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(1.0 Items)Former shelfmark: Ms 186 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: x F. 385.41 M312t (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)The second part (II. Band) of a diary maintained by the commander of the Austro-Hungarian 13th Field Artillery Brigade during WWI Ms. codex Title and author from fol. 1r Binding: Contemporary green cloth. Origin: Presumably composed in several locations, mostly in Romania, based city names on folded wax sheet following fol. 1 and subsequent ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Previous cataloger conjectured location and date: London, 1795; no evidence provided. Some portions of text crossed out; occasional stage directions added. Provenance: Acquired from Spencer, 24 June 1947. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 158.
(1.0 Items)Correspondence from Caroline Tate to Jackson J. Campbell. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572340]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572340[/url]
(1.0 Items)Papers of A. Touny, including one autographed letter signed to Nicolas Obolensky. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6571997]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6571997[/url]
(1.0 Boxes)Holograph. Title from Letter 1. The "letters" are written on various scraps and sheets of paper, pasted together, and many leaves have printed excerpts pasted to them. After leaf 25 of Letter 1 there is a leaf (now removed to folder of additional material) with the note: "Here Dr Madden seems to have ...
(1.0 Items)Southern Telegraph Companies telegram form with ms. text. Title supplied by cataloger. Text, leaf [1]: The Secty of Navy represents the value as such in the Govt work shops at Columbus Ga of the Naval Battalion now at Green Pond + their rapidly diminising [sic] numbers that it is suggested the remainder ...
(10.0 Items)Two Elizabethan legal documents and eight 17th-century documents, including bonds and indentures, all referring to lands and people in Shropshire, England. Seven refer to Robert Needham, Viscount Kilmorey and his son.
(1.0 Items)A Thai-English dictionary, arranged in alphabetical order of the original Thai words. From note on fol. 235r: "At the time of its completion it contained 4672 primitive words & 1567 combinations or derivations -- in all 6239." Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Additional text on inserted slips of paper. Binding: Contemporary half leather over ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title. Binding: Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: Purchased from Stonehill. Former shelfmark: Stonehill 764 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)Galley proofs with corrections and additions by H. G. Wells. Signed and undated. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187312205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Clipping from magazine. Article titled: "The Gifts of the New Sciences -- H. G. Wells Prophesies" dated 1924/02. Page 152. Article incomplete. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 014-018-04 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132712205899[/url]
(1.0 Boxes)From H. G. Wells Collection. Title on cover: Esquema De La Historia por H. G. Wells. Book with index, notes and sketches of costume designs, with watercolor illustrations for an amateur performance in the Wells household of "The Gods of the Mountain" Includes four photographs of production scenes and blank pages. Contains one ...
(1.0 Items)Copy of The Kindred Spirit Volume 7 Number 3 Winter 1988-89. Contains article written by T. Hibbard titled "On W. S. Merwin". Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665206812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665206812205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Clipping from Pall Mall Budget, dated 1893/11/18 titled: "The Man of the Year Million - A Scientific Forecast". One of Wells's early speculative scientific essays. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 014-023-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133012205899[/url]
(6.0 Volumes)Former Shelfmark: MS 016.7865 W23O v.1-6 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99287784712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99287784712205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Bound binder of 95 pp. of clippings from [u]Daily Herald[/u] debate on "The Rights of Man" and reaction of others. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188912205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Clipping from The Daily Sketch, dated 1920/05/15 of drawing by HGW: "The way the visitors will come down at Folkestone in 1930. Drawing, dated 1904/04/11, is of an airplane crashed on seashore. Formerk Shelfmark: " Alluvial 1 Deposit" 014-022-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656132912205899[/url]
(8.2 Cubic Feet)Theatre Program Collection consisting of individual and season programs, advertising broadsides, playbills, newsclippings, and souvenirs from dramatic, comedy, musical theater, vocal and instrumental music, and vaudeville performances in the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, and Canada. The vast majority of the collection relates to venues in Chicago and New ...
(28.5 Cubic Feet)Theatre programs dating from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century and some concert programs from the same time period. Bulk are from Chicago and New York, with many from other cities in the U.S. and a smaller number from other countries. Also included are souvenir programs; most are ...
