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Somnium Scipionis.

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.

PML 198456A-D

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The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved : designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.

London : Printed for H. Serjeant, at the Black Swan, near Temple-Bar, 1777.

PML 83206

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The art of glass : Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glass. To which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling. Also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers. A work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered. Illustrated with proper sculptures / Written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English. With an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean, b. ca. 1650.

London : Printed for Dan. Brown [etc.], 1699.

PML 151129

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Grace abounding to the chief of sinners: or, A brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant John Bunyan : Wherein is particularly shewed, the manner of his conversion, his fight and trouble for sin, his dreadful temptations; also how he despaired of Gods mercy, and how the Lord at length through Christ, did deliver him from all the guilt and terrour that lay upon him. All which was written by his own hand, and now published for the support of the weak and tempted people of God.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.

London : Printed for F. Smith at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, at 1s bound, [1672-1679]

PML 17498

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The copie of a letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester, Lieutenant generall of all her Maiesties forces in the united Prouinces of the lowe countreys, written before, but deliuered at his returne from thence : with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the Qveenes Maiestie at two seuerall times, from all the Lordes and Commons lately assembled in Parliament : and her Maiesties answeres thereunto by her selfe deliuered, though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life, as the same were vttered by her Maiestie.

Crompton, Richard, active 1573-1599.

London : Christopher Barker, 1586.

PML 3253

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Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1820 December 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.

Nasirabad, India, 1820 December 11.

MA 14286.15

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Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant, : (ghelijck het tegenwoordigh in staet is) begrijpende de nature, aert, gelegentheyt en vrucht-baerheyt van het selve lant; mitsgaders de proffijtelijcke ende gewenste toevallen, die aldaer tot onderhout der menschen, (soo uyt haer selven als van buyten ingebracht) gevonden worden. Als mede de maniere en onghemeyne eygenschappen vande wilden ofte naturellen vanden lande. Ende een bysonder verhael vanden wonderlijcken aert ende het weesen der bevers, daer noch by gevoeght is een discours over de gelegentheyt van Nieuw Nederlandt, tusschen een Nederlandts patriot, ende een Nieuw Nederlander. / Beschreven door Adriaen vander Donck, beyder rechten doctoor, die teghenwoordigh noch in Nieuw Nederlant is..

Donck, Adriaen van der, 1620-1655.

t'Aemsteldam, : By Evert Nieuwenhof, boeck-verkooper, woonende op't Ruslandt in 't Schrijf-boeck,, Anno 1655..

PML 3377

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Göttliche Recht und Gesetze nach anweisung der Zehen wort oder Gebot : darinn uber und neben denselben, was zu ihrem verstand dienlich und zur Policey gehörig (ohne die Kirchen gebreuche und sonderliche Cærimonien) begrieffen : Aus den Büchern Mosis zusamen getragen. Sampt angehengtem verzeichnus wo dergleichen Satzungen in Codice Iustiniani, Pandectis, und Institutionibus Iuris civilis zu finden : Beneben einem Auctario, darinnen vermeldet wird, wie das Gesetz der natur mit dem Mosaischen sich vergleiche, und der weisen Heiden Gesetze aus dem Göttlichen gezogen: Und widerumb, weil das Liecht der natur verdunckelt, in welchen stücken die Gesetzgeber bey den vernunfftigen Heiden geirret, und von den Göttlichen Rechten abgewiechen sind / M. Michael Himmel.

Schmalkalden : Michel Schmuck, 1582.

PML 79793.2

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Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

January 31 through September 13, 2020

Some sixty of Lequeu’s several hundred drawings will be on view in Jean‐Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect, the first museum retrospective to bring significant public and scholarly attention to one of the most imaginative architects of the Enlightenment.

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Almost a Remembrance: Belle Greene’s Keats

This exhibition considers the Morgan’s Keats collection through the lens of the library’s first director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950).

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