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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Volume, (57 p.). This small vol. is made up of pages sewn together between two sets of marbled covers, with some damage. The midwife was based in Towcester, a market town in southern Northamptonshire, England)
HM 83509
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Rare Books
First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, it contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.
648556
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Manuscripts
The volume is copied out in an unknown hand, with a few ink drawings in the same hand. There is an initial title page: "Le Melange by Ninonette Vol IV." With marbled covers; there is some damage to the spine and covers.
mssHM 82901
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Manuscripts
Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.
mssHM 82902
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A booklet of two poems written for his grandfather John Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood (1841-1924) on his birthday. With decorated paper covers and a label: "J. Bradshaw-Isherwood August 27th 1918;" pages are sewn together, written and signed by Christopher Isherwood.
mssHM 83211
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A file of documents, sewn together, regarding a small Sonoran mining claim named San Jose. The San Jose was located in the Santa Rosa de Buenavista mountains around thirty miles east of the mining town Real de la Cieneguilla, which was to the east of Caborca in northwestern Sonora, Mexico. The documents, which bear a variety of signatures but are most prominently signed by the mining commissioner Jose Francisco de Velasco, register the mine and grant possession of it to Jose Elena Figueroa.
mssHM 69952