Forensics and Syllogistic questions, 1789-1791; 1808

A handwritten list of forensic and syllogistic questions compiled between 1789 and 1791 on two pages, and a half-page list of the questions for June 1800.

Bills Dr. to Tho. Adams late Coll. Butler, 1791

The paper-covered book contains a two column debit and credit entry section for students created by Thomas Adams and updated by Samuel Shapleigh for the Classes of 1792 through 1794. The final page includes the note, "The above is the Balance due to me as Butler of College- Cambridge Novr 15, 1791--Tho Adams." The book includes annotations made at a later date noting students not found in other College records. The cover of the book features an engraving of a young woman in profile.

Address to the students, 1791 September 17

5-page handwritten copy of an address by Eliphalet Pearson made to Harvard students Bowman, Flagg, McKean, and Shaw reprimanding them for their "abusive treatment of the Junior class." The students are likely Thomas Bowman, Samuel Aldridge Flagg, and Joseph McKean, members of the Class of 1794, and Philander Shaw, member of the Class of 1792.

The volume contains the continuation of the Greek and English lexicon; & a treatise on the quantity of the Greek vowels, [1772]-1791

Title copied from the volume's title page.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1791 February 10

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a two-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley briefly mentioning recent book purchases and related literature about medals.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1791 September 12

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley that briefly discusses medals.

[Calligraphic specimen, 1205?, i.e. 1790 or 1791?].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) of Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).

[Calligraphic specimen, 1206, i.e. 1791 or 1792].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ / murakkaa) employing ḥadīth of the Prophet executed by the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi (d.1829) in imitation of a model executed by the master calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698).

Shipping interest : speech of George Frederick Young, Esq., in the House of Commons, on Thursday, June the 5th, 1834, on moving for the repeal of the 4 Geo. 4, c.77, commonly called the Reciprocity of Duties' Act.

Ms. note on t.p.: Presented by The General Shipowners' Society.

The tempest : a reduced Dallastype facsimile of the play from the first folio (1623) edition and facing each page thereof the modern text as determined by the late Charles Knight.

Preservation photocopy.

Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries, 1789-1791,

Mode of access: Internet.

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : Undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes, Vol. I.

Mode of access: Internet.

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : Undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes, Vol. III.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of a residence and tour in the United States of North America, from April, 1833, to October, 1834.

Mode of access: Internet.

Het tweede eeuwfeest van het Seminarium der Remonstranten te Amsterdam op den 28 October 1834 plegtig gevierd /

Engraved title page.