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San Marino, CA 91108
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The committee-mans last vvill and testament: vvith the lamentation of his miserable and sad condition, being at the point of death
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection contains 54 single-item catalogued items housed in one legal-sized box. The majority of the collection consists of land-related items such as indentures (10), survey documents (5), and maps (3) all relating to property within the state of New Jersey. Other items include a document entitled "Articles of Agreement" (1791) regarding the distribution of John Hilliard's estate between his second wife, Frances Hilliard, and her step-son, Jonathan Hilliard, a "Bond and Warrant" from Evans R. Tomlinson, John Tomlinson's "Last Will and Testament," a marriage document pertaining to the marriage between John Tomlinson and Mary Fairlamb, fragments from possible correspondence, and an incomplete tax document from 1869.
HM 79040
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ESTC N68227 ; Verse - "I Have a gallant Pin-Box," ; In this edition, the text is in four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two columns. The first and second columns are separated by an ornamental rule, as are the third and fourth columns. The last line of text reads: "As long as they can stare."
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Table following title page begins: "Comie[n]ça la tabla del libro del [sic] propietatibus rerum." Incipit at head of leaf a1r: Comiensa el libro delas propiedades delas cosas. Translated by Vicente de Burgos. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.6 x 21.9 cm. Printed in 2 columns (table of contents, 3 columns; prologue in a single column). Gothic type, 45-49 lines. Initial spaces with guide letters at beginning of books and in gatherings 2a-2g; woodcut ornamental initials elsewhere. Printer's device on last page following colophon. Illustrations: 18 large woodcuts, 13 within double-line borders (including 1 repeat and 1 cut composed of six small sections) and 5 within single-line borders (including arms of Castile and Aragon on title page, measuring 154 x 136 mm), and 6 small woodcut diagrams. The 17 cuts in the text, prefixed to books 2-17 and 19, are on leaves a6, c1, d6, e8, k2, l6, o6, C2, D3, D6, E5, F8, G8 (repeated from D3), I1, L4, M8 and 2m5. The diagrams are on leaves c3 (3 geometrical), c8 (2 optical) and I1 (schematic map of the world). Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁶ a-m⁸ n-o⁶ A-M⁸ 2a⁶ 2b-2e⁸ 2f-2g⁶ 2h-2o⁸ 2p⁴. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son.
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