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1.
A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions

Published / Created:
[1815]
Call Number:
File 64 Sa141 815+++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
A description of the island of Saint Helena, with twelve numbered points of interest keyed to the letterpress text below that appears on either side of the caption title. Below the title are two columns of text with detailed description of the topogra...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and E. Wallis, 42, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill; and J. Wallis, Jun., Marine Library, Sidmouth
Subject (Geographic):
Saint Helena
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel and Economic conditions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions, population, government, means of defence, &c. &c.

2.
Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]

Creator:
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1802]
Call Number:
802.00.00.34+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
British merchants and farmers congrete in two groups weeping and sad-faced, bemoan the loss of the high profits that they enjoyed for their domestic produce during the Revolutionary Wars
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-Row, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Economic conditions, Prices, Farmers, and Merchants
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]

3.
Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript

Published / Created:
1814.
Call Number:
LWL Mss Vol. 275
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A manuscript in a single hand, signed by the clerks and witnesses, providing a record of the answers to fifteen questions, prompted by an 1814 parliamentary investigation into the living conditions of ‘Lascars and Chinese’ which ended with the publica...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
China., India., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Employees, Merchant mariners, Economic conditions, and Social conditions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript

4.
William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
Dec. 1796.
Call Number:
796.12.00.01+ Impression 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Pitt sits astride a huge pile of bundles strapped to the back of a bull (John Bull); he is about to enter a high archway inscribed 'Trea[sury]'. His pose and expression combine jauntiness with dignity. His head is in profile to the right, his right h...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Public, Economic conditions, John Bull (Symbolic character), Debts, Public, Loyalty Loan, and Musical instruments
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > William the Conqueror's triumphal entry!!! [graphic]

5.
[Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].

Creator:
Meghen, Peter, scribe
Published / Created:
1502.
Call Number:
Osborn a50
Image Count:
300
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by N...
Description:
Peter Meghen (d. 1537), of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant; scribe who copied works for several English clients, including Christopher Urswick and John Colet, and served as a courier for Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Meghen's other patrons included Cardina...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Meghen, Peter,, Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455., and Urswick, Christopher, 1448?-1522.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Envy, Kings and rulers, Duties, Lord's Supper, Sermons, Wisdom, Manuscripts, Medieval, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].