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A topographical description of the western territory of North America : containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, ... To which are added, The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky. And an essay towards the topography, and natural history of that important country. By John Filson. To which is added, I. The adventures of Col. Daniel Boon [sic] ... II. The minutes of the Piankashaw Council ... April 15, 1784 ... III. An account of the Indian nations ... / By George Imlay, ...

Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828?

London, : Printed for J. Debrett, ..., MDCCXCIII [1793]

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A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. : Performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. / Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. ; In which is included, Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships. ; In two volumes. ; Illustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits of persons and views of places, drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent masters..

Cook, James, 1728-1779.

London: : Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., 1777.

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A nievve herball; or, Historie of plantes : wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diners & sundry kindes ... and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande but of all others also of forrayne realmes commonly used in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ... and now first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte ...

Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.

At London : by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.

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An account of two voyages to New-England : wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming, a description of the countrey, natives, and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use, the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c., a large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first dicovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673 / by John Josselyn, Gent. ...

Josselyn, John, active 1630-1675.

London : Printed for Giles Widdows, 1674.

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Catalogue of the original manuscripts of the Waverley Novels, and Tales of my Landlord : including Waverley, Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Antiquary, Old Mortality, &c. all in the hand-writing of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. : to which is added a most curious and interesting collection of autographs of princes, popes, cardinals, statesmen, literati, and artists, from the XIIIth to the XIXth centuries ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 93, Pall-Mall, on Friday, August 19th 1831.

[London : s.n.], 1831 [London] : W. Nicol.

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A defense of the ministers reasons, for refvall of svbscription to the Booke of common prayer, and of conformitie : against the seuerall ansvvers ; of T. Hutton ... in his tvvo bookes against the Minist: of Dev. and Cornwell ; William Covel ... in his booke against M.I. Burges ; Tho: Spark ... in his brotherly perswasion in vnitie and vniformitie ; so farr as any thing is sayd by them concerning the holy scriptures, and Apocrypha ; devided into two partes ; the first parte, concerning the holy scriptures ; the second parte ...

Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.

[Holland], Imprinted, 1607..

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A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the 19. of August 1565. : For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season ... To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.

Knox, John, approximately 1514-1572.

[London] : Imprinted [by H. Denham?], Anno. 1566.

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Youth's faithful monitor, or, The young man's best companion : containing a compendious English grammar ... reading and writing made easy ... also arithmetic laid down in a easier manner than any yet extant ... Merchants accompts, or the best method of bookkeeping ... likewise mensuration, gauging, and surveying made easy ... astronomy and geography ... [and] the art of dialling ... to which is added a curious abstract of the history of England, with all the remarkable events down to the present year. With a variety of copper-plates and cuts...

Woolgar, William.

London : Printed for J. Johnson and Co. Booksellers, in Paternoster-Row, 1766.

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The historie of serpents, or, The second booke of liuing creatures : wherein is contained their diuvine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts : with their seuerall poysons and antidotes, their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction : necessary and profitable to all sortes of men / collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets, amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall obseruations by Edward Topsell.

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

London : Printed by William Jaggard, 1608.

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VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS TO ÉMILE BERNARD A PROMISED GIFT OF THE THAW COLLECTION TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Morgan Library has received from the collection of Eugene and Clare Thaw a promised gift of twenty letters written by the great postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).

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