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Z dílny Aeskulapovy : Příběhy veselé i vážné pro poučení a pobavení zdravotníků i laiků / Sylvín, [pseud.] ; [Illustrated by Ladislav Rada].
Kácl, Karel, 1900-1986.Date: 1970- Books
Cold War Steve : journal of the plague year.
Cold War Steve, 1975-Date: 2021- Books
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The new British universal jester, or the wit's companion, ...
Date: [1788]- Books
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England's genius: or, wit triumphant. Being a collection of several hundred elegant, satyrical jests, and Witticisms, Sharp Repartees, Brilliant Thoughts, Merry Poems, and Admirable Sayings, of the Most Celebrated Wits and Punsters of the present Age. Taken from the Politest Conversations, as Drawing-Rooms, Assemblies, Balls, and the Bar. Also from the Bedford-Head, Key and Garter, and Rump-Stake Clubs. And the other Genteel Resorts of the Beau-Monde. Never before published.
Date: 1734- Books
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The festival of wit: or, the small talker. Consisting of anecdotes, epigrammatic flashes, Bon Mots, Repartees, and Puns, Royal, Noble, Naval, Military, Clerical, &c. with flights of humour and genius, selected from a voluminous works in the possession of G***** K***, summer resident at W----. With the life of the author and compiler, written by himself.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The festival of wit; or, small talker: being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G--- K---, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: 1800- Books
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The festival of wit: or, the small talker. Consisting of flights of humour and genius, selected from a voluminous work, in the possession of G***** K***, summer resident at W-. With the life of the author and compiler, written by himself.
Date: 1783- Books
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The festival of wit; or, small talker, being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G--- K---, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The Festival of wit; or, Small talker. Being a collection of bons mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G-K- -, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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Attic wit; or, a Medley of Humour: Containing an Agreeable Variety of Bon Mots, Jokes, & Repartees; Being Humorous, Whimsical, Laughable, Novel and Sentimental; In Prose and Verse. Designed To promote Mirth, Jocularity, and Chearfulness, in in Both Sexes.
Date: 1791- Books
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The festival of wit: or, the small talker. Consisting of anecdotes, epigrammatic flashes, Bon Mots, Repartees, and Puns, Royal, Noble, Naval, Military, and Clerical, &c. with flights of humour and genius, selected from a voluminous work, in the possession of G***** K***, summer resident at W--. With the life of the author and compiler, written b y himself.
Date: [1782]- Books
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The Festival of wit. or The small talker. Selected by G-K- summer resident at Windsor.
Date: 1788- Books
Character sketches, development drawings, and original pictures of wit and humour / Done in permanent lines for posterity, by Charles H. Bennett & Robert B. Brough. Illustrated with ninety-four engravings, and many head-pieces and finials.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: [1872]- Books
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The wit's museum; or an elegant collection of bon mots, repartees, &c. rational and entertaining. Many of which are original.
Date: [1789?]- Books
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The festival of wit; or, small talker, being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c. of the most exalted characters; procured and selected by G---- K----, summer resident at Windsor.
Date: 1789- Books
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The merry philosopher; or, thoughts on jesting. Containing rules by which a proper judgment of jests may be formed; and the Criterion for distinguishing True and Genuine Wit from that which is False and Spurious. Together with instructions for improving the taste of those, who have a natural turn for pleasantry and good humour. By George Frederick Meier, Professor of Philosophy at Halle, Member of the Royal Academy at Berlin, and Author of several much-admired Works in the German Language. Now first translated into English from the German original.
Meier, Georg Friedrich, 1718-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The merry philosopher; or, thoughts on jesting. Containing rules by which a proper judgment of jests may be formed; and the criterion for distinguishing true and genuine wit from that which is false and spurious: together with instructions for improving the taste of those, who have a natural turn for pleasantry and good humour. By George Frederick Meier, Professor of Philosophy at Halle, member of the Royal Academy at Berlin, and author of several much-admired works in the German language. Now first translated into English from the German original.
Meier, Georg Friedrich, 1718-1777.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Laugh and be fat: or an antidote against melancholy: containing I. Great variety of comical intrigues and stories, in Town and Country. II. Poems upon various Occasions. III. Witty Epigrams and Whims. IV. Epitaphs Serious and Comical. V. Pleasant Songs and Ballads. Written by the most ingenious authors of the age.
Date: 1761- Books
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The royal jester, or prince's cabinet of wit; containing all the bon mots ...
Date: 1792- Books
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The royal jester, or prince's cabinet of wit; containing all the bon mots ...
Date: 1792- Books
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The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour, in prose and verse. By the most eminent writers. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Laugh and be fat; or food for all parties: the spangled lord, country 'squire, jolly sailor, hearty farmer, merry soldier, John the footman, and dolly the dairy maid. A general collection of the best jests, Calculated to banish Sorrow, relieve Care, and make the Heart Merry: The Whole containing all the wit of the present Times, and suited to all Capacities that are disposed for Mirth and Good-Humour.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The female jester; or, wit for the ladies. Containing every comical jest, ... that can be found in any jest-book, ... Compiled by a lady.
Date: [1778]- Books
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The jolly jester; or the wit's complete library. Containing a rich fund of entertainment ... By Marmaduke Momus, ...
Momus, Marmaduke.Date: 1794- Books
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Mother midnight's comical pocket-book: Or, A bone for the criticks. Being a sure and certain cure for the hip. Containing the nicest and largest dish of novelties, that ever was seen-heard-smelt-or tasted; carefully cook'd-up by mother midnight's merry grandson; containing nothing but originals, all very humorous, prodigious satyrical, and quite uncommon; informing the publick, that this dish of dishes was wrote in an uncommon place, at an uncommon time, by an uncommon hand, Humphrey Humdrum, Esq;
Humdrum, Humphrey.Date: [1754?]