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A booke of exchange of merchants: manuscript
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rudimentary library catalog (63 pages) of an unidentified owner, arranged alphabetically, giving abbreviated forms of author and title (with very few dates) for a standard early modern collection of primarily Latin and English tiles on philosophy, history, law, religion, sermons, politics, science, travel, classics. From the back of the volume, written upside-down, has been added a short (37 pages) basic treatise on arithmetic including sections on numbers, weights and measures, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, "reduction of integers," and fractions, with many examples of calculations.
mssHM 70980
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An apparently unpublished treatise on gold refining. The unknown author describes recipes for different methods of refining and assaying, giving practical advice as to what type of vessels and what type of ovens to use. He seems to have been a master of a mint, as he appends two long lists, one of silver, the other of gold coins issued from various Italian, French, Hungarian, German and English mints, and all current in Italy in 1526. He lists the alloys and the correct weights of more than 100 different coins. Includes one marginal sketch of a test tube. In Italian.
mssHM 72879
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Contains poems by Ben Jonson, John Done, Richard Corbett, and others with (in a different hand) a treatise on Justices of the Peace and criminal law arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
mssHM 46323
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A treatise, perhaps intended for publication, on fish and the British commercial fishing industry, chiefly in the Baltic and the North Sea, but also including references to New England, Pennsylvania, and the Black and Caspian seas. There are: lengthy sections devoted to Colchester (England) oyster beds, worldwide sturgeon fishing, whaling, cod, and herring; a discussion of plans for an underwater lantern as described by Denis Papin; and a glossary of fishing terms in Dutch, German, English, and Latin. According to the dealer's catalog the anonymous author was probably the Eastland Company merchant John Scarlett.
mssHM 68494
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Text of this treatise on the Court of Arches was published in 1666 as Praxis Francisi Clarke...(Wing C 4440), with a last chapter not present in this manuscript.
mssHM 35072
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Discussion of duties, procedures, legal terms, etc. relating to the work of a Justice of the Peace, arranged by topic in alphabetical order.
mssHM 17298