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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM MARKS REMBRANDT'S FOUR-HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY WITH PAIR OF EXHIBITIONS

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Shows Celebrate the Morgan's Outstanding Collection of Rembrandt Etchings and Superb Holdings of Dutch Drawings

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Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500

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Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling : Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of the most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.

J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656.

London : W. Hunt, 1653.

PML 5383

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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

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Book

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Printed Books

The young gallants whirligigg, or, Youth reakes : demonstrating the inordinate affections, absurd actions, and profuse expences, of unbridled and affected youth : with their extravagant courses, and preposterous progressions, and aversions : together with the too often deare bought experience, and the rare, or too late regression and reclamation of most of them from their habituall ill customes, and unqualified manners ... / compiled and written by F.L.

Lenton, Francis.

London (at the signe of the Kingshead in Pauls Church-yard) : Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Robert Bostocke, 1629.

PML 86003

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Book

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Printed Books

The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry : selected from the best writers, designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect : to improve their language and sentiments and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue, with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading / by Lindley Murray, author of an English grammar, &c. &c.

Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826.

Haverhill, Mass. : Burrill and Tileston, 1817.

PML 82910

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Book

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Printed Books

The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace : in the first is handled, whether any war be just, in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust, in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable, with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats.

Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.

London : Printed by M[argaret]. W[hite]. for Thomas Basset ... and Ralph Smith ..., 1682.

PML 126376

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Book

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Printed Books

A brief treatise on astronomy, entomology, and general science : being an abridgment from a popular course of ten lectures ... containing, as is believed, and as expressly designed it should do, as large an amount of interesting and important scientific information, as any production of its size to be met with in our language / by O.A. Hall. Ornamented with a great variety of most novel and splendid engravings.

Hall, O. A.

Lowell [Mass]: : Printed by A. Watson, 1841.

PML 145383.2

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Book

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Printed Books

Hogarth moralized being a complete edition of Hogarth's works : containing near fourscore copper-plates, most elegantly engraved : with an explanation, pointing out the many beauties that may have hitherto escaped notice, and a comment on their moral tendency : calculated to improve the minds of youth, and, convey instruction, under the mask of entertainment : now first published, with the approbation of Jane Hogarth, widow of the late Mr. Hogarth.

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.

London : Sold by S. Hooper, the East corner of the New Church, in the Strand; and, Mrs. Hogarth, at her house in Leicester-Fields, 1768.

PML 2869

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Book

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Disputationes quaedam ecclesiasticae ...

Thomasius, Michael.

Romae : Ex domo propria, 1565.

PML 1637

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Printed Books