Lucas, Jean Maximilian (1636?-1697). L'esprit de Mr. Spinosa. Bound with his La vie de feu Monsieur de Spinosa. The first biographical study of Spinoza, attributed to Lucas by Abraham Wolf. 170/2
Abstract of title of that certain real property in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, state of California, bounded and described as follows : the tract of land commonly known as the "Little Plaza"
Wyndham, Henry Penruddock (1736-1819). A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales in the Months of June and July 1774, London 170/18 1775.
Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Breviary. Breviary with Cistercian calendar Italy, s. XVI². **Written in semi-gothic script. Includes circular diagram for finding the Golden numbers starting with the year 1501, with instructions in French. Cf. Ferrari. 170/20
Abstract of title of that certain real property in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, bound and described as follows : Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres
Abstract of title of that certain real property in the Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres, county of Los Angeles, state of California, bounded and described as follows : all of said Rancho as per map appearing on page 53 of this abstract
Bay State Copper, Silver and Gold Mining Company, San Andreas, California. Stock certificate book. 170/28 1869
Powell, Paul M. Data relating to Henri II, Duke of Guise. 170/29 ca. 1935
Gregg, Josiah. Day Book, Pomona, California. **General expenses for a farm. 170/30 1886-1891
Richards, Jarrett Thomas. Diary, Santa Barbara, California. **Record of his legal practice. 170/31 1878
Burson, David S. Receipts, Pasadena, California. **Circa 350 receipts for personal bills. 170/32 1887-1905
Willamette Steam Mill Lumbering and Manufacturing Company. Journals and Cash Book. **Records for offices in Los Angeles, Fullerton and Pasadena. 170/33-35 January 2, 1888-September 30, 1897
Hansen & Solano, surveyors, Los Angeles. Field Notes. Used by the law firm of Randall & Bartlett, Los Angeles, as basic evidence in damage cases arising from the Los Angeles floods of 1934-1937. 170/38: 1-7 1855-1890
Ancient & Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus. Pikesville, Tennessee. Sequatchee Conclave no.674. Knights of the Sun. Order of business at stated meetings [and rituals for initiation, etc.] Knoxville, Tennessee. **Written by Samuel M. McReynolds, founder of the Sequatchee Conclave. *170/40 1851
Catholic Church. Liturgy and Ritual. Breviary. Breviary with Benedictine Calendar. (Paris, s. XV² or XV ex.) **Donation inscription from the Constable de Bourbon (1490-1527) (?). *170/49
Catholic Church. Liturgy and Ritual. Hours. Horae. Northern France (Normandy?), s. XV/XVI. ** Cf. Ferrari, pp.52-53. 170/50
Handbook of Chronology. Breuis historiae chronologicae a conditu orbis descriptio. Northern France, s. XVI². **Cf. Ferrari, p.53. 170/55
Catalog of Bro Wills books sent **Manuscript, list of works of the 16-18th centuries, mainly in English and Latin. Includes literary, historical, legal, religious works, and the classics. 170/65 1728.
Ibbett, William Joseph (b. 1858). Ibbett's best (London: Chiswick Press). One of 150 copies. **Author's copy, with his signature and manuscript notes and corrections for a second edition which was never issued. 170/73 1899
Ezell, Paul H. The Aguiar Collection in the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. **Guide to the Aguiar Collection, which concerns the states of Occidente, Sinaloa and Sonora, and finally the government of Sinaloa, Includes letters to Lawrence Clark Powell. *170/75 December 1953 May 14, 1825/October 26, 1835.
Layne, Joseph Gregg (1885-1952). The First Census of the Los Angeles District. Southern California Historical society Quarterly; **Reprint of Layne's article, accompanied by typescript copy of the original document. 170/77 September/December 1936
Sleep, William A., Insurance Agent, Grass Valley, California. Insurance Register. A register of insurance policies issued to various persons at Grass Valley, Nevada County. *170/79 ca. 1886-1898
Pardo y Urbina, Manuel. Ligeros estudios hechos sobre la historia, siembra y cultivo del tagaco, Escuela Nacional de Agricultura de Mexico, San Jacinto, Mexico. **A thesis presented to the Escuela Nacional de Agricultur, Mexico. *170/80 June 1, 1888
Heraldry. Album containing Coats-of-Arms executed in water-colour and gold. Subjects include Admiral Stephen Poyntz and relations, e.g. Vice Admiral Sir Edward Brace, Ponz or Poyntz, first Earl Spencer and his wife, Margaret G. Poyntz, Henry de Massie, Llewellyn Nash. Arms from a heraldic work pasted in. Lithographic plates of university dress. *170/82
Cooke, Rev. James. Cooke's Improved Patent Drill and Horse-Hoe. (London: S. Gornell, ) Bound with Directions for using Cooke's Patent Cultivator (London s.a.), broadside. **Includes 69 pages of manuscript in an unknown hand about farming. 170/91 1802
Lord, Israel Shipman Pelton. Letters. **Business letters and letters to his family; descriptive essays on Los Angeles and California, with particular reference to agriculture. Account of his first journey to California. *170/94 December 1875-ca. July 31, 1876
Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists. The Fourth Edition. (London, 1786). **Double fore-edge paintings: vol.1 (a) Cape Orford, (b) Presidio of Monterey. vol.2: (a) A mountain near the river of Monterey, (b) Monterey from the sea. vol.3: (a) Santa Barbara, (b) Point San Pedro (near San Francisco). vol.4: (a) The Mission of San Carlos (near Monterey), (b) Alcatraz Island. 170/97: 1-4
Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford (1717-1797). A Catalogue of Engravers... Second edition (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, ). **Double fore-edge paintings: (a) Cliff House (near San Francisco); (b) Mount Tamalpais and Red Porch. 170/98 1786
Couts, Cave Johnson (1821-1874). Diary. **A record of Cout's experiences during his last year at West Point; his services in the West, in the Mexican War, in the U.S. First Dragoons; and as military escourt for the Whipple Expedition from San Diego to the Colorado River. (Partly published.) September 1,1846-November 30, 1849
Snare, John. The History and Pedigree of the Portrait of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I) painted by Velasquez in 1623. (Reading: John Snare, 1847). **With ephemera and manuscripts. 170/105
Anacreon. Odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata. Accedunt variae lectiones cura Eduardi Forster. (London, ). **Double fore-edge painting: (a) View of Cambridge, including King's College Chapel; (b) view of Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera. 170/113 1802
Nares, Robert (1753-1829). A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs... which have been thought to require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his Contemporaries (London ). *170/114 1822
