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Diaria de bello Carolino

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Description: Journal of a doctor with the Venetian army opposing Charles VIII.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [after 27 Aug. 1496].
Call number: 100240
Creator: Benedetti, Alessandro (approximately 1450-1512)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Baer & Co., Nov. 18, 1924. Armorial bookplate of the Duke of Sussex, with ms. shelfmark "VI. R. c. 31" on the front pastedown. Typescript dealer description in French laid in at back.
Dimensions: 22 cm (4to)
Associated people: Manuzio, Aldo, (1449 or 1450-1515,); Augustus Frederick, (1773-1843,); Aemilianus, Quintus.; Aemilianus, Quintus.

[Ambassador Hotel]

Visual Materials

Photographs of the Venetian Room, lounges, and a ballroom.

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Stampa seconda de signori Godolfin

Rare Books

Appears to be a collection of sample typography, reproducing excerpts from various continental legal tracts, mainly in Italian, but also in Spanish and Latin. The majority of the excerpts are taken from a 1555 commentary by Spanish jurist Antonio Gómez, his Ad leges Tauri commentarium absolutissimum. It also contains sections from the Statuto de Veneto and Venetian documents which contain dates through 1709.

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Carte de un amigo a otro de Sevilla sobre la epidemia

Manuscripts

Letter from unknown doctor from Cádiz to another doctor in Seville, dated 1800 August 26, regarding the plague. Following the letter in the volume are the following: correspondence with some clerics in Seville regarding burial in churches, 1801; representation to the King from the Count of Aranda, 1788; review of the murder case of Don Francisco del Castillo, 1798; copy of a botanical article regarding the Bohan Upa tree; cultivation of the peanut plant from the Americas; and some printed material.

mssHM 84290

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[U.S. Army soldiers in the lava beds.]

Visual Materials

This collection contains lantern slides with both photographs and illustrations of the 1873-1873 Modoc War, a conflict fought in the lava beds at Tule Lake on the California-Oregon border between a small band of Modoc Indians and the United States Army. The lantern slides include images of Indian scouts for the U.S. Army; U.S. Army soldiers and camps, Modoc leaders and prisoners of war, and the lava beds that served as the Modocs' stronghold. Notable images include portraits of Modoc leaders Captain Jack and Winema (Toby) Riddle, shaman Curly-headed Doctor, and Indian scout Donald McKy. Within the collection, 26 photographs can be attributed to Eadweard Muybridge, 13 to Louis Heller, and 2 to Putnam & Valentine.

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[Two soldiers at a United States Army camp during Modoc Indian War, 1872-73.]

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[The cemetery at Gillem's Camp, Modoc Indian War, 1872-73.]

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