Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 7
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
"Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of al...
Alternative Title:
[Rake's progress]. Plate 7 and His Hours of Joy are fled with raipd speed, ...
Description:
Added title from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text containing an excellent copy of the poem beginning "Unter den sieben Planeten bin ich Sol genannt ..." with associated prose commentaries, as first seen in MS 94. Decorated with a fine frontispiece and elegant...
Holograph manuscript on parchment and paper of Caspar Harttung vom Hoff of Gastein, Das Vade mecum, a commonplace book of alchemical and medicinal materials, consisting of mostly shorter prose and verse sections, often with excellent drawings, thirty-...
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Harttung vom Hoff.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Drawing, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine
