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Gradual single leaf (MS M.1144).

Created

Dijon, France, ca. 1536-1537.

Accession number

MS M.1144

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Christ Presented to the People: Oblong Plate

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

1655

RvR 119

Classification

Print

Department

Drawings and Prints

Prints

Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan

December 5, 2008, through March 29, 2009

One of the Morgan's core strengths is its collection of historically and artistically significant bookbindings.

Sir Francis Drake revived. Who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times, to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. Viz. His dangerons [!] adventuring for gold and silver with the gaining thereof. And the surprizing of Nombre de Dios by himselfe and two and fifty men. His encompassing the world. His voyage made with Christopher Carleill, Martin Frobusher, Francis Knollis, and others. Their taking the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustine. His last voyage (in which he dyed) being accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, with others. His manner of buriall. Collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake; Master Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers; and the notes of divers other gentlemen (who went in the said voyages) carefully compared together.

Printed at London For Nicholas Bourne, 1653.

PML 17047

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Atlas ouranios, the coelestial atlas, or, A new ephemeris for the year of our Lord 1795 : being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein are contained the heliocentrick and geocentrick places of the planets, the eclipses of the luminaries, and other remarkable phænomena that will happen this year. Carefully computed from the genuine tables of Dr. Edmund Halley ... Also a compleat almanack, containing the feasts and fasts of the Church of England; the times of the lunations; the rising and setting of the sun, moon, and planets, &c. Adapted to the meridian and latitude of ... London ... To which are added, several useful tables: as, a table of the sun's semi-diurnal arcs ... a tide-table, and a very correct one of the eclipses of Jupiter's first satelles; a table of the sun's right-ascension ... tables of the most remarkable fixed stars, taken from Mr. Flamsteed's Catalogue; and, lastly, with a table of latitudes and longitudes of the most remarkable places in the world. / by Robert White, teacher of the mathematicks ...

White, Robert, 1693-1773.

London : Printed for the Company of Stationers; and sold by Robert Horsfield, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street, [1795]

PML 142166.4

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Americae pars VII. : Verissima et iucundissima descriptio praeciparum quarundam Indiae regionem & insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque, / iam primum ab Vlrico Fabro Straubingensi, multo cum periculo inuentae & ab eodem summa diligentia consignatae fuerunt, ex Germanico in Latinum sermonem conuersa autore M. Gotardo Artus Dantiscano. Illustrata verò pulcherrimis imaginibus, & in lucem emissa, studio & opera Theodorici de Bry piae memoriae, y relictae viduae & filiorum. Anno Christi, M. D, XCIX.

Schmidel, Ulrich, approximately 1505-approximately 1581.

[Frankfurt am Main] : Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry, [1599]

PML 3793.2

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Americae pars VII. : Verissima et iucundissima descriptio praeciparum quarundam Indiae regionem & insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque, / iam primum ab Vlrico Fabro Straubingensi, multo cum periculo inuentae & ab eodem summa diligentia consignatae fuerunt, ex Germanico in Latinum sermonem conuersa autore M. Gotardo Artus Dantiscano. Illustrata verò pulcherrimis imaginibus, & in lucem emissa, studio & opera Theodorici de Bry piae memoriae, y relictae viduae & filiorum. Anno Christi, M. D, XCIX.

Schmidel, Ulrich, approximately 1505-approximately 1581.

[Frankfurt am Main] : Venales reperiu[n]tur in officina Theodori de Bry, [1599]

PML 3795.4

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The life of Charles Dickens / John Forster.

Forster, John, 1812-1876.

MA 7800

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

A Group of Elegantly Dressed Gentlemen

François-André Vincent

1746-1816

ca. 1778

1998.14

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Caricature of Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732-1807)

François-André Vincent

1746-1816

ca. 1800-1805

2026.78

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints