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The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master; being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style / by Thomas Smith. Illustrated with coloured designs and numerous wood engravings.

Smith, Thomas, active 1825.

London : Sherwood, Jones, 1825.

PML 150240

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A history of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been, or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker ...

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

New York : Printed for the Grolier Club, 1886.

PML 196626-27

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The Dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited: in forty-six copper-plates / done from the original designs, which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted, by John Holbein, in the town-house of Basil. To which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken. Etched by D. Deuchar, F. A. S.

London : Printed by W. Smith & Co., ... for J. Scott, ... and Thomas Ostell, 1803.

PML 2118

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Silva : or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions: as it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain quæries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the honourable the principal officers and commissioners of the Navy. Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves / By John Evelyn. With notes by A. Hunter.

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.

York : Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, 1786.

PML 152633.1-2

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Ducatus leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous towns and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent, in the West-Riding of the county of York ... extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts / by Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. To which is added ... a catalogue of his museum ... Also a catalogue of manuscripts, the various editions of the Bible, and of books published in the infancy of the art of printing ...

Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.

Leeds : Printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816.

PML 146525

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Worshiper facing god with stylus on dragon and goddess with star scepter

between 1000 B.C. and 700 B.C.

Morgan Seal 691

Southern Mesopotamia.

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Cylinder seal

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Seals and Tablets

Decem librorum moralium Aristotelis : tres conversiones : prima Argyropili Byzantii, secunda Leonardi Aretini, tertia vero antiqua per capita et numeros conciliate, communi, familariq[ue] commentario ad Argyropilum adiecto.

Aristotle.

PML 37785

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

The text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ : translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes, with arguments ... pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations ... : whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses, and annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason and slander ... / by William Fulke ...

Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker ..., 1589.

PML 18409

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The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano: 1584. to this present 1624. With the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries. Also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe bookes. / By Captaine Iohn Smith ...

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

London : Printed by I.D. and I.H. for Michael Sparkes, 1627.

PML 15910

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A letter from William Shirley, Esq; governor of Massachusetts-Bay, to His Grace the duke of Newcastle : with a journal of the siege of Louisbourg, and other operations of the forces, during the expedition against the French settlements on Cape-Breton; drawn up at the desire of the Council and House of Representatives of the province of Massachusetts-Bay; approved and attested by Sir William Pepperrell, and the other principal officers who commanded in the said expedition. : Published by authority.

[Boston] : London: printed 1746. Boston: re-printed by Rogers and Fowle, for Joshua Blanchard, at the Bible and Crown in Dock-Square., 1746.

PML 3651

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