Sherman, John, 1613-1685, autographed letter signed to John Winthrop; Watertown, Mass., 1 side (3 pages), 1663 June 30

Correspondence describing a hernia Sherman was suffering, and asking for Winthrop's advice and a "little of [your] red powder."

Diary : manuscript, 1666-1679, 1723, and 1726

Diary concerning chiefly religious matters, mostly Puritanical confessions of Tompson's piety not living up to the expectation of the Lord. There is also mention of the many afflictions God is "pleased" to bestow upon Tompson's wife.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

Kitāb Ghāyat al-maʼmūl fī sharḥ Waraqāt al-uṣūl / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Ḥibr al-Baḥr al-Fahhāmah Shaykh Mashāyikh al-Islām Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Ramlī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1613

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. First three leaves and last leaf framed within a double red line.

Noktatü'l-beyân : manuscript, 1679

Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.9 x 14.3 cm ( 16.5 x 9.3 cm.)

The legibility of highway guide signs with special reference to cardinal direction indications. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cardinal Consalvi and Anglo-papal relations, 1814-1824.

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Grotte, labyrinthe, fontaines et bassins de Versailles.

This volume has been designated "sixième volume" in the Catalogue, for a collection known under the title of the repository, Cabinet du roi. The engravings were prepared between 1672 and 1689 by various engravers: Le Pautre, Le Clerc, Chauveau, Edelinck, Picart, Baudet, Silvestre, Simonneau and Chatillon. They were issued individually at the outset, collected, and in this instance issued in uniform format. The plates of the Labyrinthe, 15 x 8.5 cm., have been printed on 4 leaves of 9 and 1 leaf of 5.

Journal of a voyage to New York, and a tour in several of the American colonies in 1679-80,

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The cardinal numbers : with an introductory chapter on numbers generally /

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Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613-1687)

Gerard Terborch; 2 ft. 8 3/32 in.x 2 ft. 1 25/32 in.; oil on canvas

Cardinal Pierto Bembo

Titian; 3 ft. 1 13/64 in.x 2 ft. 6 1/8 in.; oil on canvas