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Two green monsters among feet, boots, shoes and talons. Gouache by Francesca, 1973.
Francesca, active approximately 1974.Date: 15 June 73 [15 June 1973]Reference: 2928401iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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An owl with a bird clutched in its talons is disturbed by a dog. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43339i- Books
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A sermon preached at the cathedral church of Salisbury, October the 6th, 1745. on occasion of the rebellion in Scotland. By the Right Reverend Thomas Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Published at the Request of the Mayor and Corporation: but Re-Published by Mr. Whiston, with some Additions, 1745-6. To which Mr. Whiston has now added a new edition of his Explication of the fifth vision of the prophet Esdras, Lib. iv. Chap. 11, and 12. Concerning an Eagle, with XII Great Wings; Viii Small Wings; and III Heads; besides his Body, and Talons; to be destroyed by a Lion. First published on the Back of an open half Sheet of Proposals for my Authentick Records, 1725-6; and again in the Authentick Records themselves, 1727; and now a third Time, 1745-6.
Sherlock, Thomas, 1678-1761.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Pictures
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An eagle killing a snake with its talons. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.Date: 1690Reference: 42823i- Books
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Commentaire en vers sur les Aphorismes d'Hypocrate / Par le sieur Cabotin, advocat en Parlement.
Cabotin, A.Date: 1665- Books
Selections from the journals & papers of John Byrom, poet, diarist, shorthand writer, 1691-1763 / edited, with notes and biographical sketches of some of his notable contemporaries, by Henri Talon ; foreword by Bonamy Dobrée.
Byrom, John, 1692-1763.Date: [1951, ©1950]- Books
Commentaire en vers sur les Aphorismes d'Hypocrate / Par le sieur Cabotin, advocat en Parlement.
Cabotin, A.Date: 1665- Pictures
King David contemplating the deaths of kings. Engraving by C. Mellan, 1645.
Mellan, Claude, 1598-1688.Date: [1645]Reference: 2473888i- Pictures
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A Chinese warrior with mace in shape of an eagle's talon. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
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Plaidoyé [pour Claude Marsault ... et Demoiselle Eleonore Sauvage son épouse apellans] contre un enfant supposeé declaré imposteur [Jacques Joublot ... soy disant Jacques Marsault intimé] : prononcé en la Chambre de la Grande Tournelle du Parlement de Paris ... Avec l'arrêt et les conclusions de Monsieur l'Avocat General Talon / [Bénigne Lordelot].
Lordelot, Bénigne, 1639-1720.Date: 1686- Books
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Épitéliome du talon : développé autour d'un séquestre résultant d'une ostéomyelite ancienne du calcanéum opération de Wladimiroff-Mikulicz / par Paul Berger.
Berger, Paul, 1845-1908.Date: 1908- Books
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Tumor maligno del talón tratado por la operación del Wladimiroff Mikulicz / Pedro Chutro.
Chutro, Pedro, 1880-1937.Date: 1911- Digital Images
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Complete skeleton of a Harris' hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)
Michael Frank, Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Upper Palaeolithic period, view of gallery with heel prints.
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Plaidoyé [pour Claude Marsault ... et Demoiselle Eleonore Sauvage son épouse apellans] contre un enfant supposeé declaré imposteur [Jacques Joublot ... soy disant Jacques Marsault intimé] :bprononcé en la Chambre de la Grande Tournelle du Parlement de Paris ... Avec l'arrêt et les conclusions de Monsieur l'Avocat General Talon / [Bénigne Lordelot].
Lordelot, Bénigne, 1639-1720.Date: 1686- Pictures
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William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 November 1808]Reference: 38456i- Books
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Merry Andrew, 1702. Or, An almanack after a new fashion, for the year 1702. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Amplified with many conceits. Calculated by stargazical art, for the meridian of the cross Edinburgh. By Merry Andrew, professor of prediction by star-gazing, at Tam-Tallon.
Merry Andrew, professor of predictions.Date: 1702- Books
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Merry Andrew, 1708: or an almanack after a new fashion, for the year 1708 being bisextile or leap year. Wherein the reader may see (if he put on a pair of understanding spectacles) many things worthy of his choisest observation. Calculated by stargazical art, for the meridian of the cross of Edinburgh. By Merry Andrew, Professor of predictions by stargazing, at Tam-Tallon.
Merry Andrew, professor of predictions.Date: [1708]- Books
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Merry Andrew, 1710: Or An almanack after a new fashion, for the year 1710 being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein the reader may see (if he put on a pair of understanding spectacles) many things worthy of his choisest observation. Calculated by stargazical art, for the meridian of the cross of Edinburgh. By Merry Anderw, professor of predictions by star-gazing, at Tam-Tallon.
Merry Andrew, professor of predictions.Date: [1710]- Pictures
A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
James, Abraham., active 1800-1802.Date: 1 October 1800Reference: 18134i- Pictures
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The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46390i- Books
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Merry Andrew, 1711. An almanack, of the old and new fashion: being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. or, An ephemeris of the last, best, and newest edition. Wherein the reader may find (if he hath more brains than a butterfly) many remarkable things, worthy his observation. Calculated for the meridian of any place in Scotland, where they understand an ape from an apple, and a sucking pig from a hay-stack, and fitted for the noddles of most people's understanding. With a catalogus librorum and ponfonthonsoncausticon befitting the fag-end of an almanack. By Merry Andrew, professor of predictions by star-gazing at Tam-Tallon.
Merry Andrew, professor of predictions.Date: [1711]- Pictures
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A man is blown out of a window by an enema. Engraving.
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A deerhound sitting in front of its owner's writing desk. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after a painting by E. H. Landseer.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873.Reference: 40071i- Books
Les oeuures de Iacques et Paul Contant pere et fils maistres apoticaires de la ville de Poictiers. : Diuisées en cinq traictez. 1. Les commentaires sur Dioscoride. 2. Le second Eden. 3. Exagoge mirabilium naturae è Gazophylacio. 4. Synopsis plantarum cum ethymologijs. 5. Le jardin & cabinet poëtique. Auec les figures des plantes en taille douce.
Contant, Jacques, active 1570.Date: M. DC. XXVIII. [1628]