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Treatise and exercises on right triangles

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Description: This manuscript, which has no known author and is written in Latin, contains information about right triangles. There are several diagrams and one chart. The watermark on the paper is obscured but is similar to watermark #526 (post or pillar) in W. A. Churchill's Watermarks in paper in the XVII and XVIII centuries (1935) which puts it to the late 17th century and makes it British.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [between 1650 and 1699]
Call number: mssHM 75977
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 30 cm :
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Materials include paper samples that measure 20 x 16 in. or smaller. A majority of the paper samples are made with unmixed linen, possibly sourced from J. Batchelor & Son of Little Chart, Kent, and include watermarks of a fish (perch). Two paper samples are also included with a watermark of a chalice, crown, and half-moon.

priBerger

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La trigonometrica geometrica - logarithmica del triangulo rectilineo

Manuscripts

The manuscript, undated but probably written in the late 17th century, is in Latin and contains charts, some foldouts, as well as text and drawings all related to geometry, trigonometry and triangles. The author is unknown.

mssHM 72085

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Proofs, illustrations, and paper samples

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Includes prints, proofs, and paper samples that measure 25 x 20 in. or smaller. Proofs are of typefaces both illustrated by hand and printed. The paper samples are made with unmixed linen, possibly sourced from J. Batchelor & Son of Little Chart, Kent, and do not have any watermarks.

priBerger

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Proofs, illustrations, and paper samples

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Materials include prints, illustrations, proofs, paper samples, and other materials that measure 15 x 10 in. or smaller. Proofs and illustrations are organized alphabetically by project; some titles include: Ancoat's Brotherhood, Beowulf, the Golden Legend, the History of Reynard the Foxe, Poems by the Way, the Water of the Wondrous Isle, and more. Illustrations include sketches of borders and other ornamentation by William Morris. Prints include Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations for the Golden Legend, Love is Enough, the Wood Beyond the World, works by Geoffrey Chaucer and others. Also included is a print of Charles M. Gere's frontispiece for News from Nowhere. Paper samples are made with unmixed linen, possibly sourced from J. Batchelor & Son of Little Chart, Kent, and include watermarks of a flower (primrose). One of the paper samples is signed by William Morris and dated April 23, 1891. Some paper samples without watermarks are also included. The box also contains miscellaneous items such as acidity paper test samples, and Kelmscott Press reference materials acquired by Sanford Berger from the 1930s to 1990s.

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Villa Tract

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Macy St. and Mission Rd. to east of Gallardo St., Block 62, Hancock's Survey. Color highlighting; courses, distances, parcel numbers in red; pencil calculations. Surveyed at the request of W.J. Brodrick & T.E. Rowan. [paper watermarks: Southworth 1882 Linen Bank]. Alt title supplied by cataloger.

mssSolano SR_Map_0598

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Map of North America by J. Palairet With considerable Alterations & Improvements from D'Anville, Mitchell & Bellin. by L. Delarochette

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Kashnor notes, "North of New Albion we have 'Opening discovered by Martin d'Aguilar in 1603,' forming the mouth of the 'River of the West.' Further north is 'Opening discovered by Juan de Fuca in 1592. In this opening is an Island With a High Mountain in the Form of a Pillar.' This map locates the Indian nations, and shows the chain of forest around the Great Lakes." Note this is a second state of map 105:237A. Table of European holdings. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues (inaccurate). Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fleur di lis IV. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche.

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Treatise and exercises on right triangles

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