Sloan, John (b. 1871). The Gist of Art: Principles and Practice expounded in the Classroom and Studio (New York ). **Tipped in are letters from Sloan about an exhibition of the artist's paintings. 170/116 1939
Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835). The Confessions of William Henry Ireland. Containing the Particulars of his Fabrication of the Shakespeare Manuscripts (London, ). **A defective copy, but extra-illustrated throughout (ca. 1828). 170/117 1805
Milton, John (1608-1674). The Poetical Works of John Milton... (London, ). **Fore-Edge Painting with fox-hunting scene. 170/120 1859
Villa, José Garcia. Have Come, Am Here. Poems (New York, 1942). **Annotated by Edith Sitwell for a projected edition, apparently never published, of Villa's poems. 170/125
Holt, Frances (Long). Journal. **Journal of trip from Knutsford, Cheshire, England, to America, via St. Thomas, V.I., Havana, and return from Canada. There are descriptions of New Orleans, St Louis, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco, the Geysers near Geyserville, California, Merced, the Yosesmite Valley, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Niagara Falls, New York, Boston, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, and other places along the route between these cities. The author was the second wife of Alfred Holt of Alfred Holt & Company, Liverpool, a pioneer steamship line to the Far East. April 1-July 29, 1872
Morrison, Arthur (1863-1945). Letter, signed, to James William Thomas Ley, Loughton, Sussex. **With clippings about Morrison. 170/138 August 21, 1908
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931). Polite Farces for the Drawing-Room (London, ). **Annotated throughout with stage directions by Stanley Hazell; Autograph letter signed from Bennett to Mr. and Mrs. Hazell, 170/140 1900 September 19, 1899.
Harlow, Neal (b. 1908). History of Costume (Los Angeles s.a.). **Paper prepared for Mrs Sooy's Art 103, UCLA. *170/148
New Orleans. North, Central and South American Exposition (1885-1886). Board of State and Territorial Commisioners. Minutes, New Orleans. **The minutes are in the handwriting of Charles B. Turrill, Secretary of the Board and Commissioner for California. November 7, 1885-March 31, 1886
Southern California Abstract Company, Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Abstract Company Continuation of abstract of title as to 74 acres of land within the limits of the Guirado tract of the Rancho Paso de Bartolo Viejo, County of Los Angeles, California. *170/158 March 13, 1888-May 13, 1889
Blair, William (1766-1822). Letters and clippings. **These materials concern Joseph Powell, an astrologer, who was convicted in London on October 30, 1807 for vagrancy and extracting money under false pretences from Thomas Barnes, a footman in the employ of William Blair, a surgeon in Gt Russell Street, Bloomsbury. *170/163 1807-1808
Union of Democratic Control. London Branch. Minutes. **Minutes of the Association for the Right Understanding of International Interests and the Civil Union, predecessors of the London Branch of the Union of Democratic Control. 170/164 January 23, 1913-February 11, 1917
Carrington's Planatations, Barbados, W.I. Accounts (1810-1855). **Includes journal entries for the four Carrington sugar planatations of David Parris and his heirs, Anna Maria Carrington, wife of George Carrington, and Paul Carrington Parris. *170/165: 1-3
North, George (1710-1772). Letters to Andrew C. Ducarel, Codicote, Hertfordshire. Letters concerning North's antiquarian studies on early Saxon coins and English churches. **Some of these letters are published in John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century 5, London 1812, pp.427 sqq. Phillipps manuscript 9447. **170/166 March 21,1743-December 21, 1754
Partington, Wilfred George (b. 1888). Forging Ahead: the True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise (New York ). 170/179 1939
Great Britain. Privy Council. Committee on Education. Draft: Plan of Education by the Rt Hon. the Secretary of State [addressed to John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmoreland] (London ). **Reports on the various kinds of schools in England with observations on them, and a plan for education by which existing abuses would be corrected. *170/180 ca. 1790
Harvard University. Body of Laws for Harvard College ... made ... 1734 (Cambridge, Massachusetts ). **Edward A. Holyoke's copy. 170/182 September 15, 1742
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (1818-1893). Commonplace Book (New Orleans, ). **Presented to General Beauregard by Les dames de la Nouvelle Orléans, and containing a five page letter of presentation and dedication. The book was never used. 170/185 March 12, 1864
Peretti, J., Abbé. 'Christoph Colomb, Français, Corse & Calvais. Etude historique sur la patrie du grand admiral de l'océan': a Condensation and Full Synopsis...by Ervine Dennison York (Washington ). 170/189 1891
Macpherson, James (1736-1796), translator. The Poems of Ossian (London, ). **Fore-edge painting of Horace Walpole's home, Strawberry Hill. 170/203 1819
[Marcet, Mrs Jane (Haldimand] (1769-1858).] Conversations on Astronomy in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by plates. Designed for the use of Schools and Academies (s.l. s.a.). **Apparently unpublished. 170/205
[Bowles, Carington (1724-1793).] The Artist's Assistant in Drawing, Perspective, Etching, Engraving, Mezzotinto-Scraping, Painting on Glass, in Crayons, and in Water-Colours (London ). Second edition. 170/207 ca. 1780
[Beerbohm, Max.] The Anglo-Saxon Review: a Quarterly Miscellany, edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. vol.10. **Ex libris: Max Beerbohm, who has altered the plates opposite pages 63 and 66. Lacking pp.205-214. *170/209 September 1901
Troubetskoy, Amélie (Rives) Chanler (1863-1945). A Winter-Walk (unpublished Poem) and [12] Letters of Amélie Rives...written to me [Edward Heron-Allen] in New York in the Year 1888 (Castle Hill, Cobham, Virginia, February 22, 1888-January 28, 1889). 170/212
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth (1889-1930). Collection of ten early literary manuscripts, prize poems clipped from the newspapers in which they appeared, and four letters to Christopher Sclater Millard. **Previously owned by Millard and Vyvyan Holland. 170/214 ca. 1905/1916
Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901). Drawing in Sepia Ink. Original Drawing of a boy and girl at play, initialed by artist. 170/215
Butterworth, Edward. Diary (November 12,1848-July 4, 1849). **Diary of voyage from Boston to San Francisco via Cape Horn on board the Bark Euphrasia, and including an account of his activities in San Francisco from Also includes 20 loose pages containing poetry, recipes and a photograph. May 26 till July 4, 1849.
