Compiled by John Green, but known as the Astley collection. and v. 3. Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Kongo and Angola. Description of Loango, Kongo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy. Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Astley,
Subject (Geographic):
Benin--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Voyages and travels--History--18th century, and Voyages and travels--History--Sources
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now
Image Count:
4
Description:
In: Churchill, Awnsham, d. 1728. Collection of voyages and travels. London : Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.], 1746 vol. 5.
Publisher:
Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.],
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, Angola--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guinea--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guyana--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and West Indies--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
M, W Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 W. M
Published / Created:
[1859?]
Call Number:
Za Si26 859L
Image Count:
11
Description:
Attributed to Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.-NUC., Cover title., Pencilled note on cover: Mrs. Sigourney. 1859 given as date on spine of case holding this., and Signed: W.M.
Paperbound. Signed by James Kirkup. Stamp on p. [3] of cover: Hand made in Wingland. From the James Kirkup Papers. and Parallel text in English and French.
"Brevissima Institutio, Sev Ratio Grammatices congnoscendæ ... 1611": leaves E8-Q8, with special title page (with royal arms on verso)., A compilation of rules for Latin grammar, by William Lily, John Colet and Thomas Robertson, with many additions by later revisers; commonly called "Lily's grammar.", Interleaved, with numerous manuscript additions in a contemporary hand, apparently Henry Vernon, whose name is inscribed on leaf facing the title page., Royal arms on verso of title page. Woodcut of the tree of knowledge on last page., and Signatures: A-Q8 (A1 blank, except for signature-mark on recto).
Publisher:
Printed by Iohn Norton, Printer to the Kings Maiesty in Latine, Greeke and Hebrew
Subject (Name):
Vernon, Henry--Inscription and Vernon, Henry--Ms. notes
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar and Latin language--Grammar--1500-1799
"The wonderful adventures of Humpty Dumpty, in two volumes. Issued late in fall of 1869"--Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper., By Clement Clarke Moore., Imperfect: original wrappers repaired with cloth., Pagination includes p. [2] and [3] of wrappers., Plates chromolithographed., and Wrapper title.
Publisher:
McLoughlin Bros New York,
Subject (Topic):
Children's poetry, Christmas--Juvenile poetry, Picture books for children, and Santa Claus--Juvenile poetry
Lawson, William, fl. 1618. New orchard and garden Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Published / Created:
1633?]
Call Number:
Uz52 633m
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases., Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations., Country house-uuifes garden., English house-uuife., Inrichment of the vveald of Kent, or, A direction to the husband-man, for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds., Markhams farewell to husbandry, or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our kingdome., Neuu orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good., and Way to get wealth.
Description:
Each section has special title page (dated 1631-33) and separate pagination. Parts 1-5 were also issued separately., G.M. and W.L. stand for Gervase Markham and William Lawson respectively., and General title page and title pages [of part 3 and 6] bled with damage to imprint, the imprint date of the general title page missing entirely. Owned by William Reynolds, Southam, 1833.
Publisher:
For Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at the Golden vnicorn in [Pater-noster-row,
Subject (Name):
William Reynolds, Southam--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Early works to 1800, Agriculture--Great Britain, and Home economics--Early works to 1800
Manuscript concludes with a table of contents, "A poem in fashion after my late lord's decease" that begins, "As I walkd by my self, Thus I saide to my self....;" and a letter to the young Earl Fitzwilliam signed, "John Catlin, Living in Stepney, Northamptonshire.", Manuscript presentation copy of a work addressed to the young Earl Fitzwilliam, offering "my opinion on Gods workes, with some proper rules... [for] health, long life, ritches, virtue, wisdom, viygor and victory." The text opens with a generalized cosmology, including discussion of the nature of light and of the Zodiac, and mentioning the meteor fireball of March 1719. Most of the text offers detailed information on the four humours; on "the rules of Health", "Physicke and ointment;" the "Limmits of Pleasure;" and rules "To govern Servants.", Prefatory material: Five varying and highly decorated dedication pages to Lord Fitzwilliam, including a dedicatory poem "Not that I think my Lord will want to learn....;" several English and Latin maxims, and a dedicatory letter addressed to "My Lord.", and With: foldout diagram on parchment of signs of the Zodiac (numbered as p. 22).
Description:
Binding: contemporary full panelled calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Paginated as rectos only. Most versos blank, not digitized, excepting p. 21-22..
