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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Naval surgeon, Arctic explorer and natural historian, Sir John
Richardson (1787 1865) published many works, several of which are
reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, notably the
four-volume Fauna Boreali-Americana. At the Haslar Royal Naval
Hospital, where he worked towards the end of his career, Richardson
built up a library and museum that became renowned for natural
history research. His published work was fuelled by his own voyages
and the specimens sent back from other expeditions, as was the case
for this illustrated work, completed in 1854. Richardson describes
the zoological specimens collected during the 1845 51 voyage of the
survey ship H.M.S. Herald, which had sailed into Arctic seas and
took part in the search for Sir John Franklin. The collected fauna
include fossil mammals from the ice cliffs at Eschscholtz Bay in
Alaska, first discovered in 1816 by Otto von Kotzebue and his
naturalists."
Coffee houses played an important role in the cultural and
intellectual history of the seventeenth century. Functioning as
venues where people could meet, catch up with news, transact
business and discuss issues of mutual concern, they provided a
valuable alternative to public houses: the absence of alcohol
allowed for more serious conversation. First published in 1893,
this illustrated study by Edward Forbes Robinson (fl.1890) explores
the history of the English coffee house and its role in
seventeenth-century social and political life. Beginning with a
history of coffee itself, Robinson examines the religious
traditions surrounding the beverage, moving on to discuss its
medical uses and the clientele who frequented the establishments
that served it. The role of the coffee house as a temperance
institution is also considered. With an appendix containing a
selection of contemporary texts and descriptions of coffee house
tokens, this lively study remains significant to social historians.
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