V.2 has title: Bucaniers of America. The second volume. Containing The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the original journal o...
Publisher:
Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar
Subject (Geographic):
Spanish Main. and West Indies
Subject (Name):
Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688., L'Olonnais, 1630-1671., and Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682.
Papers include correspondence and other materials relating to the peace efforts in the mid to late 1960s of the World Constitutional Convention and the World Man Center, a proposed peace center in Cyprus, established in collaboration with Cyprus Presi...
Description:
Caresse Crosby (1892-1970), poet and publisher.
Subject (Geographic):
Cyprus
Subject (Name):
Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970., Fuller, R. Buckminster 1895-1983. (Richard Buckminster),, Makarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977., World Academy of Art and Science., World Constitutional Convention Inc., and World Man Center, Inc.
Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reas...
Description:
In Latin and English.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of...
Description:
Louis C. Hubert, called Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac, was an espionage agent for Louis XVIII, and submitted secret diplomatic reports to Elie Decazes while living in London. He published a work entitled L'europe et ses colonies en decembre 1819, con...
Subject (Geographic):
England., France., Arctic regions, Northwest Passage, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, America, United States, France, and South America
Subject (Name):
Buchan, Captain., Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821., and Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Espionage, Spies, Discovery and exploration, British, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Colonies, and History
The collection consists of 35 letters from Count Heiden to Admiral Codrington, most docketed or annotated by Codrington. Subjects includes the battle of Navarino and its aftermath; Codrington's summary recall from Malta by the British government and h...
Description:
Count Louis Heiden, Russian admiral who commanded the Russian ships of the allied fleet under Admiral Codrington at the battle of Navarino in 1827.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Greece
Subject (Name):
Kapodistrias, Iōannēs Antōniou, 1776-1831., Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851., Heiden, Louis, Count., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Subject (Topic):
Navarino, Battle of, Pylos, Greece, 1827, Philhellenism, Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, Foreign relations, History, Naval, History, and Naval operations
