PLACE PAPERS. Vols. VII.-X. Political correspondence, more particularly with Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Joseph Hume, Joseph Parkes and Richard Cobden; 1827-1850. Four volumes. Folio. The names of the writers are given in the index.
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Francis Place: Political correspondence: 1827-1850.
PLACE PAPEIRS. Vols. XI., XII. Private correspondence, chiefly with James Mill, Edward Wakefield, George Ensor, Thomas Hodgskin and Jean Baptiste Say, the French economist; 1810-1837. Two volumes. Folio. At f. 191 of Vol. I. (XI.) is a letter of Charles Clairmont concerning, P. B. Shelley's second marriage. 12 Jan. 1816. The names of the writers are given in the index.
BRIDPORT PAPERS. Vols. III.-XI. General correspondence of Lord Bridport, consisting chiefly of official orders and letters to him when on active service from the Admiralty and naval officers, with some holograph drafts or copies of his replies. Arranged chronologically in nine volumes. Folio. The names of the writers are given in the index.
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Admiral Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport: General correspondence: 1755-1806.
BARROW BEQUEST. Vols. VII.-X. Letters to Colonel John Barrow from officers of all ranks and civilians, who took part in the various Arctic expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin, from Lady Jane Franklin and from a few others
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Most of the letters were written during Col. John Barrow's official connection with the Admiralty, but they are all addressed to him in his private capacity, and many of them contain matter of a confidential nature, especially the ex parte accounts given him by Sir Edward Belcher on the one hand...
ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST. Vols. XIII., XIV. The Decameron of Boccaccio, in French. Translated by Laurens de Premierfait from a Latin version made for him (as he says in his preface addressed to the Duc de Berry) by "vng frere de Pordre des Cordeliers nommé maistre Antoine de Aresche " (see P. Paris, Les MSS. François, i. p. 242). Two volumes. The present copy, like Royal MS. 19 E. i., omits the preface, and begins with Boccaccio's prologue, "Le propre et droit office," etc.; preceded here by the h...
ROUGH MINUTES of the proceedings of the New Testament Revision Company, beginning at its tenth meeting; 8 Nov. 1870-11 Nov. 1880. By the Rev. Samuel Newth, D.D., Principal and Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the Congregational New College, London. Five volumes (originally sixteen)., 391, 427, 393, 460. 8 ¼ X 5 ¼ in.
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Bible BIBLIOGRAPHY: Minutes of N. T. Revision Company: 1870-1880.