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LAWRENCE R. RICCIARDI NAMED PRESIDENT OF THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum—which houses one of the world's foremost collections of art, literature, and music—announced that Lawrence R. Ricciardi has been named President of its Board of Trustees.

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THE MORGAN’S ANNUAL SUMMER DISPLAY OF GREAT AMERICANA TO INCLUDE NOAH WEBSTER’S FIRST DICTIONARY AND A FRAGMENT OF WASHINGTON’S 1789 INAUGURAL ADDRESS DRAFT

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Monday, June 4, 2012

The Morgan Library & Museum will open its vault again this summer for an exhibition of twenty-nine exceptional items from its permanent collections, including its noted holdings of important Americana.

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Studies of Two Men. Verso: Sketch of a man

Nicolas Lancret

1690-1743

1985.11

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A brief history of the warr with the Indians in New-England : (from June 24, 1675. when the first English-man was murdered by the Indians, to August 12. 1676. when Philip aliàs Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the warr, was slain.) Wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the warr, is summarily expressed. : Together with a serious exhortation to the inhabitants of that land, / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ, in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of quotations].

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.

Boston, : Printed and sold by John Foster over against the Sign of the Dove., 1676.

PML 3596.1

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The only legal answer which constables and church-wardens may give to articles inquiring into any of His majesties ecclesiastical or civil courts, or to any justices upon the Statutes 1 Eliz. 2 and 3 Jac. 4 concerning the absence of persons from their parish-church : in a letter to a private friend, inquiring on the behalf of his friend, the sense and import of those statutes in this case, and whether officers can be required by a particular oath, to give in answers to such articles, and how often.

London : [s.n.], 1680.

PML 18658.17

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Anno septimo Edwardi Sexti : actes made in the Parlamente holden at Westminster, the first daie of Marche, in the VII. yere of the reigne of our moste redoubted sovereine lorde Edwarde the VI by the grace of God King of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande, defendour of the faieth, and of the Churche of Englande & also of Irelande in earth the supreme head, and there continued to the dissolucion of the same being the laste daie of the saied moneth of Marche, as foloweth.

Londini : In aedibus Richardi Graftoni typographi regii excusum, mense Aprilis, anno Domini M.D.LIII [Apr. 1553]

PML 15135

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Rural rides : in the southern, western and eastern counties of England, together with tours in Scotland and in the northern and midland counties of England, and letters from Ireland / by William Cobbett ; the whole, including many rides and tours never before reprinted ; edited with an introduction, notes, a biographical record of upwards of nine hundred persons mentioned, an index of places, and a bibliographical note by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole ; with numerous vignettes by John Nash, and a map of Cobbett's country by A.E. Taylor.

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.

London : Peter Davies, 1930.

PML 130227-29

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Bibliotheca classica, sive, catalogus officinalis : in quo singuli singvlarvm facvltatvm ac professionvm libri, qui in quavis fere lingva extant, qviqve intra hominvm fere memoriam in publicum prodierunt, secundum artes & disciplinas, earumq[ue], titulos & locos communes, authorumq[ue], cognomina singulis classibus subnexa, ordine alphabetico recensentur, additisque vbivis loco, tempore & forma impressionis, justa serie disponuntur ... Annexum est sub finem supplementum materiarum, quae vel omnino classes peculiares sortitae non sunt, vel, ab aliis, praeter eos quos singulis classibus subjecimus, authoribus tractantur / authore M. Georgio Dravdio.

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Francofurti : Apud Nicolaum Hoffmannum, impensis Petri Kopffii, 1611.

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The appeal to the public answered, in behalf of the non-Episcopal churches in America; containing remarks on what Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler has advanced, on the four following points: the original and nature of the Episcopal Office; reasons for sending bishops to America; the plan on which it is proposed to send them; and the objections against sending them obviated and refuted. Wherein the reasons for an American Episcopate are shewn to be insufficient and the objections against it in full force. .

Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.

Boston, Printed by Kneeland and Adams for T. Leverett, 1768.

PML 3505

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A complete dictionary of practical gardening : comprehending all the modern improvements in the art; whether ... raising of the various esculent vegetables, or in the forcing and managing of different sorts of fruits and plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting gardens and pleasure grounds : with correct engravings of the necessary apparatus, in buildings and other contrivances, as well as of the more rare and curious plants cultivated for ornament or variety : from original drawings by Sydenham Edwards / by Alexander McDonald, gardener.

Dickson, R. W.

London : Printed for George Kearsley ... by R. Taylor and Co. ..., 1807.

PML 38602

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