4 3/4" x 7 1/4" leather notebook containing 80 pages filled with approximately 50 entries, including: "Death's Final Conquest by Shirley" "A Dirge. By D'Urfey" "A Character from Ramsays American Revolution / Aug 27th, 1782" An extract from "Ramsays American Revolution / New York Nov: 25th 1783" "The Wanderer: to the evening Star by Richard Nesbit" "Mary Queen of Scotts Farewell to France" "The Wizard of the Rock / W. M. Smith" "Verses written by the Sea , in a Heavy Gale / Freneau" "From Moore's Irish Melodies / 'The Vale of Avoca'" An "Extract from Goldsmith's England" "Extract from the Lady of the Lake / a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq." "Lines written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night before his execution" An extract "From Miss Bowdler's Essay on Politeness" An extract "From Davis's travels in America / Philadelphia, Autumn of 1797" "Sonnet to Pocahontas by Mr. Rolf" "Extract from Wilson's Pedestrian excursion to the Falls of Niagara. 1800" "Sonnet to a Fly... Decr 6th 1815" "Thank you, pretty cow... Nursery Rhyme"
Leather back cover and quarter of front cover missing Attributed to Joseph Flowerden, published by J. Nourse, London, 1769 Medical work concludes: Finis April 15, 1780 Further medical directions include: Howards Receipt for Curing the Lame Distemper, Yaws, or almost any Corrupt Blood and To Cure a Cancer Dates inscribed in volume are: January 30, 1793 (weather record); 1798 (farm record); 1829 (pencilled note), Alexander Bourbon Kentucky? At end of volume, written dos-a-dos, are 18 pages of songs (2 leaves detached) copied by Alexander Barnett, chiefly while at Camp Hicks Creek in South Carolina, Dec. 28, 1780-Jan. 12, 1781 Names of John Brown, Congressman, and James Barnett, Capt. Jno. Barnett, John Dykes, Solomon Levi, and John Taliaferro also appear
Bound in modern half calf and tan cloth Signature of William Richardson on p. 1 Note on p. 3: "Bought at Mr. Upcott's sale June 22nd 1846" Granger's notes are on and interleaved with Joseph Ames, A catalogue of English heads, London: Printed by W. Faden for the editor, 1748 (Lilly NE265 .A5 copy 2).
Corrections and amendments in another hand Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century. Prompted by close friends, the author's account describes a region then little known to the French. The Napoleonic Wars were underway at this time and the author speculates on the military campaign in Egypt and its ramifications for the rest of the continent. Author includes considerable ethnographic information, including speculations on the political impact of the region's geography, differences between tribes, and a physical description of the Caffres and their marriage customs, religion, and agriculture, as well as notes on the natural history encountered. Of linguistic interest is the six page vocabulary at the rear of the document
Sewn but lacking covers In Spanish with quotations in Latin underlined On the violations of a decree of the Council of Trent concerning a sermon delivered by a member of one of the religious orders Divided into six parts Signed C.W.S. Joachin Probably early 18th century: most recent date in text is 1677 (leaf 10v); watermark of three circles surmounted by a cross compare favorably (but not identically) to those of paper laid in Madrid in early 18th cent. See Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae Historiam Illustrantia, Paper Publication Society in Holland, 1950- (Lilly TS1080 .P183) Vol. 1, Nos. 273 (Madrid, 1749), 279 (Madrid, 1723), 297 (Madrid, 1723); Vol. 12 Pt. 2, Nos. 1390 (1721), 1939 (1737). Extraneous note laid in
Contemporary copy of prayer offered about September 21, 1745 Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam; resembles Heawood No. 401 (Lilly TS1080 .P183) and Churchill No. 64 (Lilly Z237 .C5). Includes transcription