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Ovidius de arte amandi et de remedio amoris cum comento.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

PML 614

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS VICTORIAN BESTSELLERS

Press release date

Friday, December 1, 2006

In a fascinating exhibition entitled Victorian Bestsellers, The Morgan Library & Museum explores the rise of this cultural phenomenon through original manuscripts, first editions, cheap trade publications, rare advertising posters, and other materials drawn largely from the Morgan's renowned literary collections.

Press

Stones of Venice.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

London : George Allen, 1893.

PML 15479-81

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Autograph letter signed B. Schotts Soehne, dated : Mainz, 26 May 1840, to Franz Schott (at Wm. Haertel) in Leipzig, 1840 May 26.

1840 May 26.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Letter

Typewritten letters signed (2), dated : Vienna, 26 December 1958 and 8 February 1963, to James Fuld, 1958 Dec. 26 and 1963 Feb. 8.

1958 Dec. 26 and 1963 Feb. 8.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Letter

Printed letter signed, with an autograph postscript signed, dated : Vienna, 26 October 1809, to Hofgerichts Rath Kirmes in Weimar, 1809 Oct. 26.

1809 Oct. 26.

Accession number

MFC W419.K59

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Letter

Bucolicu[m] carme[n].

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

PML 23772

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto anno M D LXIIII. Quae est secunda pars Americae. Additae figurae et incolarum eicones ibidem ad vivu[m] espressae brevis item declaratio religionis, rituum, vivendique ratione ipsorum. / Auctore Iacobo le Moyne, cui cognomen de Morgues, Laudo[n]nierum in ea navigatione sequnto [sic]. Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: Latio verò donata a C.C.A. Cum gratia & priuil. Caes Maiest. as quadriennium.

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588.

Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioa[n]nis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry, anno M D XCI. Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Sigismundi Feirabe[n]dii, [1591]

PML 3792.2

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt, : secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto anno M D LXIIII. Quae est secunda pars Americae. Additae figurae et incolarum eicones ibidem ad vivu[m] espressae brevis item declaratio religionis, rituum, vivendique ratione ipsorum. / Auctore Iacobo le Moyne, cui cognomen de Morgues, Laudo[n]nierum in ea navigatione sequnto [sic]. Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: Latio verò donata a C.C.A. Cum gratia & priuil. Caes Maiest. as quadriennium.

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588.

Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioa[n]nis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de Bry, anno M D XCI. Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Sigismundi Feirabe[n]dii, [1591]

PML 3794.2

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, Château de la Grange-Bléneau, to Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean, 1831 April 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.

Courpalay, France, 1831 April 26.

MA 22860

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts