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2.
Chambre du coeur de Voltaire [graphic].

Published / Created:
[10 October 1885]
Call Number:
885.10.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The "Bedroom of the heart of Voltaire" in Ferney: a bedroom with alcove bed on the far right, portraits hung on the walls, and to the left a pyramid-shaped altar in an alcove; ... with small bust of Voltaire in the lower margin."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the original engraving
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate from: Le Livre; revue du monde littéraire. Paris, A. Quantin [etc.], v. 6 (10 October 1885)., Printer's statement in lower left; periodical name and number in lower right: Le Livre, VIe. année., Photoengraved reproduction of a 1781 print by François Denis Née after a drawing by Gaspard Duché de Vancy; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1870,1008.910., and Text reproduced from original engraving: "Dessiné par Duché, d'après nature au Chateau de Ferney en 1781" beneath lower left corner of image; "Gravé par Neé" beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Imp. A. Quantin
Subject (Geographic):
France and Ferney-Voltaire.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778 and Château de Ferney (Ferney-Voltaire, France)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Portraits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Chambre du coeur de Voltaire [graphic].

3.
Florij Francisci Flore[n]tini d'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum

Creator:
Florio, Francesco, author
Published / Created:
[150-?]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 907
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1
Image Count:
52
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Florii Francisci Florentini d'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum, D'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum, and De amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Blind-stamped quarter pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript ownership note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 6 of 6 titles bound together., Text is based upon Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]'s De duobus amantibus, which in turn is a Latin translation of the tale of Ghismunda and Guiscardo from Boccaccio's Decameron., Printer Jean Lambert was active in Paris from 1493-1514. Dealer slip in CtY-BR suggests 1505? as the date of imprint. However no reference sources confirm this date., Signatures: a⁶ B-C⁶ D⁴., Woodcut on title page., and Not cited in Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries or Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Jehan Lambert
Subject (Topic):
Fathers and daughters, Love, Murder, Suicide, and Italian literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Florij Francisci Flore[n]tini d'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum

4.
La France Occidentale dans l'Amérique Septentrionale : ou le cours de la Rivière de St. Laurens

Creator:
Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720
Published / Created:
1718.
Call Number:
71 1718
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Le cours du Missisipi ou de St. Louis ...
Description:
Relief shown pictorially., Title from lower right cartouche., Originally in 4 sheets., Includes text and ill., and Insets: Les costes de la Louisiane de puis la Baye de l'Ascension jusques Acelle de St. Joseph ... Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000] -- Les environs de Québec -- Veüe de Québec.
Publisher:
Chez L'Auteur
Subject (Geographic):
North America, Mississippi River Delta (La.), Gulf Coast (Miss.), Gulf Coast (Ala.), and Québec Region (Québec)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La France Occidentale dans l'Amérique Septentrionale : ou le cours de la Rivière de St. Laurens, aux environs de la quelle se trouvent Le Canada, L'Acadie, et la Gaspasie, Les Esquimaux, Les Hurons, Les Iroquois, Les Illinois & La Virginie, La Marie-Lande, La Pensilvanie, Le Nouveau-Jersay, La Nouvelle Yorck, La Nouvelle Angleterre et l'Isle de Terre-Neuve

5.
Léopold Delisle letters to Count Ernest Armand, 1879

Creator:
Delisle, Léopold, 1826-1910, author
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1042.4
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
Autograph letters, signed, from Léopold Delisle to Count Ernest Armand and dated between March 26 and April 15, 1879. In the letters, Léopold Delisle observes that the pasteboard of the manuscripts sold from the Anne de Polignac collection consists of fragments of incunables; he describes how he has the bindings dismounted and the fragments replaced with new pasteboard. He specifically asks Count Ernest Armand permission to recover the printed fragments from the binding of a manuscript owned by the count and to replace them with new boards, which the latter gives. Also contains a newspaper article describing the purchase and discovery of incunables in the binding, and a manuscript description of the Medieval manuscript (Beinecke MS 1041) which these letters accompany
Description:
Léopold Delisle (1826-1919), French bibliophile and historian, head of the Bibliothèque imperiale (nationale)., Count Ernest Armand (1829-1898), French diplomat and politician, ambassador in The Hague, London, and Lisbon., In French., and Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Fragmente de livres imprimé à Angoulême au XVe siècle et ayant servi de couverture au manuscrit des "Harangues & oraisons des Anciens."
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Bookbinding, and Incunabula
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Léopold Delisle letters to Count Ernest Armand, 1879

