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
"The crowded cabin tilts to the right, to the dismay of a family party dining at a table in the foreground. There is a second table in the background with a meal in progress. The cabin is bordered on left and right by two tiers of berths, apparently for two persons, set in panelling, and with curtains festooned along the upper edge. These are filled by suffering travellers. A bench runs along the front of the berths; other passengers sit on camp-stools. Phases of misery, discomfort, resignation, and (by exception) complacency are realistically illustrated. A sailor pushes a mop-stick through an open hatch in the roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly after a design by Captain Frederick Marryat. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman. Watermark '1828' on mounting sheet., and Laid on album paper.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str., London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Margate (England), England., and Margate.
Subject (Topic):
Packets, Motion sickness, Ocean travel, Description and travel, Travel, and Vomiting
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, in a single hand, of a diary of a journey from Dublin to England and then to Cork, written in a lighthearted and sometimes satirical manner. Traveling with his father, his friend Valerius, and a servant, the Irish author records his impressions in England of churches he visits; where he takes his meals; and the inhabitants he meets. After describing several churches in Liverpool, he writes, "I am broke of in this Part of my Description, as I think by some simpering or laughing; but on Enquiry I am supris'd to find it's some of my Female Acquaintance," which causes him, he writes, to lose the spirit to continue with his description. Elsewhere, he visits silk mills and describes the cost and workings of the machinery. At Nottingham, he notes that "most of the Inhabitants here are Presbyterians and I really believe I was in five different Meetings which I mistook for Churches, and at Length was so much vexed at being so often disappointed that I protested against looking further for one." Throughout, he records numerous encounters with women, including a landlord's daughter with whom he carries on a flirtation. The narrative is prefaced by an introduction addressed to "Madam," in which he speaks disapprovingly of women's coquetry, and mocks "our country-women who have been abroad," who "commonly return Home with Variety of odd Pronunciations, particular Gestures, & new Fashions, perhaps never known in any Part of the World, but the Production of their own fertile Brain."
Description:
Author of the manuscript is an unknown Irishman., In English., Index at end of manuscript., Leather oval bookplate inside front cover: Ex Musaeo Huthii., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration. Printed on spine: Narrative of a journey through England. MS. 1752.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Liverpool (England), London (England), and Nottingham (England)
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Travelers' writings, English, Women, Conduct of life, Description and travel, and Buildings, structures, etc
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.
"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