A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.

Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

An ornamental French cognac label. Engraving, 18--.

A brandy vendor in Rome is pouring out a drink for a traveller. Etching by B. Pinelli.

A brandy vendor is carrying his tray with glasses and bottles in it. Coloured lithograph.

Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

23 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.3 x 18 cm

1 painting : watercolour ; image 15 x 12 cm

Cholera : The following admirable letter from an eminent physician of great experience appears in the York Herald of Saturday last, and is re-printed in this form as likely to be of essential service in allaying the unfounded alarm which at present prevails to so great an extent : Sunderland, November 15th, 1831 ... / Wm. Rocliffe.

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Brandy

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Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

Brandy

Images from the collections

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Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

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