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Pencil revolution : the walking issue. Issue XV, Vol. II no. 3 / edited by Johnny Gamber.
Date: [2021]- Books
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Catalogue of medical and other works, and portions of surgical anatomy : to be sold by auction, by Mr. Standerwick, at his spacious auction rooms, 1, Maryport Churchyard, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 1st & 2nd December, 1846, at one o'clock precisely.
Date: 1846- Books
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The poetical works of Dr. John Leyden : with memoir by Thomas Brown, and portrait from the original pencil sketch by Captain Elliot / [John Leyden].
Leyden, John, 1775-1811Date: 1875- Books
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Hay-market exhibition (now open) is a curious and valuable assemblage of five hundred pictures & drawings, and are all the property and works of Mr. Thompson, confessedly the greatest number ever exhibited. (in this or any other country) By the pencil of one master.
Thompson, William, approximately 1730-1800.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
OCD ain't a word : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.
Gamber, JohnnyDate: [2021]- Books
ADHD ain't a joke : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.
Gamber, JohnnyDate: [2021]- Books
Depression ain't the sads : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.
Gamber, JohnnyDate: [2021]- Books
Toxic positivity ain't so great : a zine about mental health / Johnny Gamber.
Gamber, JohnnyDate: [2021]- Books
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Every young man's companion. Containing. I. rules and directions for reading and writing English. II. A familiar Treatise of Rhetoric, suited to the lowest Capacity. III. Instructions in the Art of Penmanship. IV. Of the Care of forming the Manners. V. Directions for writing Letters, Forms of Address, &c. VI. Practical Arithmetic. Practical Geometry. Vii. Of the Creation of the World. Of the Books of the Old and New Testament. Viii. Of the Circles of the Globe, fixed Stars, Planets, and Comets. IX. Geography; containing the Divisions of the Earth. Of Climates; Explanation of the Terms; general Division of Earth and Sea; different Religions, Languages and Colours of the Inhabitants. Account of Europe, Great-Britain and Ireland, &c. X. Births and Characters of the Monarchs of England, from William the Conqueror to his present Majesty. XI. History of the World, from the Creation to the Assyrian Empire. XII. History of the four Great Monarchies. XIII. Course of Natural Philosophy. XIV. Plain Trigonometry. Astronomical Questions. XV. Dialling, Measuring, Surveying, and Gauging. XVI. Useful Receipts of various Kinds. XVII. Of artificial Fire-Works; how to prepare various Kinds. XVIII. Of printing Mezzotinto Prints, Window Blinds, colouring Prints and Maps, colouring in Oil and painting Timber Work. XIX. Forms of Business in the Mercantile Way, and Forms in Law of general Use. XX. Concise and easy Method of writing Short-Hand. XXI. Mystery of Free Masonry explained. XXII. The common Notion of Spirits, Apparitions and Witches; their Power and Feats exposed. XXIII. General & particular Directions for drawing with the Pencil, and shadowing with Indian Ink. XXIV. List of many things necessary to be known, & &c. Together with A Great Variety of cuts and tables. By W. Gordon, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Gordon, W.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The fables of John Dryden, ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The art of painting in miniature, on ivory, in the manner at present practised by the most eminent artists in that profession; comprized under the following heads: Viz. The proper colours for painting in miniature, the nature and properties of each, and manner of preparing them. The mode of choosing camol hair pencils. Instructions relative to the choice of ivory, bleaching and polishing it preparatory to beginning a picture. Method of managing the colours at the different sittings in taking a picture from life, or in copying from another picture. An original work never before published by John Payne. To which is annexed, the art of burnished gilding on glass, in a variety of branches, a matter known by very few, and at present in high estimation.
Payne, John, active 18th century.Date: 1797- Books
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Investigation of the cause of that indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, June 22, 1786.
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Culpeper's last legacy: left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publick good. : Being the choycest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in several sciences, more especially in chyrurgery and physick: viz. Compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pills, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers, the other of pestilence: as also rare and choyce aphorismes and receipts, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. The fourth impression; whereunto is added 200 choyce receipts, lately found, never publisht before in any of his other works; with a compleat table. / By Nicholas Culpeper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1668- Books
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Cummings's perpetual memorandum-book: for the use of all such whose business requires accuracy and dispatch: interleaved with his patent asses skin, together with a variety of useful and necessary tables, relative to persons in trade and business.
Cummings, G.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A specimen of sketching landscapes, In a Free and Masterly Manner, with a pen or pencil; exemplified in thirty etchings, done from original drawings of Lucatelli, after the life, in and about Rome. By William Austin. Published according to Act of Parliament, by the Author William Austin, in George-Street, Hanover-Square, where Drawing and Etching are taught in the most expeditious Manner. N. B. At the above Place may be had great Choice of Drawings, Etchings, and scarce Engravings, by the best antient and modern Masters, and every Utensil relating to the same.
Austin, William, 1721-1820.Date: 1781]- Books
Búfala e Senhora das Plantas = Buffalo and Lady of Plants / Rosana Paulino.
