Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 143 records

Total number of records: 143

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
marine animals	52
oceanography	52
natural history	28
tiles	5
animal magnetism	4
brickmaking	4
scientific recreations	4
industries	3
tanning	3
astronomical instruments	2

Count of Place

Place	Count
France	10
Egypt	2
Netherlands	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Challenger (Ship)	52
Murray, Sir John (1841-1914)	52
Nares, George S (George Strong) (1831-1915)	52
Thomson, C Wyville (1830-1882)	52
Thomson, Frank Tourle	52
Academie Des Sciences	33
Bexon, Gabriel Leopold Charles Ame	27
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)	27
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie	27
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie (1716-1799)	27

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	7
From 1700	74
From 1800	60
From 1900	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	7
Up to 1799	74
Up to 1899	60
Up to 1999	2

Archive Print part

L'art du distillateur d'eaux-fortes, &c

Demachy, Jacques-François (1728-1803); Académie des Sciences

1773

Part of a series published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, entitled Description des arts et métiers.

More details

Archive Print Item

Life of Thomas Young : M.D., F.R.S., &c.; and one of the eight foreign associates of the National institute of France

Peacock, George (1791-1858)

1855

Appendix A: Herculanensia; or, Archeological and philological dissertations: containing a manuscript found among the ruins of Herculaneum. From the Quarterly review for February, 1810 (p. [489]-510) A...

More details

Archive Print Item

Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c. and one of the eight foreign associates of the National Institute of France (v.2)

Young, Thomas (1773-1829); Leitch, John; Peacock, George (1791-1858)

1855

Vols. 1-2: edited by George Peacock; vol. 3: edited by John Leitch.

More details

Archive Print Item

Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c. and one of the eight foreign associates of the National Institute of France (v.3)

Young, Thomas (1773-1829); Leitch, John; Peacock, George (1791-1858)

1855

Vols. 1-2: edited by George Peacock; vol. 3: edited by John Leitch.

More details

Archive Print Item

Mercurius botanicus: sive plantarum gratiâ suscepti itineris, anno M.DC.XXXIV. descripto. Cum earum nominibus Latinis & Anglicis &c. Huis accessit de Thermis Bathonicis tractatus

Johnson, Thomas (1600-1644)

[1965]

Photocopy issued by University Microfilms Inc; originally published: Londini: excudebat Thom. Cotes, 1634-41. "Thermæ Bathonicæ" has separate title-page and pagination.

More details

Archive Print part

On subsidences produced by working beds of coal. In a letter to C. Lyell from John Buddle

Buddle, John (1773-1843)

[1842]

"Read November 6th, 1839".

More details

Archive Print Item

Opus medico-chymicum: continens tres tractatus sive basilicas : quorum prior inscribitur Basilica medica. Secundus Basilica chymica. Tertius Basilica philosophica (v.1)

Mylius, Johann Daniel (1585-)

1618-30

Engraved title page; first special title page has woodcut printer's device, second has engraved vignette, third has different engraved vignette. Book 7 of Basilica chymica has separate pagination an...

More details

Archive Print Item

Opus medico-chymicum: continens tres tractatus sive basilicas : quorum prior inscribitur Basilica medica. Secundus Basilica chymica. Tertius Basilica philosophica (v.2)

Mylius, Johann Daniel (1585-)

1618-30

More details

Archive Print Item

Christophori Helvici, v.c. Theatrum historicum et chronologicum : Universa temporum et historiarum series, à primo mundi exordio ad annum M.DC.LXXII. quasi in speculo videri possit

Helwig, Christoph (1581-1617); Lee, Samuel (1625-1691); Schupp, Johann Balthasar (1610-1661)

1662

Dedication is signed Johannes Steuberus. Two variants have been identified with some of the text reset. This variant can be identified by the heading "Historia paganorum, & Viri celebres" in the las...

More details

Archive Print part