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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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An appeal to the Parliament, or Sions plea against the prelacy. : The summe vvhereof is delivered in a decade of positions. In the handling whereof, the lord bishops, and their appurtenances are manifestly proved, both by divine and humane lawes, to be intruders upon the priviledges of Christ, of the King, and of the common-weal: and therefore upon good evidence given, she heartily desireth a judgement and execution. / By Dr Layton. For which he was made to suffer and barbarously used, &c. by the bishops ...

Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.

[Amsterdam? ca.1644?]

PML 8245.2

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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]

PML 11838

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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.

PML 59386-87

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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.

PML 17063

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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.

PML 3863

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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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The two trials of John Fries, on an indictment for treason : together with a brief report of the trials of several other persons, for treason and insurrection, in the counties of Bucks, Northampton and Montgomery, in the circuit court of the United States, begun at ... Philadelphia, April 11, 1799, continued at Norristown, October 11, 1799, and concluded at Philadelphia, April 11, 1800 before the Hon. judges, Iredell, Peters, Washington and Chase : to which is added, a copious appendix ... / Taken in short hand by Thomas Carpenter.

Fries, John, approximately 1750-1818.

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by William W. Woodward, No. 17, Chestnut near Front Street, 1800.

PML 11243

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