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Magic and masculinity : ritual magic and gender in the early modern era / Frances Timbers.
Timbers, FrancesDate: 2014- Books
The magical adventures of Mary Parish : the occult world of seventeenth-century London / Frances Timbers.
Timbers, FrancesDate: [2016]- Pictures
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A timber-framed house with exterior carved wooden panels, France (?). Photograph by the Bisson Frères, ca. 1860.
Bisson, Auguste-Rosalie, 1826-1900.Date: 1860Reference: 579915i- Pictures
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Woodmen driving an ox-cart carrying baulks of timber. Etching by F. Bracquemond after A. DuBuisson.
Dubuisson, Alexandre, 1805-1870.Date: 1857Reference: 485638i- Pictures
Carpentry: various types of bridge. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41000i- Pictures
Carpentry: a bridge suspended over a gorge (top), and plan and elevation of a swingbridge (below). Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41022i- Pictures
Pharmacie du Cerf, Strasbourg, France. Process print, 1935.
Date: 24 August 1935Reference: 22862i- Pictures
Carpentry: a sliding bridge (top), and a swivelling bridge (below). Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41021i- Pictures
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Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 41091i- Pictures
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Carpentry: inside a joiner's workshop, with men at work (top), various types of joint (below). Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41141i- Pictures
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Joinery: a joiner's yard, with men at work (top), various types of joint (below). Engraving by Defehrt after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41140i- Pictures
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Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, long section and plan. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 41088i- Pictures
Carpentry: a bridge on piles (top), and a drawbridge (below). Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41001i- Pictures
Carpentry: various types of timber house frame. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 40978i- Pictures
Carpentry: various types of joint (top), and "Henri IV" style half timbering (below). Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 40977i- Pictures
Architecture: tessellated ceilings, roof timbers, and coffers. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 44137i- Books
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The complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard: containing, I. The Customs and Prices of the several Artificers Work, relating to Building, such as Carpenters, Bricklayers, Stone-Cutters, Slators, Glaziers, Smiths, Plumbers, Painters, Plasterers, and Stucco-Mens Work; also Paper Hanging Measure; with Paving, and sinking Foundations. II. Proportions of Scantling in small and large Buildings. III. Allowances in Carpentry respecting Wainscot, Doors, and Trimming of Windows. IV. Prices of Scantlings (from 2 to 81/2 Inches) per Running Foot, governed by different Rates per Cube Foot. V. Allowances pointed out requisite for the various Defects which frequently appear in Timber. VI. Practical Measuring of Timber, Plank, and Board, customary in this City. Vii. A copious Set of Tables of Solid and Superficial Measure, shewing, at Sight, the Contents practically needful in this Kingdom, and now extended to 42 Inches in Breadth. Viii. Naval Measuring, or the Method of measuring Ships in Great Britain and Ireland. IX. A Method of finding the Content of a Cask of Liquor. X. Rate of Exchange with France, Spain, Holland, Hamburgh, Portugal, Genoa, and Leghorn. XI. A Table of the Prices of Mens Days-Work, at various Rates per Week of six Days, down to half a Day proportionally. XII. A Table of Guineas and Half Guineas, from 1, 11/2, and so on to 100. With a concise and easy method of keeping accounts by Day-Book and Leger. The Whole struck out in a Satisfactory Manner. By P. Levi Hodgson, Measurer, And a Practitioner in the Business for Thirty Years.
