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List of documents relating to Jean Louis Rast-Maupas (1731-1821), silk-processor
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/7Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
List of works by Jean Baptiste Antoine Rast-Maupas (1732-1810), physician
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/5Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, John William (1790-1835), surgeon
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/16-17Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Books
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Commercial tables . Exhibiting a View of the Weights, Measures, Coins, and Monies of France, compared and equalized with those of Great Britain. Containing Tables of French and English Weights, - of English and French ditto, - of French and English Cloth Measure, - of English and French ditto, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Dry Measure, - of ditto . . . ditto . . Liquid Measure, - of Coins, - of Money. Exchanges; comprehending Eighty-One different Rates, being all the Variations which occur in the practice of Exchange, from 27 to 32 inclusive, from 1 Livre to 30 Thousand; And a General Table from 40 Thousand to 1 Million. A Ready Reckoner in French Money. A General Table of Duties payable on Goods and Merchandize Imported from France. Forms of Bills of Exchange-French and English. To which is added, an ample Extract from the Commercial Treaty concluded with France the 26th of September 1786, in the French and English Languages. By a British merchant, formerly resident in France.
British Merchant.Date: 1790- Archives and manuscripts
Secreta Secretorum, France, 17th century
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.7298- Books
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Three addresses, to the proprietors of East-India stock, and the publick, on the subject of the shipping concerns of the Company. With their vouchers and documents. Originally published in 1791, 1792, and 1793. Together with A regular Account of the Proceedings on the Subject in the Courts of Directors, and General Courts, held at the India House. Including The Protests of Mr. Alderman Le Mesurier, Mr. Grant, and Mr. D. Scott. - The Letter of the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas to the Chairman, in consequence of Mr. Grant's Protest; sundry Letters of Messrs. Devaynes, Henchman, D. Scott, and other Gentlemen. - The Letters and Dissents of Mr. Money, Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Elphinstone, and Mr. Ewer, with Mr. Grant's Reply. - The Speech of Mr. Jackson, at the General Court, held on the 21st of Jan. 1795, when the Directors brought forward the Resolution come to in their Court, on the 18th of November, 1794, in consequence of the reference made them by the Resolution of the General Court, held April 3, 1793. - With Mr. Serjeant Watson's Amendment, disagreeing with the Court of Directors, &c. &c. Likewise An Extract from Mr. Newte's Letter to Mr. Dundas, on the subject of the Company's Shipping. The whole interspersed with a variety of Remarks, Comments, and Observations, published in order to convince the Proprietors and the Publick, how great a pecunia y stake they have in the Question, and to assist its approaching Parliamentary investigation. By Mr. J. Fiott, Merchant, of London.
Fiott, John, -1797.Date: [1795]- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, 18th century
Date: Mid 18th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.7747- Archives and manuscripts
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English Recipe Book, later 17th - early 18th century
Date: Late 17th century - 18th centuryReference: MS.7822- Books
Le premier [second, tiers] volume ... des croniques de France: dangleterre: descosse: despaigne: de Bretaigne: de Gascongne: de Flandres: et lieux circonvoisins. Avecques les grandes croniques des roys de France Loys XI et Charles VIII.
