A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Printed, and sold at the author’s house, in Well-Yard, near St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; and by Walter Kettilby, at Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Chemistry --Early works to 1800 and Pharmacy --Early works to 1800
[Atlas factice of 96 maps by Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Hondius and others]
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
All four sides of map decorated with city views and costumed figures of different social classes. Includes coats of arms., Imperfect: torn along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired, with missing sections replicated in ms.; tears repaired., and No. 5 of 92 maps bound together.
Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. Kurtzer Bericht von der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft Ludwig, Prince of Anhalt-Koethen, 1579-1650 Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650
Published / Created:
[1630]
Call Number:
Zg17 F94 630f
Image Count:
224
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Each leaf bears a Gesellschaft member's emblem and motto, a short poem, and the member's initials; chart at end lists names that match the initials.
Alternative Title:
Fruchtbringende Gesellschafft Vorhaben, Nahmen, Gemaehlde und Woerter and Fruchtbringenden Gesellschafft Vorhaben, Nahmen, Gemaehlde und Woerter
Description:
Autograph: Ferdinand Albrecht Flemming ex bibliotheca paterna 1669. At end, list in ms. of additional members of Gesellschaft, possibly in hand of Christian Flemmer. Book waste used in binding.