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The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Date

1622

Reference

26679i

Part of

XL Emblemata miscella nova

Counter fraud good practice for food and drink businesses : improve fraud resilience and reduce the financial cost of fraud / Written by Eoghan Daly, Jim Gee ; with contributions from Andy Morling, Ron McNaughton.

Date

2016

A woman being exhibited, supposedly with no lower half of her body. Wood engraving.

Reference

2912i

Scientific deception : an overview and guide to the literature of misconduct and fraud in scientific research / by Lesley Grayson.

Date

[1995], ©1995

Laurent. Joann. Nepomucenus Reen ... plagii literarii in Regiae Fridericianae Parnasso graviter accusatus convictus atque Halensium musarum decreto condemnatus / interprete Michael Gottlieb Agnethlero.

Date

1750

A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.

Reference

86i

The trial of William Baker, sugar baker, for forging an East-India warrant for the delivery of goods, purporting to lie in the East-India warehouse; and publishing the same, knowing it to be such; at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey. On Saturday the ninth of December, 1750 being the first sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Hon. Francis Cokayne, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.

Date

1751

The poisons in our food, or, Guide to health / by a physician.

Date

1855

Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.

Date

1818

Letter from Mists Weekly Journal. Saturday. 7 January. 1727.

Date

1727 [i.e. c.1851]