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Standard in form of stag-headed snake before worshiper

between 2900 B.C. and 2400 B.C.

Morgan Seal 1102

Classification

Cylinder seal

Department

Seals and Tablets

Note from Lewis Carroll to E. Gertrude Thomson, [1879 June] : autograph manuscript.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

England, 1879 June.

MA 6396.4

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Tess of the D'urbervilles : a tragedy in four acts and an after-scene by Thomas Hardy : being his adaption for the stage, by request, in 1894-5, of the novel of that title, and hitherto unacted which the Hardy Players have the Author's permission to produce at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, on Wednesday, November 26th, 1924 and the three following nights, at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Dorchester : Ling, Printer, 1924.

PML 132723

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Warhafftige und gründliche Histori, vom Leben unnd Sterben dess H. Einsidels und Martyrers S. Meinradts : auch von dem Anfang, Auffgang, herkommen und Gnaden der H. Wallstatt und Capell unser lieben Frauwen, Desgleichen von der ordentlichen Succession aller Prelaten desselben Gottsshauss zu den Einsidlen, sampt etlichen herrlichen Wunderwercken, die Gott der Herr allda durch sein gebenedeyte Mütter Maria gewirckt hat, mit angehenckten Leben und Leyden ... dess heiligen Martyrers unnd Hauptmanns S. Mauritzen sampt seiner Gesellen, S. Sigmunds, S. Justen dess neunjärigen Knabens, S. Gerolds dess Einsidels, unnd Sanct Wolffgangs Bischoff zu Regenspurg.

Freyburg : In der Eydgnoschafft bey Abraham Gemperlin, 1587.

PML 126243

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Historische Bilder Bibel : vorstellend die Geschichte der h. Patriarchen und Ertz Vätter, der Richter unter dem Volck Gottes, wie auch der Könige und Propheten Heiliger Göttlicher Schrifft Altes Testaments wie auch was in dem Neuen Testament beschriben von Historien so sich zugetragen haben mit Christo Jesu unserm Erlöser auch seinen Heiligen Aposteln, dess gleichen alle englische Erscheinunge[n] und was sonsten in allen Ständen denckwürdiges darinn aufgezeichnet zu finden zur Ehre Gottes, und Christlicher Seelen andächtiger Beschauung, mit Fleiss gezeichnet, in Küpffer gestochen, verlegt und herausgegeben / von Johann Ulrich Kraüssen.

Krauss, Johann Ulrich, 1645-1719.

Augspurg : Johann Ulrich Kraüssen, 1702.

PML 126228

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders. Who was born in Newgate : And during a life of continued variety for sixty years was 17 times a whore, 5 times wife, whereofonce [sic] to her own brother, 12 years a thief, 11 times in Bridewell, 9 times in New-Prison, 11 times in Wood-street compter, 6 times in the Poultry Compter, 14 times in the Gate-house, 25 times in Newgate, 15 times whipt at the Cart's arse, 4 times burnt in the hand, once condemned for life and 8 years a transport in Virginia. At last grew rich, lived honest, and died penitent.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]

PML 8218.12

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

... Geographiae ... a plurimis uiris ... eme[n]data : & cu[m] archetypo graeco ab ipsis collata. Schemata cu[m] demonstrationibus suis correctaà Marco Beneventano ... & Joanne Cotta ... Figura de proiectione spherae in plano ... Maxima quantitas die[rum] civitatu[m] : & distantiae loco[rum] ab Alexa[n]dria Aegypti ... Planisphaerium ... noviter recognitu[m] & diligentiss. emendatum a Marco Beneventano ... Nova orbis descriptio ac nova Oceani navigatio qua Lisbona ad Indicu[m] pervenitur Pelagus Marco Beneventano ... aedita. Nova & universalior orbis cogniti tabula Joa[n]. Ruysch ... elaborata. Sex tabulae noviter confectae videlicet Livoniae ... Iudeae ...

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Rome : [Impressum per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus, expe[n]sis E. Tosino] 1508 [Colophon: 1507]

PML 455

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, during an expedition from St. Louis, through the vast regions between that place and the Pacific ocean, and thence back through the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, during journeyings of six years; in which he and his father, who accompanied him, suffered unheard of hardships and dangers, had various conflicts with the Indians, and were made captives, in which captivity his father died; together with a description of the country, and the various nations through which they passed. Ed. by Timothy Flint.

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio), 1804?-1850?

Cincinnati, E. H. Flint, 1833.

PML 3871

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Fantasy of a Magnificent Forum

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720-1778

ca. 1765

1974.27

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Thisbe Falling on Pyramus' Sword. Verso: Slight Sketch of a Palm-Tree

Parmigianino

1503-1540

ca. 1523-1526

1983.36

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints