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Translations from the French: poetical commonplace book

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    Stephen Duryea, Account book - Ledger B. Double entry ledger

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    A general accounting ledger across a number of volumes. Handle carefully, bound in vellum, binding front board warped and spine broken.

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    Book of Common Prayer : [printed]

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    (1 leather bound vol.). With the bookplate of Graham E. Hamond & a purchase date of 1738. Front cover is loose -- handle carefully.

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    Commonplace book. Music, with fragment

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    Short part songs in English for three and four voices, some songs without words; also, two leaves from a similar music book. Front and back covers are heavily damaged and fragile, handle carefully.

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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.

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    Walk from London to Land's End and Back

    Manuscripts

    Spine is broken and loose.

    mssHM 33692