Search | The Morgan Library & Museum

Principia typographica : the block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history, issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing : to which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period / a work contemplated by the late Samuel Sotheby, and carried out by his son, Samuel Leigh Sotheby.

Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861.

London : Printed for the author by W. McDowall, 1858.

PML 3776-84

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Authentic memoirs of Mrs. Clarke : in which is pourtrayed the secret history and intrigues of many characters in the first circles of fashion and high life, and containing the whole of her correspondence during the time she lived under the protection of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the gallant duke's love letters, and other interesting papers never before published / by Elizabeth Taylor.

Taylor, Elizabeth, active 1800.

London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, no. 111, opposite Bow Church, Cheapside, 1809.

PML 152655

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Grammatical institutes, or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar : designed for the use of schools : and to lead young gentlemen and ladies, into the knowledge of the first principles of the English language / by John Ash ; with an appendix ... ; to which is now added, select lessons ... ; and a collection of books, proper for young gentlemen and ladies, to shorten the path to knowledge.

Ash, John, 1724?-1779.

[New York] : London, printed, New-York, re-printed, and sold by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, 1774.

PML 85061

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A breviate of the life of William Laud, Arch-bishop of Canterbury : extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand. Collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall, for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved / by William Prynne ...

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

London : Printed by F.L. for Michaell Sparke, sen., 1644.

PML 17087.1

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The moral and intellectual diversity of races : with particular reference to their respective influence in the civil and political history of mankind / from the French by Count A. De Gobineau ; with an analytical introduction and copious historical notes by H. Hotz ; to which is added an appendix containing a summary of the latest scientific facts bearing upon the question of unity or plurality of species by J.C. Nott.

Gobineau, Arthur, comte de, 1816-1882.

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.

PML 136943

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The prisoners plea: humbly offered in a remonstrance; with a petition annexed, to the Commons of England in Parliament assembled; by George Wither: falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said Commons, and therefore now prisoner in Newgate. It containeth also, many interjections not to be despised; as also a colateral corolary, of publick concernment; and in particular touching the blood-shed, whereinto God is now making inquisition ...

Wither, George, 1588-1667.

London, 1661.

PML 6606

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

An account of south-west Barbary: containing what is most remarkable in the territories of the king of Fez and Morocco. Written by a person who had been a slave there a considerable time; and published from his authentick manuscript. To which are added, two letters: one from the present king of Morocco to Colonel Kirk; the other to Sir Cloudesly Shovell: with Sir Cloudesly's answer, &c. By Simon Ockley.

Ockley, Simon, 1678-1720.

London, J. Bowyer [etc.] 1713.

PML 6509

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The epitaph-writer; consisting of upwards of six hundred original epitaphs, moral, admonitory, humorous, and satirical ... Part I. Contains general epitaphs of two and four lines each ... Part II. Epitaphs on various characters and relations in life ... Part III. Humorous and satirical epitaphs, designed as satires on vice and folly. To which is prefixed, an essay on epitaph-writing. By John Bowden ...

Bowden, John, 1751-1817.

Chester [Eng.] Printed by J. Fletcher, 1791.

PML 9577

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A seasonable memento for New Year's day : a sermon preached (summarily) at the Old Church lecture in Boston, on Thursday January 1, 1746,7, wherein the important duty of remembring the years of the right hand of the most high, and commemorating God's wonderful works of creation, redemption, and providence, is inculcated and recommended as good employment for the first day of the year in particular / by Thomas Foxcroft ...

Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.

Boston : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green ..., 1747.

PML 3535

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The present state of New-England. Being a narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677: but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years 1675, and 1676. To which is added a discourse about the war with the Pequods in the year 1637. By W. Hubbard, minister of Ipswich.

Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.

London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1677.

PML 32272

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books