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Principes de chirurgie...nouvelle édition corrigé & augmentée
1757 French edition of a comprehensive popular surgeon's text, featuring new student-centered material and additional notes on surgical professionalism and bedside manner. Includes inscriptions from multiple previous readers: a handwritten treatment…
Samuel Johnson's Rambler No. 11
This is the first page of Samuel Johnson's periodical essay, The Rambler No. 11. In this essay, Johnson analyzes the social and personal implications of individuals lacking emotional control. There is a very theatrical leading letter that embodies…
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock' is a satirical narrative poem about a petty squabble between two aristocratic families. A young man cut off a lock of hair from a young woman without her consent, which caused quite a scandal in high society. Pope, who…
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is a satirical essay where Swift suggests, with chilling seriousness, that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to the rich. Swift used extreme irony and…
English Domestic Needlework 1660-1860
Missing dust jacket, yellowing pages
255 numerical pages (does not include blank endpages)
255 numerical pages (does not include blank endpages)
An Election Entertainment
'An Election Entertainment' is the first in a series of four paintings by William Hogarth titled 'The Humors of an Election.' This series satirizes the rampant corruption of 18th-century British Parliamentary elections, specifically referencing the…
Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket-Book, Containing United States and Foreign Weight Measures; Tables of Areas and Circumferences of Circles, Circular Segments and Zones of a Circle; Squares and Cubes, Square and Cube Roots; Lengths of Circular and Semi-Elliptic Arcs; and Rules of Arithmetic. Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; The Mechanical Powers; Geometry, Trigonometry, Gravity, Strength of Materials, Water Wheels, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Statics, Dynamics, Gunnery, Heat, Winding Engines, Tonnage, Shot, Shells, &c. Steam and the Steam-Engine; Combustion, Water, Gunpowder, Cables and Anchors, Fuel, Air, Guns, &c, &c. Tables of the Weights of Metals, Pipes, &c. Miscellaneous Notes, Dimensions of Steamers, Mills, Motion of Bodies in Fluids, Orthography of Technical Terms, &c., &c.
11th edition book of math problems and concepts for studying engineers bound in a leather traveling case. This book was allegedly carried by a Confederate soldier (related to Ellen Ingold McDowell McIntyre) in his knapsack during the Civil War. …
Exercises in Laboratory Physics For Secondary Schools
A popular high-school physics exercise book from the early 20th century. This copy was owned by Nola Allene Loflin (1919-2021), known as "Allene" to friends and family. She assumed the surname "McDowell" when she married John Alvin McDowell in…
The Festival of the Golden Rump
The Festival of the Golden Rump is a visual satire, circulated in the popular political paper Common Sense or The Englishman's Journal. Its main purpose was to critique governmental overreach and manipulation during King George II's rule. At the…
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Youth in Crisis: Children in the Holocaust
This educational module explores the experiences of children during the Holocaust. Through a diverse selection of primary sources, this module tells…