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141. Kings MS 250-251

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Kings MS 250-251
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'TRAITÉ DES SIEGES, sur lattaque et la deffense des places de Guerre, par feu Monsieur Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur] de Vauban, Marechal de France, Ingenieur General, decede le [30] Mars 1707, contenant ce qu'il a pû recueillir et imaginer de mieux pendant plus de cinquante ans qu'il a pratiqué la fortification ' : Vauban's two treatises on the attack and defence of fortified places. Two volumes, vol. ii containing the Défense. The MS. purports to contain the treatises as written, the form...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

142. Kings MS 286

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Kings MS 286
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'THE IMPORTANCE of Jewells consider'd, their value in regard to their magnitude and weight and the truth of their manufactury ascertain'd and render'd intelligible to the publick': tables of the value for weight of diamonds and (f. 38) pearls, with an introduction 'address'd to the traders and m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

143. Kings MS 346

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Kings MS 346
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'A DESCRIPTION of the Library of the Escurial, extracted from a book printed at Madrid, anno 1657, intituled " Descripcion breve del Monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial", por el P. F. Francisco de los Santos.' Paper; ff. 10. Quarto. 95/8 in. x 7 1/2 in. Late XVIII cent. Halfbound in c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

144. Kings MS 426

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Kings MS 426
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'THE UNFORTUNATE FATHER and three sons, ever since the miserable times, 1642': an account by Capt. Thomas Orme of the misfortunes of his father, Capt. William Orme, of Hanch Hall, near Lichfield (d. 1666), and of himself, as set forth by him (aet. 76) in a petition to King George I. Signed. Will...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1715
Extent:
1 item

145. Kings MS 435

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Kings MS 435
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TREATISE on the education of girls, by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert (d. 1733). French. Printed under the title of Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille in 1728 and subsequently. Paper; ff. 71. Quarto. 9 in. x 7 in. XVIII cent. Bound in red morocco, tooled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

146. Kings MS 150

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Kings MS 150
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COLLECTIONS on Venetian history, viz.:- 1. 'Qui comenza la cronica della magnifica citta de Venetia et come la fù edifiada, et in che tempo, per chi' : extracts apparently from the earlier part of an anonymous chronicle whereof there is a copy in S. Mark's library at Venice, codd. italiani, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585-1595
Extent:
1 item

147. Kings MS 200

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Kings MS 200
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TRANSCRIPTS of official reports and letters relating to the state of the British settlements on the Western coast of Africa in 1765, as follows :- 1. Account of the rise and progress of British trade carried on by private merchants and by trading companies to West Africa, temp. Edw. IV-1765. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

148. Kings MS 329

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Kings MS 329
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'LE REPENTIR AMOUREUS, Eglogue traduite d'Italien en Francois par R. D. I. à Tours 1590.' A pastoral play in five acts, translated by Rolland du Jardin, Sieur des Roches (P. F. Godart de Beauchamps, Recherches sur les Théâtres de France, Paris, 1735, ii, p. 62), from Il Pentimento Amoroso by Lui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

149. Kings MS 28

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Kings MS 28
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JUVENAL, PERSIUS, &C., Viz:- 1 'L. (sic, for D. Iuni) Iuuenalis Aquinatis satirarum liber i ' (-xvi). Wants the following lines:-iv. 23, vi. 126, viii. 7, x. 13-14 ('census . . . Britannica'), xi. 165, 166, xvi. 21. At the end, after 'Finis' (f. 93 b), is the epigram on the Roman printer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

150. Kings MS 141

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Kings MS 141
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'LES PHILIPPIQUES en iv odes, avec la clef des explications nécessaires et intéressantes sur tout l'ouvrage, deux Préfaces ... et la critique des Muses contre les Philippiques.' According to the complete edition by M. de Lescure (Paris, 1858) of this satire (written by François Joseph de Chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item