Hondius his map of China and Hondivs his map of China
Description:
North oriented towards the right., Relief shown pictorially., Removed from Samuel Purchas's Purchas his Pilgrimage (1625)., and Text in English on verso.
Publisher:
[Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone],
Subject (Geographic):
China.
Subject (Name):
Featherstone, Henry, -1647, bookseller, Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626. Purchas his Pilgrimage. 1625., and Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer
Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
Subject (Name):
Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
Manuscript music copied by Burney, possibly for use in his General History of Music. Music includes madrigals by Gioseffo Zarlino, Ruggiero Giovannelli, Alfonso Ferrabosco, and Luca Marenzio; motets by Johannes Lupi, and songs by John Dowland and Henry Lawes. An index written in an unidentified hand is laid in.
Description:
Binding: 19th century marbled boards., Blanks not scanned., Label on cover: A collections [sic] of Italian mss in the handwriting of Dr. Burney, many of which he introduced in his history of music., Label on spine: Madrigals, &c., 1567, &c., Page [1]: stamped signature of Charles Hackett., and Words in Italian, Latin, and English.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, Giovannelli, Ruggiero, ca. 1560-1625, Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662, Lupi, Johannes, d. 1539, Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, and Zarlino, Gioseffo, 1517-1590
Subject (Topic):
Music -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Vocal music -- 16th century, and Vocal music -- 17th century
A collection of documents bearing the signatures of rulers or important personages of France; most are preceded or followed by an engraving of the person. Mounted so that both sides of the document are visible
Description:
In French, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish., Collected, mounted and bound in one volume during the 19th century., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark blue goatskin, gilt, by Riviere and Son.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498, Charles IX, King of France, 1550-1574, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560, Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559, Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610, Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483, Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Marie Leszczyńska, Queen, consort of Louis XV, King of France, 1703-1768, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873