A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now
Image Count:
4
Description:
In: Churchill, Awnsham, d. 1728. Collection of voyages and travels. London : Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.], 1746 vol. 5.
Publisher:
Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.],
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, Angola--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guinea--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guyana--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and West Indies--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Manuscript fair copy, of dated entries recounting the departure from Liverpool, the shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, the crew's enslavement in northern Africa, and their return to Dartmouth. Many entries concern the work done, foods, illnesses and injuries, and racial and religious differences encountered. The June 16th entry mentions the separation of "the mate and my relation," and the volume also contains, in the same hand, an account of a group separated from the Captain from June to October 1789, signed Jas. Irving Junr., and titled "A very short account of what happened to me after the seperation on the 16th of June 1789."
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-calf, marbled-paper boards. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, North--Description and travel and Africa, North--Foreign relations--Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors--Great Britain--Personal narratives, Ship captains--Great Britain--Personal narratives, Shipwrecks--Africa, North, and Slavery--Africa, North
Holograph., Imperfect: Boards loose., and Musical notation for treble, tenor, bass, and psalterer opposite each psalm. Also contains Directions for Tuning and Playing the Psalterer.
Subject (Topic):
Hymn tunes--Great Britain, Musical instruments--Instruction and study--Great Britain --18th century, Psalms (Music)--Early works to 1800, and Tune-books--Early works to 1800
A separate t.p. in v. 2 reads: An appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and other remarks, concerning the State of the City of London. .. London: Printed in the year MDCCXX., A.M., H.D. i.e. Anthony Monday, Henry Dyson., BEIN 1977 +392: 38 cm. Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text; v. 2, Book IV, p. 27-30 mutilated, with some loss of text; v. 2, Book VI, p. 80 mutilated, with some loss of printed pagination. Bookplate: Johannis Bunce. Presentation inscription to Thomas Stevens from Rich Ward, dated Sep. 1788. [68] leaves of plates ([33] folded)., Each of the 6 'books' has its own pagination, and is introduced by a drop-head title., First published as "A survay of London.", Includes bibliographical references and index., Subscriber's list: p. [xliii]-[xliv], v. 1., and Title in red and black.
Publisher:
Printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward,
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)--Antiquities, London (England)--Description and travel, London (England)--History--16th century, and London (England)--History--17th century
Subject (Name):
Bunce, John Tackray,--1828-1899--Bookplate, Churchill, Awnsham, -1728, bookseller, Cowse, Benjamin, fl. 1711-1725, bookseller, Dyson, Henry, Horne, E., bookseller, Kip, Johannes, 1653-1722, engraver. 796, Knaplock, Robert, -1737, booskeller, Knapton, James, -1738, bookseller, Midwinter, Daniel, active 1698-1725, bookseller, Monday, Anthony, Robinson, Ranew, bookseller, Stevens, Thomas--Presentation inscription from R. Ward, Streatfeild family--Bookplate (BAC), Strype, John, 1643-1737, Tooke, Benjamin, -1723, bookseller, Walthoe, John, 1657 or 1658-1744, bookseller, Ward, Richard--Presentation inscription to T. Stevens, and Ward, Thomas, bookseller, bookseller
Manuscript concludes with a table of contents, "A poem in fashion after my late lord's decease" that begins, "As I walkd by my self, Thus I saide to my self....;" and a letter to the young Earl Fitzwilliam signed, "John Catlin, Living in Stepney, Northamptonshire.", Manuscript presentation copy of a work addressed to the young Earl Fitzwilliam, offering "my opinion on Gods workes, with some proper rules... [for] health, long life, ritches, virtue, wisdom, viygor and victory." The text opens with a generalized cosmology, including discussion of the nature of light and of the Zodiac, and mentioning the meteor fireball of March 1719. Most of the text offers detailed information on the four humours; on "the rules of Health", "Physicke and ointment;" the "Limmits of Pleasure;" and rules "To govern Servants.", Prefatory material: Five varying and highly decorated dedication pages to Lord Fitzwilliam, including a dedicatory poem "Not that I think my Lord will want to learn....;" several English and Latin maxims, and a dedicatory letter addressed to "My Lord.", and With: foldout diagram on parchment of signs of the Zodiac (numbered as p. 22).
Description:
Binding: contemporary full panelled calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Paginated as rectos only. Most versos blank, not digitized, excepting p. 21-22..
Subject (Name):
Fitzwilliam, William Fitzwilliam,--Earl,--1719-1756
Subject (Topic):
Astrology and health, Authors and patrons--Great Britain, Conduct of life, Cosmology, English poetry--18th century, Health, Moral education, Youth--Conduct of life, and Youth--Health and hygiene
Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4, creator
Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 186
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Ajaib al-makhluqat. Persian
Description:
Cosmography. The section dealing with minerals, plants, and man only. Incomplete at beginning and end., Ethe, H. India Office,, Foliated in pencil 1-104, 108-112., Modern (18th century) nastaliq, in red and black; with colored drawings of plants., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Translated from Arabic.