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Greek and Arabic medicine (Dr. Vivian Nutton, Wihm).
Date: 1985- Books
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The whole works of Flavius Josephus: containing I. The Antiquities of the Jewish People, in Twenty Books. The Wars of the Jews with the Romans, from their Commencement to the final Destruction of Jerusalem, by Titus, in the Reign of Vespasian. In Seven Books. III. The Two Books of Josephus, in Defence of the Jewish Antiquities, against Apion. IV. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. V. Account of Philo's Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to the Emperor Caius Caligula. VI. The Life of Flavius Josephus, as written by Himself. Vii. The Testimonies of Josephus, concerning Our Blessed Saviour, St. John the Baptist, &c. &c. &c. To which is added, a continuation of the history of the Jews, from the death of Josephus to the present time. Also, notes - explanatory, historical, Biographical, Classical, Critical, and Geographical, With Marginal References And Copious Indexes. Likewise Tables of the Jewish Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. The whole newly translated from the original Greek. By Ebenezer Thompson, D.D and Wm. Chas. Price, LL.D. A new edition, revised, corrected, and greatly improved. Embellished with copper-plates.
Josephus, Flavius.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern; containing, An Account of the Political State, and Principal Revolutions of the most Illustrious Nations in Ancient and Modern Times; their Manners and Customs; the Local Situation of Cities; especially of such as have been distinguished by Memorable Events: With an abridgement of the fabulous history or mythology of the Greeks. To which is prefixed, An Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography, from the earliest Periods to the Time of Sir Isaac Newton: Also, a brief Account of the Principles of the newtonian philosophy, occasionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the General and Particular Properties of Matter; the Air, Heat and Cold Light, and its Effects; the Laws of Motion; the Planetary System, &c. - With a Short Description of the Component Parts of the Tereaqueous Globe, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the more accurate Discoveries of Modern Chemists. Designed chiefly to connect the Study of Classical Learning with that of General Knowledge. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the high school of Edinburgh. The second edition, corrected, To which is added, a geographical index, containing the Latin names of the principal countries, cities, Rivers, and Mountains mentioned in the Greek and Roman Classics; With the Modern Names subjoined. Illustrated with maps.
Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.Date: 1797- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine / Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev.
Amar, ZoharDate: 2017- Books
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A catalogue of a curious collection of books: containing Ten Thousand Volumes, in all Branches of Learning, of the best Authors, In Divinity, History, the Greek and Roman Historians, Poets, Orators, &c. Poetry, Painting, Medicine, Surgery, Philosophy, Mathematicks, &c. in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and English. The Books are in elegant Condition. Amongst which are the following, General Dictionary, 10 vol. Dict. de Bayle, 5 tom. Par. Dict. de Trevaux, 5 tom. Dict. de Moreri, 6 tom. H. Stephani Thesaur. cum Glossar. 5 tom. Char. min. Suidae Lexic. 3 tom. Ch. max. & min. Constantini Lexicon, Edit. opt. Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 tom. Plutarchi Opera, Gr. Lat. 2 t. Par. Plinii Harduini, 3 t. Ch. max. & min. Aristophanes Kissteri, Gr. & Lat. Lucian Bourdeletius - Polybius Casauboni - Zenoph. Leunelavii Dion. Halicarnassus, Hudsoni, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus Rhodomanni Gale's Herodotus-Paufanias Khunii Pindar, Gr. Lat. Ox. - Strabo 1707 Buckley's Thuanus, 7 tom. Septuaginta, Graece, Romae Com. Prayer of Edward VI. 1st Edit. Critici Sacri, 9 tom. Picart's Ovid, fine Cuts Works of Tillotson, 3 vol. - Barrow. 2 vol. - Jackson, 3 vol. - Bingham, 2 vol. - Prideaux, 2 vol. -Clarke, 4 vol. - Beveridge, 2 vol. &c. New System of Geography, 2 vol. Universal History, 8 vol. Moreton's Northamptonshire, large and small Paper, and several of the Counties. State Trials, 8 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Spence's Polymetis, fine Cuts Salmon's Modern History, 3 vol. Giannone's Naples, 2 vol. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Hawkins's Scatutes, 6 vol. and 7 vol. of Acts Anstis's Regist. of the Garter, 2 vol. Cooper's Anarom and on the Muscles Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. coloured Wallis Opera omnia, 3 tom. Hooke's Micrographia. With many Hundreds more in Folio, Quarto and Octavo, equally good, which will be Sold (very cheap) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday the 15th of May 1749, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Round Court in the Strand, against York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had Gratis at the following Booksellers, viz. Mr. Strahan's, Cornhill; Mr. Osborne's, Pater-Noster-Row; Mr. Lewis's, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley's, in New-Bond-Street, Mr. Jackson's, in St. James's street; Mr. Owen's, next the Devil Tavern, Fleet-Street; and at the Place of Sale: Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1749]- Books
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Hippocrates : a bibliographical demonstration in the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 23rd November, 1891 / by James Finlayson.
Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.Date: 1892- Books
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Medical epigraphs in the British Museum / by J. Keser.
Keser, Jean Samuel.Date: 1893- Books
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Adversaria medico-philologica / by W.A. Greenhill.
Greenhill, William Alexander, 1814-1894.Date: [1864-1872]- Books
Nature and society in historical context / edited by Mikuláš Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge, Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and Bo Gustafsson, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala.
Date: 1997- Books
Antonio Cocchi : scritti scelti / introduzione e cura di Simone Contardi.
Cocchi, Antonio, 1695-1758.Date: 1998- Books
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The works of Homer, the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
Homer.Date: [1780]- Books
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La médecine dans Homère, ou, Études d'archéologie sur les médecins, l'anatomie, la physiologie, la chirurgie et la médecine dans les poèmes homériques / par Ch. Daremberg.
Daremberg, Charles, 1817-1872.Date: 1865- Books
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Anatomiia (normal'naia i patologicheskaia) v drevneevreiskoi pis'mennosti i otnozhenie eia k drevnegrecheskoi meditsiny, istoriko-meditsinskii etiud : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / L'va Katsenel'sona.
Katsenel'son, Lev Izrailevich, 1847-1917.Date: 1889- Books
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A catalogue of the entire collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals, in gold, silver, and copper: With a select Assemblage of Antiquity in Bronze, Earthenware, and choice painted Glass. Early-Printed Books; Engravings and Drawings, antient and modern. Likewise a neat Variety of Shells, and other Subjects of natural History; Curiosities from the new-discovered Islands in the South Seas, &c. Being the property of the late Mr. John White, Of Newgate-Street, London. Part I. consisting of Coins, Medals, and Books on Coins and Medals, Which, by Order of the Executor, Will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard, At his House, in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho; On Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, of February, 1788. To be viewed on Monday the 25th, and Tuesday the 26th, from Ten till Four. Catalogues to be had at Mr. Gerard's aforesaid; and at No. 32, Newgate-Street. - Conditions of Sale as usual.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1788]- Books
Aspects of women in antiquity : proceedings of the first Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity, Göteborg 12 - 15 June 1997 / edited by Lena Larsson Lovén & Agneta Strömberg.
Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity 1997 : Göteborg, Sweden)Date: 1998- Books
Psychoanalytic scholia on the Homeric epics / By Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis.
Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I.Date: [2015]- Books
Galen : commentary on Hippocrates' epidemics book VI, parts I-VIII : edition of the Arabic version and English translation / by Uwe Vagelpohl.
