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The finish'd rake; or, Gallantry in Perfection. Being the genuine and entertaining adventures, of a young gentleman of fortune. Faithfully extracted from memoirs written with his own Hand, and design'd by him to be publish'd, as is believed, had he not been prevented by Death. The whole being interspers'd with several Curious, Whimfical, and Uncommon incidents; particularly his intrigue with a fine coquette milliner, near one of our most noted Inns of Court, whilst he was a student.
Date: [1733]- Books
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Druggist's hand-book of American and foreign drugs, preparations, &c / sold by Cheney & Myrick.
Cheney & Myrick.Date: 1878- Books
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Short-hand contractions, adapted to every system of short-hand. To which are added a comparative table of short-hand alphabets; With two extracts from Coke, and the Hon. Mr. Erskine, by way of specimen. By E. Hodgson, professor of short-hand, author of a treatise on that art, on an improved plan, and short-hand writer to the session at the Old Bailey.
Hodgson, E. (Edward), active 18th century.Date: [1780?]- Books
Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries / by B.K. Rank, A.R. Wakefield, and J.T. Hueston; foreword by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor.
Rank, Benjamin Keith, Sir.Date: 1968- Pictures
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Muscles and bones of the hand. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
Gautier d'Agoty, A. E. (Arnaud Eloy), 1741-1771.Date: [1773]Reference: 32626i- Books
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The note of hand; or, trip to Newmarket. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane.
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.Date: 1774- Books
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Parish law: or, a guide to justices of the peace, ministers, church-wardens; overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of the highways, Vestry-Clerks, and all Others concern'd in Parish Business: compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books; as also from some adjudged Cases never before publish'd: Together With correct Forms of Warrants, Commitments, Indictments, Presentments, Convictions, &c. To which is added A Choice Collection of Precedents for Justices of the Peace, communicated by an able Hand. With a New and Correct Table. By Joseph Shaw, Esq;
Shaw, Joseph, 1671-1733.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The works of that learned and judicious divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in eight books of the laws of ecclesiastical polity, compleated out of his own manuscripts. Dedicated to the King's most Excellent Majesty, Charles II. By whose Royal Father (near His Martyrdom) the former five Books (then only extant) were commended to His Dear Children, as an excellent means to satisfie Private Scruples, and the Publick Peace of this Church and Kingdom. To which are added, several other treatises by the same author, all revised and corrected in numberless Places of the former Editions, by a diligent Hand. There is also prefix'd before the book, The life of the author written by Isaac Walton. To this edition is added a large alphabetical index.
Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And The many Errors in all the Books hitherto written upon this Subject clearly refuted. Illustrated with 38 cuts curiously Engraven on Copper Plates, representing in their due Proportion, the several Positions of a Foetus. Also A New Method, demonstrating, How Infants ill situated in the Womb, whether obliquely, or in a strait Posture, may, by the Hand only, without the Use of any Instrument, be turned into their right Position, without hazarding the Life either of Mother or Child. Written in Latin by Henry à Daventer. Made English. To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work by an eminent physician.
Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The causes of the great number of deaths in putrid sore throats, scarlet fevers, and yellow fever of the West-Indies and America, explained; with more successful modes of treating those alarming disorders; as practised at the St. Mary-Le-Bone infirmary. By William Rowley, M. D. member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, &c. and physician to the St. Mary-Le-Bone infirmary.
Rowley, William, 1742-1806.Date: 1793- Books
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Parish law: or, a guide to justices of the peace, ministers, church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of the highways, Vestry-Clerks, and all others concerned in Parish Business. Compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books; as also from some adjudged Cases never before published. Together With Correct Forms of Warrants, Commitments, Indictments, Presentments, Convictions, &c. To which is added, A Choice Collection of Precedents for Justices of the Peace, communicated by an able Hand. By Joseph Shaw, Esq;
Shaw, Joseph, 1671-1733.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Pictures
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A young man holding his hand to his heart, emanating insensible perspiration. Colour stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after E. Sibly.
Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.Date: June 20 1794Reference: 562828i- Books
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Parish law: or, a guide to Justice of the Peace, ministers, church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks, and all others concerned in Parish Business. Compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books; as also from some adjudged Cases never before published. Together with correct forms of warrants, commitments, indictments, Presentments, Convictions, &c. To which is added A Choice Collection of Precedents for Justices of the Peace, communicated by an able Hand. By Joseph Shaw, Esq;
Shaw, Joseph, 1671-1733.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
Sidrophel vapulans: or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket / by the author of Medicaster medicatus, [i.e. J. Young] In an epistle to W[illia]m S[almo]n. With a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurrilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of a Blue Book. By the same hand.
Yonge, James, 1647-1721.Date: 1699- Pictures
A wounded hand using a key to gain access to health services. Colour lithograph by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1937.
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954.Date: 1937Reference: 11998i- Books
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The art of fortification delineated: with rules for designing, drawing, washing, and colouring, in the most elegant taste, particular works and buildings, and their Plans, Elevations, Sections, Profiles, and Fronts, in Civil and Military Architecture: As likewise The intire Survey of a Place with its particular Charts, and the Description of Provinces, States, Kingdoms, Empires, &c. A Work absolutely necessary for the Gentleman, Officer, and Architect. Translated by J. Dinsdale. Adorn'd with twenty-three cuts, engrav'd by G. Bickham.
Buchotte, M., active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Pictures
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Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 20726i- Pictures
A wounded hand using a key to gain access to health services. Colour lithograph by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1937.
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954.Date: [1937]Reference: 22676i- Books
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The landscape. A poem. The third edition, revised and improved by the author. Together with some occasional verses by the same hand, not hitherto published.
Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney-General against Thomas Paine for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the Crown and regal government as by law established; and also upon the Bill of Rights, the Legislature. Government, Laws, and Parliament of this Kingdom, and upon the King. tried by a special jury in the Court of King's Bench, Guild-Hall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792. Before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: 1793- Pictures
A hand holding a paint-brush juxtaposed with a hand holding a hypodermic syringe; advertising an exhibition on art and medicine. Colour lithograph after J. Carlu, 1964.
Carlu, Jean, 1900-1997.Date: 1964Reference: 675189i- Books
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Three sermons preached [at] the meeting house of the people commonly called Quakers, in Houndsditch. On Tuesday evening, July 19th, 1796. The two first by Mr. William Savery, and the last by Mr. George Dillwyn, of North America. Taken in short-hand by Job Sibly.
Savery, William, 1750-1804.Date: [1796]- Books
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The mystery of the seven stars in Christ's right hand: open'd and apply'd in a sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Dorby, to the pastoral care of the Second Church in Scituate: November 13. 1751. By Ebenezer Gay, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Hingham. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Gay, Ebenezer, 1696-1787.Date: 1752- Books
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An alarm, or three sermons preached at the meeting house of the people commonly called Quakers, in Hounsditch. On Tuesday evening, July 19th, 1796. The two first by Mr. William Savory, and the last by Mr. George Delvin, of North America. Taken in short-hand by Job Sibly,
Savery, William, 1750-1804.Date: [1796?]- Books
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The Lady Moor's drops : Rightly prepar'd by Mr. Wells, at his house in Long-Acre, against the Blew-Ball near Drury-Lane: being the only one that hath the true receipt from the Lady's son, as may be seen under his hand and seal.
Wells, Mr.Date: 1700?]