BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
Description:
In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
Subject (Geographic):
England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Autograph letter, signed, from Edward Otho Cresap Ord to Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War of the United States. Ord describes the reaction in California and Mexico to the Gadsden Purchase, including American filibusters in Mexican territory and the negative perception of the sale by Mexican citizens, particularly clergy, who were concerned that their land would be taken and distributed to American settlers. Ord also describes a topographical survey of the newly acquired territory and the possibility of constructing a railroad in the new territory
Description:
Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) was an engineer and officer in the United States Army stationed in California and New Mexico Territory, circa 1839-1854. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico., Arizona., New Mexico., Mexico, United States., and United States
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. and Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Filibusters, Gadsden Purchase, Land grants, Railroads, Surveying, and Foreign relations
Portrays, imaginatively, an event in the Texas war of independence: the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to American leader Samuel Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto in late April 1836. Santa Anna (center) bows and offers his sword to Houston, saying, "I consent to remain your prisoner, most excellent sir!! Me no Alamo!!" Cos follows suit. Houston, clad in buckskins and holding a musket, says, "You are two bloody villains, and to treat you as you deserve, I ought to have you shot as an example! Remember the Alamo and Fannin!"
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published June, 1836 by the proprietor, H.R. Robinson, 48 Courtlandt Street, New York
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, United States, Mexico., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854., and Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, Campaign, Foreign relations, and Diplomatic relations
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, including a treatise on the natural history of Siberia and fossils found there; descriptions of principal figures of the Russian Court and of court protocol; and copies of correspondence and The collection also contains a printed copy of a 1762 decree by Catherine II concerning Alexis Bestoucheff-Rumin; and a dispatch sent by Russia to China in 1792 during Macartney's mission in Peking. Accompanied by a microfilm of the Macartney Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 after concluding the treaty and receiving the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He spent much of the remainder of his career in colonial governorships, including that of Madras, and took his seat in the Irish Parliament in 1788. In 1792 he was sent as plenipotentiary on a mission to Peking, and upon his return from China undertook negotiations with the exiled Louis XVIII in Verona. Macartney thereafter retired from public life due to ill health. and In French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
Contemporary Japanese manuscript translation of a letter from American President Millard Fillmore to Japanese Emperor Komei, presented by Commodore Matthew C. Perry on July 14, 1853. The letter outlines President Fillmore's aims to open trade relations with Japan. The translation was likely produced between July 1853 and February 1854
Description:
Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), thirteenth president of the United States., Emperor Komei (1831-1867), 121st emperor of Japan., and In Japanese
Subject (Geographic):
Japan, United States., United States, and Japan.
Subject (Name):
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874., Kōmei, Emperor of Japan, 1831-1867., and Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.
Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 1526-1586
Published / Created:
1560 September 10.
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 128
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Letter, signed, thanking Queen Elizabeth for conferring the Order of the Garter on him. The Duke apologizes in advance for his absence from the ceremony, owing to his war with the Swedes, and requests that he be represented by Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex
Description:
In Latin., Signed: "Adolf Holsatia Dux," with monogram SH as the initial letter of the second word., Annotated with probable catalog number (Phillipps?): 33068., Seal: pendant red wax seal of Duke Adolf., Layout: single column of 14 lines., and Script: Italic.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), and England.
Subject (Name):
Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 1526-1586., Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., Essex, Walter Devereux, Earl of, 1541-1576., and Order of the Garter.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Renaissance, Orders of knighthood and chivalry, and Foreign relations
Holograph letters on paper, written and signed in a Humanist cursive. Addressed to Raffaelo de' Medici, nuncio to the Imperial court at Antwerp, Ghinucci's letters contain detailed descriptions of his arrival at the court of Henry VIII; the receptions of foreign ambassadors and the nature of their business; and Ghinucci's impressions of Henry VIII's own advisors and diplomats. He comments particularly on Cardinal Wolsey and Cuthbert Tunstall, who was being dispatched to Antwerp as ambassador, Other subjects include the illness of Giovanni Matteo; the business activities in London of Florentine merchants; and Ghinucci's strong dislike of the cold English weather during his first visit to the country, and All signed: "Hir. Audit[or]."
Description:
In Italian. and Binding: modern red quarter-morocco slipcase; gilt spine title and decorations.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., Great Britain, Holy Roman Empire, and Holy Roman Empire.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, Matteo, Giovanni., Medici, Raffaelo de'., Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559., Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Court and courtiers, Foreign relations, Italians in Great Britain, Papal courts, Papal nuncios, Ambassadors, Diplomats, and Catholic Church