Bickersteth, Edward, Dean (1814-1892). Letters, signed, to various persons (1879-1884). Manuscript, 4 items. **Two letters to Jabez Hogg (), J.R. Keble (1884). Accompanied by five portraits and an obituary notice. 170/222 1883; 1884
Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872). Letters, signed, to various persons. **Letters to Charles Fauriel (London, 1824); C.B. Sheridan to Fauriel (); Charles Martin (). Accompanied by two portraits of Bowring. 170/225 1821-1845 December 30, 1824 May 20 ca. 1845
Pembroke, Anne (Clifford) Herbert, Countess of (1590-1676). Notes written on the margins of a leaf from a 17th century travel book (pages 337-338 of volume 6, "Muscovy, Tartary, and Persia," of Adam Olearius. The voyages & travels of the ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia… London: Printed for Thomas Dring, and John Starkey….., 1662). **Accompanied by three portraits of Anne Clifford. 170/230
Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933). An Image of Shakespeare {review of book by Frank Mathews (London s.a.). **Accompanied by manuscript review of J.M. Dent's editions of W.H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago and Idle Days in Patagonia. 170/240
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentick, 3rd Duke of (1738/1809). Letter, signed, to T. Townshend (London, ). **With letter to P. from T. Townshend (Whitehall September 22, 1782); Manuscript, Most Private; 2 portraits, genealogy of Portland. 170/242 September 4, 1782
Pantoja House, San Diego, California. Day Book (San Diego, ). **Daily accounts for the Pantoja House, a billiard parlor and saloon in New San Diego, owned by Charles J. Laning. There are numerous entries for purchases by William Heath Davis and Santiago E. Arguello. 170/247 December 28, 1850-July 6, 1851
Pailthorpe, Frederic W. (1837-1914). Collection of original drawings, sketches, tracings, water-colour paintings, and proofs, done to illustrate The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and other works of Charles Dickens (ca. 1880-1885). Accompanied by letter from Pailthorpe to Kitton (February 2, 1905). *170/251
Templeman, Thomas (d. 1729). Templeman's Survey of the Globe: being an Accurate Mensuration of all the Empires, Kingdoms, Countries, States, Principal Provinces, Countries, and Islands in the World (Anthony Blinkhorn scripsit, ). Manuscript. **Apparently a copy of the printed edition, London 1729. 170/261 1735
Patrick, General Marsena Rudolph (1811-1888). Diary. **The writer was a participant in the defence of Washington (1862), the second Manassas, and the Antietam campaign, etc. 170/262 January 1, 1862-June 17, 1865
Dryden, William S. Diary. **Diary as a farmer in Maine Prairie Township, Solano Company, California, including information on farming operations near San Diego, Lower California and in Alameda County near Oakland, California. Steamer trip to San Francisco. pp.1-59 include records of civil and criminal cases (March 1866/June 6, 1867) tried before Dryden as Justice of the Peace for Maine Prairie Township. *170/264 January 1, 1870-April 14, 1872
Riverside House, Riverside, California. Register. Printed form, filled in. **Names and addresses of hotel guests; interleaved with advertisements for various businesses, chiefly in San Bernardino and Riverside, California. *170/265 March 4, 1882-September 23, 1882
Moore, George (1852-1933). Daphnis and Chloe. Perronik the Fool. (New York: Boni and Liveright, ). Accompanied by letter from Moore to Rex Whistler about the latter's proposed illustrations for the Perronik. The original illustrations belong to the UCLA Library. 170/270 1924
West, Henry Hebard (1872-1958), comp. Handling President McKinley's Special on Los Angeles Division, Southern Pacific Railroad (Los Angeles, ). **A scrapbook compiled by West concerning the McKinley Special of *170/275 ca. 1888-1946 1901.
[Animated Book (?Paris ).] **By flipping the pages one sees a woman preparing for and entering her bath. 170/276 ca. 1897
Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963). Texts & Pretexts: an Anthology with Commentaries (London, ). **Mounted on front endleaf is a sheet of stationery with the last stanza of The Cicadas in Huxley's hand; signed. 170/278 1932
Thomson, James (1700/1748). The Seasons (London, ). **Double fore-edge painting: view of a lake with men fishing; fox-hunting scene. 170/287 1802
Dejean, Jean François Aimé, comte (1749-1824). Campagne de 1794, ou 2me année de la République française, journaux des sieges qui ont été fait cette campagne. **Includes accounts of the sieges of Ypres, Nieuport, L'Ecluse, etc.; and the part played in these operations by troops of General Dejean in the campain of the Armée du Nord. 170/294 1794-1795
Martin, Maurice Camille. Voyage de Lyon à Constantinope, 1815/1819, 1-3 (France ). **The author was an ordinance officer under Mouton-Duvernet during the Hundred Days of 1815. Fearing arrest, he left Lyon for Constantinople as the representative of a leading French weavers firm. Also contain notes and statistics chiefly concerning commerce in the Levant. *170/297: 1-3 ca. 1870
Krupin, Sylvia. Bread without Butter (ca. 1935). **Recollections of a trip with her brother made from Pasadena, California, to New York City during the depression years. Includes descriptions of their experiences hitch-hiking and riding on freight trains. *170/300
Rosselli, Stefano (1598-1664). Descrizione delle chiese di Firenze e suoi contorni, e dell'armi, inscrizioni, & altre memorie che in quelle si veggono quest'anno 1657 (Florence ). **Description of the churches of Florence and their surroundings; ca. 3000 heraldic design; wash-drawings of major funeral monuments. Copy made by Gaetano Martini in *170/302 1657 1733.
Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739). Lecture in Hydrostaticks, Pneumaticks, and Opticks (Cambridge ). **The volume also includes lectures on astronomy, sound, Mechanicks (by Mr. Wrigley), and a compendium of technical chronology. The lectures were probably transcribed by John Lord. *170/303 ca. 1725
Damas de Marrilac, Claude Charles, vicomte de 1731-ca 1800). Journal des troubles de la Martinique Martinique. **The writer was appointed governor of Martinique in 1783. After the French Revolution, civil war broke out on the island in June 1790. Includes copies of letters and documents. *170/306 September 1, 1790-March 14, 1791
Root, Virginia V. Following the Pot of Gold at the Rainbow's End in the Days of 1850: the Life of Mrs Susan Thompson Lewis Parrish of El Monte, California (s.l. s.a.). **Account of covered wagon trip from Independence, Missouri, to El Monte, with mention of the captivity of Olive Oatman among the Apache and Mojave Indians. *170/310
York (ship). Transactions on board the York, Henry Lascelles, Commander (Log book, ). **Log of the British East India Company's ship: England to Madras, China, Vaumpoa and back to England, calling at Java and St. Helena. *170/312 November 22, 1743-December 16, 1745
St James Hotel, San Diego, California. Register (San Diego ). **The hotel was completed in 1886 by Peter Remondino, M.D. It was later called, under E.F. Arey, the Santa Rosa Hotel. *170/314: 1-3 February 2, 1886-February 28, 1887; September 28, 1889-April 16, 1890
Cobbold, Richard (1797/1877). Geoffrey Gambado, or a Simple Remedy for Hypocondriacism [sic] and Melancholy Splenetic Humours, by a Humorist Physician (s.l. ). **Published by Dean & Son, London 1865. Accompanied by set of Bunbury's 12 engravings. *170/316 1865
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882). Collection of letters, pamphlets and ephemera relating to a banquet given for Ainsworth in Manchester. **Includes four letters from Ainsworth to John Evans, September and October 1881; W.E. A. Axon's memoir of Ainsworth; The Artist and the Author: a Statement of Facts by George Cruikshank (London, 1872). 170/318 September 15, 1881
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st baron (1778-1868). Letters to George Harris and J. Stewart from Brougham. **Accompanied by pamphlet on Harris as candidate for the Chair of History at University College, London (1860). 170/319 1848-1865
Blessington, marguerite (Power) Farmer Gardiner, countess of (1789-1849). Company Book (Gore House, Kensington, London, ). **Contains the names of guests entertained at Gore House, with weekly totals of guests. Names include Lord Brougham, Dickens, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Marryat and Thackeray. 170/321 July 20, 1841-July 16, 1847
Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th baron (1788-1824). Poems (London s.a.). **Fore-edge painting of view of Newstead Abbey. 170/333
Niven, Frederick John (1878-1944). Justice of the Peace (London ). **Presentation copy from Rebecca West to H.G. Wells. 170/334 ca. 1917
Davis, John Edward (1816-1877). Log of H.M.S. Samarang, Charles H. Paget, Esq., Captain. June 6, 1831-September 28, 1834
[Young, Charles B.?] Journal (September 26, 1846-July 3, 1847). **Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco carrying units of Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st New York Volunteer Regiment to participate in the military conquest of California. Included are descriptions of life aboard the vessel, in San Francisco and at Santa Barbara, where the troops were on garrison duty. 170/339
Blessington, Marguerite (Power) Farmer Gardiner, countess of (1789-1849). Lady Blessington and her Court (London: The Hawthorne Press, s.a.). **Includes 4 pencil & tinted drawings of Lady Blessington & Gore House by Alicia Darrington. *170/346: 2
Schoenbartbuch. [Nuremberg ] **Chronicle of the Nuremberg carnival with finely executed paintings of costumes and floats from 1449 to 1539. Includes coats of arms of the noble families of Nuremberg. *170/351 ca. 1600.
