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251. Kings MS 270

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Kings MS 270
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AN ACCOUNT of the measurement of a base on Hounslow Heath carried on . . . under the direction of Major Edward Williams', R.A., in 1791; with four coloured plans. The preface and the Account itself are signed by the author. It is not identical with the paper communicated by the Duke of Richmond ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 item

252. Kings MS 276

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Kings MS 276
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'A DEMONSTRATION of the laws of Friction and the method of cancelling or reducing the same to the lowest degree of perception, with an explanation of the use and advantages thereof in the more obvious exercising of all sorts of Engines or the mechanical powers applied thereto; in particular that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1734
Extent:
1 item

253. Kings MS 322

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Kings MS 322
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SONNETS and other poems of an amatory nature, in Italian. Forty-nine in all, the first beg. 'Amor con sue manere a si gran torto'. The word 'cuore' is everywhere represented by a red heart. The second poem contains the name of the lady, Mirabel Zucharia or Zucharina, to whom it was addressed. V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

254. Kings MS 384

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Kings MS 384
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'A LIST of some very curious and early printed Books as they stand in the Library of His Grace [Charles Spencer,] the Dukeof Marlborough' [d. 1758], being the shelf-list from which the slips (Add. MS. 11512) were written, made under the direction of the Duke's secretary, Jacob Bryant, who has ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

255. Kings MS 67

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Kings MS 67
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'AN ABSTRACT of ye accots of ye imports and exports of your Majties Customs for one year ending at Michaelmas 1698', by William Culliford, Inspector-General. Another copy is in Stowe MS. 318. Paper ;ff. 33. Octavo. 7 in. x 4 3/4 in. Vellum cover, tooled, with monogram of George III. Accounts: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1698
Extent:
1 item

256. Kings MS 198

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Kings MS 198
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'AN ACCOUNT of the great Pagoda on the Island of Salset [Salsette], near Bombay in the East Indies'; with nine drawings in Indian ink, one of which (f. 1 b) was drawn by John Myngs. In the author's brief account of the island, &c. (f. 2 b), he states that the measurements, &c., were take...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

257. Kings MS 314

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Kings MS 314
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'FAME, a vision, humbly inscrib'd to the Queen': a poem in praise of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, when in retirement at Richmond. In rhymed heroic couplets, beg. 'Beneath a spreading shade at ease reclin'd'. Paper; ff. 6. Quarto. 85/8 in. x 73/8 in. A. D. 1732 (? cf. no. 313). On f. 1 b, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732?
Extent:
1 item

258. Kings MS 442

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Kings MS 442
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WORDS of two songs intended to take the place of 'Tutto può Donna uezzosa', Act i, Sc. 7, and 'Piangerò la sorte mia', Act iii, Sc. 3, in the opera 'Giulio Cesare' [1723] by George Frederick Handel. . Begin 'Parolette, vezzi e sguardi' and Io vò di duolo in duolo'. A note on the fly-leaf by [Mic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

259. Kings MS 25

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Kings MS 25
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P. VIRGILII MARONIS Opera, viz. Bucolica, f. 1;- Georgica, f. 15 b;-Aeneis, f. 55. The argument-verses in each case are the same as in King'S 24 (see above), except that the quatrain for Georg. iii is omitted. It agrees with 24 also in containing the four verses ' Ille ego', &c., at the be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

260. Kings MS 419

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Kings MS 419
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SIMILAR DRAWINGS of the plates of the seven Knights of the Garter installed in 1805, made and presented by the same. Paper; ff. 10. 111/2 in. x 9 in. Bound in blue morocco.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
1 item