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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Travel and other documents issued to Luigi Schiassi (b. c. 1762) of Bologna, Doctor of Medicine, in Russia
Date: 1786Reference: MS.5866/1-7Part of: Schiassi Family, of Bologna- Archives and manuscripts
'Safari diaries' - accounts of Denis Burkitt's travels
Date: 1956-1976Reference: WTI/DPB/D/1Part of: Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)- Books
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An histori-Geographical description of the north and eastern part of Europe and Asia; but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary; Both in their Ancient and Modern State: Together with an entire new polyglot-table of the dialects of 32 tartarian nations: and a vocabulary of the Kalmuck - Mungalian tongue. As also, a large and accurate map of those countries; and variety of cuts, representing Asiatick-Scythian Antiquities. Written originally in High German. By Mr. Philip John von Strahtenberg, a Swedish Officer, thirteen Years Captive in those Parts. Now faithfully translated into English.
Strahlenberg, Philipp Johann von, 1676-1747.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Archives and manuscripts
Marketing - Photographic Scrapbook / Guard Book
Date: 1931 - 1960Reference: WF/C/M/PH/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A catalogue of prints and books of prints, both ancient and modern, after the most eminent masters. Among them are the following Books of Prints. The Works of Capt. Baillie Oeuvres de Phil Wovermans Oeuvres de Pillement, half bound Scenographia Americana Sadelar's Landscapes Oeuvres de F. K. Wierotter Perelle's Landscapes, Worlidge's Gems, 3 vols. Hayes's British Birds finely coloured Edwards's Flowers on 100 plates, do. Harris's English Insects, Moths and Butterflies Redinger's various coloured Horses Miller's Plants, done at Nuremberg Ovid's Metamorphoses The Life of Massachio, by Patch - Fra. Bartolomeo, ditto - Giotta ditto Barry's Charts of Nova Scotia, &c. The North American Pilot The American Atlas, by Jefferies The West Indian Atlas De L'isle's Atlas Dunn's Atlas Piranesi's Views of Rome Books bound in Russia, &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Johnson's Dictionary in 2 vols. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of Trade Beauwe's Lex Mercutoria Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vols. Harris's Collection of Voyages, 2 vols. Anderson's History of Trade, 2 vols. Hawkin's History of Music, 5 vols. Grose's Antiquities of Eng. and Wales Strut's Customs and Manners of the Ancient Inhabitants of Eng. 3 vols. Pennant's Tour to Scotland, 3 vols. Anson's Voyage Blackwel's Courtof Augustus, 3 vols. Hume's History of England, 8 vols 4 to Robinson's History of Scotland, 2 vols. Hooke's Roman History, 4 vols. Locke's Works, 4 vols. Bolingbroke's Works, 5 vols. Thompson's Description of the Royal Palace of the Escurial with plates Philosophical Transactions, complete Wards Justice, 4 vols. Lexembourg Gallery half bound. A Choice Collection of Metzotintos, First Impressions; many of them Proof Prints; all in fine Preservation and many very scarce. Likewise A Collection of fine Paintings. With an Appendix, containing. A Collection of Books, most of them in elegant Bindings, the lowest Price of each Article printed in the Catalogue By Hooper and Davis, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Catalogues to be had gratis, as above; at Mr. Ridley's, St. James's Street; Mr. Shropshire's, New Bond Street; Mr. Millan's, Charing-Cross; and at Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill.
Hooper and Davis (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1779?]- Books
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A tour from London to Petersburgh, and from thence to Moscow. By John Richard, Esq.
Richard, John, Traveller in Russia.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Philosophical, political, and literary travels in Russia, during the years 1788 & 1789. Translated from the French of Chantreau. With a map and other plates. ...
Chantreau, 1741-1808.Date: 1794- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Archive of AVERT
AVERTDate: 1980s - 2010sReference: AAU/AVE- Books
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Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to various parts of Asia. Illustrated with Maps. In two volumes. By John Bell, of Antermony. ...
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Voyages and travels through the Russian empire, Tartary, and part of the Kingdom of Persia. By John Cook, M.D. at Hamilton. In two volumes.
Cook, John, M.D., at Hamilton.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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On sledge and horseback to the outcast Siberian lepers / by Kate Marsden.
Date: 1892- Books
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An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. By Charles Lord Whitworth.
Whitworth, Charles Whitworth, Baron, 1675-1725.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia. ... By John Bell, ... In two volumes. ...
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: 1764- Books
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Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788. Translated from the French of M. de Lesseps, ... In two volumes. ...
Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, Baron de, 1766-1834.Date: 1790- Books
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Travels through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and the Holy-Land. Containing, among many other curious Particulars, I. A Description of Egypt, the River Nile, Pyramids, &c. II. A Description of Turkey, and of its Provinces and Islands. III. A Description of Syria, the Ruins of Palmyra, the Desarts of Arabia, &c. IV. A Description of the Holy-Land: Particularly, of Jerusalem, and the Holy Places; of Jericho, Jordan, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, &c. V. The Manners, Customs, Government and Trade of the Egyptians, Turks, Tartars, and Arabs. VI. Their Religions, Genius, Tempers, Persons, Habits, Diversions, Exercises, Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Interspers'd with many judicious observations. By an English merchant. With Explanatory, Theological, Historical, Geographical and Miscellaneous notes, by a gentleman of Oxford.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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A tour from London to Petersburgh, from thence to Moscow, and return to London BY Way Of Courland, Poland, Germany And Holland. By John Richard.
Richard, John, Traveller in Russia.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the close of the present century. By William Tooke, ... In three volumes. ...
Tooke, William, 1744-1820.Date: 1799- Books
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Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia. Containing, I. A journey to Ispahan in Persia, in the years 1715, 1716, 1717, and 1718. II. A journey to Pekin in China, through Siberia, in the Years 1719, 1720, 1721. With a map of the Author's two routes between Mosco and Pekin: To which is added, a translation of the Journal of Mr. de Lange, Resident of Russia at the court of Pekin, in the years 1721 and 1722. III. A journey from Mosco to Derbent in Persia, in the year 1722. IV. A journey from St. Petersburg to Constantinople, in the years 1737 and 1738. By John Bell, Esq; (gentleman in several Embassies to the Emperors of China, Persia, &c.) In two volumes. ...
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]