Cornhill to Cairo

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  The song of Los

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  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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  Dit is die prologhe va[n] der spieghel onser behoudenisse

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  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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  Notes of a journey from Cornhill to grand Cairo, by way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem : performed in the steamers of the Peninsular and oriental company

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  Album of drawings depicting a tobacco factory in Spain

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  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

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  The songs of experience

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  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

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  Sanctissimo ac cleme[n]tissimo in Christo patri domino: domino Paulo Secu[n]do sacrosancte Romane & uniuersalis ecclesie su[m]mo pastori & po[n]tifici maxi[m]o

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  Spaces left on leaves [a]1r and [i]1r for incipits to be added by hand; initial spaces. Signatures: [a-f¹⁰ g⁸ h¹² i-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ *⁴]. Illuminated decorations on leaf [a]1r with blue and maroon flowers with gilt scrolling in Ferrara style, blue capital "S" in gilt panel with red and green fill. Coat of arms [obliterated] in gilt circle in bottom margin. On leaf [i]1r blue and maroon flowers on inner margin with red capital 'M' in gilt panel. Other initials and rubrication in red or blue. Incipits on leaves [a]1r and [i]14 written in red. Binding: mid-18th century Spanish[?] gilt-tooled blue morocco[?].

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