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First Calais roll of arms
Manuscripts
The present manuscript belongs to the first of two variant versions of the Calais Roll in circulation during the later sixteenth century. It includes details of the military retinues of each peer and knight as well as a summary of the 700 ships and more than 14,000 mariners of the English fleet, arranged by home port, and a few notes of other expeditionary expenses. The manuscript is skillfully and calligraphically designed and executed, with a colored frontispiece of the arms of Edward III, encircled by the Garter, and contains 116 heraldic coats of arms, professionally tricked. The decorative scheme of the manuscript is however unfinished, with only one of the arms colored in, although the scribe's instructions to the illuminator can be seen.
mssHM 72023
Map of New York Isld. with the adjacent rocks in the remarkable passage of Hell Gate [cartographic material] / by IBH, 1778
Manuscripts
Manuscript map depicting New York Island [Manhattan]. Shows the location of the winter quarter barracks for the American troops which were burned when the British forces landed at Frog's Pt. The east view of Hell Gate passage is depicted at the bottom of the map, showing surveyors in the foreground and ships in the passage.
mssHM 15400
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Night passage
Rare Books
A stormy sundown brought Grant McLain with his battered accordion to Junction City to accept a dangerous assignment from the railroad now building a spur into Montana's mountains. To McLain, disgraced railroad trouble-shooter, this meant a chance at redemption. And so he made passage through a long night, a night that included a railroad holdup and a kidnapping and reached a gunflame climax in a forgotten ghost town high in the Crazies. This is a story of taut suspense encompassed between a sundown and a sunup--Adapted from jacket.
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Cephas Arms letters
Manuscripts
This collection is comprised of letters that chronicle Cehpas Arms' wagon journey from Knoxville, Illinois to Stockton, California from 1849-1850. There are 22 letters addressed to his second wife Louisa A. Taylor, 1 letter from Taylor, and 1 letter to his mother Experience Gates Arms. The letters are detailed in terms of dates, locations, routes, events, acquaintances, and his spiritual reflections. Although he often remarks on the beauty of the natural landscape and flora, the harsh realities of the journey are reminded with each grave marker mentioned. Arms describes the difficulties faced by him and his team including encounters with Native Americans, illnesses, disastrous stampedes, loss of cattle, and the challenging terrain. While staying in Utah, Arms encounters Brigham Young and details his impression of the Mormons. Of the 24 letters, 18 include typewritten transcripts prepared by Louisa Barber Hoblit and Carrolle Barber Clark.
mssHM 83913-83936
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The traytors coat of arms
Rare Books
A broadside, anti-Jacobite, anti-Catholic and anti-French. The illustration portrays a coat of arms, flanked by a priest and a Highlander; below the etching in letterpress are three columns beginning with the text: "The explanation." The lilies of the French Royal arms changed to upside down frogs and the legitimacy of the Stewart line questioned by the inclusion of the bed-pan child over the priest's shoulder. The text begins: "The three toads are the French Old Coat of Arms, their heads downward, in a sable field; the coat revers'd denotes treason in perfection. The supporters are a Popish priest on one side in his habit, with a warming-pan on his shoulder, with the lid open and a young child in it. In his right hand is a bloody pen-knife in a posture ready privately to execute the cruelty their religion teaches them to exercise on Protestants ...
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The arms of all nations: from an enamel by Mr. H. Buss, Great Newport Street, London, exhibited in the Great Exhibition
Visual Materials
Title derived from print. Includes colored images of the coat of arms of nations participating in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, England. The coat of arms are surrounded by a wreath of leaves with a crown at the top. Below the wreath is a ribbon that says "Peace on Earth good will towards men" and "Exhibition of the industry of all nations."
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