(9.0 Cubic Feet)Assembled by Theodore Leavitt. Prints (etchings, engravings, lithographs, mezzotints, wood engravings, aquatints, photogravures, photomechanical prints) of actors, scenes from plays and theatre exteriors. Also contains theatre programs/playbills, most of which are broadsides. The bulk of the prints are of actors, other performers and dramatists, and most of these represent the ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155143]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155143[/url] Imperfect at beginning (fol. 71-284 of original numbering. Ends: ... zu wissen und zu erckennen zu dem ewigen Leben. Und also hat das Puech ein End [und] Christus s[ein] Segen send. Amen); followed by Spiegel des Sunders (4 leaves only, beginning: Godt dem ...
(1.0 Items)Manuscript in English and Latin. "Sum Samuelis Halli" and the dates 1664 and 1674 on recto of first leaf. Former Shelfmark: X 208 H147t1664 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99268904912205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99268904912205899[/url]
(2.0 Volumes)This collection consists of two commonplace books containing essays about religion and other topics. The first volume includes essays on religious and philosophical subjects, brief biographies of historical figures, and a small number of poems. The majority of the contents are in English and many of the essays include citations ...
(130.0 Volumes)This collection contains over 3,000 Lutheran theological dissertations and related writings from German universities written primarily in Latin between 1580-1830. Topics covered range from polemics against rival sects, to views on Islam, to textual criticism and exegesis of the Bible, written in defense of what came to be known as ...
(0.0 )Full Title: Theory of differential equations [manuscript] : part I[-IV] Exact equations and Pfaff?s problem / by Andrew Russell Forsyth, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Original manuscript of: Forsyth, Andrew Russell. Theory of differential equations. Ms. codices 4 pts. in 6 v.; pts. 2 and 4 each appear in 2 v. Each ...
(1.0 Items)From H.G. Wells collection. Paper Booklet. Printed by Frederick Hall for Society of Antiquaries of London. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 004-002-001 Link to course catalog: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134012205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656134012205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Flatman, Thomas, 1637-1688. On the death of our late sovereign Lord King Charles II. Caption-title. 7th cent. ms.; last verso blank. Author unknown. Former Shelfmark: Q.821.T5513 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99183062312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99183062312205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45294882]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45294882[/url] Full Title: The topographicall descriptions, regimentes, and pollicies off Ittalie, France, Germanie, England, Spayne, Scotland, and Ireland [manuscript] : wherby in som[m] sorte the particulare estates off euerie one off thos contries maie be discouered A diplomatic reference work on the major countries of ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145800]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145800[/url] fol. 1r-52v: [Tractatus de judiciis exscriptus ex speculatione (Incipit: Rex pacificus cunctorum ...)] fol. 53v-54r: [Poem, in Italian (Incipit: Marzoccho io penso al tuo tempo futuro ...)] fol. 55v: [Drawing of a notary's rubric with the initials I. P.] fol. 56r-58v: [Formula subscriptionis notarii rogati de ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400238]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400238[/url] Text heavily annotated with marginalia, interlinear glosses, and manicules. In part a palimpsest with evidence of texts in both an Italian gothic rotunda (f. 94r) and gothic textura (f. 69v). Final two leaves with various fragments including two verses in Old French, eleven ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400213]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400213[/url] Initial folio(s) missing. Text of fol. 1 begins with Hercules Furens, verse 56: "et sacra dirae mortis in aperto iacent." Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 176r). Fol. 1r-176r: [Tragedies] fol. 176r: [colophon]: "Marcii Lucii Ann[a]ei Senec[a]e Trag[o]edi[a]e decem feliciter expliciunt script[a]e per me Lucam de Petregnaculla ...
(1.0 Items)A treatise on hydraulics, with in-text illustrations in ink; fol. 30 is written in a different hand and contains a description of La Machine de Marly. Ms. codex. Caption title (fol. 2r). "Troisiesme" inscribed in ink on fol. 1r. Origin: Probably written in France; later penciled note on fol. 1r: "Manuscrit du XVII sicle ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title. Location from fol. 2r of vol. 1; Date from front inside cover of v. 1. Published in London in 1908. Letter from C.F. Cazenove to the author concerning publication laid-in between fols. 10 and 11 of v. 1. Removed to item folder. Bound in 7 volumes (Pioneer Exercise Books), each containing ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145858]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145858[/url] Early transcript of a writ of privy seal dated Westminster, 11 March 1545, appointing John Bernard as clerk controller of the King's Revels, and granting him for life certain properties situated within and upon the walls of the late Charter house near London. This ...
