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The history and art of printing. In two parts. Part I. containing I. A Concise History of the Art from its Invention to the present Time; with the several Charters granted to the Company of Stationers. II. Specimens of Printing Types of all Sizes, and various Languages, Music Types, Flowers and Ornaments. Part II. treating of I. The necessary Materials made use of in a Printing Office-Of the different Pounts of Letter, their Properties, Size, and Application; with Tables to shew the Difference there is between the several Bodies of Letter, and how one gets in or drives out more than another. - Of Points, Quadrate, Spaces, Rules, Braces, Quotations, Flowers, &c. &c. II. Of Printing Presses, their Construction and Use particulars described, with a Drawing of a Press, and of its several Parts, cut in Wood. III. Of Wetting Paper, Knocking up Balls, Pulling, Printing different Colours, and other necessary Rules and Directions for the Pressman. IV. Or the Compositor's Business, viz. Dressing of Chaces, Composing, Spacing, Tying up Pages, Imposing, &c. with a great Variety of Examples and useful Tables. V. Of Correctors and Correcting, with Directions to Authors how to mark Corrections in their Proof Sheets. VI. Of Casting off Copy. Vii. Alphabets and Characters of various Languages and Sciences. Viii. Of the Business requisite to be done in the Warehouse, and the Duty of the Warehouseman. IX. An Explanation of Technical Terms used in Printing. The Whole forming a more intelligible and complete Introduction to the Art of Printing than has been hitherto attempted, and containing a great Variety of Instructions and Examples that are not to be found in any other Performance. By P. Luckombe, M. T. A.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: [1771]- Books
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Theophilus clibber, to David Garrick, Esq; With dissertations on theatrical subjects. I. Of poets and actors, their antiquity, and estimation;- particularly among the Greeks and Romans:- acting of plays encouraged by the greatest men in all ages. II. Socrates, Epaminondas, Cs̆ar, Scipio, Brutus, Ciceso, &c. promoters of dramatic compositions, encouragers of actors, &c. III. The apostles no enemies to plays: quotations form Holy Writ, and of some modern divines in their favour. History of patents and licences, from Queen Elizabeth's time to the present, chiefly granted in favour of the actors. IV. Good conduct of Patentees: pantomimes exploded;- the ill usage of authors considered. V. Some new and revived pieces reviewed. The new manner of acting pointed out. An account of drolls, farces, mock opera's, &c. Extracted from Shakespear's multilated and macerated remains, by the Little Charlatan of the present stage. VI. The rehearsal versed,- mimicry an abuse; specimens of modern genteel comedy. Ditto of modern tragedy. VII. The new manner of acting the chances, - and the morals of that play enquired into. VIII. Seneca,- callipedes, - and a reigning actor, compared. The cause of spouters, &c. Adorn'd wtih a frontpiece, and curious copper-plate.
Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between E White and J B S Haldane
Date: Dec 1944 - Feb 1945Reference: HALDANE/4/20/1/21Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil / by D.D. Cunningham.
Cunningham, D. D. (David Douglas), 1843-1914.Date: 1885- Books
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The genuine and uncommon will of a clergyman lately deceas'd; whose son now deservedly possesses one of the highest stations in the church: containing his remarkable apology for adultery.
J. B. (John Butler)Date: [1750]- Books
Early English printing : a series of facsimiles of all the types used in England during the XVth century, with some of those used in the printing of English books abroad / with an introduction by E. Gordon Duff.
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863-1924.Date: 1896- Books
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An impartial and authentic narrative of the battle fought on the 17th of June, 1775, between His Britannic Majesty's troops and the American provincial army, on Bunker's Hill, near Charles Town, in New-England. With a True and Faithful Account of the Officers who were killed and wounded in that memorable Battle. To which are added, Some particular Remarks and Anecdotes which have not yet transpired. The whole being collected and written on the Spot. By John Clarke, First Lieutenant of Marines.
Clarke, John, active 1767-1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The American geography; or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A Concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With A Particular Description Of AtKentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To Which IS Added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with two sheet maps - One Of At The Southern, The Other Of At The Northern States. - From The Latest Surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The american geography; or, a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing Astronomical Geography - Geographical Definitions, Discovery, and General Description of America and the United States: - Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays and Rivers; Natural History; Productions; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, The Western Territory, and Vermont. - Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; &c. To which is added, An Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch Dominions in America and the West-Indies. - Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with Two sheet Maps - One of the Southern, the other of the Northern states. - From the latest surveys.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: M.DC.CXCII. [1792]- Books
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Exhibition of specimens / by Dr. Granville Bantock.
