Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
Description:
In English., Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript., At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... .", Title from title page., Bookplate of Philip Shirley., Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62., Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square., and Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatzens hochfu¨rst. Bayreuth. Pfarrers in Uttenreuth Kirchliche
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Printers vary: v. 1: Erlang, Gedruckt bey des sel. Joh. Friedr. Beckers, Univ. Buchdr. nachgelassenen Wittwe; v. 2: Coburg, gedruckt bey Georg Otto, Hochf. Sachs. privil. Hofbuchdr., 4 pts. in 2 v., and Bound in between p. 156-157.
Subject (Topic):
Jews --Germany and Jews --Social life and customs
Collection Created:
Frankfurt und Leipzig : Auf Kosten des Auctoris, 1748-1749
A concise natural history of East and West Florida; : containing an account of the natural produce
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
[A hieroglyphic drawing depicting a Creek action of war, with text]
Subject (Geographic):
Florida --Description and travel --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Brown, William Morle, 1919- and Ellis, John, 1710?-1776
Subject (Topic):
Choctaw Indians --History, Creek Indians --History, Indians of North America --Gulf States --Early works to 1800, and Natural history --Florida --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
New-York : Printed for the author, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication from British Museum information about publisher., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W.J. White
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Pharmacists, Patent medicines, Death, Drugstores, Skeletons, Blind persons, Crutches, Sick persons, Scales, Children, Dogs, and Rats
BEIN: The folio plates accompany the 3 vols. of text and plates. In this copy plate 9 (Plan of Adventure Bay) wanting., BEIN: Title on spine: Plates to Cook's Third voyage. 1884 [!], and Plates drawn by John Webber.
Publisher:
Printed by V. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol, & T. Cadell?
Subject (Name):
Taylor, Henry C.--(Henry Calhoun),--1894-1971--Ownership and Webber, John, 1751-1793
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from style., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.