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, approximately 1390-1453Date: 1512- Books
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A catalogue of a select and valuable collection of ancient and modern books, in various languages. Containing, A considerable Number of very rare and curious Articles in the finest Condition. Also, An extensive Assortment of the best Modern Books in the most elegant Bindings. Including the Libraries of the late J. Mainwaring, M. D. an eminent Civilian, and a celebrated Collector, deceased. Among others equally curious are, Caxton's Game of Chesse. Caxton's Chaucer. Caxton's Cato. Caxton's Alain Chartier. Caxton's Catharine of Senes. Caxton's Bull of Pope Innocent for the Marriage of Henry Vii. and Elizabeth of York. several by Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Maclinia, and other early Printers. Books printed on Vellum. Books printed at Strawberry-Hill. Sir William Dugdain's Works. Most of the scarce English Topographical Histories. Early English Poetry. Chronicles, by Froissart, Higden, Hollinshed, Hall, Grafton, Fabian, &c. Romans de Chevalerie de la Table ronde Illuminated Missals and Mss. Mss. on English History and Antiquities. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 5 vol. Morocco. Hill's Vegetable System, coloured, 26 vol. Merian's Surinam Insects, coloured. Knorr's Shells, coloured. Martyn's Shells, painted. Lister's Shells, orig. edit. large paper. Hamilton's Sicilies, coloured, 3 vol. - Etruscan Vases, coloured, 4 vol. Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 vol. Voyages Pittoresques de la Grece, de Naples, de France, de Sicile, de Suisse, &c. 18 vol. Houbraken's Heads, large paper. Perrault Hommes Illustres, lar. pap. Vandyke's Heads. Claude's Drawings, Proofe. Pilastres of the Vatican, coloured. Cielings of the Vatican, coloured. Oeuvres de Buffon, 33 vol. complets. - de Voltaire, 30 vol. - de Rousseau, 30 vol. Tasso, 3 vol: 4 to. par Didot. Which will begin to be sold, for Ready Money, at the Prices fixed in the Catalogue, and marked in the first Leaf of each Book, in May 1787, at Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall. - The full Value given for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had of Mr. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Place of Sale; also at Edwards's, Halifax.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1787]- Books
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Snelling on the coins of Great Britain France and Ireland, &c. in detached pieces, as follows: I. Gold Coin and Coinage of England, from Henry III. to the present Time. II. Silver Coin and Coinage of England, from the Conquest to the present Time. III. Copper Coin and Coinage of England, including Town Pieces and Tradesmen's Tokens. IV. Silver Coin and Coinage of Scotland, from Alexander I. to the Union of the Two Kingdoms. - To which is added Four Plates of the Gold Billon and Copper Coins of that Kingdom. V. Gold, Silver, &c. Coins struck in France by English Princes-Coins struck by the East India Company-Coins struck in the West India Colonies, and in the Isle of Man-Pattern Pieces for Gold and Silver English Coins-Gold Nobles struck abroad in Imitation of English, and Counterseit Sterlings. VI. Irish Coins in Silver and Copper, before and from the Conquest to the present Reign, being a Supplement, (with great Additions) to Simon's Irish Coins. Vii. Origin, Nature and Use of Jettons or Counters, especially those called Black Money and Abbey Pieces, and the Manner of reckoning with them. The whole containing seventy copper plates.
Snelling, Thomas, 1712-1773.Date: [1762-74]- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A stippled impression of a woman pulling away from a man on a bed pulling her skirt up; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Eugenio Dittborn, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676037i- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1783. Containing Fifty-Two Ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; also Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. The two Houses of Parliament, with an English Translation of the Mottos of the Peers. Abstracts of several Acts of Parliament passed last Sessions General Hints to Travellers. Stage - Coaches and Diligences of France, with their Hours of Setting out, and the Prices they charge; also the Time you are upon the Road. Price of Post Horses all over Europe. Account of the Money of the different Countries of Europe. General Table of Stamp Duties. Dividend and Transfer Days Instructions for doing Business at the different Offices of the Bank. Instructions for writing a Short-Hand. Term Table, with the Returns. Useful Maxims in Law. Tables of Wages, Salaries, and Incomes. List of Bankers. Tables for Buying and Selling by Weight or Measure. A Catalogue of Useful Things which every Man should be acquainted with. Interest Tables. Annuity Tables. Tables in Arithmetic, upon a new and concise Plan. And sundry other Articles, for which we refer the Reader to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1783]- Books