Paulino, RosanaDate: [2020]- Books
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Thomas Crosby and John Robinson, At the lower End of Fair-Street, upon Horse-ly-Down, in Southwark, sell all Sorts of Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, and Artificers Rules, Guaging-Rods, Quadrants, forestaffs, Gunters, straight or sliding; plain Scales, Compasses with or without Points, Cases of Instruments neatly fitted up for the Pocket, and all other Mathematical Instruments for Sea or Land. Also Sea Atlas's, English Pilots for the Northern, Southern, Streights, Guinea, West and East-India Navigation; Sea Charts, both Plain and Mercator, for all Parts of the known World; Globes of 3, 9, 12, and 16 Inches Diameter. Likewise all Sorts of Writing-Paper, and Paper Books neatly bound and ruled for Shops or Compting-Houses, fine Cards, Leather Cases, Pocket-Books, Slates, Quills, Pens, the best Ink and Ink-Powder, Leaden and other Standishes, Blacklead-Pencils, Wax, Wafers, and all other Stationary Wares. Also Weather-Glasses carefully fitted up and made portable; and the best Spectacles, Reading-Glasses, Burning-Glasses, Telescopes, Prospects, Microscopes, and other Optic Glasses. Likewise all Sorts of Bibles, Testaments, and Common-Prayers, Psalters, Accidences, Grammars, and other School-Books: And also Books of Divinity, Law, and History, and of any other Subject. N. B. At the same Place Young Gentlemen are boarded and expeditiously taught Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Navigation, Geography, Astronomy, And other Parts of the Mathematicks: Also the Italian Method of Book-Keeping, call[e]d Merchants Accompts, with the other Methods of Book-Keeping, as practised by Merchants, Shop-Keepers, and others.
Thomas Crosby and John Robinson (Mathemtical Instruments Sellers : Southwark, England)Date: 1740?]- Books
The planter's and mariner's medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children... / By James Ewell.
Ewell, James, 1773-1832.Date: 1807- Books
Wonder Woman. [No.] 67, Barren, cold and rocky / William Messner-Loebs, writer ; Paris Cullins, penciler ; [Brian Bolland, cover art].
Messner-Loebs, William.Date: 1992- Books
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Memoire sur l'usage œconomique du digesteur de Papin / donnée au public par la Société des Belles-Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Clermont-Ferrand. Par M. ***, avoc. anc. sécret. de la même Société et auteur des Ouvertures de paix universelle [i.e. F.G. Quériau].
Quériau, François-Guillaume, approximately 1714-1790.Date: 1761- Books
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Mr. Austin presents his utmost respects to the ladies and gentlemen of Bath, Bristol, and Cambridge, for their generous Proposals and repeated Invitations; the honourable Testimonies received from his Papils in and near London, has put it out of his Power to comply with any other Request at present. His plan is to attend his scholars in drawing, etching, painting, &c. at half his usual terms, and take off the Tax of Two Guineas Entrance, that Oeconomy and Generosity may unite in the Worst of Time;, as he has no other An bition than to assist to sweeten the Hours in the above delightful Studies. His Subjects for next Year are Etchings of the Grumblers, Groaners, Grinners, the Breaking-up of the Pump-Room at Bath, Quack Doctor, Camp Scene, Election ditto, Beauties of Cambridge, Cotillion, which he will execute in a free and easy Style with a Taylor's Bodkin. His new Method of restoring Old Pictures to their original Beauty, on the above Terms. Sixty-Three with bare Sixteen, Sure such Sighs were never seen; Now a Little Fairy dance it, Five and Forty Inches high; Then a Patagonian prance it, Cutting Capers to the Sky. Next advance Sir Chalkstone Hobble, Footing it with Lady Quick; But the Knight began to squabble, Spurn and mutter, prance and kick. N. B. The Humours of the Camps may be had at One Guinea, 10s. 6d. and 6s. the Set, in Portland-Road, Portland-Place, Door for Carriages in Norton-Street. Mr. A shall be ready to attend his Pupils when the Parliament meets, with his new-invented Hair-Pencils, properly prepaired, made of Fox Tails, called the Brush of Life.
Austin, William, 1721-1820.Date: 1780]- Books
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For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practise the noble and commendable art of drawing, Colouring and Japanning, a new and compleat drawing-book; Consisting of Variety of Classes, viz. Whole Figures in divers Positions, and all the several Parts of the Human Body from Head to Foot; light, airy, loose Landskips; Perspective Views of Sea-Ports, Forts, Ruins, &c. Being the close study, for a Series of Years, of the late Mr. Lens, Miniature-Painter, and Drawing-Master to Christ's-Hospital. In Sixty-Two Copper-Plates, engraved by himself. in sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Design'd chiefly for young Beginners, and now first published from the Author's Originals, very necessary and useful for all Drawing-Schools, Boarding-Schools, &c. &c. To which is prefixed, an introduction to drawing; Containing a Description of the Instruments and their respective Uses, and the Materials proper for Drawing; Rules for managing the Pencil, and the best Method for attaining Perfection in the Art; with Instructions by which a young Practitioner shall be enabled to from a Judgment as well of his own Performances as those of others; with easy, proper, and necessary Lessons for him at his first Entrance. Also, the Names of the Colours used, with Instructions to temper and mix them, and fit them for Painting. Likewise, Colours for washing Landskips, or Prints of any Kind; with plain and easy Rules for the Ladies Japanning. Translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C. A. Du Fresnoy.
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740.Date: 1751- Books
A system of phrenology / By George Combe.
Combe, George, 1788-1858.Date: 1830- Books
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Harris's list of Covent-Garden ladies: or, Man of pleasure's kalender, for the year, 1787. : Containing the histories and some curious anecdotes of the most celebrated ladies now on the town, or in keeping, and also of many of their keepers.
Harris, Jack, -1793 or 1794Date: [1787-1788]- Books
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A letter to Thomas Trotter : occasioned by his proposal for destroying the fire and choak damps of coal mines; containing chemical and general strictures on that work / by Henry Dewar.
Dewar, Henry, -1823.Date: [1805?]