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Photograph of a painting of Erasmus Darwin
Date: Late 18th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/1/4/7/5Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of a painting of Erasmus Darwin
Date: Late 18th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/1/4/7/4Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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The development of narrative practices in medicine c.1960 - c.2000 : the transcript of a witness seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 18th June 2013 / edited by E M Jones and E M Tansey.
Date: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Dalton
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7848/9-10Part of: Dalton, John (1766-1844), chemist, originator of modern atomic theory of matter- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipe Book, 18th and 19th Century
Date: late 18th century to early 19th centuryReference: MS.7978- 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]- Archives and manuscripts
De Fame Canina, seu Bulimo. De Cholera Morbus. Methodus Curandi Iliacam. [...] Sur une hydropisie laiteuse.
UnknownDate: 18th centuryReference: MS.9297- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Books
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A catalogue of all the entire and well-chosen library of the late Mrs. Letitia Wiggett, deceased, At her late Dwelling-House, in St. George's Colgate, Norwich: which will be sold by auction, by Edward Crane, on Wednesday the 28th inst. and two following days: Consisting of an Air Pump, Mathematical, Philosophical, and other Instruments. - Amongst the books are Picart's Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Spence's Polymetis, best Edition-Rapin and Continuation, 5 vol. - Montfaucon's Antiquities and Supplement, 7 vol. - Ancient and Modern Universal History, 27 vol. - Hill's Natural History of Fossils-Hook's Micographia, best Edition-Pennant's British Zoology, Elegant-Pitt's Atlas, 4 vol. Catalogues may be had at the Auctioneer's Upholstery Warehouse, White-Lion-Lane, Norwich, at 3d. each, which will be returned to every purchaser to the amount of five shillings. The whole to be viewed on Tuesday next from Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon 'till Three in the Afternoon. The Sale begins each Morning precisely at Half past Ten.
Crane, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]- Books
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A catalogue of pictures collected abroad by Mr. Edmund Glover, who is going to reside at Oporto, Consisting of several valuable painting by Old Palma, Castiglione, Guerchino, Rembrandt, Dominichino, P. Brill, Vandervelde, D. Teniers, Claude, Solimene, Bott, N. Poussin, &c. Also some curious bronzes: Which will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's great room in the Hay-Market, on Tuesday the 16th, Wednesdy the 17th, and Thursday the 18th of this instant March. -And on Friday the 19th, and the following days, - will be sold by auction, at Mr. Ford's, a collection of curious old Japan China, in jars, beakers, bowls, dishes, &c. several pieces of the brown edge, and some exceedings fine dresden. Rare old India Japan, in cabinets, chests, &c. beautiful inlaid tables; soem fashionable plate, jewels, watches, snuff-boxes, mathematical instruments, various curiosities, and rich lace heads of the newest pattern: likewise a chamber organ of an exceeding fine tone, two harpsichords, a chariot, &c. The said collections of pictures, China, &c. may be view'd at Mr. Ford's on Friday the 12th, and the following days till the time of sale, which will begin each day exactly at half on hour after eleven o'clock. Catalogues to be had gartis at Mr. Ford's.
Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757.Date: 1742]- Books
The artist's assistant : oil painting instruction manuals and handbooks in Britain, 1800-1900 : with reference to selected eighteenth-century sources / Leslie Carlyle.
Carlyle, Leslie.Date: 2001- Books
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Dengan sale. Part the first; containing the books. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library, prints, paintings, Statues, Music, Mathematical Instruments And Superb Furniture Of At The Chapel which belonged to the late Right Hon. Earl of Mornington, at Dengan Castle, and which will begin to be sold by auction by R. E. Mercier and Co. at their house, No. 31, Anglesea-Street, Dublin, on Monday 18th May 1795, And The Following Days, Until All Are Sold. The Library consists of near 10,000 Volumes; amongst which are the following: Addison's Works, 4 vols. 410. Fielding's Works, 4 vols. 410. Milton's Works, 4 vols. 410. Pope's Works, 15 vols. 410. Spencer's Fairy Queen, 3 vols. 410. Dives and Pauper, 1493. Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vols. Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vols. Arnold's Chronicle, or Customs of London. Fabian, Grasion, Halle, and Holinshed's Chronicles. Anecdotes of Painting, 4 vols. - Strawberry Hill. Willourbby's Ornithology. Morison Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, 2 vols large paper. Vitruvius Britannicus, 5 vols. large paper. Hogarth's Works, finest impressions. Darley's Comic Prints. Kip's Britannia Illustrata, 3 vols. Ionian Antiquities. Wood's Palmyra. Montfaucon's Antiquities. Spence's Polymetis, first edition. Evangelium Sanctum Arabice, 1590, Editio Princeps, a splendid copy. Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, 9 vols. Platonis, Serrani, 2 vols. large paper. Albertus, Magnus, typis Wilhelmum de Mechlinia. Aratus. Editso Princeps. Lucretius, 1486. Editio princeps. Lactantius, 1478. Martialis, 1475. Ovidius, 1486. Valerius Maximus, 1478. Magna Charta, a curious MS. Illustrious Heads, imperial paper.
