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Worshiper with clasped hands before enthroned king holding cup

between 2112 and 2004 B.C.

Morgan Seal 291

Southern Mesopotamia.

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Cylinder seal

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Seals and Tablets

Systema agriculturæ; the mystery of husbandry discovered: tneating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, ... all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows,... & coppices. As also of fruits, corn, grain,...cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarum rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth ... plenty, sickness, heat, cold ... &c., and Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms.

Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698.

London, Printed by J. C. for Tho. Dring, 1675.

PML 55708

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The heart of Mid-lothian, or, The lily of St. Leonard's : a melo-dramatic romance, in three acts / by Thomas Dibdin, Esq. ... printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical ; by D.G. to which are added, description of the costume, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business, as performed at the Metropolitan Minor theatres ; embellished with a fine engraving, by Mr. Bonner, from a drawing taken i the theatre by Mr. R. Cruikshank.

Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841.

London : John Cumberland, 2 Cumberland Terrace, Camden New Town, [1828?]

PML 44305

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Nova Francia, or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia : described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué and Monsieur de Poutriucourt, into the countries called by the French-men La Cadie, lying to the South west of Cape Breton : together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same / [Marc Lescarbot] ; translated out of French into English by P.E.

Lescarbot, Marc.

London : G. Bishop, 1609.

PML 3435

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The young chevalier: or, A genuine narrative of all that befell that unfortunate adventurer, from his fatal defeat to his final escape, after wandering about the isles and highlands of Scotland ... : The whole interspersed with many curious anecdotes of the lives and characters of the chiefs who accompanied, as well as those who abandoned him in his distresses. In particular the characters of Lord Lovat, and some others ... / By a gentleman, who was personally acquainted not only with the scenes of action, but with many of the actors themselves.

London : Printed for the author, [1746?]

PML 19078.2

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Carolina; or, A description of the present state of that country. and the natural excellencies thereof, viz. The healthfulness of the air, pleasantness of the place, advantage and usefulness of those rich commodities there plentifully abounding, which much encrease and flourish by the industry of the planters that daily enlarge that colony. Pub. by T. A. gent. clerk on board His Majesties ship the Richmond, which was sent out in the year 1680. with particular instructions to enquire into the state of that country, by His Majesties special command, and return'd this present year. 1682.

Ash, Thomas.

London, Printed for W. C. and to be sold by Mrs. Grover in Pelican-court in Little Britain, 1682.

PML 3694

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, during an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific ocean, and thence back through the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years; in which he and his father, who accompanied him, suffered unheard of hardships and dangers, had various conflicts with the Indians, and were made captives, in which captivity his father died; together with a description of the country, and the various nations through which they passed. Ed. by Timothy Flint.

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio), 1804?-1850?

Cincinnati, E. H. Flint, 1833.

PML 3871

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Book

Department

Printed Books

New arrivals. Under the patronage of the royal family. Mr. Simnett [i.e. Simmett] begs leave to inform the ladies and gentlemen, and the inhabitants at large, of this town, that he has arrived with the greatest wonders of the present age in a large commodious caravan. The Canadian giantesses Miss Priscilla and Miss Amelia Weston, twin sisters, in their twentieth year of their age, and each standing nearly seven feet high ... These wonderful prodigies are contrasted by the Norfolk dwarf Mrs. Walpole, thirty-one years of age, and stands only thirty-five inches high ...

Simmett, Mr.

Romford [London] : S. Robinson, Printer, Essex Press, [1833?]

PML 146639, p. 491 (facing)

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson : Governor of Nottingham castle and town, representative of the county of Nottingham in the Long Parliament, and of the town of Nottingham in the first Parliament of Charles II, etc. : with original anecdotes of many of the most distinguished of his contemporaries, and a summary review of public affairs / written by his widow Lucy, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley ... ; now first published fron the original manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson, &c. : to which is prefixed the life of Mrs. Hutchinson, written by herself, a fragment.

Hutchinson, Lucy, 1620-1681.

London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ... by T. Bensley ... , 1806.

PML 136677

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure[n] und Pildnussen von Anbegin[n] der Welt bis auf dise un[n]sere Zeit.

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514, author.

PML 19427

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books