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"A collection of original drawings illustrating the ornithology of the Orientals"
Collection of 190 pictures of birds in watercolor, pen, and pencil, by several artists, as well as 2 title pages, board, and spine. Includes birds found in Australia, India, and New Guinea.
A Miscellany of Deeds and Manorial, Estate, Probate and Family Documents
This collection of miscellaneous documents, written between the 13th to 19th centuries, mostly relate to land and property transactions and maintenance in England. The bulk of the documents are dated from the 16th through 19th centuries. The remaining documents concern legal and official matters, family papers, probate and wills, and accounts and business. The documents pertain to many of the counties in England, as well as some matters taking place in other parts of the British Isles.
Adversaria. The Common-Place-Book, by Robert Courthope Sims
Commonplace book, or a volume created to compile knowledge, kept by Robert Courthope Sims of Essex, England.
Arthur Moore collection
This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Arthur Moore (1666?-1730) and his immediate family in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Collection of Accounts of Political and Governmental events
Collection of 72 separately written accounts of Parliamentary debates, political law-cases, diplomatic correspondence, etc., bound together in two volumes. Most (perhaps all) are near-contemporary copies of the originals.
Deeds of Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor
A collection of documents for Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor, England.
Fletcher of Saltoun collection
A collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Fletcher of Saltoun Family, most of which have come from Saltoun Hall. Salton (Saitoun) is an estate east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in East Lothian (Haddington). The manuscripts are mostly estate account-books (1750-1806 and undated) but also include notes on agriculture (18th century), common-place books in English and Latin (18th century), and a paraphrase of the Corpus Iuris Civilis (1600s?).
Index abecedarius: an alphabetical index to the first edition of the 'Species Plantarum' of Linnaeus
John Gould drawings
Preparatory manuscript artwork and separate lithographic prints for the bird books created by John Gould and the artists employed in his publication workshop in London, England, in the 19th century. Birds found in these books exist around the world, including in North and South America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom and continental Europe, the Himalayan mountains, New Guinea, and Papua.
Kaye family papers
This collection consists of estate documents, principally deeds, of the Kaye family of Woodsome in Yorkshire, England, from the 13th to 18th centuries, with the majority of documents dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some locations cited in these documents include Almondbury, Honley, Kirkheaton, Slaithwaite, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, etc.
Legal papers concerning church attendance, etc. of Norfolk Recusants
Legal papers: certificates and evidence taken concerning church attendance, etc. during the Protestant Reformation in Elizabethan England. Apparently originals, kept together after being issued by the Commission; include signatures. (Item 2 is a fair copy largely in a single hand.)
Letters by Carl Linne and enclosed material
Unbound letter from Carl von Linne or Carl Linnaeus to Dr. de Sauvages [Francois Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, 1706-1767], discussing botany, medicine, friendly scholarly gossip. Collection also includes portraits and supplementary 20th-century material.
Memoranda kept in Merlinus Liberatus: Being an Almanack
North family papers
Obligations by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent, of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graies 200 English pounds
Fragment of document. Obligation by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent., of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graces 200 English pounds or...
Personal papers of Brian Priestman
Brian Priestman joined the University of Kansas faculty as artist in residence and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in 1992; his final performance as conductor for KU was in 2002. This collection consists almost entirely of sheet music used by Priestman, as well as a 6 page section of typed notes of explanation on his edits to Lalande's Te Deum.
Personal papers of Marilyn Stokstad
Marilyn Stokstad joined the Art History faculty at the University of Kansas in 1958 and led the department in several roles before earning emerita status as the Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History. This collection of her papers includes notes, chapters, and proofs for the textbook Art History, family history and photographs, personal and professional correspondence, and reports and notes related to the University of Kansas.
Poems of James Maidment
Album: collection of 30 manuscripts and printed poems: political satires, drinking songs, etc. Most appear to be separately produced contemporary copies or originals, bound in or tipped in. Places: England and Scotland.
Robert B. Riss Collection
The collection includes several photographs, personal and professional letters, and other writings by authors, artists, American presidents, nobility, royalty, and other notable persons from the United States, British Isles, and Continental Europe, compiled by Robert B. Riss. English translations for some of the writings in other languages are included, as well as some labels and bookseller information. Links to digital versions for most items in this collection are also included.
Royal revenues collection
Sotheby Family Papers
This collection consists of family papers, correspondence, bound books, and various other material of the Sotheby family of Pocklington, Yorkshire, England
Spelman-Macro miscellany
Compiled volume of separately written pieces bound together, including historical notes, 17th century poems, petitions, etc.
Star Chamber collection
Collection of volumes and loose items pertaining to the Star Chamber, a court that existed in England at the Palace of Westminster from approximately the 15th century through 1641, when it was abolished by the Long Parliament.