Rare Books
[Collection of engravings of royal medals and maps]
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- Publication date
- [1746-1799?]
- Call number
- 644770
- Provenance
- Gift of Dennis Dewenter, December 2014. Ms. table of contents written on inside of front cover and on free endpaper at beginning. Several clipping pasted on recto of map of Warwickshire, including an early 19th c. article on pay raises for the Navy and other military issues; a late 18th c. article on the French seizure of Leghorn; a poem titled "An engima", an epitaph, and a leaf with ms. inscription of an engraving. Ms. annotations titled "Buonaparte" on recto of map of "Graecae antiquae". [2] pages of ms. annotations on clouds on verso of leaf "The Euphrates and the Tigris" and recto of "Attack of the rebels ...". Ms. annotations titled "Prognostications on signs of the weather" on verso of "Attack of the rebels ...". Leaf with ms. annotations titled "The words explaining the characters for the persons with questions" laid in map titled "A correct map of the North West part of Germany ..." Extensive ms. annotations listing varieties of shorthand on verso of "A correct map of the North West part of Germany" and recto of "Map of Phaenicia ...". [4] pages of ms. annotations consisting of a chronology, from the Flood through 1762, on flyleaves at end.
