RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXXIII. (ff. 14). "Devis des ouvrages . . . . à l'embouchure du havre de Dunkerque." At the end, " Signé Vauban." With four plans. See above, vol. vii. Dunkirk, Nord: Papers relating to works at: late 17th cent.: Fr.
PAMPHLET, in form of a letter to a person unnamed, in reference to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, [James II.], urging by historical examples the right of the royal family to arrange its marriages without reference to Parliament, and without taking into consideration the question o...
COLLECTION of engraved political caricatures illustrating the closing years of George II., and more particularly the last Administration of Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle. Among the characters caricatured are the Duke, Robert Darcy, 4th Baron Holdernesse, Philip Yorke, lst Earl of Hardw...
ARMS of English families, in trick; with copies of grants of arms made at various dates from 1473 to 1715, and a few pedigrees. Followed (f. 187) by drawings of English crests. With indexes at beginning and end. Paper; ff. 206. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. In the centre of each cover is an almost oblit...
"BISHOP Bedle [?William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42, and Ardagh, 1629-33] his groundes for the lawfullnesse of usury." The tract is not included in the lists of Bedell's works given by his biographers. Paper; ff. 47. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Keymer. Duodecimo. Usury: Tr...
NOTE-BOOK of medical and other recipes in the hand of Sir P. Temple, the names of the authorities from whom they were derived being generally given. Paper; ff. 85. XVIIth cent. Duodecimo. Sir Peter Temple, of Stanton Barry: Medical, cookery and other recipes: 17th cent. Recipes: Medical, culin...
HOURS of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. The contents are: — (1) Calendar. f. 1; — (2) "Quindecim orationes ad Christum." f. 13; — (3) "Commemoratio de sancta trinitate." f. 19; — (4) Commemorations of the following saints: — John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Christopher, George, Thomas of Cant...
EIGHT SERMONS "de Morte," and eleven "de Passione" Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. "Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Rorantes sanguine lacrimas" (f. 29b). The end of the volum...