Box 1
Contains 9 Results:
System of Symbols, circa 1834
Autograph notes. Note accompanying the manuscript indicates that it was from a group of drawings from the granddaughter of General Henry Clinton, probably circa 1834.
William Coham Turner, 1835-1838
3 items. Calligraphy samples texts of proverbial sayings, probably Turner’s own. Turner taught at Commercial and Mathematical School, Barnstable, England (May 27-31, 1836). Sewn autograph manuscript, 7 pages, (Mid-summer 1835). Sewnautograph manuscript, 9 pages, (November 14-28, 1838). Sewn autograph manuscript, 14 pages
Blaise de Vigenères, Traicté des chiffres [Photographs of leaves], undated
Photograph of pages containing Chinese and Japanese characters
Everardo Audrich, Three holograph leave originally laid in Institvtiones antiqvariae…, undated
Notes on the book. Two leaves laid in at page 129 and one leave laid in at page 161. From the library of Joseph Pelli, bearing his bookplate.
Typed letter signed, Author James Beattie to J. Godfrey Nicholls, concerning the origins of the Linear B language. Mentions the work of Michael Ventris, Florence Melian Stawell, and Alice Kober, 1957 February 5
Originally laid in A Clue to the Cretan Scripts by Florence Melian.
Get a Shopping Card! "The Bee Hive" L.S. Plaut and Co., Newark, New Jersey, circa 1900
Advertisment for an in-house, single payment shopping plan, perhaps a predecessor of the credit card. Also includes letter from Arnold explaining the origins of the item above.
Accession 1488.