Geschlecht Buch dess heiligen Reichs Stat Nüremberg (Nuremberg ). **Genealogical work on the noble families of Nuremberg with 81 iron engravings of noblemen by Kaler. Handcoloured engraved coat of arms pasted inside front cover. *170/354 1610
Pascoe, Charles Eyre, fl. 1870. The Dramatic List: a Record of the Principal Performances of Living Actors and Actresses of the British Stage (London: Hardwicke and Bogue, ). **Interleaved copy. About 100 original letters from various actors and actresses. 170/356 1879
Bonino, Marco. Sketchbook of machines and inventions (N. Italy, s. XVI²; France, s. XVII). **About 400 ink drawings of weight-moving machines, water pumps, clockworks, etc., mostly derived from the works of Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Marianus Jacobus Taccola. Cf. Ferrari, pp.69-70; detailed description, S.A. Bedini in the Collections File. 170/358
Euripides. The Hecuba of Euripides... for the use of schools and colleges. (London, ). **Annotated with amusing notes and drawings throughout by Henry Charles Brougham, 3rd baron, 1853-1854, whilst a student at Eton. 170/359 1852
Collection of four works on the Chinese language Beijing ). (a) Basilio de Gemona, Franciscan, Table of Chinese characters, 34 leaves; (b) Francisco Varo, Dominican, Spanish-Chinese dictionary, translated into Italian by Ven. Barthelemy Ferrari, Barnabite, 123 leaves; (c) Ferrari, Compendium compiled from the dictionary of Basilio da Gemona, 18 leaves; (d) Ferrari, Chinese-Latin dictionary, 398 leaves Apparently unpublished. *170/360 ca. 1721/1723
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613). His observations upon the State of the 17 provinces and of France, and first upon that of the United Province (s.l. s.a.). **First published London, ; originally written, 1609. Early 17th century copy. Phillipps Manuscript no.12376. *170/362 1626
Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Cérémonies pour la reception et la sepulture des religieux de St. Denis (St Denis, Francie, ). **Phillipps Manuscript no.1978. Burial service for the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St. Denis. 170/366 17th century
Empereurs, rois et princes regnants du 18e siècle ). Phillipps Manuscript no.10610. Chronology of the states of Europe, 1700-1745, with lists of rules from the late 17th century to 1748. At end is a short chronology of France, 1515/1709. 170/367 ca. 1750
Instructions politiques, contenant les vertus necessaires a un prince pour bien et heureusement gouvernere les subjects. Du vice et de la vertu. Les peuples sont attaches par une si forte chaine aveq le prince qui les commande (France s. XVII ex.). **Phillipps Manuscript no.13144. An essay on political science. 170/368
Phosphorus historicus seu chronologicae tabulae, citatis auctoribus illustratae, opera et studio L(udolf) Smids, M.D. Scriptore P(etrus) Vlaming. (Holland ). **Phillipps Manuscript no.2456. A chronology of world history beginning with Adam and Eve, including a chronology of Rome, with a few engravings by Smids of Roman coins mounted on several leaves. Ex libris: E.H.W. Meyerstein. 170/370 ca. 1700
Proscenium antiquitatis adornatum a Lud. Smids, M.D. ... ornat suppl. Petrus Vlaming. (Holland ). Phillipps Manuscript no.2499. Subject index to the great writings of ancient Rome; a few engravings by Smids of Roman coins mounted on several leaves. Ex libris: E.H.W. Meyerstein. 170/371 ca. 1700
Hearne, Thomas (1678-1735). Reliquiae Hearnianae: the Remains of Thomas Hearne... being extracts from his Ms. Diaries, collected with a few notes by Philip Bliss... Second edition, enlarged (London: John Russell Smith, 1869). **With notes in ink by William Gaskell Rouse. Ex libris: E.H.W. Meyerstein. 170/377
L., R. Of the soule of the man Adam, in the earthly or blouddy being; and of the state thereof in the deified being: of his fall and restauration: a short declaration to those that can comprehend understtanding Parables for Pastime. (English, ). 170/379 ca. 1700
[Reports of Venetian Ambassadors from Spain, Rome, and France, various places (1558-1623). **Relazione ... Michel Soriano ritornato ambasciatore da Filippo Re di Spagna l'anno 1560; Rel. ... Bernardo Navagero ... Tornando di Roma ambasciatore a Papa Paolo IV l'anno 1558; Rel. ... Giovanni Correro Tornato ambasciatore dal Re di Francia l'anno 1570; Conclave di Papa Gregorio XIIII ... l'anno 1590; Prerogative e doveri del Nunzio di Napoli; Conclave per l'elezione di Urbano VIII Barberini l'anno 1623. The first 3 reports are published. *170/380
The Practice of the Court of Chancery in the Grand Sessions for the Several Countys of Glamorgan, Brecon & Radnor (England, ). **A commonplace book containing various legal definitions and explanations. 170/381 ca. 1750-1790
[Granjux, Giovanni Giuseppe?] Apparecchi e feste della citta di Fossano per l'arrivo del suo nuovo e sospirato Vesco Monsignore Luigi Fransoni, Patrizio Genovese. (Fossano, Italy 1821). **Fransoni (1789-1862) was appointed Bishop in This poem describes his procession and welcome by the town. 170/384 1821.
Marolles, Michel de (1600-1681). Catalogue de livres d'estampes & de figures en taille-douche. Avec un dénombrement des pièces qui y sont continuës. Fait à Paris en l'année 1672 (Paris? ). **Manuscript copy, made about 1825, of the book published in 1672. It is a continuation of Marolles's work of 1666. 170/385 ca. 1825
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643). Fiori musicali di diverse compositioni toccate, kyrie, canzoni, capricci, ricercari in partitura a quatro utili per sonatori autore Girolamo Frescobaldi. Organista di San Pietro di Roma. (Venice: Alessandro Vicenti, ). (Germany?). **Apparently this is a manuscript copy made from the work published at Venice in 170/388 1635 1635.
Accounts of Three Trials (England, ). **Divorce of Lady Frances Howard and the Earl of Essex, 1613; Trial of Richard Weston et al. for murdering Sir Thomas Overbury, 1615; Trial of Lord Mervin Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, for rape and sodomy, 1631. Phillipps Manuscript no.21547. *170/393 ca. 1650
Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope (1863-1933). The Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope, with 18 illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy (New York ). **Tipped in are two letters from Hawkins to Robert Howard Russell, the publisher, , and a letter from Christy to Russell. 170/399 1901 October 10, 1899 and April 9, 1901
Forster, John, 1812-1876. The Life of Charles Dickens (London, ). **Extra-illustrated copy by William Miller, Shoreditch, England, with about 540 original letters and about 2000 pictures and ephemera, all relating to persons and places in the biography. A list of letters is in the collections file. *170/404 1872-1874
Palmotta, Giacomo, cavliere. Descrizione del terremoto di Ragusa, avvenuto il giorno 6 Aprile 1667, fatta in versi Illirici dal rinomato Cavaliere Giacomo Palmottz Raguseo, e tradotta in Italiano volgare dal Signor Marino Slatarichi Raguseo, e copiata a Ragusa il 7 Marzo 1819 da Marco Marinovich (Ragusa [Dubrovnik] ). Apparently unpublished. 170/406 1819
Newton, William, vicar of Gillingham, Dorset. A vindication of the Reverend Dr. White Kennett, Dean of Peterborough, as to his writings, & conduct of his Life: on Occasion of several Late Jacobite Libels against him (England ). **This biography, with substantial changes and omissions, was published in London in 1730 (cf. Special Collections BX 5199 K3N4). *170/408 1717
Bégon, Michel, 1638-1710. Five letters concerning the foreign relations between France and Morocco, **Two of the letters are from Mulai Isma'il, 3rd sultan of Morocco, on a proposal of marriage between the sultan and a daughter of Louis XIV; one letter is from Louis XIV. *170/410 ca. 1700.
