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The maxims of Methuselah : being the advice given by the patriarch in his nine hundred sixty and ninth year to his Great Grandson at Shem's coming of age in regard to women
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Advice to the city or the Wiggs loyalty explain'd
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ESTC R374 ; Verse - "Remember ye: wiggs what was formerly done, remember your mischeifs in forty and one, when" ; A Tory satire on the Whigs; Engraved ; Place of publication and actual printer's name from Wing ; Huntington Library copy has Narcissus Luttrell's MS. date: 23 Sept. 1682
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The photograph album chronicles Charles F. Lummis's time with the Del Valle family at Rancho Camulos in Ventura County, California, from 1887 to 1888. There are many photographs of the Del Valle family, particularly the Del Valle daughters, with whom Lummis is shown playfully interacting. Family gatherings include a local Catholic priest, couples dancing, and young women playing instruments. Views of Rancho Camulos, the surrounding landscape, and architectural features such as the placita, the chapel, and the south veranda, are also prominently featured. The front cover of the photograph album bears the embossed title of "Susanita Del Valle," while the spine's title says, "Views of Camulos." An inscription on the third page reads: "Susanita Del Valle, with the best wishes of Chas. F. Lummis -- Feb. 3, 1888." (Susanita was a nickname for Susana Carmen Del Valle (1871-1907)). Some of the pictures appear in The home of Ramona: photographs of Camulos, the fine old Spanish estate described by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, as the home of 'Ramona', by Charles F. Lummis, published in Los Angeles in 1888. The Huntington Library holds a copy of this book (RB 35644) as well as a second edition (RB 252770). Both copies are illustrated with original cyanotypes by Lummis, many of which are in The home of Ramona.
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Pearls of the Faith; or, Islâm's Rosary, being the Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of Allah
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A signed, autograph manuscript; the preface was written in Glengyle, Perthshire, Scotland. The manuscipt subtitle: With comments in verse from various Oriental Sources -- as made by Indian Mussulman. The manuscript contains ninety-nine names of Allah written in Arabic in red ink; there is one color drawing in the volume and a painting in oil on the cover.
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Mr Howard and his Burrows : Coming out of Death Valley
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Dr Wild's humble thanks for His Majesties gracious declaration for liberty of conscience, March 15. 1672
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ESTC R212968 ; Signed at end: Iter Boreale, i.e. Robert Wild;Verse - "No, not one word, can I of this great deed," ; With reference to Charles II's declaration of 15 March 1672 ; In this edition the "y" of "liberty" in title is under the "Hi" of "His"
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