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Treatise on perspective, architecture and related subjects : manuscript : Italy, probably Genoa, ca. 1575-1600.

Castello, Giovanni-Battista, 1547-1637.

ca. 1575-1600.

MA 4294

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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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Book

Department

Printed Books

The Little Prince: Manuscript and Drawings

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), Le petit prince, New York and Ashroken: autograph manuscript, ca. July–Oct. 1942, MA 2592 (manuscript) and MA 2592.1-35 (full-page drawings)

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