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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446 Level [36] Series

11. Kings MS 106-107

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 106-107
Title:
'AN ACCOUNT OF IRELAND in 1773', by Sir George Macartney [Earl Macartney 1794], Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant 1769-1772. Two volumes. Printed privately, as 'by a late Chief Secretary', in 1773 (with additional tables), and partly reprinted (the sketch of the political history, vol. i, ff. 7-71) in Sir John Barrow's Life of the Earl of Macartney, 1807 (ii, P. 95). Paper; ff. 107, 67. Quarto. 9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. Circ. A.D. 1773. Green vellum covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1773
Extent:
2 items

12. Kings MS 109-138

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 109-138
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS of French state-papers in hands of the late 17th or early 18th cent. Thirty volumes. Contents :-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
30 items

13. Kings MS 143-145

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 143-145
Title:
DISSERTAZIONI sopra le Antichità Italiane, by Ludovico Antonio Muratori (d. 1750), being the Italian abridgement of his larger work Antiquitates italicoe, medii oevi first printed in 1738-1743. The present work was published at Milan in 1751 by the author's nephew Gian Francesco Soli Muratori. In the hand of an amanuensis. Three volumes. Paper; ff. 400, 384, 312-. Folio. XVIII cent. Vellum binding.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

14. Kings MS 151-153

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 151-153
Title:
HISTORIE VENETE et altre a loro annesse libri otto, cominciando dall' anno 1597 e successive, scritte dal serenissimo D. D. Nicolò Contarini'[Doge 1630, d. 1631]. Three volumes,comprising thirteen books. Vols.I and II, containing books i-iv, v-iii, are in one hand, with 'Fine dell' opera' at the end of book viii. Vol. III (books ix-xiii) is in a different hand, but each of its five books is entitled Dell' Istoria Veneziana del serenissimo Doge Nicolo Contarini libro nono' (-decimo terzo). Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 items

15. Kings MS 178-180

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 178-180
Title:
'JAER-BOECKEN der Stadt van Antwerpen bij een vergadert door Joannes Franciscus Verbruggen', notary apostolic, &c. : a chronicle of events affecting the history of Antwerp from A.D. 610 to 1725 (with additions to 1744), profusely illustrated with engravings, especially portraits, a few drawings, maps and plans, arms, printed tracts, proclamations, broadsides, &c. There are many thousands of chronograms. Three volumes, with separate dedications. Paper; ff. 471, 376, 503. Folio. 12 1/2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1719-1744
Extent:
3 items

16. Kings MS 181-183

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 181-183
Title:
'APPENDIX tot de Jaer-boecken der Stadt van Antwerpen gemaekt door Joannes Franciscus Verbruggen': a further collection of documents, portraits, printed tracts, &c., to illustrate the history of the City, but not arranged in chronological order. Some additions have been made to as late a date as 1803, Flemish and Latin. Three volumes. The principal contents are as follows:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

17. Kings MS 189-190

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 189-190
Title:
'An Account of Russia, 1767', written by Sir George Macartney, Envoy Extraordinary to St. Petersburg [cr. Earl Macartney, 1794], as his official report on the historical, political, and economical state of the country (cf letter (f. i) from Joseph Planta, jun., Under Secretary of State, to [Frederick Augusta] Barnard [the King's Librarian], dated Foreign Office, i Nov. i82o); with an introduction addressed to Henry Seymour-Conway, Secretary of State, and numerous tables to illustrate the rep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

18. Kings MS 201-204

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 201-204
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D., of Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Pownall, late Governor of Massachusetts, on the relations between England and the American Colonies; 1769-1775. Four volumes, bound in finely tooled red morocco, with marbled end-papers. Contents:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1775
Extent:
4 items

19. Kings MS 208-209

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 208-209
Title:
'A GENERAL DESCRIPTION of the Province of Nova Scotia, and a Report of the present state of the Defences ...by Lieut.-Col. [Robert] Morse, Chief Engineer in America', drawn up by direction of Gen. Sir Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of H.M. Forces in N. America; 1783-1784. Two volumes. Vol. ii contains the coloured plans referred to in vol. i, preceded (f. 1) by the Admiralty Chart of 'the Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence, the Islands of Newfoundland, C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1784
Extent:
2 items

20. Kings MS 210-211

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 210-211
Title:
'REPORT of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America: delivered to the Board of Trade and Plantations in three seperate returns and sections, entering with the history of South Carolina and Georgia, then proceeding to the history of East Florida', &c. ; by William Gerard de Brahm, appointed Surveyor-General of the District 26 June, 1764. The report is compiled (see vol. 1, f. 2 b) from his surveys and observations made 1751-1771, and is accompanied by numerous maps and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773-1774?
Extent:
2 items

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