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D. Pauli Freheri ... Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum. In quo vitæ & scripta theologorum, jureconsultorum, medicorum & philosophorum tàm in Germania superiore & inferiore, quàm in aliis Europæ regionibus, Græcia nempè, Hispania, Italia, Gallia, Anglia, Polonia, Hungaria, Bohemia, Dania & Suecia a seculis aliquot, ad hæc usque tempora, florentium, secundum annorum emortalium seriem, tanquam variis in scenis repræsentantur. Opus omnibus eruditis lectu jucundissimum in quatuor partes divisum, quarum I. Theologos varios. II. Magnates, jurisconsultos & politicos. III. Medicos, chymicos, botanicos, anatomicos &c. IV. Philosophos, philologos, historicos, mathematicos, poetas, &c complectitur. Cum indice locupletissimo / [Paulus Freher].

Academie des sciences et des arts, contenant les vies, et les eloges historiques des hommes illustres, qui ont excellé en ces professions depuis environ quatre siècles parmy diverses nations de l'Europe / avec leurs pourtraits tirez sur des originaux au naturel ... et plusieurs inscriptions funebres, exactement recueïllies de leurs tombeaux.

The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie.

Burroughs, Silas Mainville

George Heriot's Hospital : memories of a modern monk : being reminiscences of life in the Hospital / by Clement B. Gunn ; The Hospital described from an architectural standpoint, by Hippolyte J. Blanc ; Memoir of F.W. Bedford, by Charles Henry Bedford.

Ateismo e magia : il declino della concezione magica nel Dictionnaire di Pierre Bayle / [di] Anna Foa.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Physicians and surgeons of America (illustrated) : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession / edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson.

The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson.

Accoucheurs et sages-femmes célébres : esquisses biographiques / par G.-J. Witkowski.

Florence Nightingale : a cameo life-sketch / Marion Holmes.

Weir Mitchell : his life and letters / by Anna Robeson Burr.

The life of Florence Nightingale / by Sarah A. Tooley, with 22 illustrations.

Life and letters of Dr. William Beaumont : including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis St. Martin / by Jesse S. Myer ... with an introduction by Sir William Osler ... with fifty-eight illustrations.

Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D., a pathfinder in medicine : with selections from her writings and a complete bibliography / edited by the Women's Medical Association of New York City.

Uruguayans of today / [edited] by William Belmont Parker.

Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850 / Raymond John Howgego.

The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption / Simon Winchester.

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

Trials of the monkey : a Darwin goes in search of America and happens upon himself ; an accidental memoir.

From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

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Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850 / Raymond John Howgego.

The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption / Simon Winchester.

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

Trials of the monkey : a Darwin goes in search of America and happens upon himself ; an accidental memoir.

From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

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Images of Biography

Images about Biography

Works from the collections

Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850 / Raymond John Howgego.

The map that changed the world : a tale of rocks, ruin and redemption / Simon Winchester.

Band-aid for a broken leg : being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) / Damien Brown.

Trials of the monkey : a Darwin goes in search of America and happens upon himself ; an accidental memoir.

From the life of a researcher / William Weber Coblentz.

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