Bantock, George Granville, 1837-1913.Date: 1883- Books
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Fibro-sarcoma of the dura mater (card specimen) ; Multiple sarcomata in the cerebral hemispheres and pons Varolii, with entire absence of cerebral symptoms (card specimen) ; Psammoma involving the superior frontal gyrus of the right side (card specimen) ; Simply cyst occurring in the right lateral ventricle (card specimen) ; Sarcoma involving the left fifth nerve near its origin : multiple sarcomata of the body (card specimen) ; Primary carcinoma of the cerebellum : left lateral hemisphere (card specimen) ; Primary round-celled sarcoma involving the inferior vermiform process of the cerebellum (card specimen) ; A case of multiple intussusception ; Two specimens of osteitis deformans ; Intraosseous or central necrosis of the femur ; Central sarcoma of the shaft of the femur / by D'Arcy Power.
Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.Date: [1886]- Books
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The protical son: a Welch preachment, by the parson of Llangtyddre. On the return of his protical son. From these worts: - He went into a far country, and there spent his Substance in riotous Living. And when he had spent all, &c. Publish'd from an authentic manuscript.
Parson of Llangtyddre.Date: 1750- Books
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The protical son: a Welch preachment, by the parson of Llangtyddre. On the return of his protical son. From these worts: - He went into a far country, and there spent his Substance in riotous Living. And when he had spent all, &c. Publish'd from an authentic manuscript.
Parson of Llangtyddre.Date: 1750- Books
Commercial visions : science, trade, and visual culture in the Dutch Golden Age / Dániel Margócsy.
Margócsy, DánielDate: [2014]- Books
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The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I. The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II. Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to Custom-House, Military, and Engineer Officers. VI. Several valuable and approved Receipts in Physic and Surgery. Method of avoiding infectious Diseases; of Consumptions of the Lungs. Fly-Fishing and Angling. Directions for Swimming. Recovery of drowned Persons. On the Barometer, Thermometer, and Hygrometer; the Aurora Borealis. To estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two or three Lives, &c. &c. Begun by the late Mr. D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary, Universal Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. and continued by the Rev. J. Malham. Author of the Scholar's Plain and Familiar Guide to the Knowledge of Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Pocket Card-Dial, &c.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1788- Books
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A case of non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver ; Repair after rupture of the spleen and kidney ; The varying effects of violence in producing fractures ; Knee-joints seventeen months after Ogston's operation (card specimen) ; True adenoma of the breast (card specimen).
Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.Date: [1890]- Books
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An introduction to the law of tenures. By Martin Wright, Serjeant at Law.
Wright, Martin, Sir, 1691-1767.Date: [1750]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with J A Churchill Limited
Date: Sep 1960 - Dec 1960Reference: PENROSE/2/45/5/6Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
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Angioma of the cerebral membranes (card specimen) ; A submaxillary gland removed with an unusually large salivary calculus (card specimen) ; A case of congenital umbilical hernia ; Cases of sarcoma of the urinary bladder ; Simple comminuted fracture of the head of the tibia ; A parosteal tibia, or congenital fatty tumour, connected with the periosteum of the femur / by D'Arcy Power.
Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.Date: [1888]- Archives and manuscripts
St. Lawrence's Hospital
Date: Oct 1962 - Feb 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/42/8/1/21Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Pictures
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"Specimen studies" from the photographic studio of James & Co., Liverpool. Photographic postcard, 19--.
J.A. James & Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 2046811iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Archives and manuscripts
Hinden, Elchon
Date: Jul 1962 - Jan 1963Reference: PENROSE/2/20/16/51Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
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The polite correspondence: or, rational amusement; being a series of letters, philosophical, poetical, historical, critical, amorous, moral, and satyrical. Wherein Are introduc'd a great Variety of instructive and delightful Incidents, both in Prose and Verse. Among those of the Entertaining Kind, are, The Story of Alonzo and Elvira, - of Torquatus and Melissa - of Belinda and Adolphus. Remarkable Story of a Scottish Lady, - another of a Divine who married a Shrew. History of Sophronia, - of Phaon and Eliza - of Honoria and Myrtillo. - of Celadon. Adventures of a Foot-Boy. Pleasant Story of a Romish Monk, - of Pope Innocent XI. A strange Story of a Turkish Slave. An odd Story of a Criminal in the Inquisition, - Remarkable Accident in a Conclave. A short History of the Mounts of Piety, or legal Lumber Houses. Story of pretended Magician at Naples, - an Indian Tale, &c. &c. Poetry. A Birth-Day Ode, - Verses on the Power of Love. - The Bracelet, a Poem, - Life, an Elegiac Poem, - Verses on Hope, in the Manner of Spencer. - An Instance of British Poetry. 1200 Years old, - A Specimen of Saxon Poetry, - of Danish Poetry, - and several Specimens from various Nations - Verses by a Jesuit on the Death of his Cat, - A Poem in the Manner of Phaedrus, &c.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: 1750?]