Histoire naturelle choix de dessíns : [manuscript] / par Meunier, J.G. Pretre & Vaillant

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  Génération continue des races actuelles par les séries animales et végétales: memoir, autograph manuscript draft

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  In this handwritten, signed manuscript, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is discussing evolutionary theory from a philosophical and historical standpoint. He cites a number of important scientists and philosophers such as Georges-Louis Lecler, Comte de Buffon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Geothe, Johannes Müller, Lorenz Oken, Georges Cuvier, Jan van der Hoeven, Henri Dutrochet, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and devotes several pages of the manuscript to a discussion of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It is likely that this manuscript was intended for publication and as a follow-up to another unpublished memoir titled "Mémoire pour établier que le principe de l'unité typéale de l'organisation contient des élémens revelatoires..." The manuscript is in French.

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  Breviary, use of Sarum : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-228v. Latin. On ff. 1-221v, temporale from Advent to the 25th Sunday after Trinity Sunday; ff. 221v-228v, service for the dedication of a church; f. 228v, added note, s. XV, on liturgical practice according to Sarum rite for the feasts of Trinity, Corpus Christi, the nativity of John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, the translation of Thomas, and the feast of the relics.

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  Honfleure’s Colours

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  One boxed set of paint pigments entitled Honfleure's Colours: Prepared for Flower, Fruit Painting, &c. in the English Style, with Directions for their use by L. Honfleure, ca. 1880. The set is comprised of 11 large and 3 small glass jars of dry paint pigments, in a variety of colors, and housed in a wooden box with a sliding lid. Laid into the box is a sheet of printed directions for mixing the pigments and how to use each of the colors. The three small glass jars may not be part of the Honfleure set; they appear to have been manufactured by another company.

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  "Papaver Erraticum flore pleno miniato. H.R. Par. Double Wild Poppy"

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  A botanical album created by Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield; she started the album in 1756 when she was 30 years of age. Flower painting had become a fashionable occupation for the wives and daughters of the great houses of England and Mary Parker achieved exceptional ability under the tutelage of Georg Ehret. The album contains 48 watercolor and gouache paintings on parchment; depicted are both sides of the plant's leaves and also shown are more than one reproductive stage for each specimen: with the early formation of the blossom, the growing petals, and the full expression of the flower. The images in the album depict numerous plant specimens, sometimes with butterflies and other insects, most likely local to the Macclesfield estate, Shirburn Castle, in Oxfordshire. Many of the illustrations are identified by names predating Carl Linnaeus' binomial plant nomenclature in his "Species Plantarum" (1753), while other notations on the illustrations include Linnaeus' names. The album is bound in a contemporary, richly gilt morocco wallet binding, with interior green silk ties; the binding is likely by Richard Montagu. The pages in the album are marked with the Macclesfield armorial blind stamp. It has a lock and key fastening, and while the original key is present, the lock has been deactivated by a professional restorer, please do not attempt to use the key; also present is a red velvet bookmark.

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  Sermons by Johann Herolt and Peregrinus, de Opole : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-49v: [Iohannes Herolt, Postilla Discipuli super epistolas dominicales et de sanctis secundum sensum litteralem]. f. 49v: [Short passages identifying the recipients of the Pauline Epistles]. ff. 50-121v: [Iohannes Herolt, Sermones Discipuli super evangelia dominicalia et de sanctis secundum sensum litteralem; here breaking defectively after the first leaf of the sanctorale and lacking the entire common of saints]. ff. 122-227v: [Peregrinus de Oppeln, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis; here breaking defectively in the entry for Clement]. f. 228r-v: [Prayers to say in various occasions, added in an early modern hand, beginning defectively]. ff. 229-243v: [Four collations on John the Baptist]. f. 243v: [Prayer added in the same hand as that on f. 228r-v].

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  This collection primarily contains autograph letters from prominent architects, artists, authors, engravers, playwrights, and sculptors from the 19th century in England. These autograph letters appear to have been collected by Anna C. Stryke. Another portion of the correspondence contains letters from Richard Hancock, an English naturalist written to Stryke from 1924 through 1926. Items of interest include travel diaries to Hawaii, written by Stryke and her sister, Mary C. Stryke in 1935. There are also a number of drawings, sketches, and watercolors found in ephemera.

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