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131. 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
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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1 item

132. 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

133. Add MS 4222

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Vol. II (ff. 274). D-L. includes: f. 1 Sir Robert Dallington, Master of the Charterhouse: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 2 Edmund Dickenson, d 1707 MD: Biographical notices: 18th cent. f. 3 Publius Cornelius DolabeIla, Roman general; d. 44 BC: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 4 Horatius ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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1 item

134. Add MS 4223

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Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S. includes: ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 17-33...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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1 item

135. Add MS 4224

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Vol. IV (ff. 312). T-W. Together with miscellaneous notes among which are: (a) extracts relating to Cambridge men, from Thomas Baker's collections in Harley MSS.7031-7037. ff. 178-201;- (b)'Alphabetical list of Lives' by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. ff. 202-204;- (c) 'Kalendarium Carlananu...
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Western Manuscripts
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English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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1 item

136. Add MS 4225

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Vol. V. (ff. 111). Miscellaneous, but chiefly prominent historical figures. In narrative form, in Birch's autograph. includes: f. 1 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham d 1483: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 5 Henry VII of England: Biographical notice of Qu. Elizabeth: 18th cent. f. 9 He...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1730-c 1766
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1 item

137. 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

138. 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

139. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
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1 item

140. 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