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Kamisei Shūchin Sanka Mokei
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William Davenport & Co. account book relating to ship voyages, 1777-1784
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An account book of William Davenport & Co. relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool, Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, Antigua, and Kingston, Jamaica. A huge variety of different articles shipped out on these voyages are recorded, among them clothing, fabrics, beads, foodstuffs, tools, cutlery, wine, guns and gunpowder. These items presumably were intended for sale both in Africa and the West Indies. Also listed are various sales of slaves in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The volume is written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again (tête-bêche style) and contains entries written in several hands; with original paper labels titled in manuscript pasted to the center of each cover. Pages 1-11, 24-50, 52-77 record accounts for the Hector, Liverpool, Hero and Swift (with pages 12-23 sometime excised and p. 51 omitted); then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume, the remaining 93 pages record accounts for the Ann and cutter Bee, with 10 blank pages between the two sections.
mssHM 82854
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Philosophia naturalis
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Scientific manuscript containing the text of lectures delivered by Rinaldini at the University of Padua. As well as discussions of Galileo's work, the manuscript also contains an account of Rinaldini's own discoveries, including that of the convection of heat. Latin text in a neat cursive hand with many illustrative diagrams in the text. Contemporary vellum-backed boards covered in paper with decorative floral motifs, with some damp staining but no loss of text.
mssHM 83384
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A discourse of the privilege and practice of the high court of Parliament in England collected out of the common lawes of this land: manuscript
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This manuscript includes discussions about the duties, privileges, and practices of Parliament in England. Unknown date; sometime before 1660. The volume is mostly blank pages.
mssHM 30887
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Recipe book on gynecology and pediatrics
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Manuscript is a compendium of "home remedies" concerning obstetrics and complications of pregnancy, as well as diseases of young children. The recipes include: inducing birth, when the baby in utero is weak, how the mother should be cleansed after wards, causes of miscarriage, care of the breast, and others. Also included are general recipes for post-partum mothers (often involving wine); newborn children who refuse to sleep; against children's "plague;" night sweats; coughs; screaming; headaches; chicken pox or measles; and both "red" and "white" dysentery. The volume was probably written in south Germany. Written in German cursive in brown ink on paper; bound in contemporary red-stained velum with remains of ties.
mssHM 83499
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Battlefields in front of Nashville where the United States Forces commanded by Major General Geo. H. Thomas defeated and routed the Rebel Army under General Hood December 15th & 16th 1864
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Kashnor notes, "Indicates the respective positions of the Federal and Confederate Armies at the different stages of the engagement." Kashnor dates as [1865]. RLIN record notes Washington as place of publication. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 352.
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Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchees. : Avec la bonne et veritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels, & les moyens de remedier à tous ceux qui sont contre-nature, & aux indispositions des enfans nouveau-nés: ensemble une tres-exacte description de toutes les parties de la femme qui sont destinées à la generation. Le tout accompagné de plusieurs belles figures en taille douce, nouvellement & fort correctement gravées. Oeuvre trés-utile aux chirurgiens, & necessaire à toutes les sages-femmes pour apprendre à bien pratiquer l'art des accouchemens
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Perhaps the first obstetric text in the modern sense; it established obstetrics as a science and as a separate medical specialty and exercised a dominant influence on seventeenth-century obstetrical practice.
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