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Persian romances

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Description: The volume contains text on 188 leaves and 60 color illustrations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1800.
Call number: mssHM 1106
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of May 1931. Volume has one bookplate: "Ex Libris Robert Hoe." It is presumed Henry E. Huntington purchased this in the Robert Hoe sale, 1911-1912. Note in the volume states: "This manuscript formerly belonged to the King of Delhi."
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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

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A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.

mssHM 84418

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Book of signals: manuscript

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This book of signals contains text and illustrations. This volume formerly belonged to Sir William Chaloner Burnaby.

mssHM 18939

A curious herbal, : containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life. / By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick. Vol: II

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Engraved throughout. With an index to each volume. Originally published in weekly installments. A reissue of the 1737 edition with the imprints re-engraved and volume statements in roman numerals. Make-up of the preliminaries varies. Engraved illustrations signed "Eliz. Blackwell delin. sculp. et pinx." Illustrations and leaves with explanatory text numbered separately; preliminaries and indexes unnumbered.

270004 v.2

A curious herbal, : containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life. / By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick. Vol: I

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270004 v.1

Disasters of 60 Days

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Image contains four illustrations and two smaller vignettes. The four illustrations depict four different shipwrecks, each with a description of the disaster under the illustration. The center vignette depicts the explosion of a ship, and the top center vignette depicts California and her bear surrounded by a black wreath. These disaster occurred within 60 days of each other, the first occurring on February 16th, 1853, and the last occurring on April 11th, 1853. "Lith. & Pub. by Britton & Rey. Cr. California & Montgomery St. San Francisco."--text, above image. Paper color: gray.

48052:062

Milton, a poem in 12 [i.e. 2] books

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Printed on black on 45 leaves, from engraved plates containing both text and illustrations. Hand-colored

54041

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