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1421. Add MS 58849

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SERMONS, ETC., BY DON AMARO (EL LOCO): sermons delivered in Seville during the second half of the 17th cent. by Don José Amaro Sánchez ('El Loco'), an insane popular preacher, calligraphically copied by Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares, author of Arte Nueva de Escribio (1776), and member of the Royal Basque Society; 1747 (colophon, f. 124). Contains a pen and ink portrait of Don Amaro by Palomares (f. 2) and copies of other miscellaneous Spanish sermons, ecclesiastical certificates and...
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Calligraphy: Sermons: Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares, calligrapher: Don José Amaro Sánchez, insane popular preacher, of Seville: Sermons by Don José Amaro Sánchez, calligraphically copied by Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares: 1747: Span. includes: f. 2 Art. Portraits: Francisco ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 item

1422. Add MS 59655

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, many addressed to General Sir Frederick Stovin, K.C.M.G., and his wife; late 18th cent. - early 19th cent. The autographs include those of Longfellow, Wellington, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Lord Cardigan, Sir Herbert Taylor, Lord Gambier, Lord Gough, Lajos Kossuth, Bolivar, Capo d'Istrias, Barthelemy, Thomas Arnold, Archbishop A. C. Tait, Archbishop R. Whately and other church dignitaries. The addressees also include Sir Thomas Wilson, Bunsen, Fonblanque and Mrs Heman...
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includes: f. 2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: Letter to C. F. S. from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1830.f. 5 General Sir Edward Paget, GCB; 4th son of Henry, 1st Earl of Uxbridge: Letter to — from Gen. Sir Edward Paget: 1810.f. 7 Frances Nelson, Viscountess Nelson: Letter from Commander de Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

1423. Add MS 59846

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper and vellum; ff. 225. British Library arrangement. A. Examination of Philip Wake before Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London, relating to the setting fire to the house of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., in Bloomsbury Square; 27 April 1700. Purchased of Alan G. Thomas, Jan. 1977. f. 1. 300 x 185mm. B. Letter of Ethel Rowe afterwards Holloway (b.1866, d.1927) to her brother John Christopher Rowe, entitled 'Jottings from Kimberley Delivered'; 27 Feb. 1...
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includes: f. 1 Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London: Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Examination of Philip Wake signed by Sir Salathiel Lovell rel. to Sir Hans Sloane: 1700.f. 2 Ethel Rowe, afterwards Holloway; of Kimberley, South Africa: John Christopher Rowe: Letter to her brother from Ethe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1360-1977
Extent:
1 item

1424. Add MS 60317 A

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A. 'Carta Esferica de la Isla de Trinidad y sus adyacentes con las Sondas y Periles de esta: Construida con presencia de los Documentos de las dos Diviciones de Bergantines destinados ala Rectificacion del Atlas de la America Septentrional Año de 1793'. Large-scale chart of Trinidad with islands...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1793
Extent:
1 item

1425. Add MS 60317 A-D

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TRINIDAD: four Spanish charts showing the coastlines of Trinidad, the islands separating it from the South American mainland and part of Venezuela, with soundings and indications of the nature of the seabed; 1792, 1793. Spanish. The charts are apparently part of a projected revision of the 'Atlas de la America Septentrional', possibly T. Jeffrey's Pilote de L'Amerique Septentrionale (1776). Purchased at Sotheby's, 6 June 1978, lot 168.
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Island of Trinidad: Charts of Trinidad, etc.,: 1792, 1793: Span.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1792-1793
Extent:
4 items

1426. Add MS 60317 B

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B. 'Carta Esferica de la Isla de Trinidad y sus adyasentes Canal entre esta y la Costa firme y Golfo Triste con baxos, Sondas, y Veriles Construida con presencia de los Documentos de las dos Diviciones de Bergantines Destinados a la Rectificacion del Atlas de la America Septentrional Año de 1793...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1793
Extent:
1 item

1427. Add MS 60343

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MEXICAN GILT BINDING; circa 1585. Record in Spanish of litigation between Gabriel de Escobar and his creditors, 1585, bound in dark brown goatskin, tooled in gold and blind. See F. B. de Marez Oyens, 'A Mexican Gilt Binding, c. 1585', The Book Collector, xxvii (1978), pp. 380-381. Purchased of Lathrop C. Harper Inc. from the legacy of Mrs M. Vilím, 4 Jan. 1978. Paper; ff. iv+34. 290 x 200mm. The decoration consists of one full-page miniature with border in full colour, one full border ex...
Scope & Content:
Bindings MEXICAN: Gold and blind tooled brown goatskin: circa 1585. Gabriel de Escobar, of Mexico City: Art. Illuminations and Drawings MEXICAN: Illuminated record of litigation with creditors undertaken by Gabriel de Escobar: 1585: Span.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1585
Extent:
1 item

1428. Add MS 60399-60483

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BEAUVALE PAPERS Correspondence and papers of the Hon. Sir Frederick James Lamb, G.C.B. (b.1782, d.1853), Baron Beauvale 1839, 3rd Viscount Melbourne 1848, secretary of the legation at Palermo, 1811-1815, envoy to Bavaria, 1815-1820, ambassador to the Germanic Federation, 1817-1823, envoy to Spain, 1825-1827, ambassador to Portugal, 1828, ambassador at Vienna, 1832-1841; 1812-1853, n.d. Paper. Eighty-five volumes. British Library arrangement. Arranged as follows: A. Official and semi-offi...
Scope & Content:
Sir Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne; Baron Beauvale: Correspondence and papers of Lord Beauvale: 1811-1853, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1812-1853
Extent:
91 items

1429. Add MS 60424-60445

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Title:
C. OFFICIAL AND SEMI-OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS AS ENVOY TO SPAIN
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1820-1830]
Extent:
25 items

1430. Add MS 60426-60434

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Title:
BEAUVALE PAPERS. Vols. XXVIII-XXXVI. Dispatches to the Foreign Secretaries; 1825-1827. English, French and Spanish. Copies. Nine volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1825-1827
Extent:
9 items

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