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Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts, opera quinta
Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts, opera quinta / composed by Mr. Felton. London : Printed for John Johnson musick seller in Cheapside ... [2 columns of advertisements], [1755?].
Work number appears after the statement of responsibility on the title page.
Date from BL music to 1980.
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Sonate a violino e basso, opera IV
Sonate a violino e basso : Opera IV / composte da Francesco Geminiani e dedicate all' illustrissima ed eccellentissima Signora Margarita Contessa D'Orrery. London : MDCCXXXIX [1739].
The work number follows the statement of responsibility on the title page.
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Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts, opera quarta
Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts / composed by Mr. Felton. Opera quarta. London : Printed for John Johnson at the Harp & Crown in Cheapside ... [three lines of advertisement].
Work number follows the statement of responsibility on the title page.
Date from BL music to 1980.
Engraved title page by R. W. Seale after B. Webb.
Dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Lady Elizabeth.
Rockefeller Library copy: Autograph of Eliza Hamilton on title page.
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Eight suits of easy lessons for the harpsichord, opera terza
Eight suits of easy lessons for the harpsichord, opera terza / by Mr. Felton. London : Printed for John Johnson at the Harp and Crown facing Bon Church in Cheapside ... [8 lines of advertisement].
The work number appears after the statement of responsibility on the title page.
Date from BL music to 1980.
Rockefeller Library copy inscribed "Prebendary of Hereford about 1780" in a contemporary hand below the statement of responsibility.
Rockefeller Library copy with the booksellers' label of the firm of Harold Reeves, London, England.
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Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts, opera seconda
Six concertos for the organ or harpsichord with instrumental parts / composed by Mr. Felton. Opera seconda. London : Printed for J. Johnson at the Harp & Crown in Cheapside ... [seven lines of advertising].
Includes the organ part only.
Date from BL music to 1980.
Dedicated to Velters Cornewall.
Rockefeller Library copy: Autograph of Miss Cuteourt in ink on title page verso.
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Six concertos for the organ or harpsicord with instrumental parts, opera primo
Six concertos for the organ or harpsicord with instrumental parts / composed by Mr. Felton. Opera primo. London : Printed and sold by R. Bremner in the Strand ... [two columns of advertisements].
Work number appears after the statement of responsibility on the title page.
Includes organ part only.
Rockefeller Library copy with the booksellers' label of the firm of Harold Reeves, London, England.
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Eight lessons for the harpsichord or piano forte. Opera VII
Eight lessons for the harpsichord or piano forte. Opera VII / composed by Samuel Arnold. London : Printed by Welcker in Gerrard Street St. Ann's Soho ..., [1770?].
Opera number follows the statement of responsibility.
Dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
Date from BL music to 1980.
Page 23, blank.
Cover title: "Arnold's Lesson" in manuscript on decorative engraved label on front cover.
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Six sonatinas for the harpsichord or piano forte
Six sonatinas for the harpsichord or piano forte / by Theodore Smith. London : Printed for S. A. & P.Thompson No. 75 St. Paul's Church Yard, [1785?].
Date from BL music to 1980.
Price 3s. 0d
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A favorite concerto adapted for the harpsicord or piano forte
A favourite concerto adapted for the harpsicord or piano forte / composed by Giovanno Christiano Fischer. London : Printed for and sold by the author in Frith Street the corner of Compton Street Soho, [1770?].
Price 2s.
Engrav'd by Straight and Skillern St. Martins Lane--page 2.
Date from BL music to 1980.
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VIII sonatas or lessons for the harpsichord
VIII sonatas or lessons for the harpsichord / compos'd by Thomas Augustine Arne. London : Printed for I. Walsh in Catharine Street in the Strand ... [advertisement], [1756].
Date from Walsh, no. 85.
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A sonata for the piano-forte and a famous toccata for the harpsichord or piano-forte
A sonata for the piano-forte and a famous toccata for the harpsichord or piano-forte / composed by Signor Muzio Clementi ; n.b. corrected by the author. Op. XI. London : Printed and sold by John Kerpen, No. 19, Wardour Street, Soho, [1784].
Work number follows statement of responsibility on the title page.
Date from BL music to 1980.
Pr: 3sh.
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Six favorite overtures adapted for the harpsichord or organ
Six favorite overtures adapted for the harpsicord or organ / composed by C. F. Abel. London : Printed & sold by Longman, Lukey & Co. No. 26, Cheapside ...[3 lines of advertisement].
Date from BL music to 1980.
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Variations for the harpsichord to a minuet of Correlli's The gavot in Otho and the old Highland laddie
Variations for the harpsichord to a minuet of Correlli's The gavot in Otho and the old Highland laddie / by J. Snow organist of St. John's College Oxon. London : Printed & sold by John Johnson at the Harp and Crown facing Bow Church in Cheapside, [1760?].
Date from BL music to 1980.
"Price 2s 6d"
Subcribers' list--pages 1-2 at beginning.
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Six sonatas for the piano forte or harpsichord with an accompaniment for the German flute or violin, Op. LIV
Six sonatas for the piano forte or harpsichord with an accompaniment for the German flute or violin, Op. LIV / composed by Mr. Hook. London : Printed and sold by Preston at his warehouses, 97 Strand, & Exeter Change where may be had all this authors works, [1788].
Work number appears after composer's name on title page.
"Price 6s."
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Four sonatas or duets for two performers on one piano forte or harpsichord
Four sonatas or duets for two performers on one piano forte or harpsichord / composed by Chas. Burney, Mus. D. London : Printed for the author and sold by R. Bremner in the Strand, and at all the music shops, [1777].
