BEIN 1977 Folio 185: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use. Accompanied by facsimiles of plates, housed separately and classed as 1977 Folio 185 2; some original plates removed from volume and replaced with facsimiles; original plates which have been removed are housed with volume., At head of title: Ioannis Baptistae Piranesii. Antiqvariorvm regiae societatis Londinensis socii., Engraved t.-p.; there is also an added engraved t.-p.: Il Campo Marzio dell' antica Roma., With dedication: Roberto Adam Britanno architecto celeberrimo., In Latin and Italian., and Engraved illus. signed: Piranesi F.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome., Rome, and Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Antiquities, and Description and travel
BEIN Mhc9 F959 +P67 1662: Map of Canaan (between p. 24 and 29, 1st count) wanting. Plan of Jerusalem from the Royal Magazine inserted facing p. 313., Added t.p. engraved, illus., and Irregular pagination, some leaves counted as leaves, some plates included in pagination.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Davenport for John Williams
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Jews, Antiquities, Historical geography, and Description and travel
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slipcase., and Date inferred from reference to the re-establishment of a "legitimate monarchy" in France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Costume, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "translated out of the high Germane into the English tongue by Captayne Henry Bell." Includes some verses in Latin and English
Description:
Phillipps MS 16427. and Binding: cloth covered boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bell, Henry, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
Description:
The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the suitability of Virginia for colonization., In English., Script: Written in Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., The acidity of the ink has damaged the paper., and Binding: Original paper wrappers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
Subject (Name):
Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 39 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in two columns., Advertising on p. 16., and "Visit to the falls of Niagara": p. 14-15.
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
"Ce livre, le premier de la série 'Courts-Métrages' a été réalisé d'après les maquettes de Chris Marker par Juliette Caputo, et imprimé sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Sapho, à Paris"--Colophon.
Manuscript on paper of Antonio de Ferrariis (called himself Galateo after his birthplace, d. 1517), De situ Iapygiae. His work is a geographical, historical, epigraphical and literary description of Iapygia, i.e. the Southeastern part of Italy (now Apulia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Three scribes, all writing Humanistica Cursiva: hand A copied ff. 1r-20v, 24v-26v, 31r-36r line 10, 36v last three lines (Libraria); hand B copied ff. 21r-24r, 27r-30v (Currens); hand C copied f. 36r line 10-36v, except the last three lines (Currens under Gothic influence)., No decoration., Water stains. Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: The damaged covers of the original binding are mounted on the new binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled, featuring two square frames bordered by fillets and rolls.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Puglia (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of England
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective., The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition., and Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel