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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1785. To which is prefixed, a short review of the state of knowledge, literature, and taste, in this country, from the accession of Henry the Fourth, to the accession of Henry the Seventh.

Date

MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

A Zulu medicine woman or shaman practising in Basutoland, South Africa. Halftone after a photograph by L. Fairclough.

Reference

21348i

A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

Reference

12151i

Part of

Bird's-eye views of modern society

Of human bondage / Somerset Maugham.

Date

2000

Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

Reference

20262i

Anthropometamorphosis, man transform'd, or, The artificial changeling : historically presented in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning & altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature : with a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature and an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / by J.B.

Date

1650

A popular acrobatics performance. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

Reference

12152i

Part of

Bird's-eye views of modern society

A popular and fashionable centre devoted to the arts and sciences. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

Reference

12158i

Part of

Bird's-eye views of modern society

The Montpellier Rotunda, Cheltenham: interior. Line engraving by J. Radford, 1830, after T.H. Moody.

Date

18 October 1830

Reference

16637i

African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.

Reference

21357i

A central caricature of the morning promenade at Montpellier Spa, Cheltenham, with little sketches of scenes, people, and objects. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.

Date

Dec. 1833

Reference

16633i

A history of private life / Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, general editors.

Date

1987-

A Liberian medicine man or shaman, West Africa. Halftone.

Reference

21322i

The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1792. To which is prefixed, the conclusion of the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Date

MDCCXCIII. [1793]

Sarawak: preserved and decorated human heads taken and strung up by Sea Dayaks. Photograph.

Reference

31448i

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

Date

[1718]

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20216i

Histoire de la vie privée / sous la direction de Philippe Ariès et de Georges Duby.

Date

©1985-<©1986>

Folkways : a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals / With a special introduction by William Lyon Phelps.

Date

[1960]

The Young gentleman's parental monitor; containing, I. Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners; on the Principles of politeness; and on the art of acquiring a knowledge of the world, II. Marchioness de Lambert's Advice to her son. III. Lord Burghley's Te precepts to his son.

Date

M.DCC.XCII. [1792]

An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.

Date

1914

Reference

21343i

Transplanting of teeth.

Date

1787

Reference

16595i

Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.

Reference

30776i

Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.

Reference

21495i

A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.

Reference

21472i

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.

Date

1825