971002i- Pictures
The coronation of King George V: Beefeaters accompanying the coach. Colour halftone after E. Bundy, 1911.
Bundy, Edgar, 1862-1922.Date: June 27 1911Reference: 2497724i- Ephemera
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The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
Date: 1910- Books
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Visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince & Princess of Wales to inaugurate the new buildings for the Departments of Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Materia Medica, and Forensic Medicine with Public Health, on Tuesday, 23rd April, 1907.
Date: [1907]- Books
Opening of the King Edward VII Memorial Infirmary by his majesty the King accompanied by her majesty the Queen : Bristol, June 28th 1912.
King Edward VII Memorial Infirmary (Bristol, England)Date: 1912- Ephemera
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King George greets wounded officer.
Date: [1918?]- Books
King's nurse, beggar's nurse / "Blackie" (Sister Catherine Black).
Black, Catherine.Date: [1939]- Pictures
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Kandy, Sri Lanka: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at the shrine of the tooth of the Buddha. Gouache by H. M. Paget, 1901, after S.P. Hall.
Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott), 1857-1936.Date: 1901Reference: 2092853i- Books
Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, "Cliveden", Taplow, Bucks / Canadian Medical Corps ; photos by J. R. Howe.
Date: 14 x 22 cm- Pictures
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The British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London. Photogravure.
Date: 18 May 1935Reference: 35805i