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• Naps upon Parnassus : a sleepy muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. Such voluntary and jovial copies of verses, as were lately receiv'd from some of the Wits of the Universities, in a frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's mistress by Captain Jones and others. Whereunto is added .. the Author's .. epistle to one of the Universities. [Signed, K.Q.] With the answer; together with two satyrical characters of his own, of a Temporizer and an Antiquary, etc. [and an "Advertisement to the reader," signed, Adoniram Banstittle, alias Tinderbox. Poems written in ridicule of Samuel Austin, by T. Sprat, T. Flatman and others].

  Q., K.

  London, 1658

  PML 4225

  Classification

  Book

  Department

  Printed Books

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• Cort verhael, vande ordre die sijne conincklicke majesteyt van Spagnien aen sijn generalissimo den graef de la Torre inde Bay de Todos los Sanctos gegeven heeft, om int werck te stellen al't ghene hy tot recuparatie van Brasil noodigh achten soude : Mitsgaders 't remarcabelste dat op de custe van deselve capitania, soo int ghevecht vande Spaensche vlote sterck 87 zeylen ende 41 Hollandtsche schepen als mede by de gene die hy te lande van de Bahia door de bossehen in 't lant gebracht hadde voorgevallen is van den 19 November tot den 28 February 1640. toe. / Beschreyven door den eerw. N.N.

  N., N.

  Amsterdam : I. van Hilten, [1640?]

  PML 3395

  Classification

  Book

  Department

  Printed Books

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• Positively the last week. The original salamander. Wonders never cease! The great phenomena! of nature, Signora Josephine Giraldelli ... is now exhibiting at 349, Strand, between Exeter 'change and Catherine-Street, the powers of resistance against heat. She will commence her performance by passing plates of red hot iron over her legs! She will then stamp on a plate of red hot iron, with her naked feet, afterwards draw it over her hair and across her tongue after which she will, without symptom of pain, wash her hands in boiling oil; and take a part of the same into her mouth ...

  [London : s.n., ca. 1820]

  PML 146639, p. 474c

  Classification

  Book

  Department

  Printed Books

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• Design for a frontispiece with an Allegory of Generosity

  Charles Nicolas Cochin

  1715-1790

  1989.41:2

  Classification

  Drawing

  Department

  Drawings and Prints

  

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• [The book of divers ghostly matters].

  PML 704

  Classification

  Incunable Collection

  Department

  Printed Books

• Death of the Justly Deserted (MS M.1261).

  Created

  France, Paris, ca. 1485 (between 1484 and 1496)

  Accession number

  MS M.1261

  Classification

  Manuscript

  Department

  Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

  

• Opus Martiani Capelle de nuptijs Philologie [et] Mercurij libri duo : de grammatica, de dialectica, de rhetorica, de geometri [sic], de arithmetica, de astronomia, de musica libri septem.

  Martianus Capella.

  PML 36779

  Classification

  Incunable Collection

  Department

  Printed Books

• Scene from 'The Tempest'

  John Flaxman

  1755-1826

  2009.128

  Classification

  Drawing

  Department

  Drawings and Prints

  

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• Venise [toy]

  A.[ugusta] V.[indelicorum] (Augsburg) : Martin Engelbrecht excud., [17--]

  PML 88521

  Classification

  Toy

  Department

  Printed Books

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• The golden bowl : typescript of a screenplay / based on the novel by Henry James ; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

  Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, screenwriter.

  England?, 1999.

  MA 9302

  Department

  Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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