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Indian drawings volume

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Description: The volume contains 20 colored drawings featuring Indian people in various professions and dress. Drawings have descriptions in French. Drawings on vellum, interleaved with bark. Possibly created in the Deccan Plateau. Contains auction description.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 17th century.
Call number: mssHM 1115
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of May 1931. Was part of the Didot Library.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Indian volume on horse diseases

Manuscripts

The volume is about horse diseases, medicine, and treatments. It contains 14 colored illustrations. Possibly from north India. With note about manuscript.

mssHM 1116

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Aerostat manuscript and drawing collection

Manuscripts

Bound volume containing manuscripts and drawings related to aeuronautics. Text on spine is in French and reads, "Méthode pour Diriger des Aérostats." Manuscripts possibly also in Dutch.

mssHM 14181

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John Hexham survey of the lande of Thomas Hunston Esquier in Walpole

Manuscripts

An Elizabethan manuscript survey which records the Norfolk fenland estates of Thomas Hunston of Walpole; the survey is written in English on parchment in John Hexham's secretary hand. The survey records, in detail, Hunston's lands in Walpole, Walton, Walsoken, Emneth, and Well, noting boundaries, field and path names, and includes details of tenants and neighbors. The volume has interleaved blank pages, possibly added in the 18th century, and on the bottom of the first blank page, a colored 16th century coat of arms initialed H. C.; in addition, there is the small 20th century book label of "Peter A. Crofts." The binding is 18th century calf gilt, rebacked and recornered with endpapers created from old paper.

mssHM 84132

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Album of drawings depicting a tobacco factory in Spain

Manuscripts

An album of 15 watercolored drawings featuring stages of processing the tobacco plant into powdered tobacco, or snuff, within an eighteenth-century industrial complex, most likely the Royal Tobacco Factory at Seville. The album is bound in green morocco leather and stamped in gilt with the arms of the King of Spain, Charles III. Each drawing is captioned.

mssHM 84085

Drawing book of original drawings created by M.H.B., 1852

Visual Materials

One drawing book of original drawings, untitled, created by M.H.B., 1852. The drawing book is 10 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains original pencil drawings, mostly of landscapes and buildings. The drawing book is bound within marblized paper covers, and is untitled. The first drawing is signed "M.H.B" and is dated 1852; some of the other drawings are also dated 1852. Colored tissue paper guard sheets have been laid in between the leaves. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Drawing book by F.J. Monroe

Visual Materials

One drawing book, untitled, by F.J. Monroe, ca. 1880? The drawing book is 12 unnumbered leaves in length. It contains 11 original drawings, three of which are in pencil and colored pencil; the remainder are in pencil only. Some of the images within the book are a deer, a tree, a windmill, castles, and a chicken. The first image, which is drawin in pencil and colored pencil, is titled "Wild Tiger-lily" and is signed, in ms., "F.J. Monroe." Tissue guard sheets are bound in between each of the leaves. Title supplied by cataloger.

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