- Creator:
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Published / Created:
- 1755
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 728 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 841
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Published on April 15, 1755 and written largely single-handedly by Samuel Johnson. Sometimes published as "Johnson's Dictionary." The first edition was published in two folio volumes; later editions were published in four volumes.
- Description:
- Four volume printer's proof with manuscript notes throughout.
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [etc.]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A General dictionary of the English language
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2.
- Creator:
- Wood, Paul
- Published / Created:
- 1682
- Call Number:
- Brit Tracts 1682 Se24
- Image Count:
- 17
- Publisher:
- Printed for Tho. Brampstone,
- Subject (Name):
- Cawdrey, Zachary,--1616-1684.--Preparation for martyrdom and Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Stamp
- Subject (Topic):
- Brit Tracts--1682
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A Second letter to the author of the Preparation for martyrdom; and of the calm answer to my bitter invective, (as he falsly calls it.) ...
3.
- Creator:
- Parker, Thomas, late minister in Wakefield
- Published / Created:
- 1656
- Call Number:
- Mhc8 4
- Image Count:
- 15
- Description:
- Bound with twelve other titles.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.M. for Richard Lownds, at his shop, at the White Lyon in St. Pauls church-yard
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A farewel sermon preached in VVake-field, January 1, 1655 / by Thomas Parker, master of arts, late minister of that church ...
4.
- Creator:
- Chitty, Abraham, 1683-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1735-1754
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc154
- Image Count:
- 133
- Abstract:
- Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
- Description:
- Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Chitty, Thomas
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
- Creator:
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 33
- Image Count:
- 277
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849 April 2-August 27
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 124
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Alternative Title:
- Emmigration, across the continent, in 1849, to
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An account of the great emmigration across the continent, to California, in 1849. Adventures in California &c. &c. with copious illustrations ... in California ... by J. Goldsborough Bruff of Washington City
7.
- Creator:
- Ponet, John, 1516?-1556
- Published / Created:
- 1556
- Call Number:
- Me45 M333 D4
- Image Count:
- 92
- Description:
- Bound with Marcourt, Antoine de. A declaration of the Masse. Wyttenberge, 1547. and Imperfect: some head-lines and side-notes bled.
- Publisher:
- Christopher Froschauer I],
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An apologie fvlly avnsvveringe by scriptures and aunceant doctors : a blasphemose book gatherid by D. Steph. Gardiner, of late Lord Chauncelar, D. Smyth of Oxford, Pighius, and other Papists ...
- Creator:
- Taylor, John, 1580-1653
- Published / Created:
- 1622
- Call Number:
- 1971 570
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Bound with: Taylor, John. The praise, of cleane linnen. London, 1624., Imperfect: Mutilated with damage to running title., and Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Edw. All-de, for Henry Gosson, and are to bee solde in Panier-Alley
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An arrant thiefe : whom euery man may trust : in word and deed, exceeding true and iust : with a comparison betweene a thiefe and a booke / written by Iohn Taylor.
9.
- Creator:
- England and Wales
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) - Published / Created:
- 1677-9.
- Call Number:
- P45 G5 +A2 1677
- Image Count:
- 31
- Alternative Title:
- Anno regni Caroli II ... [29 & 30] ... 1682. and Laws, etc.
- Description:
- P45 G5 +A2 1677: Another edition. 54, [6] p. 28 cm. Bound with its Anno regni Caroli II ... [29] ... 1677[-83]. Signatures: A-P2. Pages [49]-54 have special title page: Anno regni Caroli II ... [29 & 30] At the Parliament begun ... the eighth of May ... 1661 ... and there continued to the 20th day of March, and 13th of May [1678] ... London, Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1682.
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills,
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anno regni Caroli II ... [29 & 30] : At the Parliament begun ... the eighth of May ... 1661 ...and there continued to the 20th day of March [1678] ...
10.
- Creator:
- England and Wales
- Published / Created:
- 1677
- Call Number:
- P45 G5 +A2 1677
- Image Count:
- 124
- Alternative Title:
- Act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries
- Description:
- Bound with its Anno regni Caroli II ... [22 & 23] ... 1670/71. and Each act preceded by general title page.
- Publisher:
- Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker,
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain (1660-1685 : James II).--Anno regni Jacobi II ...--[1], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[22 & 23], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[29 & 30], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[30], Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[31], and Great Britain (1660-1685).--Anno regni Caroli II ...--[32]
- Subject (Topic):
- Fraud--Great Britain, Law--Great Britain, and Perjury--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anno regni Caroli II ... [29] : At the Parliament begun ... the eighth day of May ... 1661 ... and from thence continued by several prorogations to the 15th of February 1676/7.