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Travaux de la Section de géodésie de l'Union géodésique et géophysique internationale
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Includes proceedings of meetings.
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Visual Materials
Vols. 1-8 each in three divisions, separately paged: I. Diary of events; II. Documents and narratives; III. Poetry, rumors and incidents. Vol. 9 in two divisions, omitting "Diary of events"; v. 10-11 and supplement. "Documents" only
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Manuscripts
Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 22:25 Edison Centennial Reel 52 (Library Roll #1172 - B+W stills HF). Includes the following photographs: 1. Men work on trans. line (various shots) 6:00:18 2. Mt. Station 6:03:34 3. Tent camp 6:05:15 4. Various shots of horse buggy carts and two men 6:08:46 5. Men in cart in snow (2 shots) 6:08:46 6. Men bring up equip. in horse buggy cart (no snow) 6:10:19 7. White station against mountain 6:11:26 8. Portrait of group by "electrical age" sign 6:12:18 9. Electric light and power sign 6:12:18 10. Scene with street cars (2 shots) 6:14:41 11. Overhead of power plant in construction 6:16:05 12. Int. plant 6:17:00 13. Ext. plant on water 6:18:30 14. Creek 6:19:41 15. Dam construction (various images) 6:20:42
SCE MP 248
Visual Materials
Image of a parade of eighteen horse-drawn carnival floats, depicting fanciful scenes of the terrain and extraterrestrial creatures of planets and celestial objects inhabited with various sea creatures, reptiles, insects, plants, pineapples, cactuses, a horned instrument, each with a numbered caption: "No. 1 Proteus," "No. 2 The Sun," "No. 3. Mercury," "No. 4. Venus," "No. 5. The Moon," "No. 6. Mars," "No. 7. Juno," "No. 8. Vesta," "No. 9. Harmonia," "No. 10. Flora," "No. 11. A Comet," "No. 12 Iris," "No. 13. Ceres," "No. 14. Amphitrite," "No. 15. Jupiter," "No. 16. Saturn," "No. 17. Uranus," "No. 18. Neptune"; the verso contains four pages of the "Carnival Edition" of "The Daily Picayune" for March 9, 1886, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Proteus for the 1886 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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![Natural y General Hystoria de las Indias, 1539-1548. [volume 2]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UQZAK%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
Paper; ff. i (contemporary) + 107 + i (contemporary); modern foliation in vol. 2 runs 11-117 since ff. 1-10, formerly bound with this volume, were removed in 1976 and catalogued as HM 37542. Vol. 2: 1¹² 2¹²(-11, 12) 3¹² 4²²(-22) 5⁴ 6-7¹² 8¹²(plus bifolium between 1 and 2) 9¹⁰. 290 x 210 (220-232 x 105-110) mm. The lower margin of the last 8 leaves are completely cut away. Written in the hand of the author. Catchwords enclosed in brown ink scrolls in the middle or right lower margins. Leaf signatures in roman numerals in the middle of the lower margin; quire and leaf signatures in a later hand in letters and arabic numerals, frequently including the seventh leaf of a quire, in the right lower margin close under the text. 32-38 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in dry point. The manuscript was written probably in Santo Domingo between 1539-46 and completed in Spain in 1546-48: the dates given in the text are March 1539, in Book IV, chap. 7 and 1548 in the prologue of Book VI. Illustrated with 24 pen and ink drawings by the author, a few shaded in black lead. Marginal notes in 3 hands: i, the author's corrections, additions and directions to the printer; ii, note on f. 49 of vol. 1 made after 1580; iii, pencilled notes in English in vol. 2 with the book numbers, probably made by a bookseller. Contents: [Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés] Historia general y natural de las Indias. Books IV, VII, IX, XI, XXXII, and XXXVII]: [f. 11, Prologue:] Pues que es ya tiempo se de conclusion A las cosas de la governacion ... [f. 11v, Text:] Capitulo primero ... Dixosse en el libro procedente ...Y esto baste quanto a este breve libro del numero xxxvi hasta que el tiempo nos avise de otras cosas que en el se acresçienten.
mssHM 177
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Manuscripts
Box containing 248 color slides both of Cosway art and unrelated art images presumably used in various presentations. The slides consist of: D.1.a. Miniatures 1 of 2 (12 slides) D.1.b. Miniatures 2 of 2 (12 slides) D.1.c. Political cartoon and comic art - "used for talk" April, 1975 (25 slides) D.1.d. Misc. from 18th century seminar - March, 1978 (27 slides) D.1.e. Early slides: reproductions and Scotland 1975 (April) (7 slides) D.1.f. Cosway and Huntington Library objects; Palmer-Muller May, 1976 (7 slides) D.1.g. Gilray and Huntington Library objects - April, 1975 (26 slides) D.1.h. Cosway talk and additional Cosway's in the Huntington Library- May, 1976 (19 slides) D.1.i. Huntington Library objects, May, 1976 (12 slides) D.1.j. Unrelated French slides 1 of 2 (11 slides) D.1.k. Unrelated French slides 2 of 2 (9 slides) D.1.l. Unrelated slides of Ephesus 1 of 2 (11 slides) D.1.m. Unrelated slides of Ephesus 2 of 2 (14 slides) D.1.n. Cosway miniatures and other art (13 slides) D.1.o. Cosway paintings (12 slides) D.1.p. Cosway miniatures (11 slides) D.1.q. Cosway paintings (8 slides) D.1.r. British slides (12 slides)
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