Imperfect: mutilated along fold, with some loss of text; chipped. Manuscript number in upper right corner: 4. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., Includes illustration and inset: Appendix monasteriorum Ord. S. Bened. quae extant in Polonia et Lithuania., Relief shown pictorially., and Shows location of Benedictine monasteries in Holy Roman Empire, Poland, and Lithuania.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben]
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Central and Germany
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine monasteries--Europe, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800, Benedictine monasteries--Germany--Maps--Early works to 1800, Monasteries--Europe, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Monasteries--Germany--Maps--Early w
"The object of this engraving is to enumerate the many evils inflicted on England by its connection with Hanover. A great number of persons are crowded in groups in a place of public resort, and conversing on public affairs ... The general discontent at the injurious influence of German politics broke out very strongly at this time in reference to the expenses entailed on England to "secure the succession of the imperial dignity to the Archduke Joseph, eldest son and heir to the reigning emperor"."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Conference, pour parler entresien
Description:
Title engraved within cartouche below image; alternative title engraved within banner at top of image: The conference, pour parler entresien., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Fourteen lines of verse in two columns below image: How great must Britain's Influence appear, while from it Germany expects an heir? ... If then the poorest could corrupt the rest.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Germany, Hannover (Province), Hannover (Germany : Province), and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790. and Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, 1727-1777.
Swain, a graduate of YSM in 1884 was a lecturer/demonstrator or clinical professor of otology for most of his career until he retired in 1936. In the early part of his career, he also taught laryngology. In ink on back: "In [...] Erinnerung an den 13 Januar 90." It's possible that this isn't Swain but rather a gift from a German professor in 1890.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany
Subject (Name):
Swain, Henry Lawrence, 1865-1940 and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Faculty, Medical, Internal medicine, Internists, and Otolaryngologists
Henry Swain received his MD from YSM in 1884 and spent his entire career until his retirement in 1935 as a clinical faculty member in otolaryngology, especially otology, at Yale. Inscribed ink: "With Many Kind Regards, from Henry"
Subject (Geographic):
Germany
Subject (Name):
Swain, Henry Lawrence, 1865-1940 and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic):
Faculty, Medical, Internal medicine, Internists, and Otolaryngologists
Holograph, with corrections and instructions for printing. Accompanied by a holograph fragment from an unidentified work of music criticism
Description:
Intended as part of a revision of Lohengrin et Tannhäuser de Richard Wagner, by Franz Liszt (Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1851). The revised three-part work was to be titled Trois opéras de Richard Wagner considérés de leur point de vue musical et poétique, by Franz Liszt. and Available on microfilm
Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description:
In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
