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• A compleat collection of English proverbs : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations. / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With An account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England.

  London : Printed for W. Otridge, S. Bladon [etc.], 1768.

  PML 7223

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• Several epistles given forth by two of the Lords faithful servants whom he sent to New-England, to bear witness to His everlasting truth and were there (by the priests, rulers, and professors) after cruel and long imprisonment, and inhumane whippings and banishment, put to death, for no other cause, but for keeping the commandments of God, and testimony of Jesus, William Robinson, William Leddra : here is also perfixed [sic] W.R. his testimony of his call to that service, for obedience unto which, he underwent the wrath of men, but hath obtained everlasting peace and rest with God.

  Robinson, William, -1659.

  London : [s.n.], 1669.

  PML 19489

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• Naps upon Parnassus : a sleepy muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. Such voluntary and jovial copies of verses, as were lately receiv'd from some of the Wits of the Universities, in a frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's mistress by Captain Jones and others. Whereunto is added .. the Author's .. epistle to one of the Universities. [Signed, K.Q.] With the answer; together with two satyrical characters of his own, of a Temporizer and an Antiquary, etc. [and an "Advertisement to the reader," signed, Adoniram Banstittle, alias Tinderbox. Poems written in ridicule of Samuel Austin, by T. Sprat, T. Flatman and others].

  Q., K.

  London, 1658

  PML 4225

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• Cort verhael, vande ordre die sijne conincklicke majesteyt van Spagnien aen sijn generalissimo den graef de la Torre inde Bay de Todos los Sanctos gegeven heeft, om int werck te stellen al't ghene hy tot recuparatie van Brasil noodigh achten soude : Mitsgaders 't remarcabelste dat op de custe van deselve capitania, soo int ghevecht vande Spaensche vlote sterck 87 zeylen ende 41 Hollandtsche schepen als mede by de gene die hy te lande van de Bahia door de bossehen in 't lant gebracht hadde voorgevallen is van den 19 November tot den 28 February 1640. toe. / Beschreyven door den eerw. N.N.

  N., N.

  Amsterdam : I. van Hilten, [1640?]

  PML 3395

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• Positively the last week. The original salamander. Wonders never cease! The great phenomena! of nature, Signora Josephine Giraldelli ... is now exhibiting at 349, Strand, between Exeter 'change and Catherine-Street, the powers of resistance against heat. She will commence her performance by passing plates of red hot iron over her legs! She will then stamp on a plate of red hot iron, with her naked feet, afterwards draw it over her hair and across her tongue after which she will, without symptom of pain, wash her hands in boiling oil; and take a part of the same into her mouth ...

  [London : s.n., ca. 1820]

  PML 146639, p. 474c

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• Design for a frontispiece with an Allegory of Generosity

  Charles Nicolas Cochin

  1715-1790

  1989.41:2

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• [The book of divers ghostly matters].

  PML 704

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• Death of the Justly Deserted (MS M.1261).

  Created

  France, Paris, ca. 1485 (between 1484 and 1496)

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  MS M.1261

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  Manuscript

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  Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

  

• Opus Martiani Capelle de nuptijs Philologie [et] Mercurij libri duo : de grammatica, de dialectica, de rhetorica, de geometri [sic], de arithmetica, de astronomia, de musica libri septem.

  Martianus Capella.

  PML 36779

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• Scene from 'The Tempest'

  John Flaxman

  1755-1826

  2009.128

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  Drawing

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