Hodgson, Ph. Levi.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Practical agriculture epitomized, and adapted to the tenantry of Ireland; with considerations upon the Dublin Society's premiums for husbandry, and a plan for an entire change of form therein; Interspersed with occasional Reflections, upon Variety of Interesting Subjects. Particularly. The French Nation near ruined by Colbert's rage for Manufactures. Wisdom of the English Nation at that Period. The astonishing Spirit now in France, amongst all Ranks of People to promote Agriculture. The spirited Exportation of Corn, a true Principle for increasing the Quantity and lowering the Price. Manufacturers working upon foreign Materials, burtful to the Nation. A Spirited Culture of the Land, the only source of Riches to the Kingdom. Misery of the Lower Tenantry. The present Course of Husbandry, and its unprofitableness to the Farmer, and lessening of Produce to the Nation. Improved Courses of Husbandry proposed. Ameliorating and impoverishing Crops distinguished. Instruction of Country Labourers in useful Arts of Cultivation, one capital Foundation of Improved Husbandry. Primary and Secondary Objects distinguished in a National View. The insufficient Population, and Hints for improving it. Waste Lands to be improved. Growth of Timber and Planting, whose immediate Province. Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of The Dublin Society. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, Navigable Canal from London to Norwich and Lynn. By subscription, ready for the press, and speedily will be published, Price Five Shillings, half Bound, dedicated, by permission, to Thomas Bernay Brampston and John Bullock, Esqrs. Representatives for Essex; Sir John Rous, Bart. and Joshua Grigby, Esq. Representatives for Suffolk; Sir Edward Astley and Sir John Wodehouse, Barts. Representatives for Norfolk; a treatise addressed to the Nobility, Gentry, Land owners, Merchants, Traders, Farmers, and Manufacturers, of the Cities and Towns in those Counties, and also the City of London. Containing a full and particular account of the numerous advantages which will accrue to them, if a Navigable Canal was immediately cut from London through the interior parts of the above Counties to Norwich and Lynn. Pointing out The advantages which will accrue from such an undertaking, to the Kingdom in general, and to the Cities of London and Norwich, and Town of Lynn, in particular. As also to above sixty market and manufacturing Towns, and near seven hundred Villages, through and near which it is proposed to pass; which communication will always prevent a scarcity or monopoly of Corn or Coals in the London Market. Also, Shewing the amazing saving of land carriage, and the immense numbers of acres of land, now engrossed for growing of horse corn, only for horses employed in land carriage in these three Counties, which may be converted to other uses, as well as be the means of doubling, and in many places trebling, the value of land and produce, by a speedy, easy, and cheap conveyance to a market for consumption or exportation; and a certain and constant supply of oak timber for the royal navy, as 28,000 oak trees are proposed to be planted at proper distances, on the banks of the Canal. Including likewise, An estimate of the whole expence, and mode of raising the money necessary to carry it into execution, on the most easy, certain, and expeditious terms, and the extraordinary interest it will produce. As also a scheme for the repayment of the principal in a few years, and for rendering the shares of original Subscribers, a valuable and immense Freehold Income for ever. Illustrated with a Geographical whole sheet map of the passage which the proposed Canal is intended to take through the three Counties: As also with two views; the one of the Duke of Bridgewater's amazing Aquaduct over the River Irwell, in Lancashire, with his Grace's barges sailing thereon, forty feet above the river, and barges also passing under it, and on the river, at the same time: the other the view of the subterraneous passage of the great Staffordshire Canal above a mile under ground, at the great hill called Harecastle. The whole shewing the utility and importance of Inland Navigation. By an Essex Freeholder. At this present time, when the Princes of France, Poland, and Russia, are setting examples of this kind, for the promotion of commerce and agriculture, the Author flatters himself, the above work is not beneath the notice (if not of the Prince) at least of the present Prime Minister, the son of the immortal Chatham. Those Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who wish to promote and encourage this useful, instructing, and entertaining Treatise, are requested to transmit their Names as soon as possible, to the Printers of the Norwich, Ipswich, and Chelmsford News-Papers; Mr. Debrett, Bookseller, Piccadilly, or to Mr. Anrdews, Printer and Bookseller, No. 10, Little-Eastcheap, London; as it is intended only to print such a number as to answer the expected demand. N. B. No Subscription Money is desired till the Book is ready to be delivered, which will be on the first of December next at farthest, at which time the Book will be Delivered and the Subscription called for. - The Subscribers Names will be printed, if permitted.
Phillips, John (Surveyor)Date: 1784?]- Archives and manuscripts
Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)
Foulkes, S. H. (Siegmund Heinz)Date: c.1870-2004Reference: PP/SHF