R. E. Mercier and Co.Date: [1795]- Pictures
The dance of death. Oil painting.
Reference: 45066i- Books
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A select collection of modern poems. By several Hands.
Date: M DCC XIII. [1713]- Books
The Art of the first fleet : and other early Australian drawings / edited by Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler.
Date: 1988- Books
The art of describing : Dutch art in the seventeenth century / Svetlana Alpers.
Alpers, Svetlana.Date: 1989, ©1983- Books
The child in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / by Mary Frances Durantini.
Durantini, Mary Frances.Date: [1983], ©1983- Books
Others and outcasts in early modern Europe : picturing the social margins / edited by Tom Nichols.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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A collection of poems, moral and religious, selected chiefly from the most admired authors, both ancient and modern; interspersed with some original pieces, never before printed. By Thomas Matthews, of Bath.
Matthews, Thomas, of Bath.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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The pigeon-Pye, or, a King's coronation, proper materials for forming an oratorio, opera, or play, according to the modern taste: To Be Represented in Opposition to the Dragon of Wantley. By an admirer of bad composition, and author of - nothing.
Columbario, Christopher.Date: [1738]- Books
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A candid review of the exhibition (being the twelfth) of the Royal Academy, MDCCLXXX. Dedicated to His Majesty. By an artist.
Artist.Date: [1780]- Books
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New poems on several occasions, I. A short essay on the progress of English poetry. II. On the Rotund erected by Mervyn Pratt, Esq; III. To a Gentleman of Fortune, on commencing Holy Orders. IV. To a Friend in Sickness. V. To a Gentleman, who promis'd his Letter of Recommendation. VI. To a Gentleman, who promis'd me Mr. Addison's Works. Vii. A short Pastoral. Viii. On Christmas Day. IX. On Painting. X. To the Rt. Hon. the Lord Kingsland. XI. To the Hon. Thomas Coote, Esq; XII. An Epitaph on Steven Taffe, Esq; XIII. From a Gentleman to a Lady. XIV. An Elegy on Little Meredy. XV. On the Sawyers Procession. XVI. On the Boyn Rock. XVII. Verses, to the Air of Tweed-Side. XVIII. - to the Air of Bonny Jane. XIX. - to the Air of Bonny Broom. XX. A Valentine to a Girl, whose Mother makes Pyes and Tarts. XXI. To Mr. Stanley, apothecary. By Henry Jones.
Jones, Henry, 1721-1770.Date: 1735/6- Pictures
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An Indian person of high rank in a yogic posture (the bow pose, or dhanurāsana). Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 574888i- Books
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Love a la mode: or, the amours of Florella and Phillis. Being the memoirs of two celebrated ladies under those names: in which the whole circle of modern gallantry is display'd. Containing particularly, The Life of Florella from the time the Atalantis leaves her. Her Marriage to Lord Gratian. Her Intrigues after his Death. Her keeping an Irish Secretary who could not write. Her Marriage and extraordinary Proposal to-whom she sell in love with at the Masqu. Her Amour with the D. of W---- An original Song by the Duke. Her Husband's treatment of her. A Song on that occasion by Mr. K-n. The Family of Phillis. Her being stole by Mr. D---th of the Temple. Her Flight. Her Amour with Mr. D---ch who kill'd himself. - with G-l W-h. - Col. J-n. Her manner of meeting with L- L-rn. -Remarkable Trial for a Settlement. Her Marriage, Misfortunes, and Death.
Date: [1732]