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Histoire Naturelle des Indes

The beautiful paintings and descriptions in the Drake Manuscript document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.

Digital Facsimile

Pair of Saltcellars

Anonymous, French School

16th cent.

St. Porchaire, France, ca. 1540-1560.

AZ037.1-2

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Object

Department

Drawings and Prints

Guildford MSS. 582, inter MSS. Phillipps.

[Middle Hill : Middle Hill Press, 183-?]

PML 78134

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Book

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Printed Books

In hoc volvmine haec continentvr : Ioannis Baptistae Egnatij Veneti De Caesaribus libri III à Dictatore Caesare ad [Constan]tinum Palaeologum, hinc à Carolo Magno ad Maximilianum Caesarem : eiusdem in Spartiani, Lampridijq[ue] uitas, & reliquorum annotationes : Neruae & Traiani atq[ue] Adriani principum uitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete : Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Lampridius, Flauius Vopiscus, Trebellius Pollio, Vulcatius Gallicanus, ab eodem Egnatio castigati : additae in calce Heliogabali principis ad meretrices elegantissima oratio non ante impressa.

Venetiis : In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Ivlio 1516.

PML 1271

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Book

Department

Printed Books

French Brandy

George Cruikshank

1792-1878

1986.2068

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

The history of the bucaniers of America : being an entertaining narrative of the exploits, cruelties and sufferings of the following noted commanders, viz : Joseph Esquemeling, Pierre le Grand, Lolonois, Roche Brasiliano, Bat, the Portuguese, Capt. Sharp, Capt. Watling, Capt. Cook, &c. &c. : together with a curious description of the manners, customs, dress, and ceremonies of the Indians inhabiting near Cape Gracias a Dios / published for the improvement and entertainment of the British youth of both sexes ; adorned with copper-plates ; by H.W. Dilworth, A.M.

Dilworth, W. H.

[London] : Printed for G. Wright, 1758.

PML 88662

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Death on a Pale Horse: Revelation VI, 8. Verso: Torso of a male nude seen from the back

Benjamin West

1738-1820

1970.11:20

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Design for Oval Mirror Frame with Festoons and Winged Putto Heads

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720-1778

ca. 1750-1765

1966.11:107

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

Alle mans vree [print] / A.V. Venne in. ; C.V.D. sculp.

Dalen, Cornelius van, engraver.

[Amsterdam?] : H. Allardt, [16--]

PML 145850.17

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Print

Department

Printed Books

Letter signed : "Castle Hill Lodge" [London], to [Frederick Augustus] Wetherall, 1803 Oct. 7.

Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820.

1803 Oct. 7.

MA 2909.16

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts