Download or read book Remarks on the Manuscripts in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society Classic Reprint written by Nathaniel Paine and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks on the Manuscripts in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society It is proposed in this report to speak more at length of this department of the Society's collections, with the view of bringing to the attention of members its real value as an aid to historical investigations. The earliest manuscripts in our library are two richly illuminated missals; one, supposed to have been written early in the 14th century, is a small volume with designs in gold and colors, and another is a Persian tale or romance, with gilt border to each page, and several highly colored illustrations. The wooden covers of this volume are ornamented both inside and out with representations of men and women, birds and reptiles, all in brilliant colors. A folio volume of the Koran in manuscript is also one of the attractions in the show-case in the main hall. From our collection of manuscripts there have been printed, under direction of the Committee of Publication: "The Diary of John Hull, Mint Master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay," with a memoir by Samuel Jennison and notes by Edward E. Hale. Archaeologia Americana, Vol. III. "A short discourse of a Voyage made in ye yeare of our lord 1613. to ye late discovered Countrye of Greenland; and a briefe discription of ye same countrie, and ye Comodities yer raised to ye Adventurers." This was published by the Antiquarian Society in Vol. IV. of Archaeolgia Americana, with an introduction and notes by Samuel F. Haven, LL.D. Fifty copies were also printed in separate form. Note Book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641. Edited by Edward Everett Hale. With a sketch of the life of Lechford by J. H. Trumbull. Archaeologia Americana, Vol. VII. The Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, 1829-1835, with an introduction and notes by Nathaniel Paine, Worcester, 1901. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Civil Service and the Patronage Classic Reprint written by Carl Russell Fish and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Civil Service and the Patronage I have had access to the collections of the Harvard College Library and the libraries Of Boston, of Brown University, the American Antiquarian Society at Wor cester, the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Wis consin Historical Society, the Library of Congress, and the departmental libraries at Washington; and I desire to express my thanks to the Officials Of these institutions for their uniform interest and assistance. Thanks are particularly due to the owners Of private collections Of manuscripts and newspapers, whose courtesy in opening them for research evinces the general interest felt in historical studies. Most Of all, I wish to record my appreciation of the kindness of Professor Albert Bush nell Hart and Professor Edward Channing, to whose inspiration and guidance the inception and development of this monograph are chie y to be attributed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Scribal Publication in Seventeenth Century New England written by David D. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Manuscripts written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of Manuscripts: In the Library of Congress The Library has gathered together, by purchase, by gift and by transfer from time to time, a number of groups of accounts, in many instances comprising only a single volume. The more important items, in their chronological order, are as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Great Cat Massacre written by Robert Darnton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
Download or read book Voynich Manuscript written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.
Download or read book Subject Collections written by Lee Ash and published by New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Correspondence of James Jurin 1684 1750 written by Andrea Alice Rusnock and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Jurin (1684-1750) occupied a central place in the medical and scientific circles of Augustan and Georgian England. His dispassionate yet forceful advocacy of smallpox inoculation using an innovative statistical approach brought him widespread recognition both in Britain and abroad. He was Secretary to the Royal Society for seven years and participated vigorously in the most important scientific debates of the period. Jurin's correspondence, recently made available to the public, provides rich material for the study of eighteenth-century natural philosophy and medicine, especially of the smallpox inoculation debates. This volume reproduces a broad and valuable selection of letters, as well as a list of Jurin's publications and a calendar of the complete correspondence. The introductory biographical essay describes how Jurin combined a career as a successful London physician with that of a natural philosopher.
Download or read book The Publishing History of Uncle Tom s Cabin 1852 2002 written by Claire Parfait and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Tom's Cabin continues to provoke impassioned discussions among scholars; to serve as the inspiration for theater, film, and dance; and to be the locus of much heated debate surrounding race relations in the United States. It is also one of the most remarkable print-based texts in U.S. publishing history. And yet, until now, no book-length study has traced the tumultuous publishing history of this most famous of antislavery novels. Among the major issues Claire Parfait addresses in her detailed account are the conditions of female authorship, the structures of copyright, author-publisher relations, agency, and literary economics. To follow the trail of the book over 150 years is to track the course of American culture, and to read the various editions is to gain insight into the most basic structures, formations, and formulations of literary culture during the period. Parfait interrelates the cultural status of this still controversial novel with its publishing history, and thus also chronicles the changing mood and mores of the nation during the past century and a half. Scholars of Stowe, of American literature and culture, and of publishing history will find this impressive and compelling work invaluable.
Download or read book Textual Scholarship written by David Greetham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling "Textual Scholarship" covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.
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Download or read book Class Matters written by Simon Middleton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition from an early modern to modern era in North America and the Atlantic world.
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