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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. : His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum. / Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, atque civis Francofurtensis anno M DXCII.

Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576.

[Francofurti ad Moenum] : Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Sigismundi Feierabendii, [1592]

PML 3794.3

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THE MORGAN CELEBRATES ACQUISITION OF UNIQUE EDITIONS OF MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS, INCLUDING HILARY MANTEL'S WOLF HALL

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Friday, April 24, 2015

From May 5 to May 17 the Morgan Library & Museum will hold a special pop-up exhibition celebrating the acquisition of several unique books by authors connected to Britain’s Man Booker Prize.

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THREE LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES BY ELLSWORTH KELLY TO GO ON VIEW BEGINNING JUNE 19 AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Beginning June 19, The Morgan Library & Museum will place on view three of Mr. Kelly's sculptures—a bronze piece, one in mahogany, and the other in redwood—in the museum's multi-storied, glass-enclosed Gilbert Court.

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Sportsman's slang; a new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase, and the cock-pit; with those of bon-ton, and the varieties of life; forming an original and authentic lexicon balatronicum et macaronicum, particularly adapted to the use of the sporting world, for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, rendered cramp, mutative and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres. Interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations and rum-ones; with examples, proofs and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by John Bee [pseud.].

Badcock, John, active 1816-1830.

London: Printed by W. Lewis, 21, Finch-lane, Cornhill; for the author. 1825.

PML 152811

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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, Pocket director : Containing, sixty different designs, entirely new and useful, forty of which are gothic, Chinese, mosaic and ornamental frets, proper for friezes, imposts, architraves, tabernacle frames, book-cases, tea tables, tea stands, trays, stoves, and fenders. And twenty new and beautiful designs for gothic, modern and ornamental fan-lights for over-doors, in the most elegant taste. / Calculated for the universal use of carpenters, joyners, cabinet-makers, masons, plaisterers, smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the nobility and gentry in their choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.

Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835.

London : Printed for the author: and sold by Henry Webley in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1765.

PML 53039

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Shem Acher a name, an after-one, or, Onoma Kainon, a name, a new one in the later-day-glory, or, An historical declaration of the life of Shem Acher : especially as to some more eminent passages of his day relating to his more thorow lawful call to the office and work of the ministry for about twenty years last past ...

Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 1616-1683.

London : Printed for John Lawrence ..., 1681.

PML 18658.1

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Liber precum publicarum : seu, ministerii ecclesiastice administrationis sacramentorum, alioru[m]q[ue] rituu[m] & ceremoniarum in Ecclesia Anglicana.

London : Excusum apud Reginaldum Volfium, [1560]

PML 5500

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La cirurgie de maistre Guillaume de Salicet.

Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277.

PML 21109.1

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Ad inveniendu[m] novam lunam [et] festa mobilia. Liber perutilis.

Granollachs, Bernardus de.

PML 21109.2

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Testamentum Novum / ex Des. Erasmi Rot. uersione, aceiusdem recognitione postrema ...

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Lugduni : Apud Seb. Gryphius, 1542.

PML 150359

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