The invention of letters annotated by Charles Pinckney Sumner, ca. 1795-1796

Interleaved second-edition copy of Robert Treat Paine's poem "The Invention of Letters" with handwritten excerpts of 18th century poetry copied by Charles Pinckney Sumner. The excerpts appear to be verses alluded to, or emulated, by Paine in the poem. For example, Paine's verse includes "Beneath the shade, which Freedom's oak displays" and Sumner on the opposite page quoted Alexander Pope's poetry, "Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays." The excerpts include poetry by Alexander Pope, James Thompson, Robert Dodsley, William Falconer, William Hayley, Samuel Rogers, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Gray, and John Denham.

Student lecture notes on the Theory & Practice of Physic, and patient case histories, of Lyman Spalding, 1795-1799 (inclusive)

Contains notes taken by Harvard student Lyman Spalding from lectures delivered by Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) in 1795. The notes cover the history of medicine, theories of contemporary physicians like Herman Boerhaave, William Cullen, and John Brown, and topics like fetal growth, digestion, and circulation. The volume also contains six pages of patient case notes from Spalding’s medical practice in Walpole, New Hampshire, in 1799, which detail the patients’ symptoms and course of treatment he pursued. In the case of a young man who complained of pain in his breast following a wrestling match, Spalding bled him and prescribed a cathartic of soap and aloes. Spalding also operated on a man who cut off part of his ankle with an ax.

Domesday book, or the great survey of England of William the Conqueror A. D. MLXXXVI.

Volumes for Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, 31 x 24 cm.

Memoirs of the life of William Wirt, attorney-general of the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Formules de médecine, latines et françoises pour le Grand Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Christian missions : six discourses delivered before the University of Dublin; being the Donnellan lectures for 1861 /

Includes index.

Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 : an appendix to "The story of a cavalry regiment" /

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of William Shakespeare : the plays edited from the folio of MDCXXIII, with various readings from all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introductory remarks, a historical sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet, and an essay upon his genius /

Publisher's advertisement (12 p.) at beginning of v. 2.

Notre-Dame de France : ou, Histoire du culte de la Sainte Vierge en France, depuis l'origine du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours /

Includes bibliographical references.

Life of William Blake, "Pictor ignotus". With selections from his poems and other writings,

Preface signed: Anne Gilchrist.

The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861-65.

Mode of access: Internet.

William H. Seward; an autobiography from 1801 to 1834. With a memoir of his life, and selections from his letters ...

Vol. 1 first published 1877.

The Bible of nature : five lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross /

Mode of access: Internet.

Select documents illustrative of the history of the United States, 1776-1861; with notes.

Mode of access: Internet.