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11. 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

12. Kings MS 3-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 3-4
Title:
BIBLE, in English, authorized version; written for George III 'by Alexr. Weir, student of Divinity, Edinburgh, 1797'. In two volumes: vol. i, Genesis-Job; vol. ii, Psalms-Revelation, with title-page, dated 1798, prefixed to the New Testament (f. 165). At the end (vol. ii, f. 303) are added tables of (a) kindred and affinity, (b) divisions of time, (c) offices and conditions of men, (d) weights and measures, (e) money. Paper; ff. 282, 304. 10 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. A.D. 1797, 1798. Double colum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1797-1798
Extent:
2 items

13. Kings MS 62-63

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 62-63
Title:
ABSTRACT of the Census-returns for England and Wales, 1801, signed by John Rickman. Virtually identical with.the printed Abstract (ordered to be printed 21Dec.1801). Two volumes. Crimson morocco binding, tooled. Paper; ff. 395, 253. Folio. 18 1/2 in.x 13 1/2 in. A.D.1801.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801
Extent:
2 items

14. Kings MS 77-79

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 77-79
Title:
ABRIDGEMENTS of parts of the 'Commentaries on the Law of England of William (afterwards Sir William) Blackstone, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford. Neatly transcribed, for the most part (all except the first half of 79) in one hand. Taken apparently from the first edition (1765), not from the lectures as delivered at Oxford.. Paper; ff. 23, 27, 50. Quarto. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

15. Kings MS 80-97

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 80-97
Title:
'A COURSE OF LECTURES on the English Law', by Robert [afterwards Sir Robert] Chambers, Blackstone's successor as Vinerian Professor at Oxford (1762, Justice in Bengal 1774). Fifty-six lectures in four series, forming eighteen volumes. Copies. The Treatise on Estates and Tenures by the late Sir Robert Chambers, published by his nephew Sir C. H. Chambers in 1824, corresponds to contents of lectures iii-x, xiv, xix-xxi of pt. III, but is apparently taken from a MS. of another recension of the l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1762-1774
Extent:
18 items

16. Kings MS 257-258

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 257-258
Title:
TREATISE on fortification, described (vol. i, f. 1) as 'Mémoire où l'on examine de quelle manière il convient de disposer les ouvrages d'un Front de Fortification'. Two volumes, vol. ii. containing the forty-one coloured plans. The name of the author, [Louis] de Cormontaigne (d. 1752), appears at the head of two anonymous supplements (vol. i, ff. 110, 143), each of which is described as 'Continuation du premier mémoire de Cormontaigne', and in the title of vol. ii, 'Plans et tracez apartenan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1760
Extent:
2 items

17. Kings MS 247-248

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 247-248
Title:
'THE MILITARY ANTIQUITIES of the Romans in North Britain', by William Roy, Deputy Quarter-Master- General of the Forces, 1773. Two volumes, vol. ii containing the maps and plans. The work was published in 1793 by the Society of Antiquaries from a MS. left by the author to the Society, collated with the present MS., which is dedicated to King George III. Paper; ff 150, 59. Folio. 21 in. x 141/2 in. A.D. 1773. Calligraphic title-page. Crimson leather binding.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773
Extent:
2 items

18. 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

19. 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

20. Kings MS 250-251

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 250-251
Title:
'TRAITÉ DES SIEGES, sur lattaque et la deffense des places de Guerre, par feu Monsieur Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur] de Vauban, Marechal de France, Ingenieur General, decede le [30] Mars 1707, contenant ce qu'il a pû recueillir et imaginer de mieux pendant plus de cinquante ans qu'il a pratiqué la fortification ' : Vauban's two treatises on the attack and defence of fortified places. Two volumes, vol. ii containing the Défense. The MS. purports to contain the treatises as written, the form...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

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