"Portrait of Marie de Bretagne, Duchess of Montbazon, bust-length, slightly turned to the left, with curly hair, pearl earring, pearl necklace, and dress with square neckline."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
A Madame la Duchesse de Montbazon
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3886., Dedication to the Duchess of Montbazon by Jean Leblond engraved below image: Quoy qu'il ne soit pas possible, Madame, que l'art puisse bien representer l'extreme beauté ... Vostre tres-humble, et tres-obeissant seruiteur Iehan le Blond ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 63 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Jean Leblond
Subject (Name):
Montbazon, Marie d'Avaugour, duchesse de, 1610-1657,
Includes col. ill. of ships, monsters, etc., Possibly from the 1639, 1641, or 1642 ed. of the author's Noveau theatre du monde ou nouvel atlas, or from the 1646, 1647, or 1649 ed. of J. Jansson's Nouvel atlas ou theatre du monde., and Relief shown pictorially.
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
Appears in various eds. of Jan Jansson's Nouvel atlas., French text on verso., Includes ill. of ships and sea monsters, and insets showing "Polus Arcticus" region and "Terra Australis inc, and Sheet measures 50 x 59 cm. Stamp on verso: Yale, Horace Brown, 1900S.
At head of title: Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii., Engraved t.-p., and The paging is irregular, because many maps were inserted with the same page numbering as the preceding map.
Carte de l'Ameriqve, L'Amerique [cartographic material], and L'Ameriqve [cartographic material]
Description:
Includes ill., text, and insets of Greenland area and Antarctica., Mounted on linen. Stamp on verso: Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., Relief shown pictorially., and State 1 according to Burden.
Publisher:
P. Bertius,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Les voyages de la Novvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada / faits par le Sr. de Champlain
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Carte de la Nouuelle France.
Description:
Housed and classed separately as BrSides Folio 2008 15., In pencil on verso: Beinecke / Library / Broadsides / Folio / 2008 / 15 [(not digitized)]., Map formerly bound in facing p. 310 of Z6 14., Map formerly mounted on linen and folded., Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000]., and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--French, Canada--Discovery and exploration, and Canada--Maps
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Navigation--Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
A Paris : Chez Pierre LeMvr, dans la grand' salle du Palais, M.DC.XXXII. [1632]
Although printed orientation indicates north at top of map, the layout of typography and place, Bar scale given in "Echelle de six milles 60 milles au degre"., Hand colored. Stamp: Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Chez Melchoir Tavernier ...,
Subject (Geographic):
Valtellina (Italy)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Campaigns--Italy--Valtellina--Maps