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Box 4

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Leaf from Lucan's Pharsalia, 1718

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents

From Lucan's "Pharsalia", translated by Nicholas Rowe, "Servant of His Majesty" into English verse. It was printed in 1718 for Jacob Tonson at "Shakespeare's head, over against Katherine-Street in the Strand", London. The recto side of the leaflet is marked 101 and the verso side is marked as 102.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1718
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4 / Folder 20

Folder 21

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Identifier: Folder 21
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4

Leaf from the Sonnets of Antonmaria Salvini, 1728

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Identifier: Item 21
Scope and Contents

A leaf from the Sonnets of Antonmaria Salvini. It was issued in Florence 1728, by the press of H. R. H. The Grand Duke of Tuscany. The recto side of the leaflet is marked 81 and the verso side is marked as 82.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1728
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4 / Folder 21

Folder 22

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4

Leaf from the Tables of Logarithms for all Numbers 1 to 102,100, with Other Tables, 1742

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: Item 22
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from the Tables of Logarithms For all Numbers 1 to 102,100, With Other Tables and was written by William Gardiner. It was printed in London, 1742 by G. Smith.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1742
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4 / Folder 22

Folder 23

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Identifier: Folder 23
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4

Leaf from The Book of Common Prayer, 1762

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Identifier: Item 23
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from The Book of Common Prayer. It was printed by John Baskerville, the printer to the University of Cambridge in 1762.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1762
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4 / Folder 23

Folder 24

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: Folder 24
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4

Leaf from the Third Edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible, 1776

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: Item 24
Scope and Contents

A leaf from the Third Edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible. It was printed by Saur in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1776. Most copies of this edition were destroyed during the Revolution by soldiers who used the paper for cartrages, and in fact only ten known copies exist. The recto side of the page is marked 413 and the verso side is marked 414.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4 / Folder 24

Folder 25

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 25
Identifier: Folder 25
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts / Box 4

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