Manuscripts
Practical Geometry
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Elements of Geometry
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Manuscript by Daniel Hallett that includes sets of problems and proofs used for sailing directions and calculations, using geometry, trigonometry and dialing (text and diagrams). The volume includes accounting information, also belonging to Daniel Hallett, and one hand-colored map from England to Cape Verde Islands.
mssHM 72089
Buccaneer's atlas : approximately 1684
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The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," as well as the "South Sea waggoner" contains a description of the sea coasts in the South Sea of America from the port of Acapulco to the Le Maire Straits. The atlas depicts ports, harbors, anchoring islands, sands, rock and other navigational dangers. The 132 charts are of a pictorial nature; the coast-line is laid down as in a plane map, but back from the water's edge the country is rendered as seen from the sea. The mountains and hills are given in their natural colors; towns, churches, bridges, and even isolated houses, with all other landmarks of use to navigators, have been inserted by the mapmaker, and voluminous directions are given for the entering of harbors, the avoidances of shoals and rocks, distances, together with notices of where ships were wrecked, where Sawkins (one of Sharpe's colleagues) was killed, and other historical landmarks. Charts 52 and 53 are on the same sheet. The large chart of the west coasts of Central and South America which was originally bound at the beginning of the volume was removed in December 1948 and placed in a separate portfolio.
mssHM 265
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Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry held at West Point, the second day of November 1780 in Pursuance of an Order from His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America to Major General Heath
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Two copies, both in Richard Varick's hand, of the proceedings of the court of inquiry that cleared him and David Franks of aiding Benedict Arnold. Copy A includes the text of The Interrogatories of Major Franks (1780, Nov. 19). Copy B ends with the text of Varick's speech to the court.
mssHM 893
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Hereford of Sufton Court
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Extensive genealogy of the Hereford family, beginning with a history of their origins in England. Includes color illustrations of Hereford family members and typescripts of wills, land grants, and some correspondence. In addition to the Hereford genealogy, the volume includes detailed excursus for the families of Ammon, Ball, Barnes, Beale/Carter, Berry, Brice/Shaw, Bohun, Bronaugh, Chunn, Cole, Doherty, Flowerree, Foote, Garner, Garnett, Genhry, George, Harrison, Kerns/Boyer, Lewis, Mason, Mauze/Mauzey, McClung, Miller, Mockbee/Cook/Hailey, Moise/Loomis, Newman, Page, Patterson, Percy, Reynolds, Shaffer, Shirling, Stribling, Shove, Stone/Short, Strother, Valdez/Rocha and Washington. Includes index. With the volume is a separate sheet of errata. Bound in book form.
mssHM 78053
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Philetus W. Norris journals
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A manuscript originally bound in three volumes; volume I covers the years 1870 to 1875, volume II 1877 to 1878, and volume III 1876 to 1894. Volume I is made up of Norris' original printed letters to Michigan papers pasted down on paper sheets, with extensive additions, corrections, and notes; Norris was revising this material to publish in book form. Volume II contains another trip to the west in 1877 and volume III contains miscellaneous material which Norris intended to incorporate into his book. The volumes include interesting details and reports of the state of the west at that time, and also mention the battlefield of General George A. Custer and Yellowstone National Park; volume III contains an autograph map of the general area of the park, dated 1894. The pages were removed from the original damaged boards by the Huntington Conservation Department and placed in folders and three boxes; the original boards were retained and kept with the disbound material.
mssHM 506
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[Russell, Elizabeth Mary, Countess, 1866-1941]. Journal, 1 vol., (1931)
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With: Five items removed from various pages. Note: Removed (from inside front cover) newspaper clippings relating to the death of Francis Russell, cataloged in Ephemera; also, removed letter from Charlotte Waterlow (laid in between pp 21 and 22) and telegram from Alexander Stewart Frere (laid in between pp 51 and 52), cataloged separately in Correspondence.
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