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(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667686192]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667686192[/url] Ms. codex. Caption title. Ricci: "Written in Italy." Former shelfmark: 871 O8t1400 (Classical Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). First page within a multi-colored illustrated, ornamental border, with gold-ruled edges and a gilded initial; several illuminated and/or gilded initials and borders throughout. ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. Anonymous French translation of Toland's Pantheisticon, sive, Formula celebrandae Sodalitatis Socraticae. Bound before the Pantheisticon are 26 leaves containing "Formule pour celebrer la Societ Socratique ...". Binding: Contemporary calf over pasteboards; red edges; marbled endpapers. Provenance: From the Henry Clinton Hutchins Collection. Former shelfmark: Hutchins 55 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Title from spine. Describes events that occurred as early as the 1640s and as late as 1798. Binding: Contemporary quarter leather and pastepaper over pasteboards; marbled endpapers; green mottled edges. The front and rear fly-leaves are backed by printed waste. Provenance: Illegible ownership stamp on fol. 2r. Former shelfmark: Uncat. 66 375 (University ...
(1.0 Items)From H. G. Wells Collection. Paper album cover and two pages. Cover has four miniature coats of arms inscribed. The word "Swaine" is written in the center. 1 page is blank, the 2nd has a red frame printed on it with evidence of a picture having been glued on at sometime ...
(0.0 )More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881247146]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881247146[/url]
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70699846]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70699846[/url]
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(4.75 Linear Feet)This collection consists of books, pamphlets and manuals on printing, typography, and linotype machines.
(2.0 Photographs)Two photographs. One of John T. Raymond, American stage actor, and one of Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano. The photos were a donation from Francel A. Smith in memory of Grover and Clara Graham of Colville, WA.
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Collection of correspondence of significant literary figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
(1.0 Boxes)Collection of letters, handwritten documents, and other materials belonging to Charles Palmer, Midshipman and Lieutenant, who was a member of the 1819-1821 Artic Expedition under Capt. (Commander) Parry, and also Sir J. Franklin. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657406212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657406212205899[/url]
(1.0 Boxes)Collection of notes, photocopies, and reports outlining details for film shots, stills, and other production notes for film project that eventually became Perry Miller Adato's "Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts" (1986). As of 11/2021, collection has been reunified with Perry Miller Adato papers and films, ca. 1968-1982 as Eugene ...
(6.0 Boxes)Peter Rutledge Koch founded Black Stone Press in Missoula, Montana, and [i]Modern Gothic[/i], a journal of poetry, literature and art in 1974. He would eventually move his business from Montana to San Francisco, California in 1978, and later to Berkeley, California. During the next thirty years, Koch would work as a fine art printer in the San Francisco Bay Area under the imprints Peter Rutledge Koch, Typographic Design and Peter Koch, Printers. Peter Koch works as an educator and promoter of book arts and fine art printing through his partnerships with various San Francisco Bay Area institutions and as co-founder of the Codex Foundation (established 2005).
(1.0 Boxes)Personal papers of Emil Peterson, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657407812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657407812205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189487]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189487[/url] Title supplied by cataloger. Ms. codex. Layout: Written in 30 long lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in a humanistic hand. Binding: Eighteenth century half-calf. Origin: [Italy.] Provenance: 1. No. 369 in a previous library. -- 2. A nobleman's sale by Sotheby (London, 16 Feb., 1931, n.231) to Barnes. -- 3. ...
(1.0 Items)One of a series of photogravures produced under the personal supervision of the photographer and used in his book Mark of Men. 17 x 22 cm. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656009012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656009012205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Date conjectured by cataloger from ms. date on front board. Written on three notebooks of 21 leaves, 19 leaves, and 20 leaves, respectively. Binding: Three sewn notebooks and one board are housed in a preservation binder. The board likely was taken from an unrelated volume as it is considerably ...
(1.0 Items)A collection of three ink and watercolor schematics of hell, purgatory, and paradise as interpreted from Dante's Divina commedia. Pianta dell'Inferno : itinerario di Dante (40 x 36 cm) -- Ordinamento del Purgatorio (38 x 49 cm) -- Ordinamento del Paradiso (42 x 37 cm) -- [Original paper portfolio (folded to ...
(1.0 Items)"There is the germ of an idea for a musical or even a play in this whimsical, charming story, done with gentle satire, of a group of Hungarians, artists all of them, who hitch their wagons to the fading star of one of their company and get rich and famous. ...
(1.0 Items)8 page pamphlet by H. G. Wells briefly outlining what needs to change and what needs to be done to be able to achieve world peace. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135712205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Date from foot of fol. 87v. Title taken from head of fol. 1r. Likely written by John Grundy senior (c.1696-1748). Illustrated with geometrical diagrams. Binding: Contemporary leather with brass clasp. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 161. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of John Grundy Esqr. on front pastedown. Fol. 2r-80v: A pocket compendium of ...