Gerard, John(?), translator. Desiderius, or the Readie Way to the Loue of God. Written in dialogue wise, under learned and pleasaunt allegories. First put forth in the Spanish Tonge; and after translated into Latin: and nowe lately into Englishe for the behoof of the deuout of our nation. **Apparently unpublished translation from the Spanish version by Miguel Comalada. 170/413 ca. 1595
Tennyson, Alfred, baron (1809-1892). Poems (London, ). Extra-illustrated edition with 57 pen and ink drawings by Robert Spencer Borland for his mother. 170/417 1848
Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th baron (1833-1896). Catalogue of the books in the study at Lilford Hall (Oundle, Peterborough, ). **Arranged alphabetically by author; many of the books are on ornithology. 170/421 1879
Ashton, John (b. 1834). Florizel's folly (London, ). **Extra illustrated copy with a large number of pictures of persons and places mentioned in the book. Anecdotes of the life of George IV. 170/427 1899
Dickenson, Samuel, of Blymhill, Staffordshire. Journals. **Journal of voyage to Goree in Africa; Journal Mediterranean, Gibraltar; Journal from London to Marseilles; Journal from Marseilles to Genoa; Journal from Florence to Rome and Journies [sic] in Wales; tropical trees, fruits, grains; The Campidoglio a Roma. 170/429 1758-1798
Reserved for Inglis manuscripts. 170/447
Holloway, Ernest Ferrers. The New Koran, or The Truth as I See It (London ). **An attempt to synthesize the world's various religions. Inscribed An den Reichs-kanzler [Adolf Hitler] mit Grüssen von E.F. Holloway. Reputed to have been found in Hitler's library. 170/449 1938-1939
Hedley, Anthony. Commonplace Books (Hexham, North-umberland, ). **Hedley was a clergyman at Kirk Whelpington, Hexham. These volumes contain copies of his letters; copies of burial and other records; extracts from books; and notes of antiquarian interest. A list of contents appears at vol.3, p.428. *170/452 ca. 1808-1834
The Gossip. no.62-69 (Lincoln, England, ). **A literary periodical issued by a group of friends for their own amusement. Includes a mock Gothic novel, The Haunted Priory, a Legendary Fragment. 170/453 April 5-May 30, 1820 1819
England. Politicial History. Collection of Twelve Manuscripts and one printed broadside concerning treaties and foreign relations between England and various European countries). **Apparently, official documents. *170/465 ca. 1502-1659
Bible. Manuscripts, Armenian. N.T. ** The Minassian Codex. 170/466
Armenian manuscript. **Silver cover. 170/467
Spain. Archivo general de Indias, Seville. Simancas eclesiastico audiencia de Charcas. Cartas y espedientes del Cabildo Eclesiatico de Charcas vistos en el Cosejo. Ano 1566 à 1699 (Seville[?], ). Transcript of arguments concerning the division of the Spanish colonial area of Charcas (Bolivia and parts of Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay). Lists of Spanish and Indian population etc. *170/470 ca. 1850
François I, King of France (1494-1547). Letters (1523-1524). **Written by several scribes, signed by Francis I, the letters concern Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage of discovery to the New World in 1524. Letters 1-5 are addressed to M. de Chillon; letter 6 to a Vice Admiral (unidentified). *170/475
Reserved for Hungarian Manuscripts. 170/477
Los Angeles. Department of Water and Power. Record of proceedings relating to the authorization, issuance, execution, sale and delivery of $22,775,000, Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, electric plant refunding revenue bonds, issue of 1943. vol.2. 170/484 1943-1946
Los Angeles. Department of Water and Power. Record of proceedings relating to the authorization, issuance, execution, sale and delivery of $15,000,000, Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, electric plant refunding revenue bonds, issue of 1944. 170/454
Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972). Papers (Washington, D.C. ). Papers, reports and lectures delivered by Hoover. These copies were sent to Leon Lambert, Chief of Provincial Police, Quebec. 170/489 circa. 1934-1937
Gebelin, François (b. 1884). Les chateaux de la renaissance (Paris, ). Ex libris: Charles Boyer. *170/491 ca. 1927
Thorne, Marco G. The Diary of Levi Stowell. 170/503 1849
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852). The Poetical Works (London, ). **Fore-edge painting of street scene with neo-classic building, carriages, and children playing with a dog. Ex libris: Lawrence Durrell. 170/504 1846
Cano y Nieto, Alonso (1711-1780). Nuevo aspecto de la topografia de Argel: su estado, fuerzas y govierno, comparado con el antiguo. **Account of a trip made to Algiers in 1768-1769 to ransom Spanish captives and to gather information on Algerian military and naval strength. 170/506 ca. 1769
Schneider, Walter Otto (1895-1962), compiler. Catalogs of Mr. Schneider's library and graphic arts collection (Los Angeles, ). Typescript (pasteup). **vol.1: Frans Masereel collection; vol.2: Miscellaneous books in the collection (willed to the UCLA Library). 170/507 ca. 1915-1962
Diseños : maps and plans of ranchos of Southern California, mostly within Los Angeles and Orange counties
Lermontov, Mikhail Iur'evrich (1814-1841). Izo dnia v den', izvlecheniia iz cochinenii Lermontova na kazhdyi den' goda. **Calendar of selections from the works of Lermontov used as a memory book. The compiler was Olga Konstantinovna, the granddaughter of Tsar Paul I. *170/509 1886
Ordenanzas del Baratillo de Mexico dada per via de exortazion o consejo a sus dotores. Compuestas por Don Pedro Anselmo Chreslos Jache (). **Analysis of the social and economic state of Mexico. Formerly Phillipps Manuscript no.21332. 170/513 ca. 1800
Varios papeles jocoserios intitulados El Duende. Que salieron en diferentes Jeuves, de los anos 1735 y 1736. Segunda parte de la obra del Duende Critico de Palazio. **Satirical periodical, mostly in verse, directed principally against the minister Patino, and circulated only in manuscript copies during the 18th century. 170/514
Hader, Berta (Hoerner). Rainbow's End (New York, ). **With an original watercolour on the half-title by Berta and Elmer Hader, inscribed to Frances Clarke Sayers. 170/522 1945
