- Creator:
- Stuart, Levi B., 1829-
- Published / Created:
- 1849-51
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 456
- Image Count:
- 65
- Abstract:
- Stuart, of Southville, Connecticut, left Bridgwater for New Haven where he joined the New Haven and California Joint Stock Company. The Company chartered the bark Anna Reynolds, with Capt. John Bottom, and sailed for California. and The journal describes the 1849 voyage around the Horn, by Talcahuano to California and the return voyage in 1850. After a gap, the journal resumes with the company breaking up in San Francisco and Stuart setting off for the mines at Negro Bar on the American River. In March 1850, the journal describes passage on the ship Talma from San Francisco to Realejo, Nicaragua. There is a table of latitude and longitude readings and five pencil sketches of the shoreline of Guatemala and El Salvador.
- Description:
- Blank pages included in pagination but not scanned.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Central America --Pictorial works and Diaries --United States
- Subject (Name):
- Anna Reynolds (bark), New Haven and California Joint Stock Company, and Talma (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Ocean travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Voyage to California and return by Panama / by Levi B. Stuart, 1849-1851
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- Creator:
- Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1857]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1810
- Collection Title:
- George Gibbs notebooks of scientific observations of the Pacific Northwest,
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 140
- Abstract:
- Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs was working on the U.S. Army railroad survey and the survey of the International Boundary Commission. The first two notebooks contain a few miscellaneous drawings. The volumes are entitled "Indian Tribes 1853-1854," "No. II Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858," and "Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History [ca. 1857]."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific--Surveys, Washington (State)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Surveys
- Subject (Name):
- Gibbs, George,--1815-1873 and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Languages, Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Languages, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Social life and customs, Natural history--Northwest, Pacific, Natural history--Washington (State), Pacific railroads--Explorations and surveys, Surveyors--Northwest, Pacific, and Surveyors--Washington (State)--lcsh
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History
- Creator:
- Rose, Aquila, 1695-1723
- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c346
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a poem on the debate contest at King Darius' court chronicled in I Esdras 3-4. In the end Darius promises to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as Zerubbabel's prize for his winning oration which argued that "women were more strong than wine; the ample pow'r of kings to them decline; but truth the strongest." The dedicatory preface quotes and compares several examples of classical and biblical verse, and explains that the Muses which he invokes in the poem are only a metaphor for natural poetic inclinations.
- Description:
- Binding: stitched, Marbled-paper endsheets, with handwriting beneath. and Dedication: To my ever-honoured father, Joseph Rose of Alesbury in the County of Bucks.
- Subject (Name):
- Rose, Aquila,--1695-1723 and Zerubbabel--(Biblical figure)
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st, Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry--Early works to 1800, English poetry--18th century, and Religious poetry, English--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Zorobabel's conquest, or, the triple contention A poem, [18th century].
- Creator:
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Published / Created:
- 1796
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 134
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
- Description:
- Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
- Subject (Name):
- Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical miscellany, chiefly concerned with Hermes, Tabula Smaragdina]
- Published / Created:
- [early 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c315
- Image Count:
- 190
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 176 astrological diagrams.
- Description:
- Binding: black morocco., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In pencil on p. 3: "Jan 28. 40 m. past 3 OClock afternoon. A Horse." Similar commentary appears on p. 10, 11, 33, 146, and 175., and Inside back cover: diagram charting the unions of various zodiac signs.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology--Manuscripts, Charts, diagrams, etc, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Astrology], [early 18th century]
- Creator:
- Bell, John G., 1812-1879
- Published / Created:
- [1843] August 2-7
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1752
- Collection Title:
- Diaries of an expedition with John James Audubon
- Image Count:
- 32
- Abstract:
- Holograph manuscript diaries kept by John G. Bell during his participation in John James Audubon’s Missouri River expedition in 1843. This volume also contains longer entries, possibly drafts, for August 2-7, with additional accounts, lists, and notes.
- Description:
- Contains several pages at end, in reverse orientation, badly rubbed and mostly illegible. and Some blank pages throughout not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Missouri River Valley --Description and travel and Yellowstone River Valley --Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting, Natural history --Missouri River Valley, and Natural history --Yellowstone River Valley
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of an expedition with John James Audubon]
- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
Ripley, George, d. 1490? - Published / Created:
- circa 1570
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 41
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
- Alternative Title:
- Ripley scroll
- Description:
- One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
- Subject (Name):
- Ripley, George,--d. 1490?
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Astrology, and Occultism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]
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- Creator:
- Frush, Wm. H. (William H.)
- Published / Created:
- [1850]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 206
- Collection Title:
- Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalles, and Portland. He records graves, the names and homes of other travelers, and ends his account with events in Oregon. The diary contains drawings of Chimney Rock, Court House Rock, profile of the Snake River, and a map of the Burnt River.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selected pages]