Profile Portrait of Major General Sir Isaac Brock 1769-1812

This work is a copy of a pastel oval portrait of General Brock that is supposedly the only known portrait of Brock to be done in his lifetime. The original was by William Berczy, circa 1808, and is in the possession of Captain M.H.T Mellish, a descendant of one of Brock's sisters. This portrait was completed on canvas.

[ Warrant for the arrest of Samuel Gray for debt], 1769

A warrant for the arrest and sale of all assets of Gray who was found to owe another merchant Alexander Hill in a recent trial. Also includes appraisal of property by Fairfield and Salter and statement by Sheriff Cudworth.

Letter from Edward Holyoke to his child, 1766, January 18

One-page handwritten letter from Harvard President Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) requesting that the letter's unidentified recipient locate a book on academic costume previously mentioned by "Secry Oliver," referring to the Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Andrew Oliver (1706-1774; Harvard AB 1724). In the letter, Holyoke explained that College alumni wished to give him a gown, and he wanted to determine the appropriate design for the head of a college. The recipient of the letter is identified only as "My dear Child" from "Yo'r Affect. Father, E. Holyoke." The letter also includes the note, "Give my love to my Dau'ter."

Notebook concerning mathematical equations : manuscript, 1769-1774

Notes on measuring height and distance, trigonometry, spherical projection, and other mathematical equations. Probably William Winthrop (1753-1825; Harvard AB 1770).

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1784 April 6

Two folio-sized leaves containing a two-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley discussing Joseph Priestley's Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit, and possible references to astronomical phenomena in mythological stories. Winthrop briefly mentions a 1769 Harvard student poem attributed to his classmate Jonathan Williams Austin (1751-1779; Harvard AB1769).

Popery a complex falsehood: or an attempt to clear and evidence, that it is so, in a lecture had at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, on May 10th, 1769

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 30-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Samuel Mather on May 10, 1769 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Thess. 11:11, 12. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The item has unattached pages and is in fragile condition. The lecture was never published.

Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssynie, pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 /

El tomo 14 es: Quatre voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie, en 1777, 1778 & 1779 / par... William Paterson. Es la traducción de la obra cuya primera edición es : A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottents and Caffraria / by William Paterson. - London : printed for J. Johnson, 1789.

Supplément au voyage de M. de Bougainville : ou Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, fait par MM. Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 /

Obra anónima atribuida a distintos autores: Capt. Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkesworth, Charles Solander, Richard Orton y William Perry. Misma composición tipográfica que la edición publicada en Paris el mismo año bajo el título: "Journal d'un voyage autour du monde".(Información tomada del catálogo OPALE de la BNF) Se incluye: "Vocabulaire abrégé de la langue de l'ile Otahiti" p. 241-250, "Lettre de M. de Commerson a M. de La Lande" p. 251-286 y, "Lettre de M. le B. de G.. [Bougainville] à M. de F.. [Fesche?]" p. 287-362

The charter granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England

Contiene con port. propia: Acts and laws, of his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England (414 p.)