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Bankoku ryakusetsu
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On Dar El Hikma; biographic materials; aborted projects; Diary as Sin excerpt, Compression & Purity contract, City Lights; The Audiographic as Data; Solar Fire on Earth; Secrets Prior to the Sun; On Crossing the Vermin Frontier (copy); At Night on the Sun fragment and research; General Scatterings and Comments.
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Earth no. 1
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Publisher: Earth Books & Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.) Related Content: "freedom" ; "Rimbaud be damned: I have withstood 99,000 seasons in hell and I still look down into this glass wondering, wondering" ; "Confessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts" (poem, short story, book review) Note: "C294" written in ms. in upper right corner of p. [1]. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski ; Steve Richmond(?)
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Mensulae planetarum : [manuscript]
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Seven astrological number tables (magic squares) for Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and the moon, respectively, each with explanations and commentary regarding the numerical symbolism of Hebrew letters. Followed on pp. 18-19 by brief discussions of the names of the earth and of the crescent symbol, with frequent use of astrological symbols and Hebrew letters; on pp. 20-21 a brief astrological text.
mssHM 1011
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Bankoku shinbunshi
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Edited by Michael Buckworth Bailey the British consular chaplain in Yokohama. This was one of the earliest newspapers in Japan and provided a mixture of news, history, advertisements and information about western culture for a Japanese audience.
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Press Wireless, Inc. - Special Directors' Meeting
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Approx. 10 items (much of the material may be considered one long report to be introduced at the Directors' Meeting. File includes: packet of information in brown binder, titled "Directors' Report (4/24/1947) Press Wireless Manufacturing Corporation" ; annual meeting report ; income statements ; balance sheets, 1946 net billings, figures related to many aspects of Press Wireless' operations and financial status.
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A Meteorological Dyary and Prognostication for this present yeare of our Lord: handwritten manuscript
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The Almanac begins with some 'Vulgar Notes of ye yeare after the Accompte' and a 'Generall Judgement vpon the constitution of the 4 Seasons', including notes on the eclipses of the moon, providing exact times, positions, degrees of eclipse, etc. (ff. 3-8). There then follows (ff. 9-20) a series of detailed tables of month-by-month and day-by-day predictions, including the positions of the sun and moon, 'Aspectes between the Planets', 'Parallelisme of ye Planets and fixeds', 'Figures of the Quarterly Lunations','...inclination of the Quarter', and a prediction on the state of the weather for every day of the year, with such comments as 'Close and suspicious' and 'A mixt vicissitude of severitie and moysture'.
mssHM 80396