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11. Add MS 4407-4431

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PELL PAPERS (4th Series) Mathematical collections of John Pell, consisting of treatises, geometrical and other problems and their solutions, tables and calculations of logarithms, etc., chiefly autograph. For other collections made by Pell see Add. MSS. 4278-4280, 4394-4396 and 4397-4404. The names of the writers of a few original letters are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Twenty-four volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:
John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Mathematical and scientific collections: 1617-1681, n.d.: Mainly autogr. Mathematics: Mathematical collections of J. Pell: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1609-1678]
Extent:
25 items

12. Add MS 4432-4448

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS Collections relating to the Royal Society (incorporated in 1662) made by Thomas Birch while Secretary of the Society (1752-1765), consisting of letters, articles or communications sent for consideration, many of which were subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, draft minutes, etc. 1660-1765. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio. The chief contents are as follows:-
Scope & Content:
Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1660-1765
Extent:
17 items

13. Add MS 4350

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PAPAL CONCLAVE PROCEEDINGS Relations of the proceedings of Papal Conclaves, etc., from the death of Pius IV (1565) to the election of Innocent X (1644). Italian. Viz.:- (1) 'Conclave fatto per la Morte di Pio quarto ... nel quale fu Creato Pont. ce il Card. Ghisleri ... detto Pio Quinto'; 156...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 4155-4159

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THURLOE PAPERS. First Series. Collection of state letters and papers relating to events at home and abroad chiefly in the time of the Commonwealth. Most of the documents formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They afterwards came into the hands of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1737), and were 'communicated' by him to Birch, according to the Preface to ...
Scope & Content:
John Thurloe, Secretary of State: Correspondence of and state papers collected by: 1577-1668.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1577-1692
Extent:
5 items

15. Add MS 4182

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COLLECTION OF NEWS-LETTERS; 1665-1746. Including:- (1) A series, in one handwriting, giving continuous news, domestic and foreign; Jan.-Nov. 1665. ff. 1-56. (2) A series, dated from London, giving occasional news; 9 Sept. 1684- 17 Feb. 169 4/5. Some are addressed to John Ellis, Secretary of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1746
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 4376

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MEDICAL COLLECTIONS Collections of treatises, chiefly medical, and letters of doctors and their patients; 17th- 18th centt. The names of the writers of the letters will be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The treatises are as follows:- (1) 'De subiecto primo et imediato Caloris pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Folio. 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 4204

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SCHAUB CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence of Sir Luke Schaub during his successive embassies to Vienna (1715, 1718, 1719), Madrid (1718), Hanover (1720), Paris (1721-1724), Dresden (1731), etc., with Secretaries of State, especially James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, James Craggs and John Carteret, Lord...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 4295

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TOLAND PAPERS Collection of papers, letters, etc., relating to the life and writings of John Toland, deist (d. l722), consisting of agreements with publishers and printers, title-pages of his works, answers to critics, etc., with a few original letters addressed to him, and drafts of his own le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 4193

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STATE PAPERS RELATING TO EUROPEAN AFFAIRS as affected in many cases by the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, with a few earlier documents; 1653-1730. The principal contents are as follows:- (1) Drafts, etc., of a treaty between George I as 'Electeur de Brunswick' and Frederick William, King of Prussi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1653-1730
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 4385

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COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, consisting of notes, superscriptions and subscriptions to letters, signatures, etc., on scraps of paper. Some were the property of James Petiver, apothecary and botanist, in whose correspondence (Sloane MSS. 4062-4067) letters will be found from all the persons whose au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1755
Extent:
1 item