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161. Add MS 4207

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MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL TRACTS and historical papers, some of them in Birch's autograph. Viz:- (1) 'An Inquiry into the Rights of Free Subjects in which the Cases of the British Sailors and Common Soldiers are distinctly Consider'd and Compar'd', etc. The MS. as prepared for the press. The tra...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

162. Add MS 4208

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GWYN MEMORIAL Memorial of the military services of Capt. John Gwyn of the Royal troop of Horse Guards, from 1642 to the Restoration; circ. 1660. With six prefatory dedication-letters, viz. to (a) Charles II. ff. 2-3b;-(b) James, Duke of York. f. 4;-(c) James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. f. 5;-(d) G...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1660
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1 item

163. Add MS 4393

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TREATISES, etc., relating to methods of finding the longitude, as follows:- (1) 'Demonstratio longitudinum maris et terrae' by H. E. Knoodt, 'Satrapa ... Electoris Trevirensis', etc; 18th cent. ff. 1-6. (2) 'The Use of the Inclynatorie Magneticall Needle to find the Longitude by the use of t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

164. Add MS 4101

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WRIOTHESLEY HERALDIC COLLECTIONS. Collections relating to heraldry, etc. Supplementary to Add. MSS. 5530, 45131-45133, 46354. The contents are as follows:- (1) 'Le xviiie livre de Bethelemy des proprietes lequel parle de la proprite des bestes', being a French translation by Jean Corbichon of ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

165. Add MS 4473

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MAPS, ETC. Maps, Plans, Diagrams, etc. Artt. 2, 4-7, 9-11, 13-17 are printed or engraved. (1) 'An Everlasting Almanacke wherein ... to finde out the daies of Regard according to the ... church of England ... 1629'. In Pell's autograph. f. 1. (2) 'A New Al-mon-ac for Ever. . . (beginning with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item

166. Add MS 4376

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MEDICAL COLLECTIONS Collections of treatises, chiefly medical, and letters of doctors and their patients; 17th- 18th centt. The names of the writers of the letters will be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The treatises are as follows:- (1) 'De subiecto primo et imediato Caloris pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Folio. 17th century-18th century
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1 item

167. Add MS 4474

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MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS described by Birch as 'A Parcel of decayed Papers'. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Of some Improvements in Algebra made in [England]'; after 1663. ff. 1b-4. (2) Letter of Louis Henry, Count of Nassau, to Breda University, on the introduction of the Cartesian philos...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

168. Add MS 4206

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MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS: as follows:- (1) Chronological notes concerning the orders of St John of Jerusalem and the Templars; 11th- 16th centt. ff. 1-5. (2) 'De Monasteriis seu Abbatijs de Archimandrita, Coenobiarcha seu Abbati, et de Monachis, Eremitis, Anachoretis, seu Hesycas...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

169. Add MS 4294

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OLDENBURG CORRESPONDENCE Miscellaneous original letters, etc., addressed chiefly to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary to the Royal Society, by scientific men; 1665-1676. 'Re writers include:- (1) Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg; 24-26 Oct. 1676. Latin and English. ff. 1-10, 12. (2) John Beale...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1665-1676
Extent:
1 item

170. Add MS 4452

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PAPERS RELATING TO VARIOUS SOCIETIES, with which Birch was connected. A few letters are interspersed, the names of the writers of which are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. the principal contents are as follows:- (1) The Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item