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- Manuscripts
Wellcome MS Persian 18.

- Archives and manuscripts
Photographs of Hong Kong
Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive
Amiss, Audrey, 1933-2013
Date: c.1980s-1990s

- Books
Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, the philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures / [William Lewis].
William Lewis
Date: 1763[-1765]

- Pictures
An operation for stone in the head. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen

- Books
Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws and customs; their prodigious wealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains. With the character of the ancient and modern Japanners / Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldvs Montanvs. English'd, and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby, esq.
Arnoldus Montanus
Date: 1670

- Books
Historiarum libri sex. Seu de rebus gestis a Joanne et Manuele Comnenis Impp. CP / Accedunt Caroli Dv Fresne D. Dv Cange in Nicephori Bryennii, Annae Comnenae & jusdem Joannis Cinnami Historiam Comnenicam notae historiae & philologicae. His adiungitur Pauli Silentiarii Descriptio sanctae Sophiae, quae nunc prodit Graece & Latine, cum uberiori commentario.
Cinnamus, Joannes, active 12th century.
Date: 1670

- Books
The chronology and history of the world, from the creation to the year of Christ, 1814. Illustrated in LVII tables. Of which IV are introductory & include the centuries prior to the I.st olympiad, and each of the remaining LIII contain in one expanded view, 50 years or half a century / by John Blair.
John Blair
Date: [1814]

- Books
The chronology and history of the world from the creation to the year of Christ, 1790. Illustrated in LVI tables. Of which 4 are introductory & include the centurys prior to the 1st olympiad, and each of the remaining 52 contain, in one expanded view, 50 years or half a century / [John Blair].
John Blair
Date: [1790]

- Books
A general system of surgery. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers ... II. Of ... operations ... III. Of ... bandages ... / To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery ... Translated into English.
Lorenz Heister
Date: 1750

- Books
The gallery of nature : a pictorial and descriptive tour through creation, illustrative of the wonders of astronomy, physical geography, and geology / By the Rev. Thomas Milner.
Milner, Thomas, -1882
Date: 1846

- Books
The gallery of nature: a pictorial and descriptive tour through creation / [Thomas Milner].
Milner, Thomas, -1882
Date: 1846

- Books
Chroniques. D'Enguerrand de Monstrelet / [Enguerrand de Monstrelet].
Enguerrand de Monstrelet
Date: 1836

- Books
The Hindu pantheon / [Edward Moor].
Edward Moor
Date: 1810

- Books
Observations on the hydrargyria; or that vesicular disease arising from the exhibition of mercury / By George Alley.
Alley, George.
Date: 1810

- Books
De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus postumum, : in duas partes divisum juxta exemplar Romanum. / Johannis Mariae Lancisii.
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Date: 1740

- Books
Psychology, general and applied / by Hugo Münsterberg.
Hugo Münsterberg
Date: [1914]

- Books
A collection of the yearly bills of mortality, from 1657 to 1758 inclusive. : Together with several other bills of an earlier date. To which are subjoined: I. Natural and political observations on the bills of mortality: by Capt. John Graunt, F.R.S. reprinted from the sixth edition, in 1676. II. Another essay in political arithmetic, concerning the growth of the city of London ; with the measures, periods, causes, and consequences thereof. By Sir William Petty, Kt. F.R.S. reprinted from the edition printed at London in 1683. III. Observations on the past growth and present state of the city of London ; reprinted from the edition printed at London in 1751 ; with a continuation of the tables to the end of the year 1757. By Corbyn Morris, Esq; F.R.S. IV. A comparative view of the diseases and ages, and a table of the probabilities of life, for the last thirty years. By J.P. Esq; F.R.S. [i.e. James Postlethwayt].
Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]

- Books
An anatomical description of the human gravid uterus, and its contents / By the late William Hunter.
William Hunter
Date: 1794

- Books
The revised twentieth-century phrenology : embracing a new seven-fold classification of the temperaments, a uniform and complete nomenclature of the centres, re-grouping of the centres, new illustrations, new discoveries / by John William Taylor.
Taylor, John William (Phrenologist)
Date: [1901]

- Books
Brain and personality; or, the physical relations of the brain to the mind / [William Hanna Thomson].
William Hanna Thomson
Date: [1908,

- Books
The learning process / by Stephen Sheldon Colvin.
Stephen Sheldon Colvin
Date: [1911]

- Books
Opinion de l'École de Médecine de Montpellier, sur la nature, la marche et le traitement de la fièvre observée dans les hôpitaux de cette commune, pendant les six premiers mois de l'an VIII.
Date: An VIII [1800]

- Books
Pharmacopoea amstelodamensis nova.
Date: 1792

- Books
University of Iowa studies in psychology. Volume 3 / edited by George T.W. Patrick.
Date: [1902]

- Books
Caroli Linnæi ... Musa Cliffortiana florens Hartekampi 1736 prope Harlemum / [Carl von Linné].
Carl Linnaeus
Date: 1736

- Books
Das Handgelenk in mechanischer, anatomischer und chirurgischer Beziehung / [Gustav Biedermann Guenther].
Guenther, Gustav Biedermann.
Date: 1850

- Books
Discours / prononcés par feû Mr. Pierre Camper, en l'Académie de dessein d'Amsterdam, sur le moyen de représenter d'une manière sûre les diverses passions qui se manifestent sur le visage; sur l'étonnante conformité qui existe entre les quadrupèdes, les oiseaux, les poissons et l'homme; et enfin sur le beau physique: publiés par son fils Adrien Gilles Camper, traduits du hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere D'Isjonval.
Petrus Camper
Date: 1792

- Books
Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Upsaliensis.
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
Date: 1744-1751

- Books
Dissertation physique ... sur les différences réelles que présentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de différents pays et de différents âges : sur le beau qui caractèrise les statues antiques et les pierres gravées. Suivie de la proposition d'une nouvelle méthode pour déssiner toutes sortes de têtes humaines / ... Publiée ... par ... Adrien Gilles Camper ... traduite du hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval.
Petrus Camper
Date: 1791

- Books
A case of extra uterine gestation, of the ventral kind: including the symptoms of the patient from the earliest period of pregnancy to the time of death (fifteen months) ; with the appearances upon dissection. / By William Turnbull, A.M. F.M.S. surgeon.
William Turnbull
Date: 1791

- Books
Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento ... / e descritte dal Segretario di essa Accademia.
Lorenzo Magalotti
Date: 1711

- Books
The education of the will : the theory and practice of self-culture / by Jules Payot ; authorized translation by Smith Ely Jelliffe, from the 30th French ed.
Jules Payot
Date: [1909]