Vacant. 170/528
Commonplace Book (England, s. XVI third quarter). **Notes on philosophy in Greek and Latin in dictionary form; geographical names; excerpts from Pausanias; notes on chronology, astrology, Latin-Greek dictionary from A to Ingratus; notes in Italian on geometry; list of Kings of England; laws of Anglo-Saxon Kings, in Latin; Laws of William the Conqueror, in Anglo-Norman and Latin; copies of documents in Anglo-Saxon. Ex libris: Laurence Nowell (d. 1576); William Lambarde (1536-1601), Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1504-1575). 170/529
Caballero y Góngora, Antonio, Cardinal (1723-1796). Relación del estado del Nuevo Reyno de Granada; que hace el Arsobispo obispo de Cordova, a su successor el excelentisimo senor Don Francisco Guyl de Lemos ano de 1789. **Caballero y Góngora was Viceroy of New Granada, i.e. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, from 1782 to 1788. 170/531 ca. 1789
[Accounts of famous murders in 16th century Italy] (Padua? ). **Murders of Vittoria Accoramboni Orsini, the Marchese de Massimi, and the Duchess of Paliano. Orsini's murder inspired John Webster's play, The White Devil. Phillipps Manuscript no.2433. 170/543 ca. 1600
Cooke, C., firm, publishers, London. Proof prints of illustrations for Cooke's Pocket edition of the original and complete works of select poets, classics, and novels (London, ). 170/549 1795-1804
Vacant. 170/555
Vacant. 170/563
Carlson, Viola L. Margaret M. Gate: a Retrospective at Eighty-Five (Tujunga, California, ). **Gage was a dancer, choreographer, teacher, actress and philanthropist who came to Los Angeles in 1940. Includes reminiscences of Mary Wigman and Rabindranath Tagore. 170/565 1981
Vacant. 170/566
Ristretto delli Stati (s. XVII¹). 170/573
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of (1694-1773). Letter to Bayley (London, ). **Chesterfield says he will purchase a commission as captain for him. *170/578 June 5, 1753
Giovanni da Sulmona. Opera (Sulmona ). **Only surviving copy of this poet's works. Signed and dated by the scribe Antonius Marianicus Sulmontinus. Belonged to the Franciscans of San Niccolo, Sulmona. Bound with other texts, including letter of Janos Hunyadi (d. 1456) to Matthias, Count of Bisterczew, and Prester John, De ritu et moribus Indorum. 170/589 1440
Berkeley, Mary (Cole), countess of (1767-1844). An Address to the Rt Hon. the Peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (London, ). **Marginal notes by the Earl of Malesbury. 170/599 1811
Commonplace Book (England, ). **Poetry and prose selections of many writers in various hands; watercolour illustrations of birds, butterflies, and fruit. 170/601 ca. 1829-1833
Bagnall, Lucy Elizabeth (Sherwood) (1808-1835). Album (England, ). **Watercolours, pencil drawings and poems. 170/602 ca. 1828-1885
Vacant. 170/603
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula (New York, ). **Presentation copy to William Winter (), accompanied by letter from Stoker. 170/611 1899 November 1899
Benassai, Pietro Francesco. Spiegazione e note storiche alla dedica della orazioni di Cicerone (Lucca ). **Phillipps Manuscript no.7204. *170/614 ca. 1453
St Augustine. De uita Christiana (Germany s. XV). **Accompanied by Bonaventure's De septem donis Spiritus sancti; Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl's De septem malis. **Belonged to the Benedictines of Liesborn. 170/617
Unidentified Coptic Manuscript. 170/618
Armenian Manuscript. 170/619
Upton, Nicholas. Liber de militari officio (England, s. XV). **Bound with the proof sheets of Joseph Haslewood's facsimile reprint of The Blasynge of Arms, Wynkyn de Worde, 1496. Belonged to George Townsend, Earl of Leicester (1755-1811); Joseph Haslewood (1760-1833); Sir Thomas Phillipps. *170/621
Nativity play (Italy, s. XIV). Parchment. **Fragment of a roll containing the Annunciation portion of a Nativity play. 170/623
Archimedes. Translation by Frederigo Commandino, etc. (Rome 1553-s. XVII med). **Served as the printer's copy for the Aldine edition of Includes Commandino's translation of Archimedes (Rome? /mid s. XVII?). Belonged to the Albani Library. *170/624 1558. ca. 1553
Cusatus, Hieronymus. Fastorum libri XII. (Rome?, ). **Apparently the author's fair copy in his own hand, with numerous corrections on slips of paper neatly pasted in. The work correlates the liturgical calendar with the zodiac. 170/626 ca. 1525-1535
Nicolaus di Antonio da Fiesso di Ferrara. Meditationes super passionem Christi; Epistola B.M.V. ad uniuersos Christi fideles (Ferrara s. XV med.). **Humanistic script. Belonged to the Carthusians of St Christopher near Ferrara. 170/627
Mosenthal, Philipp. Lieder (s. XIX). **57 songs with the lyrics in German. 170/628
Leps, Maurice Edouard (1809-1863). Memoirs (after 1844?). **French naval lieutenant, captain of La Vigie (1841-1844). Memoirs of sea voyages and campaigns (1827-42), including those in the eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Africa (Senegal), Brazil, Chile and Peru. *170/632
Ethiopian manuscripts ** Given by Haile Selassie. *170/636
Ketah al-Sahhah fiad-Logha. *170/637
Beccadelli, Antonio (1394-1471). Alfonsi regis epistolae [with] legationes et epistolae. 170/638
Not described. 170/639
Not described. 170/640
Collectanea. Vitae patrum; L. da Segni, De miseria condicionis humanae; unidentified, incomplete, text; Hugh of St. Victor, Soliloquium de arrha animae; Johannes Herrolt, Sermones (West Germany, 1476-78). **Written by John of Tübingen, subdeacon of the Cistercian abbey of Salem near Heidelberg. 170/642
Peter of Riga. 170/648
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell. Memoirs. 170/650
Catholic Church. Lectern Gradual (Spain, ). ** Commissioned by Juan Fernandes de Paredes and Antonia Cornela his wife from Valladolid for the convent of Bernardine nuns of St Mary at Avila. ***170/652 1539
St Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373). Contra gentiles, De incarnatione Verbi. Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439); 1 of 5 known manuscripts. Italy s. XV². Bound by Charles Lewis for H. Drury. 170/653
Chalco, Mexico. Collection of original manuscripts . . . relating to famine 170/654 1741.
