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Container Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446

281. Kings MS 430-431

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Kings MS 430-431
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'PENSÉES DETÂCHÉES sur divers sujets choisis de Politique et principalement sur des matieres de Gouvernement et de l'Art Militaire. Dediées a sa Majesté George [I] Roi de la Grande Bretagne'; by J-de la Menardière. Two volumes. With a 'Table des matieres' and a short introduction in each, and in vol. i the author's letter of dedication. Vol. ii has special reference to 'les affaires d'Angleterre'. Paper ; ff. 176, 107. Quarto. 73/4 x in. x 6 in. Circ. 1715- 1720. Bound in red morocco, sligh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1715-1720
Extent:
2 items

282. Kings MS 432

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Kings MS 432
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'CARACTERES, Pensees, Maximes et Reflections Morales et Politiques sur divers sujets. Dediées a sa Altesse Royale Madame la Princesse de Galles, &c.'; by J- de la Menardière. Preceded by the author's letter of dedication (f.2), an 'Avertissement' (f. 4), and a 'Table des Maximes'(f. 6). Pap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1715-1720
Extent:
1 item

283. Kings MS 433

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Kings MS 433
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'REMARKS, Historical and Political, collated from Books and Observation, humbly presented to the King's most excellent Majesty', by James Burgh [d. 1775]. With a dedicatory letter, 13 Aug. 1762. Holograph. Paper; ff. 131. Quarto. 91/2 in. x 7 in. A.D. 1762. Bound in blue morocco, tooled. Book-p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1762
Extent:
1 item

284. Kings MS 434

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Kings MS 434
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TREATISE 'sur l'education d'un Prince': five letters in French, apparently to some reigning German prince, who is addressed as V[otre] A[ltesse] S[érénissime]. The author, whose name is not given, appears to have been at one time attached to the service of the Hereditary Prince of Württemberg (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

285. Kings MS 435

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Kings MS 435
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TREATISE on the education of girls, by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert (d. 1733). French. Printed under the title of Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille in 1728 and subsequently. Paper; ff. 71. Quarto. 9 in. x 7 in. XVIII cent. Bound in red morocco, tooled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

286. Kings MS 436

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Kings MS 436
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ALBUM AMICORUM containing the autograph signatures and mottoes, accompanied in most cases with the writers arms in tincture, of Sovereigns, Princes, Nobles, &c.; 1622-1633, and (one) 1699. From the inscription (f. 45 b) of his son Charles Maurice, beg. 'Liber erat patris', &c., the MS. a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1622-1699
Extent:
1 item

287. Kings MS 437

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Kings MS 437
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'LIST of the subscribers to Mr De Cort's Picture ... of the Ruins of Cliffden [Cliefden House, co. Bucks.] at the time it was drawn for, on June the fourth, 1798, the amount to be paid ... towards the Voluntary Contribution for the Defence of the Country.' Preceded (f. 1) by a signed address by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
1 item

288. Kings MS 438

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Kings MS 438
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'MEMOIRE sur la guerre de Boheme', written apparently by a French officer of the Allied Army during the operations in Bohemia against Maria Theresa in 1741-1742. The memoir, which begins with a review of affairs consequent on the death of the Emperor Charles VI, in October, 1740, describes in mu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741-1742
Extent:
1 item

289. Kings MS 439

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Kings MS 439
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TRANSCRIPT of two letters relating to Ireland from Sir James Caldwell, Bart., of Castle Caldwell, co. Fermanagh (d. 1784), viz.:-(a) to John Ponsonby, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, 'relative to the Restrictions layed upon the Trade of Ireland by the British Acts of Parliament' 20 Oct. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

290. Kings MS 440

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Kings MS 440
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'A PASTORAL LETTER of the Lord Cardinal [Etienne] Le Camus, Bishop and Prince of Grenoble, to the Curats of his Diocess; touching the methods they ought to take, and in what manner they should behave themselves towards their new Converts.' Faithfully translated from the Original French.' Dated a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item