35 results filtered with: Impostors and imposture
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The son of Tabeal . A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1707/8. By Thomas Bradbury.
Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759.Date: M.DCC.VIII. [1708]
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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.
Reference: 20529i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a carriage to a crowd of people on the Pont-Neuf, Paris. Process print after G. de Saint-Aubin.
Reference: 20594i- Books
Hoaxes and deceptions / by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Date: 1991
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A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20671i- Books
Imagining monsters : miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England / Dennis Todd.
Todd, DennisDate: 1995- E-books
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The son of Tabeal . A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion, in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1708. By Thomas Bradbury.
Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759.Date: [1708]- Pictures
A bogus wizard appears to raise a devil out of the ground for a customer whose pocket is picked by the wizard's accomplice. Coloured print after Thomas Rowlandson, 1800.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: 1800Reference: 46992i
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Famous impostors / by Bram Stoker.
Bram StokerDate: 1910- Books
Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852 ; with a foreword by Bernard M. Baruch.
Charles MackayDate: [1972,
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Authentic anecdotes of George Lukins, the Yatton doemoniac; with a view of the controversy, and a full refutation of the imposture / By Samuel Norman.
Norman, SamuelDate: [1788?]
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J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: 8 September 1830Reference: 21000i
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Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.
Marcellus LaroonDate: 10 July 1793Reference: 20589i
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Doctor Saltinbanco, a medicine vendor, attacking one of his clients for non-payment. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20638i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing with props to a crowd in Siena. Engraving by G.B. Polanzani after S. Pacini after G. Mei.
Mei, Bernardino, 1615-1676.Reference: 20517i- Books
Caraboo : the servant girl princess the real story of the grand hoax / Jennifer Raison and Michael Goldie.
Raison, JenniferDate: [1994]- E-books
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The devil of Delphos, or, the prophets of Baal containing an account of a notorious impostor, call'd Sabatai Sevi, pretended Messiah of the Jews, in 1666. Who afterwards turn'd Turk: and of many other impostors in Church and State; as False Christs, and False Prophets from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Times. To which is added, a proof that the present pretended prophets are the prophets of the devil, and not of God.
Date: 1708- Books
Scientists and scoundrels : a book of hoaxes / Robert Silverberg.
Robert SilverbergDate: 2007
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in the square of the Grand Duke of Florence. Lithograph by Levilly after F. Pieraccini.
Pieraccini, Francesco.Reference: 20907i
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Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Colour line engraving after M. Laroon.
Marcellus LaroonReference: 20590i- Books
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The falacie of the great water-drinker discovered : Fully representing what are the ingredients that provoke him to so wonderfull a vomit, and by what art one glass seemeth to be of one colour, and another of another; and what he doth when he taketh the rose-water and the angelica-water. / By Mr Thomas Peedle and Mr Thomas Cozbie, who brought him over into England from Tours in France: and after Wednesday next being the 26 of this present June, will be constantly readie every after-noon, if desired, in their own persons to make an experimental proof of what is here declared. Published for the satisfaction of many of the nobilitie and ladies of this nation, and many eminent gentlemen who have offered great sums of money to have the misterie discovered. As also to undeceive many thousands, who having seen the manner of it, have been amazed at the wonder but could not discover the secret. Licenced and entered into the register-book of the Company of Stationers, according to order.
Peedle, Thomas.Date: Anno Domini 1650- Books
The imposteress rabbit breeder : Mary Toft and eighteenth-century England / Karen Harvey.
Karen HarveyDate: 2020- Books
Schwärmer--Schwindler--Scharlatane : Magie und geheime Wissenschaften / Rainer Schmitz.
Rainer SchmitzDate: [2011]- E-books
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The son of Tabeal . A sermon occasion'd by the French invasion in favour of the Pretender. Preach'd March 14. 1707/8. By Thomas Bradbury.
Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759.Date: M.DCC.VIII. [1708]- E-books
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The imposture detected; or, the mystery and iniquity of Elizabeth Canning's story, displayed: wherein principles are laid down, and a method established, by which all impostures whatever, still prevailing in the world, may be detected; and all future ones for ever prevented from establishing themselves hereafter
Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]