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Saint Francis Borgia interceding against earthquakes; cherubim and the Eucharist above. Mezzotint, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 563392i
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Various ammonite fossils illustrating Hooke's discourse of Earthquakes.
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A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th October, 1746 ... / translated from the original Spanish [of P. Lozano], by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries [i.e. H. Johnson]. To which is added, a description of Callao and Lima before their destruction; and of the kingdom of Peru in general ... The whole illustrated with a map of the country about Lima, plans of the road and town of Callao, another of Lima; and several cuts of the natives, drawn on the spot by the translator.
Pedro LozanoDate: 1748
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Ad onore di S. Francesco Solano : di minori osservanti, apostolo delle indie, e singolar protettore contro il terremoto : responsorio ... preghiamo.
Date: [between 1726 and 1749?]
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Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena, of earthquakes; particularly of that great earthquake of the first of November 1755, which proved so fatal to the City of Lisbon. And whose effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe / By the Reverend John Michell ... Read at several meetings of the Royal society.
John MichellDate: [1760]
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Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani De aeris transmvtationibvs libri IV. In quo opere diligenter pertractatur de ijs, quæ, vel ex aere, vel in aere oriuntur [meteōrologion] multiplices opiniones, qua illustrantur, qua refelluntur : demum variarum causæ mutationum aperiuntur ... / [Giambattista della Porta].
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. De aeris transmutationibusDate: 1610
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The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever : a funeral sermon and a funeral psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America : and on the deaths of an hundred killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the spotted fever / written by Jonathan Plummer.
Jonathan PlummerDate: [1812?]
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Tratado de la conservacion de la salud de los puebles, y consideraciones sobre los terremotos / Traducido por D. Benito Bails.
António Nunes Ribeiro SanchesDate: 1781
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Saint Alexius as protector against earthquakes. Coloured engraving by J. and J. Klauber after J.B Baumgartner.
Johann Wolfgang BaumgartnerDate: 1700-1799Reference: 8553i
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Saint Emygdius. Engraving by Salvardi.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 4832i
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Practical reflections on the late earthquakes in Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c., anno 1692 : with a particular, historical account of those, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
John ShowerDate: MDCXCIII [1693]
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a tombstone, an earthquake, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1826?].
Date: 1826Reference: 46395i
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Recovery and restoration : the aftermath of the great East Japan earthquake.
Kamei ShōtenDate: 2012
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Physical science in the time of Nero : being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca / by John Clarke ... with notes on the treatise by Sir Archibald Geikie.
SenecaDate: 1910
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Zammarò, Calabria: sappers removing bodies from dwellings destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.
Bianchini, Arturo, active 1898-1905.Date: 13 September 1905Reference: 43956i
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A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighboring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746 / With an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following. Translated from the original Spanish [of P. Lozano], by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries [i.e. H. Johnson]. To which is added, a description of Callao and Lima before their destruction; and of the kingdom of Peru in general ... The whole illustrated with a map of the country about Lima, plans of the road and town of Callao, another of Lima; and several cuts of the natives, drawn on the spot by the translator. [Anon].
Pedro LozanoDate: 1748
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Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.
Mayer, Luigi, active 1776-1792.Date: 1809Reference: 43953i
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Saint Francis Solano, holding a cross in a landscape. Engraving, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 563478i
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Pizzo, Calabria: shocked and injured people encamped after an earthquake; the town crier announcing the arrival of relief. Gouache by R. Pellegrini, September 1905.
Pellegrini, Riccardo, 1866-Date: Settembre [September] 1905Reference: 43957i
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Christus nobiscum : state Sanctus Deus, sanctus fortis, sanctus immortalis miserere nobis : orazione alla B. V. del rosario per esse liberati dal terremoto : Vi ringraziamo, o Maria nostra singolare Avvocata, per averci liberati dalle rovine del flagello del terremoto.
Date: [1779?]
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Sketches of Louisville and its environs; including, among a great variety of miscellaneous matter, a Florula Louisvillensis; or, a catalogue of nearly 400 genera and 600 species of plants, that grow in the vicinity of the town, exhibiting their generic, specific, and vulgar English names / By H. M'Murtrie. To which is added an appendix, containing an accurate account of the earthquakes experienced here from the 16th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted principally from the papers of the late J. Brookes, Esq.
Henry McMurtrieDate: 1819
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Histoire des tremblemens de terre arrive's a Lima, capitale du Perou, et autres lieux / avec la description du Perou, et des recherches sur les causes phisiques de tremblemens de terre, par M. Hales, de la Société royale de Londres, & autres phisiciens ... Traduite de l'anglois. Premiere [-seconde] partie. [Anon].
Date: 1752
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The magic of reality : how we know what's really true / Richard Dawkins ; illustrated by Dave McKean.
Richard DawkinsDate: 2011
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, with waterway, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
Reference: 30210i
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Charleston to Savannah railroad, South Carolina: an earth fissure after an earthquake. Wood engraving after a photograph by W.E. Wilson.
Wilson, W. E.Reference: 43958i

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Saint Francis Borgia interceding against earthquakes; cherubim and the Eucharist above. Mezzotint, 17--.

Various ammonite fossils illustrating Hooke's discourse of Earthquakes.

Ad onore di S. Francesco Solano : di minori osservanti, apostolo delle indie, e singolar protettore contro il terremoto : responsorio ... preghiamo.

Tratado de la conservacion de la salud de los puebles, y consideraciones sobre los terremotos / Traducido por D. Benito Bails.

Saint Alexius as protector against earthquakes. Coloured engraving by J. and J. Klauber after J.B Baumgartner.

Saint Emygdius. Engraving by Salvardi.

Practical reflections on the late earthquakes in Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c., anno 1692 : with a particular, historical account of those, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.

Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a tombstone, an earthquake, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1826?].

Recovery and restoration : the aftermath of the great East Japan earthquake.

Physical science in the time of Nero : being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca / by John Clarke ... with notes on the treatise by Sir Archibald Geikie.

Zammarò, Calabria: sappers removing bodies from dwellings destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.

Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.

Saint Francis Solano, holding a cross in a landscape. Engraving, 17--.

Pizzo, Calabria: shocked and injured people encamped after an earthquake; the town crier announcing the arrival of relief. Gouache by R. Pellegrini, September 1905.

Christus nobiscum : state Sanctus Deus, sanctus fortis, sanctus immortalis miserere nobis : orazione alla B. V. del rosario per esse liberati dal terremoto : Vi ringraziamo, o Maria nostra singolare Avvocata, per averci liberati dalle rovine del flagello del terremoto.

The magic of reality : how we know what's really true / Richard Dawkins ; illustrated by Dave McKean.

Earthquake damage to fortifications, with waterway, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.

Charleston to Savannah railroad, South Carolina: an earth fissure after an earthquake. Wood engraving after a photograph by W.E. Wilson.