Box 3
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 37
File — Box: 3, Folder: 37
Identifier: Folder 37
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Leaf from Hieroglyphica, 1622/1623
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 37
Identifier: Item 37
Scope and Contents
A leaf from Hieroglyphica, a catalogue of some of the flora and fauna mentioned in the Bible. It also contains references to animals that were not known to be in the Scriptural lands. Heiroglyphica contained interpretations by the Scottish Preacher Reverand Archibald Simson. It was brought out by Thomas Finlason in edinburgh, 1622-1623. The recto side of the page is marked as 39; the verso side is marked as 40.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1622/1623