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Lanzoni, Giuseppe (1663-1730)
Lanzoni, Giuseppe, 1663-1730Date: 1686-1716Reference: MS.3166- Pictures
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A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.
Reference: 34348i- Pictures
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Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching.
Reference: 34346i- Books
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The royal pastime of cock-fighting. Or the art of breeding, feeding, fighting and curing cocks of the game. Published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take Delight in that Royal, and Warlike Sport. To which is Prefixed, A short Treatise, wherein Cocking is proved not only Ancient and Honourable, but also Useful, and Profitable. By R.H. a lover of the sport, And a Friend to such as delight in Military Discipline.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1709- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 93A.
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The king of good-fellows: or, The merry toper's advice : Being a pleasant new song much in request. This is the man whose company once had, will make men cheearful [sic], though of late but sad: he hates curmudgeons, but does court the blade, that will spend free, for drinking is a trade; by it long nights flye swift, and seem but short, no pastime's like unto true tippling sport. To a pleasant new tune.
Date: [1684?]- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Officers of School Association
Medical Officers of School Association (f.1884)Date: c.1884-2005Reference: SA/MOS- Books
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Sports and pastime: or, Hocus-Pocus improv'd. Shewing, 1. To turn water into wine. 2. To convey a card out of a nut-shell. 3. To catch birds. 4. To take Eels. 5. To make sport with an Egg 6. To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief. 7. To wring Beer out of the Handle of a Knife. 8. Tricks with Tobacco-Pipes. 9. To win at Racing. 10. To know Cross or Pile by the Sound of Money. 11. To wrap one's Knuckles. 12. To make you laugh till the Tears stand in your Eyes. 13. To fox Fish. 14. A Philosoph-Experiment: 15. To cure the Tooth-Ach. 16. To bring 2 Pieces together 17. To win a Wager by feeling, 18. To take Conies. 19. To catch Wild-Ducks. 20. Sport with a Maid. 21. To make Liquor boil out of a Pot. 22. To prevent frothing Pots. 23. To Hatch-Chickens without a Hen. 24. Make it freeze by the Fire. 25. To take a String off a Pipe 26. To make good Sport. 27. To strike Chalks through a Table. 28. To convey Money away. 29. To play the wag with a Servant-Maid. 30. To make Sport with Bells. 31. Meat to seem Magotty. 32. To write invisible. 33. To cut the Blowing-Book. 34. To Engrave 35. The Egg-Box. 36. The Melting-Box. 37. The Globe-Box. 38. To cut Cloth, and make it whole again. 39. To make a Knife leap out of a Pot. 40. To take Buttons off a string 41. To cut Glass. 42. The Mosaick Rod. 43. To draw an Egg through a Ring. 44. To put Pease in your Eye. 45. Harts-Horn to make grow. 46. To write in a Dark-Night. 47. To walk on a hot Iron. 48. To eat Fire. 49. A Room to seem on fire. 50. To have a Sallad grow while the Meat roasts. 51. An Egg to fly in the air. 52. A sheet of paper call'd trouble-wit. With divers other legerdemain curiosities.
Date: [1705?]- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave Money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. To teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch kites, crows, Mogpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not see them. 11. To write Love Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl Venison, or any Flesh, sweet a Month. 15 To make a Drink when you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To fox Fish and Fowle. 17. To make one Candle out outlast three: 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent Plaistering for Ceilings or Wolls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great Variety of Innocent Sport and pastime. - Adorn'd with above AC curious Cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and ingenuity
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
Violent Victorians : popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London / Rosalind Crone.
Crone, Rosalind.Date: 2012- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 11
Date: 1909-1910Reference: WF/M/GB/01/12Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Non-medical notes
Date: 1894-1900Reference: MS.6806/8Part of: Falkener, Lyon (1867-1947) M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.- Books
Smokerama : classic tobacco accoutrements / Philip Collins ; photography by Sam Sargent.
Collins, Philip, 1944-Date: [1992]