Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
Album containing 296 printed reply forms, completed in manuscript by individuals subscribing various sums of money for the expenses of a forthcoming meeting in Dublin of the Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, known as the Great Protest...
Description:
Front cover title: "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty."
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
De Vere, Aburey, Sir, 1788-1846, Parnell, Henry, Sir, 1776-1842, Wyse, Thomas, Sir, 1791-1862, and Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, History, and Politics and government
BEIN E159 +B79 1-5: Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 1. Latin] Francoforti, 1590. Imperfect: colophon to the plates (p. [5]-[6] of 3rd group) wanting; last blank leaf wanting.
Publisher:
Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero T. de Bry, venales reperiūtur in officina S. Feirabēdii
Subject (Geographic):
Florida
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, and Description and travel
V.2 has title: Bucaniers of America. The second volume. Containing The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the original journal o...
Publisher:
Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar
Subject (Geographic):
Spanish Main. and West Indies
Subject (Name):
Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688., L'Olonnais, 1630-1671., and Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682.
Papers include correspondence and other materials relating to the peace efforts in the mid to late 1960s of the World Constitutional Convention and the World Man Center, a proposed peace center in Cyprus, established in collaboration with Cyprus Presi...
Description:
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970), poet and publisher.
Subject (Geographic):
Cyprus
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970., Fuller, R. Buckminster 1895-1983. (Richard Buckminster),, Makarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977., World Academy of Art and Science., World Constitutional Convention Inc., and World Man Center, Inc.
Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reas...
Description:
In Latin and English.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
Manuscript and printed items, tipped into album in approximate chronological order. Includes letters to Eardley-Wilmot from Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart. (1735-1807), George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813), John Moore, abp...
Description:
Chiefly in English and French; a few items in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France., France, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Eardley-Wilmot, John, 1750-1815.
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism, Anticlericalism, Clergy, Political activity, History, Foreign public opinion, British, Refugees, and Foreign relations
