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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

321. Kings MS 278

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Kings MS 278
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'MÉMOIRE sur un Hygromètre comparable; presenté là Societé royale de Londres par J[ean] A[ndré] De Luc, citoyen de Genève', &c., with one drawing (f. 15). A translation of the paper (without ff. 1-2 b) was read before the Royal Society, June 10, 1773, and printed with the title 'Account of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

322. Kings MS 279

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Kings MS 279
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DESCRIPTIONS of two mathematical instruments, viz. :- 1. DRAWING 'of a portable instrument of universal use in the mensuration of angles, in celestial and terrestrial observations ' (a form of theodolite), to which are added ' a description and refferences', and (f. 4) ' the method of useing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

323. Kings MS 280

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Kings MS 280
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'THE DESCRIPTION and use of the lines on a small silver sector . . . made at the command and for the service of the Prince [of Wales, afterwards George III ?] by the mathematical instrument maker to his Royal Highness . . . John Rowley'; with figures. The description of a Quadrant by the same ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

324. Kings MS 281

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Kings MS 281
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'DEGLI ERRORI degli Architstti per Teofilo Gallaccini ...finito nell' anno del Giubbileo 1625 e presentato a monsignor Giulio Mancini, Medico e Camarier Segreto di N. S. Papa Urbano VIII [1623-1644] e veduto di sua Santità, preceded by the letter of presentation, and illustrated by pen-and-ink d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1625
Extent:
1 item

325. Kings MS 282

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Kings MS 282
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'A GENERAL TREATISE of Architecture, divided into v books', by John Aheron, dated 13 Apr. 1751. Holograph, with numerous drawings (ff. 47-68 illustrating bk. ii; ff. 73-83 bk. iii; bks. iv and v, ff. 84, 103, consist of drawings only). Bk. i deals with mathematics; bk. ii with architecture in ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 item

326. Kings MS 283

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Kings MS 283
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DRAWINGS of the five orders of Architecture, by Henry Flitcroft [Comptroller of the Works 1758-1769], dedicated to William, Duke of Cumberland. Among the drawings at the end of the MS. are: 'Section of the dome of St. Peters Church at Rome, with St. Pauls inscrib'd by the same scale' (f. 23),-'p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 item

327. Kings MS 284

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Kings MS 284
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LEONARDO DA VINCI, Trattato della Pittura, with the life of Leonardo [by Rafaelle Trichet du Fresne] prefixed and the set of drawings as engraved in Trichet du Fresne's edition, Paris, 1651. These illustrations, as explained in the dedication to the edition, were executed by [Charles] Errard, wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

328. Kings MS 285

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Kings MS 285
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'REMARKS on the Drill Husbandry': an agricultural treatise, by John Anstruther (f. 226), in defence of the methods advocated by Jethro Tull (d. 1741, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.); with three pages of drawings at the end. Among other works quoted is (f. 69) the 5th volume of Arthur Young's Annals of Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

329. Kings MS 286

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Kings MS 286
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'THE IMPORTANCE of Jewells consider'd, their value in regard to their magnitude and weight and the truth of their manufactury ascertain'd and render'd intelligible to the publick': tables of the value for weight of diamonds and (f. 38) pearls, with an introduction 'address'd to the traders and m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

330. Kings MS 287

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Kings MS 287
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'SAPIENTIA VETERUM': an Alchemical treatise in Latin and English, the English title being 'The Wisdom of the Antients or Theire Doctrine of the Cheif and Universal Medicine, whereby human health being intire may be preserved in the same state ... and also the leprosie of mettalls may be totally ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item