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- Call Number:
- Folio 66 748 Sc43
- Image Count:
- 234
- Abstract:
- A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. Topics included are: Gallantry, matrimony, conjurers and fortune tellers, clubs and societies, places of entertainment, spectacles such as exotic animals, curiosities of nature, freaks, etc. ; sporting events; advertisements for apparel; medical remedies and cosmetics; plays, ballets, and performances; obituaries and accounts of strange deaths; schools for gentlemen; balloon flights; puppets, mechanical inventions; comic poetry, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, ballads; jokes; accounts of ghosts and spiritual magic; auctions; religion; want ads; cooking; army recruiting; real estate; advertisements for books; strange accounts of bizarre crimes; traps; fire-fighting; accounts of the Thames; tobacco ads; shoes; public notices; election posters; fugitives from justice; wills and last testaments; lottery ads; notices relating to the Bonapartes; and other ads and reports including a print of a mummy
- Description:
- In English, with some entries in French., Title assigned by cataloger., Signed on inside front cover: "Beauchamp 1837.", and Imperfect impression of "A view of the menagerie in the King's Private Road," with bottom half of plate missing; laid in; not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, and France
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, poetry, newspaper clippings, etc., 1745-1838 (bulk 1780-1800).
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- Creator:
- Hartmann, Anton Theodor, 1774-1838
- Published / Created:
- 1798
- Call Number:
- Nqh90 798h
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- BEIR Nqh90 798h: Bound with trimmed ms. notes: [20] p. at front, [45] p. at end. Bookplate: Edward E. Salisbury.
- Publisher:
- J. H. C. Schreiner,
- Subject (Name):
- Salisbury, Edward Elbridge,--1814-1901--Bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Beauty, Personal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Über die Ideale weiblicher Schönheit bei den Morgenländern, ein Versuch von Anton Theodor Hartmann, nebst einem Anhang von einigen literarischen, historischen und kritischen Bemerkungen über einzelne angeführte Schriftsteller.