Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
The Author in the Circassian costume
Description:
In ink on title page: Friedrich Howard Vyse / Sepr 1854[?]. and Printed on frontispiece: Drawn by A.L. Molinari, from a sketch by the author.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Sea --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia), Circassia (Russia) --Description and travel, Circassia (Russia) --Social life and customs, Danube River --Description and travel, and Turkey --Socia
Autograph of Ezra Stiles. Some manuscript notes by Stiles, badly trimmed at edge., Compiled by Thomas Clap, signer of the preface., and Errata: p. [4] at end.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Green,,
Subject (Name):
Stiles, Ezra,--1727-1795--Autograph and Yale College (1718-1887).--Library
Subject (Topic):
Academic libraries--Connecticut--New Haven and Amer tracts--1743
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century