Vol. XXIX. (ff. 289). PROVINCE de Languedoc; by [Nicolas Lamoignon] de Basville, Intendant, 1698. The article, however, is dated at the end (f. 286), Montpellier, 31 Dec. 1697. Province of Languedoc: Memoir on: 1697-8.: Fr. Nicolas Lamoignon de Basville, Intendant of Languedoc: Memoire sur Lan...
DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS, in French and English, on Amsterdam, Brussels, and other towns in the Low Countries. Preceded (f. 2) by the beginning of a journal, in the same hand, of a tour in the Netherlands, starting from London, in 1710. At f. 1 is an engraved map of Holland, by Pieter Schenk, 1705. P...
DESCRIPTION of Flanders, Brabant, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany ; translated from the Voyages de Monsieur Payen, Paris, 1666, and again 1667. Followed (f. 43 b) by a description of Picardy, the Isle of France, and La Beauce, "being the perticuler observations of S.D., 1675." Paper; ff. 91...
"Promissio Serenissimi Principis Domini Laurentii Prioli, Inclyti Ducis Venetiarum": the statutes of Venice, with the undertaking of the Doge, Lorenzo Priuli, to observe the same; 14 June, 1556. Latin and Italian. On f. 54 b is written "Presbyter Joannes de Vitalibus scripsit hunc librum, M.D. L...
REPORT of the revenues of Malta and Gozo, with remarks on the trade, laws, etc., of those islands. The writer expresses (f. 12 b) his opinion that it would be advisable for the British Government to cede Minorca rather than Malta. This report must therefore have been written between 5 Sept. 1800...
ACCOUNT of the churches of San Salvador [Saragossa Cathedral] and Nuestra señora del Pilar at Saragossa. In two hands, one of which, according to an entry at f. 2 b, is that of a Mr. Burch, the other that of Lady Parker Long [Martha, wife of Sir Philip Parkera-Morley-Long, Bart., who d. 1741 ?]....
"CORRECCION de la Historia de Mallorca": historical notes by Guillermo Terrassa correcting the histories of Majorca by Juan Bautista Benimelis (1595) and by Juan Demeto and Vicente Mut (1632-50), chiefly upon ecclesiastical matters; 1774. With an index. Spanish. Paper; ff. 110. Folio. Guillermo...
"ABSTRACT of British West Indian trade and navigation," 1770-1805, by Sir William Young, Bart. On ff. 31 b-32 b are tables showing (a) the "comparative mortality of British troops of the line in each West Indian Island during 4 years of inactive war," viz. 1799-1802;-(b) "Returns of British troo...
"HISTORICAL, Statistical, and Descriptive Account of the Island of Tobago; to which is added an Essay on the commercial and political importance of the possession. By Sir William Young, Bart., Governor, 1809." Autograph. Finished (see f. 156) on 30 Dec. 1809, and presented by the author to the M...
"AN ALMANACK for the Island of Tobago," for 1810. Printed. With marginal and interleaved notes, and various statistics concerning the island, as well as four water-colour drawings, by Sir William Young Bart., who was Governor from 1807 till his death in 1815. His crest and motto are at f. 1 b, w...