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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 398-416
Title:: 'THE ARMS, Supporters, Badges, &c. of the Sovereigns, with the Arms of the Knights Companions, of the most noble Order of the Garter, delineated in their proper colours. Begun by Sr William Segar, Knt., Garter Principal King of Arms, in the reign of James I, and continued to the present time [the installation of 1771] by Joseph Edmondson, Mowbray Herald Extraordinary' The whole actual execution is of Edmondson's time , and vol. i has his dedicatory letter to the King, dated Warwick St., ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1780
Extent:: 19 items

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 252-253
Title:: 'TRAITTÉ de la Fortification', by F- E- Schenck, with dedicatory letter, dat. La Haye, 10 Dec. 1709, to Frederick Louis, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, [afterwards Prince of Wales], then two years of age. Two volumes, the second volume containing the coloured plans. Paper; ff. 65, 32. Folio. 13 7/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. A. D. 1709. Sprinkled calf binding. Royal arms added later.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1709
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 51-52
Title:: ABRIDGEMENT of the Historical Collections of John Rushworth, 1618-1642 (i.e. to the end of pt. iii, vol. i of the original work). Two volumes. Vol. i, 1618-1632; vol. ii, 1633-1642. It does not seem to be connected with the printed work, Mr. Rushworth's Hist. Collections abridg'd and improv'd, 1703. In vol. 1 (f. 1) are transcribed in a formal minuscule hand some very poor verses beginning 'Cloe now absent from mine eyes'. Paper; ff. 163, 190. Quarto. 83/4in.x61/2 in. XVIIIcent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 items

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 64-65
Title:: PUBLIC REVENUE receipts and issues: 'particular states' for the years 1688-1710. Two volumes. There are many other copies, e. g. Add. MSS. 35902, 35903. Paper; ff. 41, 42. Quarto. 103/4 in.x8 in. Circ. A.D. 1710. Bookplates of arms of George III. Brown calf binding, tooled back, with monogram of George III, gilt edges.
Scope & Content:: Accounts: Receipts and issues of the Revenue: 1688-1715.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1710
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 330-337
Title:: 'RECUEIL de chansons choisies en vaudeviles pour seruir a l'Histoire Anecdote' [de France]; 1600-1749. To most of the songs the date and a brief explanation of the political allusions are given in the margin; and at the head of each (except in vol. viii, where the airs are placed together at the end) the music is added. An alphabetical index of the persons and places mentioned is appended to each volume. The same songs mostly appear also in Egerton MSS. 814-817, which are described in detail...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 8 items

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