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16 September 1772
Longman, Thomas (1731-1797)
[Invoice of goods]
List of books on a variety of subjects sent from London to Boston. Items also include pamphlets on criminal law and arts and science. Noted as a copy in the docket.
GLC02437.08294
29 July 1794
[Invoice of goods shipped to Henry Knox by Thomas Longman]
Marked "Copy" on docket. List of books Longman shipped to Knox. It was shipped in 5 packages. The shipment also included chapbooks, plays, and monthly reviews. The cost of trunks, cases, shipping, and insurance is included. The total came to Â...
GLC02437.08367
29 July 1774
List of books Longman shipped to Knox. It was shipped in 5 packages. The shipment also included chapbooks, plays, and monthly reviews. The cost of trunks, cases, shipping, and insurance is included. The total came to £238.8.6 1/2. Gives a...
GLC02437.08369
13 May 1778
Badger, John (fl. 1778)
[List of books bought at vendue]
List of books bought at vendue. Includes Pliny's "Letters," Cole's "Dictionary," and "Telemachus. All in all about 50 books seem to have been purchased. The total came to £31.7.0. Signed by Badger that payment was received.
GLC02437.08430
no date
Wellmore, Edward (fl. 1834-1867)
[Engraving of Patrick Henry]
Engraving of Patrick Henry by Edward Wellmore, based on the painting by James Barton Longacre.
GLC08973.02
1777
Barstow, John (fl. 1777)
[Patriotic Verse in schoolboy exercise book]
2 January 1777 entry - "The Amaricans Challings/ Americans to arms Prepare/ Honour & Glory Beats for war/ Exert Yourselves with Force & might/ Show how the amaricans Boys Can fight/ For to maintain Their Charter rights/ Hozah Brave Boys -- //...In...
GLC09051
Unknown
[Print of General Jean Rochambeau on horseback]
GLC04837.02
1776
Watson, James
Sir Jeffery Amherst [mezzotint by James Watson, after Joshua Reynolds]
Sold by Ryland and Bryer at the Kings Arms, in Cornhill. Printed by J. Watson. Sir Jeffery Amherst (Smith IV, 1488.2). Mezzotint based on a painting by Joshua Reynolds. "Knight of the Most Honorable Order of Bath, Governor of Virginia, Colonel of His...
GLC04951
1772
Bowles, Carington (1724-1793)
The Young sweep in love, or the house-maid's conquest [mezzotint with color]
Mezzotint printed by Carrington Bowles, 7th May 1772. Depicts a short and filthy chimney-sweep embracing a house-maid, while an obscured figure watches in the background (and puts food in his mouth). The poetry appears to be a parody of Dryden's...
GLC04961.02
16 July 1776
Whipple, William (1730-1785)
to [John Langdon].
Discusses contracting for guns, military preparations, and the Declaration of Independence. Remarks that independence was proclaimed in the army at New York last Wednesday and a statue of King George III was taken down and cast into bullets, "...
GLC03186
1769
Hamilton, A. Jr. (fl. 1769-1785)
Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1769. [Vol 1, (1769)]
First annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book is...
GLC03451
1771
Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment. Volume III, for the Year 1771. [Vol. 3, (1771)]
Third annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book...
GLC03452
Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment. Volume IV, for the Year 1772. [Vol. 4, (1772)]
Fourth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book...
GLC03453
1773
Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment. Volume V, for the Year 1773. [Vol. 5, (1773)]
Fifth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Some...
GLC03454
1774
Town and country magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment. Volume VI, for the Year 1774. [Vol. 6, (1774)]
Sixth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book is...
GLC03455
1775
Town and Country Magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1775. [Vol. 7, (1775)]
Seventh annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book...
GLC03456
1778
Hamilton, Archibald (fl. 1778)
Town and Country Magazine. [Vol. 10, (1778)]
Title continues, "or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1778." Tenth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues...
GLC03458
1779
Town and Country Magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1779. [Vol. 11, (1779)]
Eleventh annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues bound. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr...
GLC03459
1777 ca.
Habermann, Francois Xaver (1721-1796)
Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck [New York][in French & German (with collateral folder of newspaper clippings)]
Shows debarking British troops in a highly imaginative setting. Hand-colored engraving, in watercolor, by Francois Xaver Habermann. Title in French and German. Full title: "[German] Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck." and "[French]...
GLC05860.01
The Hon. Samuel Barrington
An engraving of Samuel Barrington, famed British Admiral.
GLC02542.32.21
1773/04/06-1793/05/11
Dundas, David, Sir (1735-1820)
[David and Isabella Dundas letters] [Decimalized]
The letters include the American Revolution (Rhode Island, Cornwallis surrender, campaign in the South), the Gordon Riots in London, and cultural life including disparaging remarks on Italian opera and Handel's music. Most letters written by David...
GLC02549
24 May 1781
Dundas, David, Sir, Bart (1749-1826)
to James Dundas
Mentions the marriage of D. Erskine and the parliamentary elections. Describes his first visit to the opera, which he detested. Compares listening to songs in foreign languages (he does not understand) to "those poor bigots who say their prayers in...
GLC02549.17
1770
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Sixth edition, printed by J. Dodsley in London. Signed on the title page by James Wilson and Bird Wilson. This was an influential eighteenth century English tract on aesthetics.
GLC07322
May 1770
Revere, Paul (1735-1818)
A view of part of the town of Boston in New-England and Brittish Ships of War landing their troops 1768
One of two copies known to be signed by colorist Christian Remick, and engraved by Paul Revere. Originally framed in worn edge scallop frame and old glass, with frame cut-down for the print. Propaganda print showing disembarkation of British troops...
GLC02873
[Engraving of a young Alexander Hamilton]
Note signed by Frederick Reynolds indicates the image was engraved in mezzotint and printed in color. Accompanied (but unrelated to) GLC02908.01.
GLC02908.02
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