Vacant. 170/655
Scroll of Esther. *170/657
Antiphonal. Toledo, Spain, s. XVII ex - XVIII in. Signed and dated by Fr. Johannes Cabello, 1737. Music on five-line staves. Text in a late liturgical gothic script. Four large decorated initials. Bound in full calf over oak boards; 4 brass bosses; painting on front cover of the deposition of Christ dated Toledo 1694. Belonged to the Franciscans of Seville. ***170/659
Qur'an. Fragment in unbound sections. s. X. 170/671
Christian prayers. Arabic, s. XVIII? 170/672
Quadragesimale, ca 50 anonymous sermons on the Gospels for Lent and Good Friday. German s. XV med. Written by one person in an uneven hybrid script. Bound in contemporary tawed hide over beveled oak boards. Pastedowns: front, canon law s. XIII, back, grammars. XV. 170/673
Biblical Miscellany. North-East Italy, Includes Genealogia beate Virginis. Liber generationis Ihesu Christi; Alexandre de Ville Dieu, Summarium Biblicum; etc. Written by one person in hybrida and textura scripts. 170/674 1370-80.
Centum meditationes passionis domini Ihesu Christi. Latin and German. Cologne, Germany, s. XV med. Written by one person in a well formed hybrida script. Probably belonged to the Carthusians of St Barbara in Cologne to judge from the binding stamps and the saints mentioned. Signature of Pastor Servius Jacobo Rus[...?], s. XVII. 170/675
Bede, Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum vol.7.6-7. South Italy, s. XI 3/4. Written in Bari Type Beneventan script. Name (s. XIII): Petro de Caponisso, on leaf. Removed from a printed book: G. Savonarola, Confessionale, Venice , and Matthaeus Corradonus, Speculum confessorum et lumen conscientie, Venice 1535 (UCLA 121963 AMEIP), from the abbey of SS. Flora and Lucilla, O.S.B., Arezzo ( Ex libris). 170/676 1524
Prayer book in Latin and German, Germany (Goslar?), Portions of two separate prayer books joined together in the early 16th century. Part 1: probably Augustinian house in the diocese of Hildesheim, perhaps in Goslar, to judge from the saints in the first calendar. Note: illumination by the same artists in a manuscript dated 1499 (see H. Tenschert, Lauchtendes Mittelalters 21, 1989, no.49, pp.310-14). Bound in 16th century brown morocco, rebacked, with gilt stamp of Mary in the center of the front and back covers. Ex libris: Frances Paget, cleric (1830); Edward Crawshaw (book label); Sotheby's December 20, 1920, no.105. 170/678 ca. 1500.
Office of the Dead. Notated. Italy, Written and signed by presbyter Johannes Jacobus for a religious confraterity founded in 1361. Music on a five-line staff. Text written in a round Italian textura. *170/688 1557.
Deposition in Latin and Italian. Venice, Between Caterino Rosso and her sons Nicoletus and Tibaldus and her sons by a previous marriage, Ptrus Arbusian and his brother Franciscus, who are accused of having built a wall illegally on her property in the district of San Silvestro causing damage to her well. Heard in Torcello (Venice) before Mattheus Aymo and Antonius Michael and Andreas Marcello (in absentia), judges. ***170/690 May 10, 1392.
Notary's cartulary. Venice, Mestre, Copies of about 60 documents in 2 chronological sequences, the first dating , the second dating from , involving properties of the Gritti family. Written by one person in a well formed notarial cursive script. 170/691 1550-60. 1477-1554 1477-1550
Book of Hours (Use of Rome). North-East France, s. XV ex. Written by one person in an upright hybrida script. A tiny and attractive pocket prayer book when it was new. 170/692
Guibert de Tournai O.F.M., Liber Pharetra. Bologna (?), Italy, s. XIII2/2. Written by one person in a small Italian gothic textura. Two illuminated initials (including f. 128 head of Gregory IX). 170/693
Calendar from a liturgical book. St Jean de Baillon, Parchment 18 leaves. Title and heading by Francis Denis Beautort. 12 large initials in red ink. Signed, dated and written (probably the calendar rather than the added notes) by Father Denis Beautort, priest of the church of St Jean de Baillon (near Luzarches, north of Paris toward Chantilly). *170/697 December 1, 1470.
Prayers. In French and Latin. North-west France (Brittany?), Written by one person in an angular French textura script. 170/698 ca. 1450.
Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of St Michael. In French. France (probably Paris), Written by one person in batarde script. Full page miniature (f. 7) with architectural border of a king (originally Louis XI, now Francis I) enthroned and attended by his court. Attributed to a painter in the circle of the Master of the Paris Entries, possibly Etienne Collaud. One of a series of twelve manuscripts of the Statutes commmissioned by Francis I between 1523 and 1528. Bookplate of Hemricout de Ramiol (ca 1810, Liege), and Howel Wills (1845-1901). Sotheby's July 11, 1894, no.1104, bought by Ellis. 170/700 1523-28.