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[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A letter documenting the initial stages of Lady Hester Stanhope's well-chronicled sojourn east, while her plans were yet in their infancy, it relates her motives for departure, offering a programmatic rationale for her eventual residence...

The medical works of Richard Mead : with an account of the life and writings of the author, in three volumes.

Richard Mead

...Richard Mead was physician to King George II, Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians at London and Edinburgh, and of the Royal Society. With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. In three volumes. Volume 1: Memoirs...

The Breviarie of Health: Wherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses and diseases, the which may be in Man or Woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning Phisicke and Chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrewe Boorde, Doctor of Physicke: an English man.

Andrew Boorde

...Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Health, composed in 1542 and first published in 1547, is the first medical manual written in English by a physician. Boorde, who was also a cleric and a pioneering travel writer, presents in most of the 384 + 73...

A treatise on the small-pox and measles/ by Abú Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacaríyá Ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes), translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill M.D.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

...Rāzī’s Kitāb fī 'l-Jadarī wa-'l-ḥaṣba, or Liber de variolis et morbillis, is considered the oldest and most important original work on smallpox and measles, and a distinct original contribution to medicine by the Arabians. A pioneering...

A treatise on the geology of Armenia/ by Felix Oswald, B.A., D.Sc., thesis accepted by the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science, in two parts, I. Geological results of a journey by the Author through Turkish Armenia, II. The Geological record of Armenia.

Felix Oswald

...A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of London for the degree of Doctor of Science. An analysis of the geology of Armenia, comprising findings of previous observers' research and the author's own research, the fieldwork being...

Cl. V. Iohannis Bainbrigii, Astronomiæ, In celeberrimâ Academiâ Oxoniensi, Professoris Saviliani, Canicularia. Unà cum demonstratione Ortus Sirii heliaci, Pro parallelo inferioris Ǣgypti. Auctore Iohanne Gravio. Quibus accesserunt, Insigniorum aliquot Stellarum Longitudines, & Latitudines, Ex Astronomicis Observationibus Vlug Beigi, Tamerlani Magni nepotis.

John Bainbridge

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John Greaves

...The Canicularia is printed in Latin, with a significant amount of Greek and occasional phrases in Arabic and Hebrew. The Persian title of the appended work of Ulugh Beg is given as مواضع بعض كواكب مشهورة در طول و عرض (p.83). The Persian...

The spiritual physick of Rhazes/ translated from the Arabic by Arthur J. Arberry, Litt.D., F.B.A., Sir Thomas Adams's professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

...First edition of Arthur J. Arberry's translation of al-Rāzī's al-Tibb al-rūḥānī (Spiritual Medicine). The physician and philosopher al-Rāzī, one of the greatest medical authorities of the Middle Ages, dedicated this book, like his...

Narrative of the late expedition to Syria : under the command of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., comprising an account of the capture of Gebail, Tripoli, and Tyre, storming of Sidon, battle of Calat-Meidan, bombardment and capture of St. Jean d'Acre, &c., &c. / by W.P. Hunter, Esq., in two volumes.

W. Patison Hunter

...The work is dedicated to Admiral Robert Stopford, under whose command Hunter saw action in the Anglo-Egyptian War in Syria in 1840. It includes accounts of the taking of Gebail, Tripoli and Tyre, the storming of Sidon, the battle...