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John Coakley Lettsom

British Virgin Islands born English physician and scientist (1744–1815)

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  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • Kwei plant (Osmanthus fragrans): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavor Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. Draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, remarks on the preface / by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.
  • A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavor Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. Draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, remarks on the preface / by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.
  • A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavor Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson. Draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, remarks on the preface / by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.
  • A ring-necked parakeet. Watercolour by J.C. Lettsom, 1757.
  • Memoirs of John Fothergill / [John Coakley Lettsom].
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.
  • Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].
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Images featuring John Coakley Lettsom

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  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • John Coakley Lettsom. Stipple engraving, 1804, after S. Medley.
  • Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom , with a selection from his correspondence / by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: north view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Coloured engraving by Darton and Harvey, after G. Samuel, 1795.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's house: south view of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Coloured engraving by T. Medland, after G. Samuel, 1817.
  • John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • John Coakley Lettsom's gardens: a view of the fountain and cottage at Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Coloured engraving after G. Samuel, 1795.
  • George Cleghorn. Stipple engraving by C. Sherwin.
  • John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.
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