6.
Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire grecque

Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 85
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 85: Repaired with tape on verso. Folded and tipped into cardboard folder (21 x 14 cm) with title: Nouvelle chronologie des grands hommes de la Grèce. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Uncut sheet of 25 numbered game cards and a publisher vignette, with the title across the top., "Fabrique un assortiment d'images, jeux instructifs et amusans, à l'usage de la jeunesse et jeux de Société"--Publisher vignette., and On each of the cards are three portraits of historical or mythical figures of the classical Greek period, with explanatory text printed below.
Publisher:
Delion, Rue Copeaux, N°. 15, près le Jardin des Plantes
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Darius I, King of Persia, 548 B.C.-485 B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards and Mythology, Greek
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire grecque

7.
Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire romaine

Published / Created:
[1810?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 92
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Grand jeu de l'histoire romaine and Jeu de l'histoire des empereurs
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 92: Folded and tipped into cardboard folder (21 x 14 cm) with title: Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire romaine depuis Romulus jusqu'à Constantin. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Uncut sheet of 25 numbered game cards and a publisher vignette, with the title across the top., "Fabrique un assortiment d'images, jeux instructifs et amusans, à l'usage de la jeunesse et jeux de Société"--Publisher vignette., and On each of the cards are three portraits of historical and mythical figures from the classical Roman period, with explanatory text printed below.
Publisher:
Delion, Rue Copeaux, N.° 15, près le Jardin des Plantes
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Romulus, King of Rome. and Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards and Mythology, Roman
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nouvelle chronologie de l'histoire romaine

8.
Parthenice tertia Baptist[a]e Mantuani diuarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e & Apoloni[a]e agonas

Creator:
Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516, author
Published / Created:
[9 July 1507]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 907
Container / Volume:
Vol. 1
Image Count:
184
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Parthenice tertia, Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e & Apoloni[a]e agonas continens, and Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e et Apoloni[a]e agonas continens
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Extensive interlinear and marginal manuscript annotations in the first half of the text, some bled. Blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 5 of 6 titles bound together., Commentary by Josse Badius., Printer and date of imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ 3A-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E-3I⁸ 3K⁴ 3L-3M⁸ (3M8 blank)., Includes index., and Colophon: Explicitum est hoc opus agonum quattuor diuarum virginum Parisius impressum Pro Ioanne Petit. Commorante in vico diui Iacobi Sub Leone argenteo. Anno d[omi]ni. 1507 die 9 Mensis Iulii.
Publisher:
Jean Petit
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of Antioch, Saint, Lucy, Saint, -304, Agatha, Saint, -approximately 250, and Apollonia, Saint, -249
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Parthenice tertia Baptist[a]e Mantuani diuarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e & Apoloni[a]e agonas continens : & ab Ascensio familiariter explanata

9.
Saint Georges poursuivant la femme Innocente, malheureuse et persécutée, ell s'appuie sur Jon

Creator:
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1820?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The Prince Regent (or George IV), dressed in armor, armed with a lance, and riding a leopard, threatens his wife Caroline. She holds onto the arm of John Bull, who stands between them, pointing at them both and laughing
Description:
Title from text below image., Date inferred from that of the Queen Caroline "trial," which occurred from August to November 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "George IV" and "Caroline" identified in pencil below image; date "1821" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Litho. de C. Motte r. des maxais
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Armor, and Leopards
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Saint Georges poursuivant la femme Innocente, malheureuse et persécutée, ell s'appuie sur Jon-Bull qui se rit de tous deux [graphic].