(2.0 Volumes)A transcription of Royal Irish Academy MS 23 D 43, an Icelandic medical manuscript that dates from the last quarter of the 15th century. Includes additional notes and photostat facsimiles of the original ms. Ms. leaves. Title supplied by cataloger. Most leaves are commercially ruled bifolia. Origin: Copied in Dublin ca. 1923 by Carl ...
(3.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145877]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145877[/url] Transcripts of various documents in High German, including privileges (the earliest of 1363), proceedings, propositions, and dissolutions of Landtage, treaties, and other deeds, from 1560 to 1616 relating to Pomerania (especially Wollin and Stettin, but also Butzkow, Lawenburgk, Treptow, etc.), in the name ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70419153]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70419153[/url] Wrongly ascribed to the 3rd earl when in the library of Acton Griscom, but it is clearly in the 5th earl's autograph and contains his signature and motto, "Honorantes me honorabo, Huntingdon." Provenance: Acton Griscom -- Purchased from the Carnegie Book Shop (catalog 46, ...
(1.0 Items)Typewritten press copy of "Essay on Comedy" by Franciscus Robotellus translated by Marvin T. Herrick. Contains autographed note "To Harris Fletcher with best regards, Marvin T. Herrick" Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665981712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665981712205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)A collection of translations done by Alexander Thomas from various pieces of ancient literature. Former Shelfmark: MS 872 T38T Link to Catalog Record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99272330312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99272330312205899[/url]
(2.0 Items)Full Title: A treatise on the theory of functions of a complex variable [manuscript] / by Andrew Russell Forsyth, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Original manuscript of: Forsyth, Andrew Russell. Theory of functions of a complex variable. Ms. codices. Illustrations and diagrams in ink. Binding: Contemporary half red leather over pebbled red ...
(4.0 Items)Papers of Herbert Trench, including two typed letters to Mr. Jerrold and two newspaper clippings. Link to catalog recod: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572012]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572012[/url]
(1.0 Boxes)Letters, journals, unpublished literary works of Anthony Trollope and other members of the Trollope family. The manuscripts include a diary, 1872; 10 letters to H. M. Trollope; 19 letters to Anthony from Cardinal Newman, Henry Taylor, etc; manucript poems; notes on reading; bibliography for and statement of principles concerning his projected ...
(1.0 Items)Full title: The tryall of ye ho[m]ble Colonell John Penruddock of Compton in Wiltshire & his speech w[hi]ch he deliv[er]ed ye day before he was beheaded in ye Castle of Exeter, being ye 16th of May 1655, to a gent. whom he desired to publish it after his death [manuscript] ...
(1.0 Pamphlet binder)Tom Turner (1870-1949) was a British postal worker and an avid book collector. The collection contains correspondence relating to daily life, book collecting, and the literary community in England. These letters, along with a few poems written by others and a photo, accompanied the approximately 8,000 books of Turner's collection ...
(39.0 Cubic Feet)Tom Turner (1870-1949) was a British postal worker and an avid book collector. The collection contains correspondence relating to daily life, book collecting, and the literary community in England. These letters, along with a few poems written by others and a photo, accompanied the approximately 8,000 books of Turner's collection ...
(1.0 Items)Two late 17th century frankpledge documents bearing the autographs of Robert Flacke (no.1) and John Flacke (no.2). Ms. documents. Title supplied by cataloger. Script: In two distinct late 17th century English chancery hands. Origin: Location based on content. -- Both documents dated internally: no.1: vicesimo primo die Septembr. Anno d[omi]ni 1678 (l.7); no.2: "vicesimo ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex Binding: 19th century red half-morocco over pasteboard. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: "Aston, stationer, Manchester exchange." -- Acquired from Hammelmann, 12 June 1956. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 208. Paper watermarked "London 1804". Fols. 1 and 36-84 blank.
(42.0 Cubic Feet)Ms. codex Binding: 19th century red half-morocco over pasteboard. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: "Aston, stationer, Manchester exchange." -- Acquired from Hammelmann, 12 June 1956. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 208. Paper watermarked "London 1804". Fols. 1 and 36-84 blank.