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Bibliotheca Gordoniana: or, a catalogue of valuable and scarce books, chiefly collected by Mr. Gordon, in his Travels through France, Italy, &c. with some curious Manuscripts. To which is Added, The Library of a Student at Cambridge (both Deceas'd.) Many curiously bound in French, &c. binding; all gilt Back or Letter'd. Among many valuable ones are the following, viz. Folio's. Antoniana Margarita, par Peireiram Corio Tursico, Lib. rariss. 2 tom. Postelli de Concordia. Buxtorf's Heb. Bible, 2 vol. Baronii Annales & Ozovio Continuatio, 17 vol. Religious Ceremonies, 4 vol. with fine Cuts, royal Paper, finely bound. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. compleat. Whitby, Burkitt, Burnet, Barrow, &c. Works. D'achery Spicelegium, 3 vol. Several of the Byzantine Historians, Paris Edit. Antonio Bib. Vetus Hispana, 2 tom. Mattair's Marmora - Oxon. Reyneri de Antiquitate Benedictionorum in Anglia. Father Montsaucon's Antiq. 10 vol. in French, royal Paper, finely bound. Voyages de la Motraye, 2 Tom. grand & petit Papier, avec fig. Sandford's Coronation of K. James II. with the Cuts, beautifully colour'd. Capt. Johnson's Hist. of all the Pyrates Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. with 26 curious Cuts. Quarto. Albin's Spiders and Insects, colour'd. Six Volumes of Manuscripts wrote by the famous Comte de Boullainvilliers (author of the Etat de la France, 3 vol. Fol.) very fairly wrote, well preserv'd, and bound exceeding neat. Six Vols. of Mss. relating to Magick, raising the Devil, &c. &c. &c. well preserv'd, suppos'd to have belong'd to the K. of France's Library. Which will begin to be sold very cheap, on Wednesday the 8th of this instant Sept. and to continue till all are sold. by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head, in Round-Court, in the Strand, opposite York-Buildings. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of Sale. Where may be had most Money for any Library or Parcel of Books, particularly Foreign, in any Language.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1736]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large and curious collection of books, In which are included the Libraries of Samuel Crisp, Esq; of Surrey, The Rev. Dr. Kennicott, of Oxford, And the Rev. Mr. Green, Deceased; And several other Collections; Also a great Number of scarce Pamphlets. Amongst the Books are, viz. Folio. Homer, Eustathii, 4 t. chart max. cor. russ. Idem. 4 tom. ch. max. cario russ. Glasg. Plato, Serrani, 3 t. corio turcico Astonomici Veteres, corio turc. ap. Ald. Politian, corio turcico ap. Ald. Theodori Gazae, corio russ. ap. Ald. Herodotus, Gr. lin. rub. elegantis. ap. Ald. Plutarchi, 2 t. cor. russ. - Vitae, Lat. 2 t. corio turc. 1478 Caesar, a Clarke, corio russ. eleg. Ptolemaeus, a Serveto, corio russ. Valerius maximus, edit, princeps, corin turc. Herodotus, Gronovii, chart. max. corio russ. Strabo Geograph. 2 t. chart. max. Montfaucon, 15 t. grand papier Mezeray Hist. de France, 3 t. moroq. blue Voyages par Le Bruyn, 3 t. grand papier Les Artes & Metiers, complete Blackwell's Herbal, 2 v. coloured, russia Sloane's Jamaica, 2 v. Brown's Jamaica Spence's Polymetis, best edition Florae Danicae, 5 t. colorat. Numismata, a Pembroche, ch. max. russ. Dict. de Moreri, 10 t. meilleur edition Meninski Lexicon, 5 t. in 4. H. Stephani Thesaurus Ling. Lat. 5 tom. chart. max. Biblia Heb. a Bomberg, 4 t. corio russ. Scheuchzeri Physica Sacra, 4 t. elegantis. Augustinus de Civitate Dei, cor. russ. 1470 Test. Gr. corio turcico Mabillon de Re Diplomatica Norden's Travels, 2 v. l. p. State Trials, 11 v. l. p. russia Dugdale's Monast. Anglic. 5 t. russia - Warwickshire, russia - Summons Chauncey's Hertfordshire Harris's Voyages, 2 v. russia Churchill's Voyages, 6 vol. Which will be sold, for Ready Money only, this Day 1784, and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne and Son, booksellers, At the Mews Gate, in Castle Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had, with Prices printed (price 6d) at Mr. Sewell's, Bookseller, Cornhill; Mr. Owen's, Bookseller, near Temple-Bar, Fleet Street; Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, Russel Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Walter, Bookseller, at Charing Cross; Mr. Robson, Bookseller, New Bond Street; of the Booksellers at Oxford and Cambridge, and at the Place of Sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of Books.
