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Manuscripts
With original drawings.
mssHM 40006
Rare Books
Binding: Full red morocco by Riviere (for Halsey?), top edge gilt. Gilt frames on covers and stamped in gilt on spine. Interleaved.
54043
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Rare Books
Speculum type; the Second Dutch edition. Woodcuts and xylographic text printed in brown ink; typographic text printed in black ink. Leaves printed on one side only. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.5 x 21.4 cm. Imperfect: leaves 32-33, 54-55 ([c]14, [d]1, [e]8, [e]9) lacking. Leaves [a]1-[a]3 trimmed at fore edge. Many leaves with blank sides partially pasted together. Binding: 19th century English gilt-tooled red morocco; in blue morocco solander case.
104685
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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
Rare Books
Plates 34-36, 53 etched 1789; plates 29-33, 37-52 etched 1794. Plates disbound and separately mounted in preservation mats. Former binding preserved: Full maroon morocco, gilt frames on covers, and stamped in gilt on spine. The hand numbering by Blake (in ink in upper right corners), seem to indicate that the plates were separated from a numbered copy of "Songs of Innocence"
54038