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131. Kings MS 160

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Kings MS 160
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'STATUTUMS. Romuli ad usum R[everendi] Dominici de Rubeis, I. C.' (the name has been erased and that of a later owner substituted, see below): municipal laws of San Remo codified and ratified 25 Oct. 1565 (or 1555 ?, see ff. 2, 2b), with additions, some of which (f. 15) are as late as 1707 or ev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1717
Extent:
1 item

132. Kings MS 242

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Kings MS 242
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'PRUSSIAN EXERCISES, 1788: Journal of the spring exercises of the Prussian Troops during the months of April, May and June, 1788', by Col. David Dundas. with coloured plans. The author has added an autograph reference to King's 241 on f. 7 b and his signature on f. 6b. Paper ; ff. 45. Folio. 13...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788
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1 item

133. Kings MS 263

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Kings MS 263
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'TABLES calculated for throwing of Shells from the different angles of a mortar's elevation to any distance between 16 and 2000 fathoms', with title and (f. 139 b) explanation in French and English and a continuation (f. 150) to 2640 fathoms or 3 English miles'. Paper; ff. 166. Octavo. 7 in. x ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

134. Kings MS 309

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Kings MS 309
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'CATALOGUE of [David] Garrick's plays', so described on the back: a list of about 1,300 plays, arranged in alphabetical order. The collection was bequeathed by Garrick to the British Museum, by will dat. 24 Sept. 1778. Paper; ff. 11. Quarto. 9 in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

135. Kings MS 393

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Kings MS 393
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'EXTRAIT des Pierres gravées du feu [Philip,] Baron de Stosch, avec la description faite par M. l'Abbé [Johann Joachim] Winckelmann, Bibliothecaire de son Eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal Alexandre Albani', with preface, bibliography (f.. 14 b), and table of subjects (f. 222), and (ff. 93, 135 b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

136. Kings MS 42

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Kings MS 42
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'MEMOIRE sur l'etat present de l'Europe, par un ministre [Charles Louis Auguste de Fouquet, Maréchal Duc de Bellisle] attaché aux veritables interets de la France.' The memoir, the object of which is stated (f. 17) to be 'de prouver la necessité de diviser (pour le bien de la France) la Puissanc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

137. Kings MS 49

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Kings MS 49
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'CÆSARIA': a description of the bays and landingplaces of Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark, with coloured drawings and a map of Sark. Paper; ff. 14. 8 1/4 in. x 103/4 in. Late XVII cent. Bound in red morocco, tooled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

138. Kings MS 188

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Kings MS 188
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DESCRIPTION of the Town of Sigtuna, in Sweden; 'auctore Mart. Laur. Aschanei, Pastore in Fresta et Hammarbÿ, regnique antiquario, qui vixit centum ante annos'. The original title stated that the author was unknown, but his name has been added, as above, and the colophon (f. 14) states that ' the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

139. Kings MS 225

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Kings MS 225
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DRAWINGS (some in water-colour) and plans in illustration of the above work, by John Frederick Miller ' John Cleveley, jun., Philip d'Auvergne, and William Pars. With three exceptions (Clio Limacinus, f 3 ; Larus Eburneus, f. 8; and a diagram of a barometer, f. 11) they are reproduced in the edi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773-1774
Extent:
1 item

140. Kings MS 234

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Kings MS 234
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TRANSCRIPTS of the journals of Gen. James Francis Edward Keith, commanding the Russian troops during the war of 1741-1743 in Finland against the Swedes, in French, viz.: (a) two separate journals of the campaign of 1741, the former written in the first, and the latter in the third person. ff. 1,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item