Thomas Payne and Son.Date: 1784]- Books
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A catalogue of books and prints; Containing several Valuable Collections, purchased in France and Italy. Amongst them are the following rare Books. Nuremberg Chronicle Ogilby's Homer, L. P. Houbraken's Heads Fuggerorum & Fuggerarum Ritratti D'uomini Illustri Toscani, 2 tom. Visscher's Bible Sandford's Coronation of James II. Medailles de Louis le Grand, L. P. Vandyk's Icones Icones Operum Misericordiae Museum Odeschalcum Bullart's Academie, 2 tom. Holland's Herologia Adnotationes & Meditationes, a Natali Carter's Antient Sculpture Campo's Cremona Froissart's Chronicle, MS. Epirres & Evan. Jehan de Vignay, MS. Passion de nostre Seignoir Jesus Christ, MS. MS. Missals MS. Bible MS. Paintings of the different Orders of the Romish Church Heures, printed on vellum Histoires Prodigieuses Prymer of Salysbery Expedicion into Scotland Rutter of the Sea. Golden Letany Heath's Chronicle Lessyons of Parliament Bayle's Dictionary, 5 vol. Burnet's own Time, 2 vol. L. P. Orake's York Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2 vol. - St. Paul's Duncan's Caesar, L. P. Edmonson's Heraldry, 2 vol. Fabian's Chronicle Fuller's Worthies General Dictionary, 10 vol. Guillim's Heraldry Horseley's Britannia Peck's Stamford Rapin's History, 5 vol. Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum Thoresby's Leeds Blome's Bible Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vol. Taylor the Water Poet's Works Galerie Francoise. Mezeray Histoire de France, 3 tom. Montfaucon Monarchie Francoise, 5 tom. Thevet's Portraits Antiquarian Repertory, 2 tom. Bentham's Ely Europe Illustre, 6 tom. Histoire des Ordres Monastiques, 8 tom. Antient and Modern History, 60 vol. Crantz's Greenland, 2 vol. Gale's Winchester Mackerell's Lynn Maundevile's Voyage, L. P. Willis's Notitia, 2 vol. Howard Earl of Surrey's Poems Linnaei Flora Laponica - Species Plantarum, 2 vol. Rossi Historia Regni Angliae, a Hearns Whitworth's Russia, Strawberry-Hill The Books in general are in exceeding good Condition, some of them in elegant Bindings; and are now selling very cheap. The Price of each is printed in the Catalogue, and marked on the first leaf; they are meant to be sold for Ready Money only, without excepting the Trade in Town or Country. By John Simco, Bookseller, No. 11, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Which will begin selling on July 1, 1788, and continue on Sale till all are sold. Catalogues to be had of the following Booksellers (price 6d, to be allowed to Purchasers of Ten Shillings): Mr. S. Hayes, No. 332, Oxford-Street; Mr. Taylor, No. 56, Holborn; Mr. Anderson, Holborn-Hill; Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row; Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; W. Brown, No. 210. Strand; T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall; and of Messrs. Fletcher, Prince, and Cook, Oxford; Mertill, Cambridge; the principal Booksellers in England; and at the Place of Sale. N. B. The full Value ... for any Library, or Parcel of Books.
Simco, John, 1749?-1824.Date: 1788]- Books
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A catalogue of a very large collection of good books, In most Languages, and in all Branches of Learning; Being the Libraries of Gibson Dalzell, Esq; The Rev. Mr. Davis, and of Dr. Woodhouse, &c. lately deceas'd. The Books are in fine Condition. Amongst which are the following: Journals House Commons, 23 vol. Guthry, Rapin and Echard's Hist. Eng. Madoxe's Works, 4 vol. Clarendon's Rebellion, l. p. 3 vol. gilt leaves. Horsley's Britannia Romana. Gibson's Cambden, 2 vol. Enderbie's Hist. Wales. Moreton's Northamptonshire. Chauncey's Hertfordshire. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. Burton's Leicestershire. Tanner's Notitia Monastica. Thurloe's State Papers, 7 vol. Honbraken's Heads of illust. Men. Wood's Antiq. of Palmyra. Mariana's Hist. of Spain. Mezeray's Hist. France. Duncan's Caesar. Bacon, Temple, Locke, and Milton's Works. Picart's Ovid, fine Cuts. Shakespeare's Works, 1st Edit. Travels, &c. by Harris, Pococke, Shaw, Churchill, Wheeler, Lebruyn, &c. Guicciardini Hist. D'italia, 2 tom. Tasso, con fig. - Ven. 1745 Opere di Tasso, 6 tom. Coneral Dictionary, 10 vol. Chambers and Supplement, 4 vol. Postlethwaite's Dictionary, 2 vol. Bayle's Dictionary, l. p. 5 vol. in Turkey. New Dict. Arts and Sciences, 2 vol. Ainsworth's Dict. 2 vol. Portuguese and Eng. Dict. Hen. Stephani Thesaur. 5 t. ch. max. Somner's Saxon Dict. Which will begin to be Sold very cheap, for Ready Money only, On Monday, January 24, 1757, and continue till all are Sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, In Castle-Street, next the Upper Mews Gate, near St. Martin's Church. Catalogues, with the Prices printed, Price 6 l. To be had of the following Booksellers; viz. Mr. Stahan, Cornhill; Mr. Payne, Pater-Noster-Row; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Lewis, Covent-Garden; Mr. Brindley, New Bond-Street; Mr. Jackson, St. James's street; Mr. Matthews, at Cambridge; 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: 1757]- Books
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The speech of Boissy D'Anglas, in the French convention. On Pluviose 11th. And adopted as the declaration and sentiments of the French people on the conditions of peace.
