Africa accuraté in imperia, regna, status & populos divisa, ad usum serenissimi Bourgundiae Ducis.
Description:
"Avec privil[ège].", Appeared in various eds. of Cóvens et Mortier's Atlas noveau; cf. Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Coverage includes the eastern coast of Brazil., II, C & M 3 and 4., Includes four bar scales., and Relief shown pictorially.
Title etched below image., Engraved after a painting by Watteau, with attribution etched in both Latin and French below title: Scalptus juxtà exemplar à Watteavo pictum ... ; Gravé d'apres le tableau original peint par Watteau ..., Date of publication based on publisher's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 81 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:
Chez F. Chereau graveur du Roy ruë St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or
Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, ou, Les festes, et divertissements du roy, a Versailles, Festes, et diuertissements du roy, a Versailles, and Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee
Description:
1 unnumbered plate by Francois Chauveau, representing entertainments held in 1674 on the termination of the campaign in Franche-Comte., 5 plates, numbered I-V, by Jean Le Pautre, representing the festivities at Versailles on July 18, 1668., 5 unnumbered plates by Jean Le Pautre., Armorial bookplate with motto: Ubique patriam reminisci., Binding with French royal arms (Bourbon)., Nine plates, numbered 1-9, by Israel Silvestre., On spine: Tom. XI., The first series of 9 plates was originally published in 1673 under the title: Les plaisirs de l’isle enchantee ..., The next series of 5 plates was originally published in 1679 under the title: Relation de la feste de Versailles, du 18e juillet mil six cens soixante-huit., The third series of 6 plates was originally published in 1676 under the title: Les divertissemens de Versailles donnez par la roy a toute sa cour, au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte, en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV ..., The three sequences of plates were each originally published separately with text by Andre Felibien., and Two plates have Yale proprietary stamps on verso; all other versos blank.
Subject (Geographic):
France --Court and courtiers --Pictorial works
and France --History --Louis XIV, 1643-1715
Subject (Name):
Chauveau, Francois, 1613-1676, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Relation de la feste de Versailles du dix-huitieme juillet mil six cents soixante-huit, Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682, and Silvestre, Israel, 1621-1691
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1745 April 23–1749 July 14
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 1
Image Count:
270
Description:
The volume holds 266 pages of letters primarily from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, writing from Whitehall in London. Also present are letters of instruction from George II appointing Hanbury-Williams Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of the King of Poland in 1747 (pages 13-24), his letter of revocation in 1749 for reassignment to the Court of the King of Prussia (pages 199-202), and his instructions from King George II for travel to Anspach to invest Charles William Frederick, the Margrave of Anspach, with the Ensigns of the Order of the Garter (pages 263-265). The letters in the volume were bound nearly in chronological order.
Other items in the volume are a copy of a letter written in 1715 to George Townshend from members of the Board of Trade (pages 1-8) and a copy of Lord Harrington's letter to all ministers abroad regarding court couriers, with a list of charges for their trips between Whitehall or Hanover and foreign cities (pages 9-12). Near the end of the volume (pages 243-262), is a "Paper delivered by Count Fleming," in which Saxon minister Karl Georg Friedrich Flemming mentions the June 1747 "double wedding" of Bavarian Elector Maximilian Joseph and his sister Princess Maria Antonia to the Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony and his sister Princess Maria Anna; the marriage united the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony.
The volume is untitled; it is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue linen spine and has no label on the front cover. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 34; the Phillipps number is 10906.
A collection of 65 letters written during the last two of Sidney's three years on the Continent and the first year after his return to England (June 1573-June 1576), plus another dated 10 October 1581. Authors include Jean Lobbetius (19 letters), Wolfgang Zindilini (12 letters), Andreas Paulus, Jean Vulcob, Matthew Wacker, Francis Perrot, Theophile de Banos, Zacharius Ursinus, Otto Count Solms, Fabian, Burgrave, Dr. Purkircher, Baron Slavata, and others and Written on paper in various sixteenth-century Continental cursive and italic scripts
Description:
In Latin, French, and Italian. and Bound for Phillipps in 1848 by Bretherton in morocco.
No. 13 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Oriented with north towards upper left., Relief shown pictorially., Scale not given., and Title in Latin; place names in French.
Mappa Aestivarvm insularum, alias Barmvdas dictarum
Description:
Based on Speed's map of 1626 but with new decorations., Below map, list of proprietors in 12 columns with arms of England and Bermuda., From the author's Theatre du monde ou nouvel atlas., Latin and English text on recto and French text on verso., Signature on verso: G., and Title on verso: L'Isle de Barmudas, avec ses voysines.
Publisher:
[Guillaume et Iean Blaeu,
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673. Theatrum orbis terrarum. French and Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638. Theatrum orbis terrarum. French
"La couleure violette marque les pays démembrés de la Pologne en 1772, conformément aux prétensions des trois Puissances voisines."--Lower left margin., Includes coat-of-arms, and 3 bar scales., Map in Latin; alternate title and legend in French., Prime meridian: Paris., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark. Manuscript number in upper right corner. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
Publisher:
Luci publicae tradita per Homannianos Heredes
Subject (Geographic):
Belarus--Maps--Early works to 1800., Lithuania--Maps--Early works to 1800., Poland--Maps--Early works to 1800., and Ukraine--Maps--Early works to 1800.
[Atlas factice of 50 maps, primarily by Johann Baptist Homann and/or issued by the Homann Erben
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Carte des etats de la Covronne de Pologne
Publisher:
Luci publicae tradita per Homannianos Heredes
Subject (Geographic):
Belarus --Maps --Early works to 1800, Lithuania --Maps --Early works to 1800, Poland --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Ukraine --Maps --Early works to 1800
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Carte des etats de la Covronne de Pologne
Publisher:
Luci publicae tradita per Homannianos Heredes
Subject (Geographic):
Belarus --Maps --Early works to 1800, Lithuania --Maps --Early works to 1800, Poland --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Ukraine --Maps --Early works to 1800