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Book of signals: manuscript
Manuscripts
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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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.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
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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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Karl Langer, Ritter von Edenberg sketchbook
Manuscripts
The sketchbook contains 169 pages of anatomical illustrations with descriptions. Some of the sketches are in color. Karl Langer, Ritter von Edenberg wrote the text and Dr. E. Recsey, Professor Géza Mihalkovics, 1844-1899 and Professor Meyer. The text is in German.
mssHM 74093