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Camille Desmoulins manuscript fragment about the freedom of the press
Manuscripts
A fragment from a longer manuscript, possibly from Le Vieux Cordelier, number seven; the two-page autograph manuscript concerns the freedom of the press. In the upper left corner is the number 13 and directly below is an autograph note in another hand dated 1865; the two pages are heavily corrected and lined through, though the text remains legible on both pages. The accompanying material, all in French, includes a catalogue description, a partial transcription, and further information about the sale of the manuscript.
mssHM 84413
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Prospectus d'un pont de fer d'une seule arche: manuscript
Manuscripts
This is a manuscript about single arch railway bridges. The author is unknown, but there is a name on the title page that reads: "John Rennu[?]," which might be the author's name.
mssHM 81084
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Anonymous manuscript treatise on pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and coal
Manuscripts
The manuscript was written by an unknown author who was probably a male student in England in the 1840s (he mentions an article in a 1837 magazine on ballooning). In it, the author writes generally on several different topics including: pneumatics, air balloons, geology, mines and Sir Humphry Davy, and coal. It contains many hand-drawn diagrams and illustrations (some in color). The volume has many blank pages.
mssHM 76511
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Richardus Tertius : manuscript
Manuscripts
This manuscript is in two hands, and seems to follow the text of the copy in the University Library, Cambridge; folios 1 to 22 (half page) are in one hand and folios 22 to the end are in another. Preceding f. 1 is an old printed portrait of Richard III; bound in leather, blind tooled with slipcover, also has modern pencil autograph notes on beginning page.
mssHM 179
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Mercurius panegyricus : manuscript
Manuscripts
A manuscript copied out in an unknown hand; it appears to be a copy of a printed broadside found in: An Account of the Secret Services of Monsieur de Vernay... (RB 110713). This manuscript removed from Bridgewater volume 4/G 2 (HEH E-PV. 88854-92).
mssHM 83591
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Mrs. J.C. Christensen's cookbook scrapbook : manuscript
Rare Books
Manuscript cookbook/scrapbook containing culinary recipes entirely on mounted newspaper clippings and printed ephemera. The clippings are mounted in a blank recipes book with index on page [1]-[12].
642097