Mathematical notebook, and commonplace book, circa 1689-1769

Manuscript notebook, possibly kept by Harvard students, containing 17th century English transcriptions of arithmetic and geometry texts, one of which is dated 1689-1690; 18th century transcriptions from John Ward’s “The Young Mathematician’s Guide”; and notes on physics lectures delivered by John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. The notebook also contains 18th century reading notes on Henry VIII, Tudor succession, and English history from Daniel Neal’s “The History of the Puritans” and David Hume’s “History of England,” and notes on Ancient history, taken mainly from Charles Rollin’s “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.” Additionally included are an excerpt from Plutarch’s “Lives” and transcriptions of three articles from “The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle,” published in 1769: “A Critique on the Works of Ovid”; a book review of “A New Voyage to the West-Indies”; and “Genuine Anecdotes of Celebrated Writers, &.” The flyleaf contains the inscription “Semper boni aliquid operis facito ut diabolus te semper inveniat occupatum,” a variation on a quote of Saint Jerome that translates approximately as “Always good to do some work so that the devil may always find you occupied.” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks. Winthrop used Ward’s textbook in his class, while the books of Hume, Neal, and Rollin were used in history courses taught at Harvard in the 18th century.

Military commission : manuscript, 1756 Feb. 18

Commission appointing Moses Deshon as major of a foot regiment under Col. Joseph Thatcher.

The petitioners for settling His Majesties lands and islands lying between Nova Scotia and the province of Main in New England in America : manuscript, [ca. 1720]

Written in an unidentified hand, signed by Barkstead.

Copy of Gov[erno]r Philips's additional instructions about settling some Palatine families in Nova Scotia: Copy Col. Dunbar's additional instruction about settling some Irish families in Nova Scotia : manuscript, [1730]

Copies of two documents, approved 20 Apr. 1730; instructions to Richard Philips state that a number of Protestant Irish and Palatine families have been granted land in Nova Scotia, to be surveyed by David Dunbar; and instructions to Dunbar to survey and lay out land for the families.

Inqvisitionvm ad capellam domini regis retornatarvm, qvae in pvblicis archivis Scotiae adhvc servantvr, abbreviatio [1546-1700].

University at Buffalo copy lacks v. 1-2, 4.

Readings in English economic history,

Bibliography: p. 222.

The search room catalogues and other finding aids to the records preserved in the Public Record Office, London.

Prepared by a British expert for the use of Dr. Reese and for the guidance of the Virginia Committee: William J. Van Schreeven, Virginia State Library and Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., University of Virginia Library.

William Lambarde and local government: his "Ephemeris" and twenty-nine charges to juries and commissions.

Mode of access: Internet.

The first copyright statute; an essay on An act for the encouragement of learning, 1710.

Includes text of the act.

The Private life of the queen /

"With illustrations (from photographs by Messrs. W. & D. Downey, H.N. King, and Hughes & Mullins)."

Placita coram domino rege apud Westmonasterium de termino Sancte Trinitatis anno regni regis Edwardi, filii regis Henrici, vicesimo quinto. The pleas of the Court of King's bench, Trinity term, 25 Edward I, 1927.

Cover-title: Coram rege roll for Tinity term, 25 Edward I, A.D. 1297. Being the special volume issued by the British record society, limited in commemoration of the record year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, A.D. 1897.

The parliamentary debates.

Publisher's varies.

England on the sea; or, The story of the British navy: its decisive battles and great commanders,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Law reports.

Reporters: v. 2-3, Richard Searle and J.G. Middleton.

Anglo-American Isthmian diplomacy, 1815-1915.

"Authorized reprint of the original edition, produced by microfilm-xerography."