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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478

61. Add MS 4216

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FREINSHEIM'S LIVY EPITOMES The Epitomes and Supplements to certain lost books of Livy's 'Historia Romana' (viz. Bks. XII-XX, XLVI-XLVIII, XLIX, ch. i-xxxv), by Johann Freinsheim (d. 1660), the classical scholar, translated into English; 18th cent. Book XII, ch. i-xv, have been corrected by Birc...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

62. Add MS 4217

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THE LADY CATHERINE WHETENALL JOURNAL 'The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy in the holy yeare with the cheif accidents that hath happened therin written in Padua a little before her ladyship fell sick by other of her trayne'; 1650. Written at her request by Richar...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1650
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1 item

63. Add MS 4218

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'PILATUS MONS SPECIMINE HISTORIAE NATURALIS Illustrissimae Societatis Regiae Anglicanae subjectus ab ejusdem socio', by Mauritius Antonius Cappeler, M.D.; 1728. With four tables of drawings (ff. 2-5). The autograph portions of the work are the title-page, the heading (f. 6), chapter VI and part ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1728
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1 item

64. Add MS 4219-4220

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NATURAL HISTORY TREATISES
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
Date Range:
[1746-1763]
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2 items

65. Add MS 4221-4225

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BIRCH'S BIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS Collection of biographical notices and memoranda of literary, scientific and other illustrious persons, made by or for Thomas Birch; circa 1730-1766. The names of the subjects, as well as of the writers of the few original letters in the volumes, are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The substance of some of these articles is to be found in A General Dictionary Historical and Critical translated from Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et...
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Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Biographical works and memoranda by: circ. 1730-1760, n.d.: Partly autogr. Biography: Collection of biographical notices by T. Birch: circ. 1730-1740.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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5 items

66. Add MS 4226

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PIERRE BAYLE LETTERS Collection of original letters (with some copies) chiefly of Pierre Bayle, author of La Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, to various French, Dutch and Swiss literary persons, among them being Pierre Des Maizeaux, Abbé Claude Nicaise, Bernard de la Monnoye, Jean LeClerc, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1670-c 1739
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1 item

67. Add MS 4227

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MORRICE'S LIFE OF ROGER BOYLE The Life of Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill and 1st Earl of Orrery, by Thomas Morrice, his chaplain; circa 1679. With preface, notes and additions by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery; circa 1742, and followed by a copy of letters and papers; 1641-1660. Cf. a note by Lord ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1679-1744
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1 item

68. Add MS 4228

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BIRCH'S LIFE OF ROBERT BOYLE The Life of Robert Boyle, seventh son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cork, by Birch, as prepared for the press; 1743. Autograph. It was printed at the beginning of The Works of the honourable Robert Boyle, 5 vols., Dublin, 1744. Included (f. 98) is an original letter from ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1743
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1 item

69. Add MS 4229

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ROBERT BOYLE PAPERS Letters and Papers relating to the life and works of the Hon. Robert Boyle (d. 1691) and especially to the edition of his Works of 1744 (see Add. MS. 4228); 1657-1744. (1) 'An Account of Mr Boile's first Physico-Mechanical Experiments concerning ye weight and Spring of ye ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1657-1744
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1 item

70. Add MS 4230

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BIRCH'S LIFE OF MILTON 'An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. John Milton. By Thomas Birch M.A. and F.R.S.', as prepared for the press; circ. 1738. Prefixed to A Complete Collection of the ... Works, etc., 1738, 2 vols. Preceded by a short life of Milton in Birch's ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1738
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1 item