Manuscripts

Lepidoptera of Central America: notebooks

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Description: These two volumes include field drawings of Lepidoptera of Central America. It includes the genus and species of each lepidopteran observed with a description of the insect, location found, wing illustrated in color, and sex. Scale marker present for each illustration with tissue guards. Areas covered are Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras. The author is unknown but it is attributed to a "Dr. Ellis." It is undated, but presumed to be from the early 20th century.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [between 1900 and 1950]
Call number: mssHM 76713-76714
Provenance: Purchased from Antiquariat Botanicum, March 26, 2012.
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Map of Central America. [cartographic material] : To illustrate the papers of Capt. Bird Allen R.N., Alonso de Escober and Chevr. Emanuel Friedrichsthal / John Arrowsmith

Manuscripts

Manuscript map showing Yucatán, Belize, Guatamala, Honduras and the Mosquito Coast, El Salvador and the northern part of Nicaragua to Lake Nicaragua. Colored. The library also has a printed version of this map, call number 105:895 M., which includes all of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

mssHM 15470

MS map of Central America

Visual Materials

Kashnor notes, "Drawn by James Saurce, of Belize, British Honduras, evidently in connection with some scheme at Vera Paz. [central Guatemala, see 093:670m] It shows the sailing routes to Vera Cruz, Havanna, Jamaica and Grenada." Kashnor dates as ca. 1840. MS note: MS map of Central America circa 1840 (in pencil). Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Verso Text: MS note: 668.

093:668 M

Yucatan conventus juridici Hispaniae novae pars occidentalis et Guatimala conventus juridiciis [cartographic material] / Copied from John Ogilby's "Description of the New World" London MDCLXX by James Laurie, Belize 18th Jany. 1844

Manuscripts

Manuscript map showing Yucatán Peninsula, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The island of Cuba is also shown. Copied from a map printed in John Ogilby's "Description of the New World, "London 1670. Descriptive text in left and right margins of sheet. James Laurie was a Scottish geographer and chief editor of "A system of universal geography," Edinburgh, 1842. He should not be confused with James Laurie (1811-1875), the American engineer and one of the founders of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

mssHM 15472

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William Blackstone letter to Thomas Townshend

Manuscripts

Letter is addressed to "Sir" but the recipient is presumed to be Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney.

mssHM 19924

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Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America

Visual Materials

Black-and-white photographs documenting agriculture and village life in Asia and South America, including in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Manchuria, North Korea, China, India, and Siberia. The photographs primarily focus on the relationship between villagers and agriculture and many of the images are related to farming, harvesting, transportation and commerce, as well as landscape views of farms, plantations, and groves, plants and trees, and town streets and buildings, indigenous dwellings, children, and townspeople. Aside from a set of 12 card photographs depicting scenes in Mexico in the late 1880s by photographer A. Briquet, the photographs are various size snapshots depicting: Costa Rica, ca. 1897 (4 photographs); locations in Asia, dating from 1905-1911 (49 photographs); the Sinaloa State in Mexico, 1918 (24 photographs); Peru, 1921 (21 photographs); Chile (66 photographs), 1921; Guatemala and Honduras, ca. 1924 (60 photographs); Saharanpur and Dehradun, India, ca. 1924 (27 photographs). Photographers are primarily unidentified.

photCL 387

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Jack London notebook

Manuscripts

Although this was originally Jack London's high school geometry notebook, London used it as a scrapbook after the original use. Most of the notebook pages have bits of paper glued onto them with quotes, lists of names (surnames, female names, male names, etc.), as well as lists of words in their vernacular such as "White Southern Vernacular," "Low Irish Vernacular," "California Spanish Vernacular," etc. Most of that material is typewritten but there is also handwritten material by London in the notebook. There are still several pages with mathematical equations in London's hand. Handwritten on the cover: "Jack London - Geometry" and "A.U.A.-'96."

mssHM 80607

Lepidoptera of Central America: notebooks

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