Vol. II. (ff. 320). ANGLO-BELGlCA, or state-papers relating to affairs between England and the Netherlands, many of which refer to the trade of the two countries to the East Indies; 1585-1659. 1. Treaties of England with the United Provinces, viz.: 1585. ff. 12, 19, 34-42;-1608. ff. 53-63;-162...
COLLECTION of State papers, letters, and miscellaneous documents, many of which relate to the Civil War and the affairs of the Commonwealth; 1564-1760. The letters at the end relate to literature and kindred subjects, and several of them are addressed to Dr. John Hill, Apothecary, etc., who acqu...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. IV. (ff. 309). 29 March, 1607- 16 March, 1607 [8]. A gap of a whole year occurs between this and the preceding volume. The latter part of 1606 had been taken up by the secret negotiations of John Ney, Commissary General of the Friars Minor, on behalf of the Archduke, for a ...
EDMONDES PAPERS. Vol. Xl. (ff. 296). 25 March, 1616-28 Jan. 1632 [3]. During Edmondes's absence at the Loudun Conference, which resulted in a treaty signed 5 May, 1616, his secretary, Woodford, reported the state of affairs at the French Court. In September of the same year Edmondes requested Ja...
CRAGGS PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 287). 1695-1718. 1. G[eorge] Vane, on the progress of the expedition against French Canada; " Off Cape Britton," 8 Aug. 1711. f. 4; " Annopolis Royale," 6 Dec. 1711. f 18. 2. R[obert] Walpole, [Earl of Orford, 1742], Treasurer, etc., of the Navy, enclosing copy of...
TRANSCRIPTS of tracts and papers relating to Trade, Parliamentary and Legal Procedure and State affairs; temp . Charles II. 1. " A particular Journal of the proceedings in the House of Peers in a cause between T[homas] Skinner, a private merchant trading to the E. Indies, and the E. India Comp...
EXTRACTS from Public Records, etc., relating to the Chancery, the custody of the records, etc., with other miscellaneous papers, viz. :- 1. Extracts from records, and copies of documents, relating to the custody of the Public Records, tempp. Edw. III.-Jas. II. fF. 1-18. 2. " Extract of Record...
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS and papers, as follows:- 1. Papers relating to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand, London, viz. (a) "Case of the Savoy," being a brief account of it from the time of Henry III. to about 1725. f. 2;-(b) "Lord Keeper Wright's sentence for dissolving the Savoy, July 31, 1702." ...
"RECUEIL HISTORIQUE, tiré de plusieurs autheurs": a collection of abstracts of histories and travels, compiled, according to a note on the first page, by James Le Fanu. The chief contents are:- (1) Abstract of Bussy Rabutin's -History of Louis XIV. [1662- 1693]. ff. 2 b-5 b;-(2) Notes on Peru ...
Album of 95 drawings chiefly of landscapes and monuments in the Deccan, W. India and Afghanistan. 1821-44. Includes some work by other artists. Artist(s): Boyd, George (1800-1850)
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95 drawings (90 folios), chiefly of landscapes and monuments in the Deccan, W. India and Afghanistan. 1821-44.The book also contains drawings from other sources by A. Grafton, two maps by A. Christie (perhaps Alexander Christie, assistant surgeon in Bengal, 1825, and surgeon from 1840) and three ...