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Creator:
Published / Created:
1766.
Call Number:
2003 Folio 85
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN 2003 Folio 85: No. 9 of 45 maps bound together with binder's spine title: Atlas of America; ms. table of contents. Bookplate of Paul Mellon.
Subject (Geographic):
Newfoundland and Labrador, Belle Isle, Strait of, and Belle Isle, Strait of (N.L.)
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A chart of the Straights of Bellisle with part of the coast of Newfoundland and Labradore from actual surveys. Taken by order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labrador, &ca.
Creator:
Published / Created:
June 28th, 1780.
Call Number:
1982 Folio 10
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN 1982 Folio 10: Armorial bookplate: Charles Abbot. No. 13 of 42 maps bound together.
Publisher:
Engraved & published by Wm. Faden
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Portugal, Africa, North, and Mediterranean Sea
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts and Coasts
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A chart of the coasts of Spain and Portugal, with the Balearic Islands, and part of the coast of Barbary
Creator:
Published / Created:
Jany. 1st, 1781.
Call Number:
1982 Folio 10
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN 1982 Folio 10: Armorial bookplate: Charles Abbot. No. 9 of 42 maps bound together.
Publisher:
W. Faden
Subject (Geographic):
Channel Islands, France, Brittany, Normandy, Brittany (France), and Normandy (France)
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts and Coasts
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A chart of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, Sark, Herm and Alderney, with the adjacent coast of France
Published / Created:
[between 1791 and 1803?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a penny-worth of wit".
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans and Co. 41 Long-lane West-Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A choice pennyworth of wit
Published / Created:
[between 1736 and 1763?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Verse in three parts begins: "Here is a pennyworth of wit,".
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Bow-Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Husband and wife, Adultery, Merchants, and Wealth
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A choice pennyworth of wit
Creator:
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450; between 1500 and 1510]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 12
Image Count:
650
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a collection of pseudo-Lullian alchemical writings, translated from the French and Catalan originals, with a little additional matter. The codex underwent a transformation in the early 16th century when considerable new matter w...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter
Creator:
Published / Created:
[ca. 1700]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 76
Image Count:
580
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatory
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical works
Creator:
Published / Created:
[ca. 1540]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 31
Image Count:
343
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters
Description:
In Italian and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Christopher, of Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Alphabet books, Italian letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others
Creator:
Published / Created:
[ca. 1700]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 77
Image Count:
798
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts by Nicolas de Locques, in which practical laboratory procedures are mingled with speculative and mystical alchemy
Description:
In French.
Subject (Name):
Locques, Nicolas de, active 17th century.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Science
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his works
Creator:
Published / Created:
[1774?]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
Image Count:
64
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Bucha...
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British and Landscapes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