(2.0 Items)Two MS poems "Old Tom and I" and "Robert Burns" dated August 1887, and 1870.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857905215]www.worldcat.org/oclc/857905215[/url]
(1.0 Items)Papers of Jessie Pope, English journalist, children's writer, poetess, and essayist, including letters to Grant Richards regarding the publication of Robert Noonan's (Robert Tressall, pseud.) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Pope's problems of editing the work, editorial controversies, efforts to change the title, working-class novels, literary review of the book and ...
(1.0 Items)Painted portrait of H. G. Wells. Frame signed by [R???] Littlejohn. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656366612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656366612205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Excerpt from a book. H. G. Wells is depicted in a pen drawing entitled: "Portraits of Contemporaries". Verso is page 32 and titled "Notes". Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 014-020-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132812205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869019404]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869019404[/url] Purchased from Duschnes, November 18, 1958
(3.0 Items)Papers of Frederick A. Pottle, including three autographed letters signed (1926 February 4, 1927 April 9, 1928 December 21). Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569862]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569862[/url]
(1.0 Items)An early text book on arithmetic and bookkeeping. Former Shelfmark: Uncat 84 9
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Notes from lectures on economics and economic history delivered by Prof. Lujo Brentano at the University of Munich, 1904-1905. Ms. codex. Lujo Brentano was a professor of economics at the universities of Breslau, Strasbourg, Vienna, Leipzig, and, from 1891-1914, at the University of Munich Binding: Contemporary green cloth; ms. paper spine label; "Curt ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70361760]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70361760[/url] Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Appears to be in the tradition of the 14th-century Meditatione vitae Christi. Similar to Nicholas Love's (d. 1424) "Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ" but not the same text (cf. Nicholas Love, The mirror of the blessed ...
(1.0 Items)Purchased from Stroock, July 1, 1963
(1.0 Boxes)Pre-publication proof of Marcel Proust's Lettres a Reynaldo Hahn. Proof lacking letter #CXXVIII, cut and trimmed. Edited by P. Kolb. Gift by P. Kolb.
(1.0 Items)Contains a page of dedicatory script followed by 269 signatures of friends and students, mounted on p. [3]-[30]; p.[31]-[54] blank. Presented to Miss Murray "on the occasion of the establishment of the Margaret Murray prize in Egyptology founded to commemorate her connection with University College, London, ... for forty-one years". ...
(2.0 Items)Autographs and col. ports. of the presidents from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of the autographs are written on documents. Ms. collection. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Collected by George R. Carr. Former shelfmark: Q. 091.5 C23p (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). v. 1. George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson ...
(2.0 Items)Autographs and ports. of the presidents from George Washington to Richard Nixon, and others. Some of the autographs are written on documents. Ms. collection. Title supplied by cataloger. Binding (v. 1.): Gold-tooled brown morocco; inside of boards lined with gold-tooled green morocco; green moir endpapers; bound by Blackwell. Provenance: Bookplate of Herman Louis Kretschmer, ...
(1.0 Items)Autographed ports., with accompanying letters, of presidents Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy (letter signed by Evelyn Lincoln). Correspondence card (with envelope) signed by Barack Obama. Created to supplement a collection donated by George R. Carr (Post-1650 MS 141). Ms. collection. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Collected through correspondence by ...
(1.0 Items)Print, signed "AC". Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656189212205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70143429]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70143429[/url] A manual of eastern Roman law, published ca. 867-879 under Basil I. Ends with titlos III. Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Discovered at Evarek near Kaisarie, in Asia Minor by K. Ananiades, who brought it on 16 May 1860 to Constantinople -- ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title from fol. 3r. Location and date supplied by cataloger; terminus a quo is 1670 from engraving on fol. 18r. Binding: Bound in mottled calf with gilt borders and spine ornaments. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: "Library of the University of Illinois. From the bequest in memory of Charles A. Denison ...
(12.0 Cubic Feet)Papers of the French novelist Marcel Proust provides a look at the man and his times. Proust had a large and varied number of correspondents, and his letters include an important source of information about Parisian life and French culture at the turn of the century. Includes published and unpublished ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155155]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155155[/url] Psalm XXXIV, 13 -- Psalm XXXVI, 2 -- Psalm XLV, 11 -- Psalm XLVIII, 12. Conjoint leaves numbered 17 and 24. Written in France (or northern Italy?). Provenance: Gift of Joseph Howard Beard, M.D., University Health Officer, 1935. Former shelfmark: x 223.2 B47L 1200 (University ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70361213]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70361213[/url] Origin: Written in England (Worcester?), mid 14th century. Decoration: Historiated and illuminated initials. Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: x 264.028 C28p 13-- (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci
(1.0 Items)In exchange for lands in Lambeth, Henry Budder agrees to "truly pay or cause to bee paid unto the above named William Page his executors administrators or assignes out or in his now dwelling house att Warwicke Lane and neere Newgate Margate in London the some of five hundred and ...
(1.0 Boxes)Papers of Edmund Randolph Purves, including 58 autographed letters signed to Austin M. Purves. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657409412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99657409412205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Ms. First published in 1870. Foliated (with errors). Lacking fol. 217-310, 455-477, and 488-645. Annotations and corrections presumably are in the author's hand. On the verso of fol. 439 is the note: "From C. Reade 2 Albert Terrace Knightsbridge". Former shelfmark: MS F. 823 R22p (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).