GalenDate: 2022- Books
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A catalogue of a large and valuable collection of books, Containing near Six Thousand Volumes, In most Parts of Polite Literature, in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English; In which is included, The library of the Rev. Mr. Cleave Greenhill, Late of Abbot's Langley, in Hertfordshire, deceas'd. Amongst the folio are, Collection of Voyages, 6 vol. Harris's Voyages; new Edit. 2 vol. State Trials, new Edit. 6 vol. Guthrie's History of England, 2 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Chamber's Dictionary, 2 vol. best Edit. Bacon's Works, 4 vol. Anstis's Order of the Garter, 2 vol. Hollinshed's Chronicle, 2 vol. Patrick, Lowth and Whithy, 6 vol. Salmon's modern History, 3 vol. Compleat System of Geography, 2 vol. Bacon's Abridgment, 3 vol. Year Books, best Edit. compleat Dictionaire & Oeuvres de Bayle, 9 vol. L'antiquite Expliq. par Montfaucon, 15 vol. Description de la Chine, 4 vol. Colonna Trajana & Antonina. 2 vol. Anatomia Demostrata di Lanciss Prospettiva di Roma di Rossi, Rom. Dutch Bible, with Cuts by Hoet, Houbraken and Picare, 3 vol. Statuarum Urbis Rom. Icones J. de Ruheis Perrier's Statues St. August. Op. Edit. Benedict. 12 vol. Biblia Pylyglotta & Lexicon, 8 vol. Grotii Opexa, 4 vol. Eait. Opt. Poetae Graeci Pr. Heroic. 2 vol. H. Steph. Steph. Thesaurus Linguae, Gr. 4 vol. - Latinae Lingitae, 4 vol. Sreidae Lexicon Kusteri, 3 vol. Xenophon Leunclavii, Gr. & Lat. Pyndarus, Gr. & Lat. Oxon. Dion. Cassius ... Gr. & Lat. Diod. Siculus ... Gr. & Lat. Lucianus Bourdelotii, Gr. & Lat. Plutarchus Xylandri, 2 vol. Dion. Halicarnas. Sylburgii, Gr. & Lat. Demosthenes Wolsii, Gr. & Lat. Platonis Opera, Gr. ap. Aldum. Libanii Opera, 2 vol. Gr. & Lat. M. Mairtaive Corp. Poet. 2 vol. ch. max. Raii Hist. Plantarum, 3 vol. F. Hildanus & Severinus, &c. &c. with several of the Classicks, in usum Delphini, Quarto, cum Notis variorum & apud Elzevir. Which will begin to be Sold Cheap, the Price printed in the Catalogue, this Day. By Charles Marsh, Bookseller, At Cicero's-Head, in New-Round-Court, in the Strand. Catalogues to be had gratis at the following Coffee-Houses, St. James's, St. James's-Street; Exchequer, Westminster-Hall-Gate; Temple-Exchange, Fleet-Street; St. Paul's, St. Paul's Church-Yard; at Mr. Steydel's, Bookseller, in Bond-Street; Mrs. Nutt's, at the Royal-Exchange; and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library.
Marsh, Charles, -1782.Date: 1747?]- Books
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Observations on the manners, government, and policy of the Greeks. Translated from the French of the learned Abbé Mably. With notes and illustrations by Mr. Chamberland.
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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How modern science came into the world : four civilizations, one 17th-century breakthrough / H. Floris Cohen.
Cohen, H. FlorisDate: [2010], ©2010- Books
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A catalogue of a neat collection of books, In Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, Chiefly in very good Condition, and many of them in Russia, Morocco, and other elegant Bindings. Among which are Folio. Wood's Conveyancing, 3 vol. Cumyns's Digest, 5 vol. Lord Raymond's Reports, 2 vol. Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 2 vol. Coke an Littleton, best Ventries, best Vernon, 2 vol. Strange, 2 vol. Rapin, 5 vol. Heads and Maps Biograph. Brit. 7 vol. Biograph. Brit. 7 vol. l. p. Russia. Camden's Britannica, 2 vol. - 1722 Dugdale's St. Pauls, largest paper. Drake's York. Bp. Nicholson's Hist. Library 1736 Harris's Voyages, 2 vol. Pocock's Travels, 2 vol. Russia. Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Diction. de Bayle, avec. le Sup. 8 t. Chambers's Dictionary, 2 vol Postlethwaite's Dictionary, 2 vol. Duncan's Caesar. Hill's Fossils, large paper, cuts colour'd. Locke's Works, 3 vol. Russia. Ship of Fools, black letter. Baskett's Bible, 2 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. l. p. Stackhouse's Bible, 2 vol. A.Bp. Tillotson's Works, 3 v. best. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitbey, 6 v. Clarke's Works, 4. vol. Russia. Barrow's Works, 2 vol. best. Caesaris Comment. Clarke. Thucydides Duckeri. Hoffmanni Opera Omnia, 6 vol. Quarto. Camb. Classics, 4 vol. Ciceronis Opera Oliveti, Par. 1740 Zenophon Hutchinsoni, 2 vol. Tacitus Gronovii, 2 vol. Suetonius Pitici, 2 vol. Virgil Masvicii, 2 vol. Juvenal, Virgil, Terence, &c. Delp. Harlian Miscellany. 