An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General ofthe said island and their under officers, 1763

An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General of the said island and their under officers (leaf 1) ; A state of some matters relative to the office of Provost Marshall, and to the passing of this bill (leaf 9) ; Observations drawn up by Jonathan Blenman Esq. his Majestys Atty. Gen. in Barbadoes ... on the Act as it had been first brought in 1761 (leaf 13) ; and two leaves laid in ; Power of attorney, granted to Christopher Scandrett, signed by Francis Reynolds and his son Thomas (25 April 1766) ; Petition of Francis Reynolds to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (1766).

An English oration : 1783

Paper notebook containing a handwritten copy of an essay titled "An English Oration" composed by Harrison Gray Otis for the 1783 Harvard Commencement. The essay discusses the American Revolution and begins, “An Omission of the usual appeals..."

Student essay composed by Edmund Toppan, 1795

Four-page handwritten student essay composed in English by Edmund Toppan as a Harvard undergraduate. The verso of the last page is inscribed "Toppan June 22'd 1795." The essay is titled with a quote from Horace: "Qui non moderabitur irae, Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens." The essay discusses the destructive force of uncontrolled passion and begins, "Last evening, having a very disagreeable head-ache, I early retired to bed."

[ Book of predictions] : manuscript, 1785-1812

Book of yearly predictions about the sultan, his family, ministers, grand mufti, etc. Records for years 1199-1227 AH [1785-1812 AD]. Year run from nevrūz to nevrūz (beginning of spring). Predictions concern political affairs and state of health of various individuals. Predictions about weather conditions and the eclipses also included. Separate section at end of each year's entry breaks down predictions into months. Manuscript apparently the author's working copy and probably the sole copy.

al- Jawhar al-munaḍḍad fī maʻná Qul huwa Allāhu aḥad / li-muʼallifihā Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Biqāʻī al-Dimashqī al-Ṣūfī : manuscript, 1641

A Sufi commentary on Chapter 112 of the Qur'an.

Virginia /

Relief shown pictorially.

A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron, bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack: With the courses of the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia, as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737.

Scale ca. 1:875,000.

[Plat of land grant survey in South Carolina, accompanied by deed of grant] /

Pen-and-ink.

Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...

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Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...

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Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...

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Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...

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Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...

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Flora Indiae Occidentalis :aucta atque illustrata sive descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum / Olavi Swartz.

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