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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31300-31301
Title:: DIARY Of Richard Cocks, head of the English factory at Firando [or Hirado] in Japan; 1615-1622. Two volumes. Vol. i. 1 June, 1615-5 July, 1617; vol. ii. 6 July, 1617-17 Jan. 161 8/9, and 5 Dec. 1620-24 March, 162 1/2. Paper; ff. 210, 239. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Japan: Diary of R. Cocks, head of the English factory: 1615-1622.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1615-1622
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33761
Title:
Scope & Content:: (Gr. vii.) " ANNUALL LETTERS written, out of Japonia [Japan] in the yeare of our Lorde 1625. 1626. 1627. to . . . Mutio Vitelleschi, Generall of the Society of Iesus." With a dedicatory letter from the translator, Thomas Somerset, 5th son of Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester [succ. 1628, cr. Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1632-c 1642
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34184
Title:: DUTCH PORTOLANO, containing forty-nine coloured maps and views, viz.:-(1) Iceland, Feroe, Shetland and Orkney Isles, and Hebrides. f. 2 b ;-(2) Azores. f. 4 b ;-(3) Canary Isles. f. 6 b; -(4) Cape Verd Isles. f. 8 b;-(5) African coast, from Saldanha Bay to False Bay, with Dassen Island. f. 10 b;-(6) Table Bay. f. 12b;-(7) Cape of Good Hope. f. 14b;-(8) Madagascar and Mozambique. f. 16 b;-(9) Mozambique, Mombasa, and Melinda. f. 18 b;-(10) From Magadoxo to Massowah, with the Arabian coasts op...
Scope & Content:: Book-plates: Burnell (Arthur Coke): 19th cent. Arthur Coke Burnell: Book-plate: 19th cent. Maps and Plans: Dutch portolano containing fortynine coloured maps: 17th cent. includes: f. 2 b Faroe Islands: Map of: 17th cent. f. 2 b The Hebrides: Map of: 17th cent. f. 3 Shetland Islands: Maps of:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35307
Title:: BARROW BEQUEST Vol. VIII. Letters chiefly relating to Sir Edward Belcher’s Arctic expedition of 1852-1854
Scope & Content:: The volume of letters is divided into the following sections: 1. ‘Sir Edward Belcher's expedition’ of 1852-54. Contains very outspoken accounts of the disagreements between Sir E. Belcher and the officers under him. Besides Belcher himself and Lieut. (Commander, Oct. 1852) Sherard Osborn, the w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1852-1873
Extent:: 1 volume (611 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37539
Title:
Scope & Content:: No. I. Cromlechs, dolmens and Stone Age remains, arranged topographically. ff. 899. includes: f. 1 County of Cornwall: Illustrations of Stone and Bronze Age remains in, by J. Romilly Allen: 19th cent.f.3 Boscawen Woon, Cornwall: Photograph of stones at: 19th cent.f. 4 Illogan, Cornwall: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Swedish
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37780
Title:: "NATUURKUNDIG School Boek uitgegeven door De Maatschappy-Tat nut van het algemeen Erste Stukje. Vijfde..... Uitgave......To leyden, deventer en groningen.....MDCCCXXVIII." The first part of a primer of natural science, in the form of dialogues between master and pupils, by Johannes Bhijs. Transcripts of the printed book, by Dr. Tainen Kawamoto, a Japanese. Paper (Japanese); ff. 226. Octavo. xix. cent. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Books and MSS.
Scope & Content:: Dr Tainem Kawamoto: Primer of natural science transcribed by: 19th cent.: Dutch. Japan: Transcript of J. Bhijs's " Natuurkundig School Boek " by Dr. Tainenn Kawamoto,a Japanese: 19th cent.: Dutch. Johannes Bhijs: Transcript of his "Natuurkundig School Baek": 19th cent.: Dutch.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38076 D
Title:
Scope & Content:: D. 1-108. Asia, viz. 1, 2, Arabia; 3, 4, Persia; 5, 6, Maldive and Laccadive Islands; 7-15 Ceylon; 16-44, India; 45-50, Burma; 51-53, Anam; 54-56, Lower Siam; 57-60, Malacca Straits; 61-64, Sunda Straits; 65-70, Sumatra; 71-76, Java ; 77-80, Borneo; 81-91, Philippine Islands; 92-102, Islands of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38991
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. LXI (ff. 432). Jan.-Aug. 1865. Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1846-1881. Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence with Lord J. Russell: 1853-1871. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Prime Minister: C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Jan 1865-Aug 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39102
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. CLXXII (ff. 413). Dec. 1861-Mar. 1862. Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1846-1881. includes: f. 1 John Ward, Consul-General in Hanover, etc.; Minister to the Hanse Towns 1865: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1861-1865. ff. 3, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Dec 1861-Mar 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39325 A-G
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS
Scope & Content:: 39325. letters and papers includes: f. 1 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Viscount; and (1914) Earl, Kitchener; Field-Marshal 1909: Letter to Baroness Burdett-Coutts: 1902. f. 1 Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts; formerly Burdett; philanthropist: Letter to, from Lord Kitchener:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1600-1902]
Extent:: 7 items

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