Date from Preface.
"Price 10.6."
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Third set. Six concertos for the harpsichord or organ
Third set. Six concertos for the harpsichord or organ / composed by Mr. Handel. London : Printed for Harrison & Co. No. 18 Paternoster Row, [1784].
Plate nos. are those of The new musical magazine.
For organ solo, the orchestral accompaniment integrated in the solo part.
Date from Handel, p. 232, no. 6.
Rockefeller Library copy rebound in boards.
Rockefeller Library with the booksellers' label of the firm of Harold Reeves, London, England.
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The dying negro : a poem
The dying negro a poem. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. London : printed for W. Flexney, opposite Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Robson, in New Bond-Street, MDCCLXXV [1775].
Anonymous. By Thomas Day and John Bicknell.
"Price one shilling and six-pence" in square brackets on title page.
Engraved title vignette by Isaac Taylor after Egginton.
Dedicated to Jean Jacques Rousseau on page iv.
Advertisement on p. [i].
Signatures: a-b²B-G².
Rockefeller Library copy has been trimmed affecting the first line of the title.
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The Triumph of liberty, and peace with America : a poem. Inscribed to General Conway
The Triumph of liberty, and peace with America : a poem. Inscribed to General Conway. London : Printed for J. Walker, Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXII [1782].
With a half-title.
Errata: page 26.
Rockefeller Library copy imperfect: half-title wanting.
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Sketch of the life and military services of Gen. La Fayette, during the American Revolution : The hero and patriot, who abandoned his home, his family, his rank, and a princely fortune, for the sake of fighting in the cause of American liberty
Sketch of the life and military services of Gen. La Fayette, during the American Revolution : The hero and patriot, who abandoned his home, his family, his rank, and a princely fortune, for the sake of fighting in the cause of American liberty. New-York : Printed and published for the editor, 1824.
Most of the text on p. 13-16 was publiished in the New-York Evening post for the country, Aug. 20, 1824. Probably the entire pamphlet was originally published in this newspaper or in the daily edition of the Evening post.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of C. B. Farwell with his bookplate.
Rockefeller Library copy bound by A. J. Cox & Co.
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Apostolick charity : its nature and excellence consider'd. In a discourse upon Dan. 12.3. Preached at St. Paul's, at the ordination of some Protestant missionaries to be sent into the plantations. To which is prefixt, A general view of the English colonies in America, with respect to religion; in order to shew what provision is wanting for the propagation of Christianity in those parts.
Apostolick charity : its nature and excellence consider'd. In a discourse upon Dan. 12.3. Preached at St. Paul's, at the ordination of some Protestant missionaries to be sent into the plantations. To which is prefixt, A general view of the English colonies in America, with respect to religion; in order to shew what provision is wanting for the propagation of Christianity in those parts / by Thomas Bray. London : Printed by W. Downing, for William Hawes, at the Sign of the Rose in Ludgate-Street, 1699.
"[Bray] was employed under Bishop Compton in seeking out missionaries to be sent abroad ... He found that he could only enlist poor men, unable to buy books, and he seems to have made the help of the bishops in providing libraries a condition of his going to Maryland."--Dict. of nat. biog.
In the "General view of the English colonies," the author tabulates the colonies with respect to the number of their parishes, ministers and libraries. During Bray's lifetime and through his instrumentality there were established no less than 39 libraries in the colonies.
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Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 / by Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Fourth edition. Edinburgh : Cadell & Co. ; London : Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys & Graves, 1830.
Two etchings on each plate, numbered I-XL, accompanied by leaf with descriptive text.
Map of the United States and Canada shewing Captn. Hall's route through those countries in 1827 and 1828. Engraved on steel by W. H. Lizars.
Rockefeller Library copy bound by Meister and Smethie, Richmond, Virginia.
Rockefeller Library copy inscribed: "Presented to the George Wythe House. Williamsburg Va. by R.B. Dunwoody. Sept.
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The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country
The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXV [1775].
Page 102 wrongly numbered 101.
Pages 1-220 contain arguments on the descent of the American Indians from the Jews; pages 221-374 contain accounts of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah nations; pages 376-448 contain general observation; pages 449-464 contain an appendix, "Advice to statesmen; shewing the advantages of mutual affection between Great Britain and the North American Colonies.
"A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining to the Missisippi, West & East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia. &c." engraved by John Lodge.
Signatures: {*}2, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Nnn4
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Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America / by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S ... To which are added, Letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates. The fifth edition. London : Printed for F. Newberry, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXIV [1774].
With a half-title.
Vertical chain lines.
Page 176 wrongly numbered 179, and page 207 wrongly numbered 720.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of the Society of the Sacred Mission, Kelham with its bookplate; numbered "537."
Rockefeller Library copy bound in full calf; rebacked; spine title in gilt on red label.
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John Robertson account book, 1781-1811
John Robertson was Deputy Commissary General of Issues during the American Revolution and later a schoolmaster in Albemarle County and Lynchburg, Virginia.
Robertson's account book includes receipts for supplies received from him at the magazine in Williamsburg (October-November, 1781); indexed accounts of his school in Lynchburg (1801-1802); house expenses (1807-1810); and, a register of his children with Sarah Rogers Robertson. The entries for 1781 include some for British prisoners of war.
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St. George Tucker letter to John Page, 1797 June 23
St. George Tucker letter to John Page, 1797 June 23 concerning American relations with France. Tucker mentions Napoleion, the Directory, and John Marshall's involvement in diplomatic negotiations with the French. Tucker also extends an invitiation to Page to visit him on the Fourth of July.