Subject (Name):
Fitzwilliam, William Fitzwilliam,--Earl,--1719-1756
Subject (Topic):
Astrology and health, Authors and patrons--Great Britain, Conduct of life, Cosmology, English poetry--18th century, Health, Moral education, Youth--Conduct of life, and Youth--Health and hygiene
Comité Enragés-Internationale situationniste Conseil pour le maintien des occupations
Published / Created:
1968]
Call Number:
BrSides Box 2008 90
Image Count:
2
Description:
A détourné comic strip. The text is from the first paragraph of the tract, "Adresse à tous les travailleurs" (also dated May 30, 1968). and Mimeographed typescript.
Publisher:
Comité Enragés-Internationale situationniste, Conseil pour le maintien des occupations,
Subject (Topic):
Riots --France --Paris --History --20th century, Students --France --Political activity, and Working class --Economic conditions
Turnèbe, Adrien, 1512-1565 Zetzner, Lazarus, d. 1616, printer
Published / Created:
MDCIV [1604]
Call Number:
Osborn fpb51
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Adriani Tvrnebi Adversariorum tomi III and Adversariorum tomi III
Description:
From the collection of Ben Johnson, with his manuscript annotations. Bookplate: James Stevens Cox. Inscriptions on title page marked out. and With separate title page for each section; pagination continuous.
Publisher:
Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri,
Subject (Name):
Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637--Ms. notes and Stevens-Cox, James--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800
Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Subject (Topic):
Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Church of England, creator Church of England. Book of common prayer. Litany
Published / Created:
the XXVII day of May, the yere of our Lorde M.DXLVI [i.e. 1544?]. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum
Call Number:
Mzj141 1544
Image Count:
28
Alternative Title:
An exhortation unto praye
Description:
Probably an early printing of one of the editions of 1544 (Sayle 477), in which the error in date was corrected to 1544--cf., Signatures: A-B8C4., The Brand-Heber copy (Heber VI, 2753)., and Title within architectural border; black letter; the Litany printed in red and black.
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Baradère, H. abbé 1792-1839 Dupaix, Guillermo Lenoir, Alexandre, 1761-1839 Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845
Published / Created:
1834-1844.
Call Number:
1995 Folio 14
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Antiquités Mexicaines : relation des trois expéditions du colonel Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806 et 1807, par le roi Charles IV, pour la recherche les antiquites du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque : avec les dessins de Castañeda ... : suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte et de l'Inde par m. Alexandre Lenoir ... : d'une dissertation sur l'origine et sur la linguistique des populations primitives des deux amériques, d'un historique des diverses antiquités et des fossiles du double continent, par m. Warden ... : avec un discours préliminaire des travaux et documents divers de mm. de Chateaubriand, Farcy, Galindo, de Humboldt et de St. Priest ... .
Description:
Volume 2 has separate title page and date 1834.
Publisher:
Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaines,
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico--Antiquities, Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Antiquities, and San Pablo Villa de Mitla (Mexico)--Antiquities
Dokuchaev, N Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941 Novit︠s︡kiĭ, P. (Pavel), b. 1888 VKhUTEMAS (Art school)
Published / Created:
1927
Call Number:
2009 +208
Image Count:
36
Description:
"Arkhitektura Vkhutemasa, Pavel Novitskiĭ:" p. [iii-iv]; "Arkhitekturnyĭ fakul’tet Vkhutemasa, N. Dokuchaev:" p. [v-xiv]; Cover design by El Lissitzky. and Imperfect: spine mutilated and repaired with facsimile work. Inscription: A. Aru[?], 1927. Original w
Publisher:
Izd-vo Vkhutemasa,
Subject (Topic):
Architecture and state --Soviet Union, Architecture --Soviet Union, Architecture --Soviet Union --Designs and plans, Architecture, Russian, Communism and architecture --Soviet Union, and Constructivism (
V. I. The art -- v. II. Art and architecture -- v. III. The architecture.
Alternative Title:
World's Columbian Exposition MDCCCXCIII
Description:
At head of title: World's Columbian Exposition MDCCCXCIII. Official illustrated publication., Each plate preceded by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress; colored plates matted., and Edition statement from volume II half-title verso.
Publisher:
George Barrie,
Subject (Name):
World's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Illinois--Chicago, Art, and Painting
