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The art of swimming : with advice for bathing, to which is prefixed a prefatory discourse concerning artificial swimming, or keeping one's self above water by several small portable engines, in cases of danger : illustrated with forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art / by Monsieur Thévenot.

Thévenot, Melchisédec, 1620-1692.

London : Printed for John Lever, 1764.

PML 151278

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The ever memorable Battle of Bannockburn : as performed at St Cecilia's Hall with universal applause : wherein is inserted Bruce's address to his troops previous to the action / by the late R. Burns ; the Introduction and Grand chorus wrote by a Gentleman ; composed, and adapted for the piano forte, with a violin accompaniment ... by Peter Urbani.

Uniform title

Battle of Bannockburn

Accession number

PMC 2087

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Edinr [Edinburgh] : Urbani & Liston, [1797].

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Printed Material

Mess. C.I. Ashley & S. Wesley respectfully beg leave to inform the nobility, gentry, their friends, and the public in general, their annual benefit is fixed for this present Saturday, May 24, 1817 at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, when will be performed a grand selection from the compositions of the most favourite authors - ancient and modern.

Accession number

PMC 1196

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London : [publisher not identified], 1817.

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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The life of Mr. Richard Savage, who was condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last sessions at the Old Baily, for the murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's coffee-house at Charing-Cross. With some very remarkable circumstances relating to the birth and education of that gentleman, which were never yet made publick ....

London : Printed for and sold by J. Roberts, 1727.

PML 7017

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An explanation of the Assembly's Shorter catechism. : Humbly offered as an help for instructing the young and ignorant in the principles and duties of the Christian religion. : With a preface, briefly demonstrating the truth of divine revelation. / By the Rev. Mr. John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee. ; [One line from II Timothy].

Willison, John, 1680-1750.

Philadelphia: : Printed for William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street., [1803 or before]

PML 85173

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The image of bothe churches : after the moste wonderfull and heauenly Reuelacion of Sainct John the Euangelist, contayning a very frutefull exposicion or paraphrase upon the same. Wherin it is conferred with the other scripturs, and most auctorised hist / compyled by John Bale an exile also in this life for the faythfull testmonye of Jesu. .

Bale, John, 1495-1563.

[London : Imprynted at London by Richard Jugge dwellyng in Paules church yarde, at the sygne of the Byble. ; [ca. 1548]]

PML 6215

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The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain, of all the most approved patterns for Gothic, Chinese, ribbon and other chairs, couches, settees, burjairs, French, dressing and corner stools ... / by Robert Manwaring, cabinet-maker, and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Manwaring, Robert.

London : Printed for Robert Sayer, 1766.

PML 55608

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Views in the South Seas : from drawings by the late James Webber, draftsman on board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the year 1776 to 1780 / with letter-press, descriptive of the various scenery, &c. These plates form a new series, and are of the same size as those engraved for Captain Cooke's last voyage.

Webber, John, 1751-1793, author.

London : Published by Boydell and Co., 1808.

PML 146692

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Boon : The mind of the race ; The wild asses of the devil ; and The last trump; being a first selection from the literary remains of George Boon, appropriate to the times / prepared for publication by Reginald Bliss ... ; with an ambiguous introduction by H.G. Wells (who is in truth the author of the entire book).

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1920.

PML 147379

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Sketches of American policy under the following heads : I. Theory of government, II. Governments on the eastern continent, III. American states, or the principles of the American constitutions contrasted with those of European states, IV. Plan of policy for improving the advantages and perpetuating the union of the American states / by Noah Webster, Jun'r. Esq.

Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.

Hartford : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1785.

PML 125676.3

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