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Traité d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de géographie et d'astronomie
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Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissimo descripto / auctore Diego Gutiero Philiippi regis Hisp. etc. Cosmographo, Hiero Cock excude 1562
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Printed from a scanned image of the original in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress. Includes texts in cartouche, statement of dedication, coats-of-arms, ill. of allegorical figure "Victoria", and ill. of sailing ships and imaginary marine creatures. Accompanied by 8 page pamphlet. Numerous figures and sea animals. LC stamp Jun 30 1948. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Photo reproduction.
499717
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Weitere Untersuchungen die Electrolyse des Wassers betreffend: page proofs of essay
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Page proofs of essay by Hermann von Helmholtz originally written in 1887; the essay discusses the topic of the electrolysis of water that he had initially explored in his 1883 essay, On the Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes. The typescript is in German, with corrections and emendations by the author in German and marginal annotations by an unidentified person in English. One annotation in English is signed by an unidentified editor at the publisher, Taylor & Francis.
mssHM 83096
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Traité des matières colorantes
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An extensively annotated extra-illustrated work in two volumes: a chemist's working copy of a significant treatise on the development of chemical procedures of dyeing textiles. Volume 1 contains 544 pages with 39 textile samples; volume 2 contains 646 pages with one folded engraving, illustrations, and 34 textile samples. Both volumes contain annotations on separate sheets, with some intertextual annotations as well. In addition, there are twelve cloth samples of indigo dyeing, with detailed manuscript notes on the samples, which are unique to this copy of the work by Schützenberger. The volumes are bound with contemporary calf spines, marbled paper boards; there is some foxing and slight staining on a small number of pages.
mssHM 84114
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A desolate region: Mono Lake and its weird surroundings, water alive with worms, extinct craters and wonderful craters, a submerged cabin and road
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This manuscript, whose author is unknown, is a history and description of Mono County and Mono Lake, California. It details the geology and geography of the county and the worms living in Mono Lake.
mssHM 68169
Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana, / compuesta por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina dela orden de señor sant Francisco
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In Spanish and Nahuatl. Signatures: a-p⁸. Misprinting c2 as 2c, and c4 as 4c. With a title page woodcut of St. Francis receiving the stigmata. Historiated and decorated capitals. Black letter, with italics on title page and for headings, and roman type for other headings and closing prayer. In two parts, with separate foliation, register is continuous.
9307
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The humor of hanging
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A signed, typewritten satirical essay on the subject of hanging and capital punishment; the writer of the essay is invited to witness a hanging at the State Prison, this is undoubtedly San Quentin, though that venue is not specifically named. With some smoke damage; from the collection of Fred Bennet.
mssHM 83691