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THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEGENDARY AUTHOR BEATRIX POTTER THROUGH HER RARELY EXHIBITED PICTURE LETTERS

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

On view until January 27, 2013, Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters brings together for the first time twenty-two letters from important American private holdings as well as from three major institutional collections: the Morgan, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.

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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of ... designs of household furniture ... to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective ; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified ... / by Thomas Chippendale.

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

London : Printed for the author, and sold at his house ... also by T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt ..., MDCCLXII [1762].

PML 53031

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Treatise on the power and utility of moneys, by Master Gabriel Biel of Speyer, a very excellent man and profound thinker, licentiate in the most sacred letters, lecturer ordinarius, with the courage of his convictions, at the famous University of Tübingen, while he was in the world. Lately done into English by Robert Belle Burke for Josiah Harmar Penniman.

Biel, Gabriel, -1495.

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania press; London, Oxford university press, 1930.

PML 27479

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Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, her husband : this young lady at twelve years of age understood eight languages : was for nine days Queen of England : and was beheaded in the Tower in the seventeenth year of her age, being at that time the most amiable and accomplished woman in Europe / by Theophilus Marcliffe.

Godwin, William, 1756-1836.

London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, Hanway Street ... and to be had of all booksellers, 1806.

PML 67550

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The modern psalmist : a collection of church music, comprising the most popular psalm and hymn tunes and occasional pieces : together with a great variety of new tunes, anthems, motetts, sentences, chants, &c., by distinguished European authors, many of which have been composed or arranged expressly for this work : including, also, compositions by the editor, never before published ... / by Lowell Mason.

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Boston : J.H. Wilkins and R.B. Carter, 1839.

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A charge given by the most eminent and learned Sr. Francis Bacon, Kt., late Lord Chancellor of England, at a sessions holden for the verge, in the reign of the late King James : declaring the latitude of the jurisdiction thereof, and the offences therein inquireable, as well by the common-law, as by several statutes herein particularly mentioned.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

London : Printed for Robert Pawley ..., 1662.

PML 37199

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An Abridgement of Scripture history : designed for the amusement and improvement of children : wherein the most striking actions in the Old Testament are made plain to the youngest capacities : adorned with head peices [sic] expressive of the subject of each narrative, curiously engraved on 60 copper plates, and dedicated to the infant Bishop of Osnaburg / by an eminent divine.

London : Printed & sold by Edwd. Ryland, in the Old Bailey, MDCCLXV [i.e. 1765]

PML 86689.1

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The Rose Haggadah

Browse The Rose Haggadah, illuminated by contemporary artist Barbara Wolff, using the techniques of medieval manuscript illumination.

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The Madonna del Carmine and saints

Guercino

1591-1666

1618

IV, 168a

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Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

PML 127966.1-2

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