COLLECTIONS relating to the Jews, by Emanuel Mendes da Costa, viz.:- 1. Fernão Mendes to his brother, Jorge Mendes da Costa, at Rome; London, 10/20 Apr. 1663. Portuguese. f. 1. 2. Letter from the Jews of London to the Jews in China; 1760. Hebrew. Copy. f. 2. 3. [Emanuel Mendes da Costa ?] to -, concerning the preceding letter; [1760]. Copy. f. 4. 4. The Jews of England to [the Jews in Western Africa?]; 1760. Arabic. Copy. f. 5. 5. Copies and translations of Jewish inscriptions and b...
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Jews: Notes of Jewish antiquities and Jews in England, by E. Mendes da Costa: 18th cent. Emanuel Mendes da Costa, FRS; naturalist: Collections relating to the Jews: 18th cent. includes: f. 1 Fernao Mendes: Letter to J. Mendes da Costa: 1663.: Portug. f. 2 London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary:...
THE LAYARD PAPERS. CORRESPONDENCE and papers, private and official, of Sir Austen Henry Layard, P.C., G.C.B., D.C.L., the discoverer of Nineveh (b. 1817, d. 1894). From 1842 to 1845 he was unofficially employed on diplomatic missions by Sir S. Canning, afterw. (1852) Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador at Constantinople; he was an unpaid attaché at the Embassy 1847-1849, and a paid attaché 1849-1852. His excavations in Assyria were begun in Oct. 1845 for Lord Stratford and co...
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Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Official and private correspondence and papers.