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1.
Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada / par Mr. Bellin, ingenieur du Roy et de la

Creator:
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer.
Published / Created:
1755
Call Number:
731 1755B
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
Shows Great Lakes region.
Description:
Covers the area from Lake Superior to Kaskaskia and from Delaware Bay to the Mississippi River., Relief shown pictorially., Shows a few towns, missions, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers and lakes, portages, and early place-names., and Watermark.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben?],
Subject (Geographic):
Canada--Maps--Early works to 1800., Great Lakes Region (North America)--Maps--Early works to 1800., and New France--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Homann Erben (Firm)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada / par Mr. Bellin, ingenieur du Roy et de la Marine, pour seruir à l'intelligence des affaires et de l'etat present en Amerique, communiquée au public par les Heritiers de Homanen l'an 1755.

2.
Comitatus Bellovacum vernaculè Beauvais [cartographic material].

Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.
Published / Created:
[after 1644]
Call Number:
1973 Folio 18
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Alternative Title:
Comitatvs Bellovacvm vernaculè Beavvais
Description:
Backed with paper. Illegible ms. note in pencil on map. Ms. no. "55" in upper-right corner. Sheet measures 53.5 x 63.2 cm. No. 50 of 87 maps bound together., Bar scale given in "milliaria Gallica communia"., Prime meridian: Ferro., Relief shown pictorially., Variant with shield below title filled in., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Apud Guiljemum et Joanne[m] Blaeu,
Subject (Geographic):
Île-de-France (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Picardy (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comitatus Bellovacum vernaculè Beauvais [cartographic material].

3.
Paradise Lost. a poem in twelve books / the author John Milton.

Creator:
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Published / Created:
1678
Call Number:
Osborn pb9
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN Osborn pb9: Imperfect: front. wanting; p. 3-4 wanting; some leaves bled at top; p. 329-331 mutilated; damp-stained. Autographed and heavily annotated by Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester., Many copies of this edition include a copy of the Dolle engraving of the Faithorne portrait as a frontispiece. Cf. ESTC., Pages [1]-[5] at end blank., and Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-Street,
Subject (Name):
Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732 and Atterbury, Francis,--1662-1732--Autograph and ms. notes
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Paradise Lost. a poem in twelve books / the author John Milton.

4.
The Dunciad, variorvm : with the prolegomena of Scriblerus.

Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Published / Created:
1729
Call Number:
Ik P810 729
Image Count:
5
Alternative Title:
Dunciad and Dunciad, variorum, with the prolegomena of Scriblerus
Description:
Anonymous. By Alexander Pope., BEIN Ik P810 729: Fine paper copy with phoenix watermark. Autograph: Paul Colnaghi., Cancelation in signatures statement as per Foxon., Engraved t.p., Includes bibliographical references and index., Signatures: engraved t.p. a-b⁴ B-J⁴ K⁴(-K1,2 + K1.2) L-O⁴ P² Q-X⁴., and True publisher of this quarto was Lawton Gilliver--c.f. Griffith.
Publisher:
Printed for A. Dod,
Subject (Name):
Colnaghi, Paul--Autograph
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Dunciad, variorvm : with the prolegomena of Scriblerus.

5.
Collections relating to the history of Mary Queen of Scotland : in four volumes : containing a

Published / Created:
1727-1728.
Call Number:
Osborn pc297
Image Count:
4
Description:
BEIN Osborn pc297: 4 v. bound in 2. Imperfect: p. 171-4 (gathering Ee) in v. 1 wanting (part of "Explanatory index of obsolete words ..."); page no. for xix and xx (v. 1) illegible due to hole in paper where no. are printed. Autograph of William Tytler on t.p. of v. 1. Illegible initials on front free end paper of v. 3. Ms. notes by Alexander Fraser Tytler and another hand (possibly Patrick Fraser Tytler, son of Alexander). Spine titles on bound volumes: Anderson's collection vol. I and Anderson's collection vol. II., Each volume is paginated continuously except v. 1, where each section is paginated individually., Imprint varies: v. 3: Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman, 1727; v. 4 (pts. 1 and 2): London: Printed by James Bettenham, 1728., Includes bibliographical references., Vol. 1 includes "The editor's general preface" (p. [i]-lv) for all 4 v., Vol. 4 is in 2 pts., Vols. 1-2 and 4 contain a "Contents" section for that v. which is "a list of the books reprinted in it, mentioning from what printed copy they are taken" (v. 1, p. lvii). No contents section is in v. 3 as it contains only one work., Vols. 2-4 have abbreviated title., and With side-notes.
Publisher:
Printed by John Mosman and William Brown, the assigns of James Watson deceased, his Majesty's printers,
Subject (Name):
Anderson, James, 1662-1728, Mary,--Queen of Scots,--1542-1587, Tytler, Patrick Fraser,--1791-1849--Ms. notes, Tytler, William,--1711-1792--Autograph, and Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler,--Lord,--1747-1813--Ms. notes
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collections relating to the history of Mary Queen of Scotland : in four volumes : containing a great number of original papers never before printed : also a few scarce pieces reprinted, taken from the best copies / revised and published by James Anderson ... ; with an explanatory index of the obsolete words, and prefaces shewing the importance of these collections.

6.
[Plat book showing numbered lots of 27 townships of the (new) military tract in New York State].

Published / Created:
ca. 1794
Call Number:
2017 812
Image Count:
62
Abstract:
The military tract comprised 28 townships (1,680,000 acres) in New York State that was granted to soldiers of the War of American Revolution. This land included all or parts of present day Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins, and Wayne counties. The names of the towns were given classical Greek and Roman names along a few honoring English authors.
Description:
Heavily annotated throughout by Elkanah Watson., Maps most likely date from 1793 to 1794., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State)--Maps--Early works to 1800. and New York (State)--Surveys--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Watson, Elkanah,--1758-1842--Ms. notes.
Subject (Topic):
Land subdivision--New York (State)--Early works to 1800.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Plat book showing numbered lots of 27 townships of the (new) military tract in New York State].