Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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    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 Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

    Price 3s. 0d

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    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 Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

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    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 Smith, W.C. A bibliography of the musical works published by the firm of John Walsh during the years, 1721-1766.

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    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 Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

    Pr: 3sh.

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    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 Catalogue of printed music in the British Library 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 / 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 Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

    "Price 2s 6d"

    Subcribers' list--pages 1-2 at beginning.

  • SCRB08799_001.jpg

    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 / 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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    Sei sonate di cembalo con violino o flauto traverso, opera terza / di Felice Degiardino. London : Printed for & sold by John Cox at Simpson's Musick-Shop in Sweetings Alley opposite the east door of the Royal Exchange, [1751].

    The work number precedes the statement of responsibility on the title page.

    Date from British union-catalogue of early music printed before the year 1801.

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    Sei sonate a violino solo e basso, opera prima / composte dall' Sigr. Felice Degiardino. London : Printed for the author & sold at his lodgings at the golden Ball in Bow Street near Covent Garden and by J. Cox at Simpson's musick shop in Sweetings Alley opposite the east door of the Royal Exchange, [1751?].

    Dedicate al Merito Sublime dell Illmo. Sigr. Conte di Turpin Brigadiere dell Armata di sua Maesta Cristianisima e Collonell d'un Regimento d'Ussari.

    Opera number follows the dedication on the title page.

    Price 10s 6d

    Date from British union-catalogue of early music printed before the year 1801 and Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980.

    Rockefeller Library copy with the bookseller's label of Harold Reeves, London, England.

  • SCRB08785_001.jpg

    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.

  • SCRB10624_001.jpg

    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. London : Printed for J. Walker, Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXII [1782].

    With a half-title.

    Errata: page 26.

    Rockefeller Library copy imperfect: half-title wanting.

  • SCRB01107_001.jpg

    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.

  • SCRB10086_001.jpg

    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.

  • SCRB08447_001.jpg

    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.

  • SCRB00097_001.jpg

    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

  • SCRB04267_001.jpg

    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 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 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.
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    An act to settle the trade to Africa. London : Printed by Charles Bill, and the Eexecutrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd ; Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, MDCXCVIII [1698].

    Signatures: 6L-6M² 6N¹ 6O-6P²

  • SCRB08550_001.jpg

    A short view of the dispute between the merchants of London, Bristol, and Leverpool, and the advocates of a new joint-stock company : concerning the regulation of the African trade. London, MDCCL [1750].

    Rockefeller Library copy from the library of Virginius Randolph Shackelford with his bookplate.

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    The case of the Royal African Company of London. London : Printed by Sam. Aris, in Creed-Lane, MDCCXXX [1730].

    Title vignette, head-piece, initial.

    A history and defense of the monopoly of the Royal African Company this work is one of four publications issued by the Royal African Company in 1730. it is not a reprint of the 1709 publication of the same title.

    The Rockefeller Library copy has been trimmed closely on the bottom affecting text on several leaves.

    Rockefeller Library copy from the South Library with its bookplate.

  • SCRB05507_001.jpg

    An Abstract of several cases relating to the trade to Africa. [London, |c 1714].

    L.W. Hanson 2010. Includes abstracts of Hanson 1602, 1874, 1880 and five and other 'cases'.

    Rockefeller Library copy trimmed at the bottom causing most of the endorsement to be removed.

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    The case of the Royal African-Company and of the plantations. [London : Royal African Company, 1714].

    With a docket title dated 1714.

    Title from caption.

    A proposal "for improving the American British plantations, by reducing the excessive price of Negroes in Africa, and selling them at reasonable rates to the planters."

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