Notable French authors: extra-illustrated volume

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  Le prisonnier de la Bastille, la fin des mousquetaires, 3 tableaux

  Manuscripts

  An autograph manuscript in three sections, written in French, possibly in the hand of Alexandre Dumas; there are pencil notes stating it is partially written by Dumas, but he also employed many assistants to help with his work. It includes settings and stage directions for the tableaux 1-3. The approximate date of the manuscript is 1861 which would mean the manuscript could have been written while Dumas was living in Italy. The manuscript has some damage to the edges of the pages and in the center of the final pages. It is accompanied by materials which provide additional provenance information: autograph notes about the manuscript in an unknown hand; Janet Saville letter to Robert M. Foster, October 18, 1951, with envelope; Thorndike Saville, Jr., letter to David M. Foster, November 16, 2010, with envelope and copy of bank record.

  mssHM 84107

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  Extra-illustrated set of The Writings of John Muir

  Rare Books

  This collection consists of an extra-illustrated set of the 10-volume The Writings of John Muir : Manuscript Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924), identified as set number 126 of 750 (of the standard edition). Tipped into each volume is: A manuscript fragment from a draft of "The Glacier Meadow," chapter 7 in The Mountains of California in John Muir's hand. A hand-colored photogravure frontispiece of one of the illustrations within the volume. 26 to 27 additional platinum prints, each preceded by a page containing a typescript title and corresponding quotation from the text. The added images (in addition to the 114 photogravure plates originally included with the set) include 260 platinum photographic prints chiefly by photographer Herbert W. Gleason (1855-1937), which correspond to the text. Images chiefly consist of landscapes related to Muir's travels and writings about the American West, including Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington; as well as close-up photographs of animals and plants. While most of the images depict natural scenery, there are a few photographs of Muir or specific buildings or individuals related to his life, as well as two photographs each depicting an unidentified man and woman: "Agate Stumps in Yellowstone Park" (Volume 6, facing page 68) and "An Artesian Well. [Part of the water supply of the city of Ogden, Utah]" (volume 8, facing page 162). The compiler of this extra-illustrated set is unidentified but may have been Gleason. There are similarities between some of the typescript titles and the original envelope titles created by Gleason for his negatives in the Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives at the Concord Free Public Library. Each copyright page has the printed text "Edition Limited to Seven Hundred and Fifty Copies This is Number 126." All of the volumes are stamped on the verso of flyleaf, "Bound at the Riverside Press."

  646274

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  Louis François de Pourtalés letters to E. Meriam

  Manuscripts

  Two autographed letters signed, from Coast Survey Office, Washington, March 25 and August 27, 1857, from Louis François de Pourtalés to E. Meriam, of New York, requesting information about an earthquake off the California coast in August, 1856, and subsequently thanking Meriam for information received.

  mssHM 70411-70412

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  Manuscripts regarding mining in France

  Manuscripts

  Collection of 20 manuscripts, of various formats, unbound, France, 1766-1799, includes a manuscript map drawn in brown ink. This collection spans an important period in the history of mining and metallurgy. The topics discussed include the working of mines in the Harz mountains, discovery of a new coal field, and liquidation of mercury mines. There is also a letter signed by botanist Michel Adanson, an autographed letter signed by the Marquis de Luchet, a letter by Robert de Lo-Looz, and a manuscript by François-Valentin Mulot.

  mssHM 80411 (a-t)

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  A volume of navigational and mathematical exercises and illustrations

  Manuscripts

  An undated volume of navigational and geometrical exercises with related diagrams, constructions, explanations, illustrations, spheres, maps, and a brief contemporary copy of the ship's log for a voyage from England to the West Indies from March to August, 1642. The volume includes one reference to letters of marque against Portugal. There are many blank pages and several pages torn out.

  mssHM 69650

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  Martyrologium : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-131v (+117r-v bis); f. 132r-v, blank. [Usuard] [Martyrologium]. Latin. Rubric: Incipit martirologium ordinis fratrum beatissime marie virginis dei genitricis de monte carmeli conventus eiusdem gloriose virginis ad urticas extra muros prope heylprun. On ff. 1-130, martyrology as in PL 123:601-992, 124:9-858; many corrections by one person of single words, of omitted or reversed passages, of an omitted day (f. 117 bis, 28 November) or notes on leap year (f. 20); on ff. 130v-131v, explanation of the use of kalends, nones and ides.

  mssHM 1044