A French family

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Two couples — one middle age and the other youthful — dance in a shabby room.

  • Printmaker: Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, printmaker.
  • Title: A French family [graphic] / T. Rowlandson delin. ; S. Alken fecit.

Catalog record & Digital collection

792.11.05.04++

Acquired November 2012

Inventaire après le déced de Sieur Jacques-Mathurin Du Verger … à Chartres …

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An detailed inventory by a professional scribe of the estate of cloth merchant Jacques-Mathurin Du Verger in the city of Chartres.

  • Title: Inventaire après le déced de Sieur Jacques-Mathurin Du Verger, ancien marchand à Chartres, 1786 July 17.

Catalog record

LWL Mss Vol. 203

Acquired November 2012

Impressment orders for … Middlesex …

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A three page summary signed by ‘Butler” of the General Session of His Majesty’s Justices in Middlesex responding to the “speedy supply of Seamen and Seafaring Men to Man his Majesty’s Fleet”.

  • Author: Middlesex (England). Justices of the Peace.
  • Title: Impressment orders for the county of Middlesex, 1771 October 25.

Catalog record

LWL Mss File 103

Acquired November 2012

Journal of two voyages made by Captain Nehemiah Holland from Jamaica to Liverpool, 1774 and 1778.

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A manuscript in the hand of the ship’s master Nehemiah Holland recording the details of two trips from Jamaica to Liverpool. The first is titled ‘Journal of a voyage in the ship Pole (24 guns) Nehemiah Holland, Master, from Jamaica to Liverpool’ beginning with entry dated 26 July [1774] Kingston; the ship’s log records the route, weather, ship’s position, and other news learned along the way. The second portion is titled ‘Journal of a passage in the ship Sara Goulburn (26 guns). Nehemiah Holland, Master, from Bluefields in Jamaica to Liverpool’ beginning with an entry dated Thursday 30th April 1778; the account is filled with news of other ships in the convey of HMS Winchelsea, reports of mail exchange and the news about the war in the colonies and orders to sink all French men of war found in America. It also recounts the death of the ship’s cooper.

  • Author: Holland, Nehemiah.
  • Title: Journal of two voyages made by Captain Nehemiah Holland from Jamaica to Liverpool, 1774 and 1778.

Catalog record

Acquired November 2012

LWL Mss File 102

Soixante et dix estampes…

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Etchings after works by: And. Mantegna, Benvenuto da Garofalo, Raffael d’Urb. Polodoro da Caravaggio, Gio. da Udine, Fran. Parmeggiano, Papin, Campagniola, Luca Cangiasio, Aug. Carracci, Ann. Carracci, Guercino, Nic. Poussin, Claudio Gillee, Rembrandt, G.F. Bolognese, Romanelle, Giacomo Cortesi detto il Borgognone, Salvator Rosa, W. Vander Veld, Carlo Marratti, and G.P. Panini.

  • Creator: Pond, Arthur, 1701-1758, printmaker.
  • Title: Soixante et dix estampes qui imitent les desseins / gravees par Mess. Pond et Knapton d’apres les tableaux originaux des maitres cy-dessous denommes.
  • Published:[London] : Publie par Jean Boydell, graveur, rue de Cheapside, a Londres, [between 1734 and 1747?]

Catalog record

Folio 724 734P

The danger and immodesty of the present…

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List of eminent female midwives, p. [1] at end.

  • Title: The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives : being the letters which lately appeared / under the signature of a man-midwife : with an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix with corrections, by the author.
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Wilkie … and F. Blyth …, 1772.

Catalog record

692 772D

Acquired November 2012

Fashionable biography

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Attributed to Edward Du Bois.

In statement of responsibility the name “Rigdym Phynnidos” is spelled using the Greek alphabet.

  • Author:  Du Bois, Edward, 1774-1850.
  • Title: Fashionable biography, or, Specimens of public characters / by a connoisseur ; with a preface and notes, pantological and pantogelastical by Rigdym Phynnidos.
  • Published: London : Printed for S.A. and H. Oddy, Oxford Street, 1808 ([London] :  W. Lewis, printer, Paternoster-Row)

Catalog record

63 808 D815

Acquired November 2012

A description of the Isle of Thanet…

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Bound in contemporary calf with red spine label ‘Isle of Thanet’ and black spine label ‘Town of Margate.’

  • Author: T. G.
  • Title: A description of the Isle of Thanet : and particularly of the town of Margate ; with an account of the accommodations provided there for strangers ; … with a description of Sandwich, Deal, Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Chatham … The whole illustrated with a correct map of the island … and a representation of the machines for bathing.
  • Published: London : Printed for J. Newbery and W. Bristow in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1763.

Catalog record

62 763 T356

Acquired November 2012

The trial of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq.

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  • Author: Bowes, Andrew Robinson Stoney, 1747-1810.
  • Title: The trial of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq. for adultery and cruelty :  first heard in the Arches Court of Doctors Commons, and, in consequence of an appeal, determined in a Court of Delegates on the 2d of this instant, when the Right Honourable the Countess of Strathmore obtained a divorce.
  • Published: London : Printed for R. Randall …, 1789.

Catalog record

523 B67 789

Acquired November 2012

Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat

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“The clowns Kirby and Chatterley, one dressed in female costume, dancing.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  • Title: Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat [graphic] : by Messr. Kirby & Chatterley to the tune of The bold dragoon / draw [sic] & etched by W. Heath.
  • Published: [London] : Pub. 5th of Jany. 1812 by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth, [5 January 1812]

Catalog record & Digital collection

812.01.05.01+

Acquired November 2012