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Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers

January 18 through April 13, 2008

Close Encounters showcases a group of sixty-seven portraits of notable subjects by Irving Penn (b. 1917), acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum in 2007.

The Holy Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New / translated into the Indian language, and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England.

Cambridge [Mass.] : Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, MDCLXIII. [1663]

PML 5441

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The America Cup : a nautical poem, descriptive of the five international races between the yacht Livonia, representing the twelve yacht clubs of the Royal Yacht Squadron of England and the yachts Columbia and Sappho, of the New York Yacht Club, for the possession of the Challenge Cup won by the yacht America in the year 1851.

Morton, Hamilton.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.

PML 196666

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The morning and evening prayer, the litany, church catechism, family prayers, and several chapters of the Old and New-Testament / translated into the Mahaque Indian language, by Lawrence Claesse, interpreter to William Andrews, missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable and Reverend the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ...

[New York] : Printed by William Bradford in New-York, 1715.

PML 5517

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Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall : treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, presidents of the convocations for the respective Provinces of Canterbury and York, and the rest of the bishops and clergie of those provinces : and agreed upon with the Kings Majesties licence in their severall Synods begun at London and York. 1640 ...

London : Printed by Robert Barker ... and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1640.

PML 4250

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Reasons humbly offered to the Parliament of Ireland, for repealing the sacramental test, in favour of the Catholicks, otherwise called Roman Catholicks, and, by their ill-willers, Papists : drawn partly from arguments as they are Catholick and partly from arguments common to them with their brethren the Dissenters : written in the style of a Roman Catholick.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

[Dublin] : [George Faulkner], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752]

PML 6553.8

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The knowledge of the heavens and the earth made easy; or, The first principles of astronomy and geography explain'd by the use of globes and maps: with a solution of the common problems by a plain scale and commpasses as well as by the globe. Written several year since for the use of learners. By I. Watts.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.

London : Printed for J. Clark and R. Hett [etc.] 1726.

PML 3896

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Harry Jenkins, the masculine & feminine bellows mender : having declared his intention not to remain neuter in the Westminster Contest, is canvassed by the Duchess of D------e & coax'd by Mother Windsor, & absolutely poll'd for Lord John, on Monday July 28th, altho' he never had any habitation except a cow-house, a privy, a pig stye or a watch house.

James Gillray

1756-1815

[London] : Pubd July 29th 1788 No 51 by H. Humphrey New Bond Street, [1788]

Peel 2409

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The historie of Guicciardin : containing the warres of Italie and other partes, continued for manie yeares under sundrie kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same: and also the arguments, with a table at large expressing the principall matters through the whole historie / Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton, mon heur viendra.

Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.

Imprinted at London : by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate, 1599.

PML 77531

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The simple cobler of Aggawam in America : willing to help 'mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take, and as willing never to bee paid for his work, by old English wonted pay ... / by Theodore de la Guard [i.e. N. Ward].

Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.

London : Printed by John Dever & Robert Ibbitson for Stephen Bowtell, 1647.

PML 32275

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