8 vol. Russia. Sully, 3 vol. Hook, 3 vol. Russia. Bp. Newton's Milton, 3 vol. Mor. Jarvis's Don Quixote, 2 vol. Mor. Carter's Epictetus, Morocco. Doddridge, 6 vol. Oeuvres de Moliere, 6 tom. 1734 Don Quixote, 4 tom. Octavo. Ancient and Modern Hist. 64 vol. Parliament. History, 24 vol. Hooke's Roman Hist. 9 vol. Tillotson, Atterbury, Sherlock, Reading, Seed, Sharp, Sermons. Livius, Polybius, Ovidius. Catull, &c. Statius, Plautus. Terentius. &c. &c. Not. Var. Which will begin Selling (for Ready Monly only) on Monday the 21st. of March 1768; and continue on Sale 'till all are Sold, By Joseph White, Bookseller, At the Corner of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London; who gives the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
White, Joseph, -1791.Date: 1768]- Books
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A catalogue for the year 1764, of the libraries of the Rev. Mr. Wood, of the Isle of Wight; the Rev. and learned Dr. Umfrevile; Peter Davall, Esq; late Accomptant-General; William Bussiere, Esq; Surgeon to King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George the First and Second, and many others, lately deceased; Containing above One Hundred Thousand Volumes, Of the most Scarce and Valuable Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Books of Prints, &c. In all Languages, Arts and Sciences, viz. The Histories, Antiquities, Laws and Customs of the various Nations of the known World, with the most eminent Voyages and Travels; A Capital Collection of Prints and Books of Prints, by the greatest Masters of the Italian, French and Flemish Schools; A Noble Collection of Antient Manuscripts on Vellum; The Pompous Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, Lexicons and Critics. A Large Collection of Authors on Antiquity, Medals, Mathematicks, Physic, Surgery and Natural History; The Antient and Modern Authors of the Histories and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland; Great Numbers of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers; Several Magnificent Bibles in Various Languages; With near a Complete Collection of Common Law. Several of the Books are on large Paper, in Morocco, and other rich Bindings. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Prices printed in the Catalogue, without any Abatement, for ready Money only) at T. Osborne's, in Gray's Inn, this day, and, for the Conveniency of the Nobility and Gentry who live at a Distance, will continu daily selling to the 1st of January, 1765. Catalogues may be had at all the chief Cities and noted Towns in Europe, and at the Place of Sale; where may be had Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, Prints, Books of Prints and Manuscripts. As the Proprietor has been at great Expence in purchasing these several Libraries, which excels most Collections in the Value and Number of Volumes it contains, he hopes that it deserves a particular Regard from the Learned. - There are likewise to be disposed of, the Manuscript Sermons of the Rev. Mr. Harris of Hornchurch and Rumford, and some other eminent Divines.
Osborne, Thomas, -1767.Date: 1764]- Books
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A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern; containing, an account of the political state, and principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations in ancient and modern times; their Manners and Customs; the Local Situation of Cities, especially of such as have been distinguished by Memorable Events: With An Abridgement of the Fabulous History or Mythology of the Greeks. To which is Prefixed, An Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography, from the Earliest Periods to the time of Sir Isaac Newton: Also, a brief Account of the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy, occasionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the General and Particular Properties of Matter; the Air, Heat and Cold, Light, and its effects; the Laws of Motion; the Planetary System, &c. - With a Short Description of the Component Parts of the Terraqueous Globe, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the more accurate discoveries of Modern Chemists. Designed chiefly to connect the study of classical learning with that of general knowledge. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.
Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.Date: 1794- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]