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132. Add MS 4215 B
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- FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 55). Scottish historical collections; 18th cent. (1) "Re Constitution of Scotland with respect to the Regal Power', being a translation of the beginning of G. Buchanan's 'De Jure Regni apud Scotos'. ff. 1-4. (2) 'Refutatio libri Buchanani De jure Regni apud Scot...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- English and Latin
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- 18th century
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- 1 item
133. 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
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- 18th century
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- 1 item
134. 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
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- English
- Date Range:
- c 1650
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- 1 item
135. 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
136. Add MS 4219
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- Treatises on Natural History; circ. 1751-1758. Viz.:- (1) 'Traité du Corail ... Pour servir a l'histoire naturelle de la mer', by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S., 'Médecin botaniste entretenu par sa majesté dans l'isle de Gaudeloupe', etc. ff. 1-1 13. For an account of this, and other treatis...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- English and French
- Date Range:
- c 1751-1758
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- 1 item
137. Add MS 4219-4220
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- NATURAL HISTORY TREATISES
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- Western Manuscripts
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- English and French
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- [1746-1763]
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- 2 items
138. Add MS 4220
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- 'Traitté ou dissertation sur le Dragon ou dragoneau, Draco sive Dracunculus Persarum, veine de Medine des Arabes, vena Medinensis Arabum, ver lutonie ver soye des miodernes vulgairement appellé dans les lles de l'Amerique, ver de Guinée'. by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S.; circ. 1758. For an E...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- French
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- c 1758
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- 1 item
139. Add MS 4221
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- Vol. I (ff. 348). A-C. includes: ff. 1-14 Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 9b, 15 Joseph Addison, dramatist and essayist: Biographical notices: 18th cent.: Fr. and Engl. f. 17 Reverend Michael Ainsworth, Master of Cornhampton School: Biographical no...
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- Western Manuscripts
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- English, French, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1730-c 1766
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- 1 item
140. 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