France. Convention nationale.Date: 1795]- Books
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A bon vin point d'enseigne, comédie-proverbe en un acte; représentée pour la première fois, sur le Théatre des Variétés amusantes, en 1781.
Plancher Valcourt, 1751-1815.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Pictures
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Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
Chevalier, Sabine Stuart de, active 18th century.Date: 1781Reference: 37282i- Books
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Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, Navigable Canal from London to Norwich and Lynn. By subscription, ready for the press, and speedily will be published, Price Five Shillings, half Bound, dedicated, by permission, to Thomas Bernay Brampston and John Bullock, Esqrs. Representatives for Essex; Sir John Rous, Bart. and Joshua Grigby, Esq. Representatives for Suffolk; Sir Edward Astley and Sir John Wodehouse, Barts. Representatives for Norfolk; a treatise addressed to the Nobility, Gentry, Land owners, Merchants, Traders, Farmers, and Manufacturers, of the Cities and Towns in those Counties, and also the City of London. Containing a full and particular account of the numerous advantages which will accrue to them, if a Navigable Canal was immediately cut from London through the interior parts of the above Counties to Norwich and Lynn. Pointing out The advantages which will accrue from such an undertaking, to the Kingdom in general, and to the Cities of London and Norwich, and Town of Lynn, in particular. As also to above sixty market and manufacturing Towns, and near seven hundred Villages, through and near which it is proposed to pass; which communication will always prevent a scarcity or monopoly of Corn or Coals in the London Market. Also, Shewing the amazing saving of land carriage, and the immense numbers of acres of land, now engrossed for growing of horse corn, only for horses employed in land carriage in these three Counties, which may be converted to other uses, as well as be the means of doubling, and in many places trebling, the value of land and produce, by a speedy, easy, and cheap conveyance to a market for consumption or exportation; and a certain and constant supply of oak timber for the royal navy, as 28,000 oak trees are proposed to be planted at proper distances, on the banks of the Canal. Including likewise, An estimate of the whole expence, and mode of raising the money necessary to carry it into execution, on the most easy, certain, and expeditious terms, and the extraordinary interest it will produce. As also a scheme for the repayment of the principal in a few years, and for rendering the shares of original Subscribers, a valuable and immense Freehold Income for ever. Illustrated with a Geographical whole sheet map of the passage which the proposed Canal is intended to take through the three Counties: As also with two views; the one of the Duke of Bridgewater's amazing Aquaduct over the River Irwell, in Lancashire, with his Grace's barges sailing thereon, forty feet above the river, and barges also passing under it, and on the river, at the same time: the other the view of the subterraneous passage of the great Staffordshire Canal above a mile under ground, at the great hill called Harecastle. The whole shewing the utility and importance of Inland Navigation. By an Essex Freeholder. At this present time, when the Princes of France, Poland, and Russia, are setting examples of this kind, for the promotion of commerce and agriculture, the Author flatters himself, the above work is not beneath the notice (if not of the Prince) at least of the present Prime Minister, the son of the immortal Chatham. Those Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who wish to promote and encourage this useful, instructing, and entertaining Treatise, are requested to transmit their Names as soon as possible, to the Printers of the Norwich, Ipswich, and Chelmsford News-Papers; Mr. Debrett, Bookseller, Piccadilly, or to Mr. Anrdews, Printer and Bookseller, No. 10, Little-Eastcheap, London; as it is intended only to print such a number as to answer the expected demand. N. B. No Subscription Money is desired till the Book is ready to be delivered, which will be on the first of December next at farthest, at which time the Book will be Delivered and the Subscription called for. - The Subscribers Names will be printed, if permitted.
Phillips, John (Surveyor)Date: 1784?]- Books
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Les derniers r̂'egicides: Ou Madame lizabeth de France, et Louis XVII. Causes premières de la révolution - esprit des républiques. Par M. le Chev. de M.....
M., M. le chev. de.Date: 1796- Books
La médecine sous la Révolution : Hospice de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 30 septembre - 7 octobre 1956 / [Guy Godlewski].
Godlewski, Guy.Date: [1956]- Books
Le monde médical parisien au dix-huitième siècle / par Paul Delaunay.
Delaunay, Paul, 1878-1958.Date: 1906