An obese doctor wearing a top hat takes the pulse of a seated healthy-looking woman wearing Grecian robes. By her side is a shield inscribed "Assemblée Nationale".
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from item., In image: h.D. 313., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Actualités 186., Published in Le Charivari, 12 August 1851., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert & Cie., Pl. de la Bourse 29 and Imp. Ch. Trinocq Cour des Miracles 9.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Véron, Louis Désiré, 1798-1867.
Subject (Topic):
History, Politics and government, Physical diagnosis, Pulse, Physicians, Sick persons, and Shields
Caption title., Verso blank., Place of publication follows printer's name., Those present at meeting listed, together with a resolution concerning measures to be taken if invaded, including the provision of wagons, rockets, pikes and horses, escape routes, and a plan to flood the region; signed: John Lockwood, clerk of the general meetings., Date of imprint taken from date of meeting referred to in title., Printer M. Turner is probably Matthew Turner, bookseller, stationer, binder, printer, and circulatory library, Market Place, Beverley., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
M. Turner, printer
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., East Riding of Yorkshire (England), Hull (England), England, East Riding of Yorkshire., and Hull.
Subject (Topic):
Civil defense, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805, Politics and government, and History
A woman facing right under an enormous coiffure. Within her hair several scenes illustrate London low-life on May Day, including pigs, a horse-drawn cart, street-vendors, chimney-sweeps, and a Jack-in-the-green
Alternative Title:
May day
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from publisher's entry in Maxted's The London book trades., and Probably a parody of British Museum catalogue no. 5330: Bunkers Hill.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. May 1, 1776 by J. Lockington Shug Lane
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Great Britain, United States, America., and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, May Day (Labor holiday), Social life and customs, Politics and government, History, Colonies, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Chimney sweeps
Title from item., Date written in image., In margin top: Actualités ; 175., Probably published in Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and Creases. 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France. and France
Subject (Topic):
Monarchy, Enema, Pulse, Dead persons, Physicians, Clocks & watches, Politics and government, and History
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
Description:
In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
Subject (Geographic):
England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his plantations in Louisiana
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
Subject (Name):
Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Eight figures in two rows are depicted reading Thomas Paine's pamphlet The Rights of Man, each gesturing dramatically and each with a lengthy quote above his head either praising or denouncing the ideas expressed. On the top row are Edmund Burke (reading the passages referring to himself), Charles Fox, George III, and Charles Jenkinson. In the second row, Queen Charlotte, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, William Pitt, and Richard Sheridan seem to address each other in a similarly lively debate of contrasting responses to Paine's arguments
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to F.G. Byron. See An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age .../ Iain McCalman. Oxford : Published by Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 20., Below image on right: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitte. on shilg, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., For further information, consult library staff., and Pencil annotations identify each of the caricatures, but identifies Mary Wollstonecraft as Hannah More. Questionable printmaker attribution in local card catalog: R. Newton f.?
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1791 by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Jenkinson, Chalres, 1727-1808., Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, British, and Politics and government
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Actualités. 134., Published in Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Le Constitutionnel; La Patrie; Politics, French.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse, 29. Paris and Imp. de Ve. Aubert 5.r. de l'Abbaye, 5. Paris
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Véron, Louis Désiré, 1798-1867. and France.
Subject (Topic):
French newspapers, Fishing, Politics and government, and History
Title from item., Date derived from subject matter., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., In margin upper right: Actualité 61., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, French.
Publisher:
En vente chez Grognet Edit. 16, r. des Ecoles
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Pulse, Sick persons, Physicians, Medicines, History, and Politics and government
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: Actualités. 100., Published in Le Charivari., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
A de Vresse R Rivoli 55 and Lith Walter Fres. R Paradis Pre. 28.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Medical education, Sick persons, Physicians, History, and Politics and government