46 plates (some tab mounted and folded) : incl. tables, maps, diagrams., Autograph of Samuel Plowman[?], Blank pages counted but not scanned., Bound as a commonplace book with blank pages interspersed. Numerous notes in pencil and ink ., and Imperfect?: all editions listed in pre-1956 NUC and the BM cat. include text as well as plates.
Publisher:
And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
[Materials for the life of James Bruce (1730-1794)], [ca. 1802]
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
21
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Notebook made from pages culled from A new review : with literary curiosities, and literary intelligence, for the year 1786 [Vol.IX:March] / by Henry Maty, pp. 144-158. Accompanied by 4p. of MS notes.
Alternative Title:
Some Account with regard to the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. of Kinnaird
Description:
Pagination supplied by cataloger. Blanks not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Maty, Paul Henry, 1745-1787 and Murray, Alexander,--1775-1813
Notebook containing verse and notes for lyceum speeches by Atkins, along with receipts and drawings. Topics covered in speeches include Middlefield, Connecticut history and education, the fugitive slave law, and temperance movement. Accompanied by one silhouette drawing and one clipping, the "Swan Song of Parson Avery," by John G. Whittier.
Description:
Notebook written from both sides. Continuous pagination provided by cataloger. and Thomas Atkins (1797-1882), author.
Subject (Geographic):
Middlefield (Conn. : Town)--History
Subject (Name):
Atkins, Thomas,--1797-1822, United States.--Fugitive slave law (1793), and Whittier, John Greenleaf,--1807-1892
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--19th century and Temperance--United States
George Gibbs notebooks of scientific observations of the Pacific Northwest,
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
146
Abstract:
Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs was working on the U.S. Army railroad survey and the survey of the International Boundary Commission. The first two notebooks contain a few miscellaneous drawings. The volumes are entitled "Indian Tribes 1853-1854," "No. II Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858," and "Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History [ca. 1857]."
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific--Surveys, Washington (State)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Surveys
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, George,--1815-1873 and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Languages, Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Languages, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Social life and customs, Natural history--Northwest, Pacific, Natural history--Washington (State), Pacific railroads--Explorations and surveys, Surveyors--Northwest, Pacific, and Surveyors--Washington (State)--lcsh
