Catalogue of books, manuscripts, articles, engravings, aprons, and other curios relating to freemasonry, and now forming the Worcestershire masonic library & museum.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the civil war, the commonwealth, and restoration,

Mode of access: Internet.

A catalogue of upwards of fifty thousand volumes of ancient and modern books, English and foreign : in all classes of literature and the fine arts ; including rare and curious books, manuscripts, etc. in good library condition, many in neat and elegant bindings.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of manuscripts, of books printed upon vellum, of editiones principes et Aldinae, and of books in foreign languages : now on sale ... February, 1830.

Last 9 leaves contain adverts. for works published or distributed by Payne & Foss.

Catalogue of the private library of the late Mr. A.A. Smets, Savannah, Ga. : comprising one of the most valuable and extensive collections of books ever offered to the American public : containing very rare and elegant editions of early printed works, ranging from the XV. century : also, many early manuscripts and missals, with gorgeous illuminations : a large assortment of modern illustrated works, standard biographies, travels, histories, etc., etc., of the best editions : the whole to be sold by auction, at the Clinton Hall Book Salerooms and Art Galleries, Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co., auctioneers, Monday, May 25th, and following days, commencing at 4 o'clock P.M. each day.

"A southern library. A statement read before the New England historical and genealogical society ... Oct. 5, 1859" (4 p., bound at end of copy 1) relates to the present library.

Two hundred and fifty manuscripts, books & autographs; including a superlative example of Caxton's Press, an important series of incunabula and a collection of books printed on vellum.

Mode of access: Internet.

Containing precious metals: hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England.

This book chapter extends the argument constructed by Oakley in his conference paper ‘Containing gold: Institutional attempts to define and constrict the values of precious metal objects’ presented at ‘Itineraries of the Material’, a conference held at Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main in 2011. Oakley’s chapter investigates the social forces that define the identities, social pathways and physical movement of objects made of precious metal. It presents a case study in which constitutive substance rather than the conceptual object is the key driver behind the social trajectories of numerous artefacts and their reception by contemporary audiences. This supports the main contention of the book as a whole: the need to reconsider, and when necessary challenge, the dominance of the social biography of objects in the study of material culture. Oakley’s research used historical and ethnographic approaches, including three years’ of ethnographic field research in the jewellery industry. This included training as a precious metal assayer at the Birmingham Assay Office and observing the industry and public response to government proposals to abolish the hallmarking legislation. This fieldwork was augmented by archive, library and object collection research on the histories of assaying and goldsmithing. Oakley presents an analysis of the historical development and contemporary social relevance of hallmarking, a technological process that has never previously been subject to ethnographic study, yet is fundamental to one of the UK’s creative industries.

Minute Books and Tyler’s Register of Plantagenet Preceptory No.8 Knights Templar

The Sovereign Great Priority of Canada is a national Masonic organization which consists of seventy-six preceptories that are organized within fifteen districts. The no.8 Plantagenet, St. Catharines is listed under the Hamilton District .The warrant (document issued to authorize formation of a lodge) was issued to this preceptory on November 14th, 1866. This preceptory is still active and meets on the first Monday of every month excepting June, July, August and September. with information from the website Sovereign Great Priory of Canada Meaning of the Tyler/Tiler’s Register: Historically speaking, medieval craft guilds guarded their trade secrets. They placed a guard outside their doors. This person would generally be a junior apprentice who was not entitled to attend trade discussions. The Masons continued this use of doorkeepers. In 1723 in The First Book of Constitutions Dr. James Anderson mentioned “another brother to look after the door, but shall not be a member of it” and in regulation XXVI charged the use of “doorkeepers”. In the minutes of June 8, 1732 this person’s specific title was referred to as “the Tyler”. The word “tyler” appeared in print in new regulation XXVI of the 1738 Second Book of Constitutions. The Masonic ritual of today calls him “a brother without the door”. The Tyler is usually a Past Master who is very knowledgeable in Masonic law and customs. He does not need to be a member of the lodge. He greets brethren and assures that they are “duly qualified”. He gives the first impression of the lodge and insures that visitors and members sign the Tyler’s Register. with information from www.masonicsites.org

Nomo-lexikon : a law dictionary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms, as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern lawes. With references to the several statutes, records, registers, law-books, charters, ancient deeds, and manuscripts, wherein the words are used: and etymologies, where they properly occur ... /

Corrigenda, [1] leaf, inserted before sign. B.

Catalogues of the Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, and Pushtu printed books in the Library of the British Museum.

Accompanied by "A second supplementary catalogue of printed books in Hindi, Bihari (including Bhojpuria, Kaurmali and Maithili), and Pahari (including Nepali or Khaskura, Jaunsari, Mandeali, &c.) in the Library of the British Museum. Compiled by L.D. Barnett, J.F. Blumhardt, and J.V.S. Wilkinson." (viii p., 1678 columns. 29 cm.) Published: London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1957.

Books and their makers during the middle ages : a study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century /

Bibliography: v. 1, p. xvii-xxvii.

Books and their makers during the Middle Ages; a study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the seventeenth century.

An unaltered and unabridged reprint of the last (1896-1897) edition."

First editions and manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling, George Moore, Stevenson, Whitman, Whistler, Bliss Carman, Lord Dunsany ... The Kelmscott Chaucer ... Order of sale, ... October 17, 1921, lots 1-290 ... October 18, 1921, lots 291-570. The Anderson galleries ... New York.

570 entries, priced.