- Published / Created:
- [1607]
- Call Number:
- Eliz 287
- Image Count:
- 32
- Alternative Title:
- True report of certaine wonderfull overflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England, Of flouds in England, 1607, a true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England, 1607, a true report of certaine wonderfull overflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England, and True report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England
- Description:
- BEIN Elizabethan Club 287: Imperfect: leaves A1,2 and D4 mutilated, with some loss of text; some loss of text on leaf A1 due to trimming. Ms. correction of running title on leaf A4v., With a title-page woodcut., Printer's name from STC., Signatures: A-D⁴., Running title reads: Of flouds in England., and In this edition the catchword on C3r is "recouered."
- Publisher:
- by W[illiam]. I[aggard]. for Edward White and are to be solde at the signe of the Gunne at the north doore of Paules
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Norfolk, Somerset (England), and Norfolk (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Floods and History
- Found in:
- Elizabethan Club > 1607, a true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England : destroying many thousands of men, women, and children, ouerthrowing and bearing downe whole townes and villages, and drowning infinite numbers of sheepe and other cattle
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2.
- Creator:
- Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675
- Published / Created:
- 1687.
- Call Number:
- 2013 1188
- Image Count:
- 48
- Alternative Title:
- Apollo Anglicanus, English Apollo, and Saunder. 1687. The second part
- Description:
- BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 8 of 12 titles bound together., "Saunder. 1687. The second part" (caption title) has separate register., Signatures: A-B⁸ ²A⁸., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Contains advertisements.
- Publisher:
- Printed by M. Clark for the Company of Stationers
- Subject (Topic):
- Almanacs, English, Astrology, and Ephemerides
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 1687. Apollo Anglicanus = the English Apollo, assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come : with necessary tables plain and useful. A twofold kalendar, viz. Julian or English, Gregorian or forein computations, more plain and full than any other, with the rising and setting of the sun, the nightly rising and setting of the moon, and also her southing, exactly calculated for every day. Of general use for most men, being the third after bissextile or leap-year : to which is added the moons application to the fixed stars with the calculations of the eclipses : also rules and tables for the measuring of timber, with many other things both pleasant, useful and necessary. Calculated according to art, and fitted to the meridian of Leicester, whose latitude is 52 degrees, 41 minutes exactly fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible error the whole kingdom
- Published / Created:
- [1711?]
- Call Number:
- 90 1711B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Insets: Chiloe I., Guayaquil, Baldivia, Acapulco, Fonesca, Nicoya, Gulf, Galapagos Is., Juan Ferdinanado, Isthmus of Darien, ect., Plypses or Pepys I., Str. of Magellan.
- Subject (Geographic):
- South America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A New and Exact map of the coast, countries and Islands within ye limits of ye South Sea Company ... Herman Moll, Geographer
4.
- Published / Created:
- 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.78+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Scale ca. 1:444,000., Shows engagement at entrance to Chesapeake Bay., Plate from: The political magazine and parliamentary, naval, military and literary journal. London: Printed for J. Bew ..., v. 6 (Jan. 1784)., and Includes text, index to positions, and list of British ships and captains.
- Publisher:
- J. Bew
- Subject (Geographic):
- Yorktown (Va.) and United States
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Participation, French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Representation, of the sea fight, on the 5th of Sepr. 1781, between Rear Admiral Graves and the Count de Grasse
- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- File 52 C149 757++
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757
- Description:
- Caption title., At head of title, in upper left: Norfolk., Not in ESTC., and Signed beneath printed text by "Israel Long Esq., Sheriff". Contemporary ms. annotations in black ink along left margin of recto; docket title added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Davy, by order of the goaler
- Subject (Geographic):
- Norfolk (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Prisoners
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A calendar, or List of the several prisoners to be tried at the next Assizes, to be held at Thetford, in and for the said county, on Friday the 25th day of March, 1757 : the times of their commitments, their several crimes, and by whom committed
6.
- Creator:
- Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625, author
- Published / Created:
- 1622.
- Call Number:
- 53 C67B B79
- Image Count:
- 207
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶., First leaf is blank., With final contents leaf., First edition 1619., Printed by William Stansby. See E.E. Willoughby. A printer of Shakespeare, 1934., Title page variant: author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe"., Title-page inscribed: G. Dury, Esq. [17th century hand?], Imperfect: Preliminary blank leaf A₁ wanting., and Formerly laid in: William Roberts Gichard "Commemorative English and French heraldry keepsake". See Lewis Walpole Library 53 C67B B79x
- Publisher:
- Printed by William Stansby
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Nobility
- Subject (Topic):
- Heraldry and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere 1622 : Together with their armes, wiues, and children; the times of their deaths and burials, with many of their memorable actions
- Creator:
- Skinner and Co. (London, England)
- Published / Created:
- [1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3902
- Image Count:
- 113
- Description:
- Signatures: pi⁴, A-2A⁴., At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage., LWL 49 3902: With "No." on t.p. with "753" in ms. 2000 catalogues were sold before the sale began., LWL 49 3902: Horace Walpole's copy with his annotations, including a four-page, signed letter providing a history of the collection., and Original marbled boards with calf back, now rebacked. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron used as Bookplate, and fleuron from Anecdotes at end. Press-mark X.7. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
- Publisher:
- Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Library and Catalogs, Booksellers'
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday, the 24th of April 1786 ...
8.
- Creator:
- Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 125 L278 755 3/11
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Priced., Signatures: A-B⁴., The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754. This sale appears to be the English version of the second part of an earlier sale of the Museum Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques., MED,HSL 17th cent: Bound with the author's A catalogue of pictures, London, 1755., BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754., and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout. Title pages are ruled in red.
- Publisher:
- Abraham Langford
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid
9.
- Creator:
- Edwards, A.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 80
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph catalogue of Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield's library at Ethrope. The manuscript begins with an explanation of the shelving system at the library, followed by an index to the volume which divides the work by book size and language. The entries for each book include information about their shelving position and date published, and include historical, scientific, artistic, and literary works, as well as works on law and architecture. Holdings include biblical commentaries; John Dryden's plays; poems by Stephen Duck; numerous collections of prints and drawings, including William Hogarth's Collection of Prints and Darly's Collection of Caricatures; dictionaries in English, Italian, and French; Thomas Betterton's History of the English stage; and Horace Walpole's History of the royal and noble authors. The manuscript also includes several collections of musical works, including Cervetto's 6 Solos for the violincello and bass
- Description:
- In English., A note in the preface declares that "this Catalogue was taken in June 1778 by A. Edwards, no. 79 New Bond St. London.", Title from title page., Marbled endpapers., Binding: full red morocco. In gilt on spine: Catalogue Of The Library At Ethrope., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710., Cervetto, Giacobbe, 1682-1783., Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1755-1815., Darly, Matthias., Dryden, John, 1631-1700., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Edwards, A., Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Collectors and collecting, Nobility, Books and reading, Private libraries, and Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the library of the right honble earl of Chesterfield, at Ethrope, Bucks., 1778 Jun
- Published / Created:
- [between 1791 and 1803?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a penny-worth of wit"., Printed in five columns with the title and imprint above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Full stop at end of title and no punctutation at end of the first line of verse., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 13. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by J. Evans and Co. 41 Long-lane West-Smithfield
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A choice pennyworth of wit