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• The Polite academy : or School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses ; containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable complaisance. II. Some rules and observations for moral behaviour in young ladies, very necessary to be inculcated while at the boarding-school, in order to be practised when they come from it. III. Directions for good manners, agreeable behaviour, and polite address, on the most common occasions in life. IV. Some directions for an easy genteel carriage in walking, saluting, making a courtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing by Mr. Locke and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions, by an eminent master ; illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.

  London : Printed for R. Baldwin, in Paster-noster-Row ; and B.C. Collins, in Salisbury, 1786.

  PML 88261

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• An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling. The annals of horsemanship: containing accounts of accidental experiments and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful; / communicated by various correspondents to the author, Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ...; illustrated with cuts, by the most eminent artists ...

  Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.

  London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe [etc.] by W. Wilson, 1808.

  PML 9451

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• Edwin and Henry, or, The week's holidays : containing original, moral, and instructive tales, for the improvement of youth : to which is added, a hymn for the morning and evening of every day in the week / by Robert Huish ; neatly embellished with all the original engravings on wood, by Mr. Branston, from the designs of Mr. Brook.

  Huish, Robert, 1777-1850.

  London : Printed in stereotypes, for D. Mackay, [1818] ([London?] : Harvey, printer)

  PML 82969

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• Letter signed : Carnforth, to Joan Severn, 1917 Feb. 11.

  Muncaster, Josslyn Francis Pennington, Baron, 1834-1917.

  1917 Feb. 11.

  MA 7799.85

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• Autograph letter signed : to Sir Stafford Northcote, [1806-1887].

  Walpole, Spencer H. (Spencer Horatio), 1806-1898.

  [1806-1887].

  MA 7360.34

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• Letter signed : Gibraltar, to William Beechey, 1802 June 20.

  Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.

  1802 June 20.

  MA 699.6

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• Autograph letter signed : [Paris?], to an unidentified man, [1747?].

  Voltaire, 1694-1778.

  [1747?].

  MA 638.10

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  Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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• Document signed : Boston, to William Moultrie, 1793 Oct. 9.

  1793 Oct. 9.

  MA 556.4

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• Des sainctes peregrinationes de iherusalem.

  Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.

  PML 607

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  Incunable Collection

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• Golden legende.

  Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

  PML 697

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  Incunable Collection

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  Printed Books