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Artist unknown :Road haulage in 1790 [London? British Library? 1950s?]

Date: 1820 - 1790

By: Baily, J, active 1820; British Library

Reference: A-047-024

Description: Reproduction of a coloured print showing road transport Same as A-047-012 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 190 x 255 mm

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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Committee at Pata Pata; the goldfield extends over the dist...

Date: 1852 - 1979

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-041

Description: Prospectus for Anthony Murray-Oliver's folio-sized volume of Charles Heaphy's paintings, including a full-sized reproduction of a watercolour from the collection of the British Library, 'Committee at Pata Pata [Coromandel], 1852, showing a large gathering of Maori and some Pakeha in the foreground, among houses and tents, with canoes pulled up at the fore, yachts in the harbour and two ranges of hills in the background, shortly after the discovery of gold in the Coromandel. The gathering was to finalise the sale of the Coromandel gold fields. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 260 x 333 mm, on one of four pages

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British Library :The 1985 Panizzi lectures. Bibliography and the sociology of texts [by...

Date: 1985

By: British Library

Reference: Eph-C-LECTURE-1985-01

Description: Poster advertising a series of three lectures by Don McKenzie in London. These were entitled: The book as an expressive form; The broken phial: non-book texts?; and The dialectics of bibliography now. The poster features the installation / sculpture "Lesezimmer" [Reading room] by Hubertus Gojowczyk. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Professor Alexandra Barratt, Hamilton, in 2005. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2005-234. Other material from the same accession is housed at MS-Group-1421 and PAColl-8696..

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Artist unknown :Road haulage in 1790 [London? British Library? 1950s?]

Date: 1820 - 1790

By: Baily, J, active 1820; British Library

Reference: A-047-012

Description: A reproduction of an early colour illustration of transport in Britain Same as A-047-024 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 190 x 255 mm

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Librarians and scholars

Date: 1984 - 1988

From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-11923-06

Description: Correspondence regarding research for Katherine Mansfield bibliography with librarians and scholars in the period 1984 to 1988. Includes the following correspondents: - Argyll and Bute District Council - William L Scott (Local Studies Librarian) - Auckland Public Library - New Zealand and Pacific Section (Jon Bell; [P M French]; Mary A Ronnie) - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Patricia Kelly - British Broadcasting Corporation - Written Archives Centre (Gwyniver Jones; Amanda Mares; Clare Brown; Margaret Prythergch) - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [Bavarian State Library, Munich], Germany - Bodleian Library - Michael L Turner - Brighton Central Reference Library - Carolyn Jacob - British Library - Reading Room - Anne Reader; Newspaper Library - Alan Marshall; Eve Johansson; S P Green; Department of Manuscripts - Sally Brown - Columbia University - City of New York - City of Birmingham - Public Libraries Department - C Rogers (Social Sciences Department) - City of Dundee District Council - J B Ramage (Chief Librarian) - City of Glasgow District Council - Libraries Department - D Ferguson (Periodicals) - Central Library - Leeds City Council - R J Fuller - City of Manchester - M J Harkin (Librarian) - City of Newcastle upon Tyne - F W Manders (Librarian) - Calibre - Cassette Library (Aylesbury, Bucks, England) - Linda Downey - Cambridge University Library - A E B Owen (Keeper of Manuscripts) - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto, Ontario) - Rhoda Resnick - Cornwall County Council - G T Knight; J E Farmer - Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) - Devon Central Library - Plymouth - J R Elliott (Area Librarian) - Dunedin Public Library - Val Laing - Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) - Martha Pinder - Fulham, Hammersmith and Fulham Libraries - Christine Bayliss (Local History Librarian) - Glasgow University Library - P K Escreet - Guardian Newspaper (Manchester) - F B Singleton Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holographs and typescripts

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Book collectors, librarians and scholars

Date: 1984 - 1991

From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-11923-04

Description: Correspondence with librarians and scholars regarding Katherine Mansfield bibliography from the period 1984 to 1991. Includes correspondence with the following institutions and individuals: - R M (Harry) Rodewald (Auckland) - includes two photographs of Rodewald in his private library. - Margaret Scott - Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington - Joan Stevens (Otaki and Levin) - Nelson Wattie (Koeln [Cologne], Germany) - Nicolas Barker - The British Library - Humanities and Social Sciences - Grenville Cook (Watford, England) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holographs, typescripts, photographic prints

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Regarding translations of Katherine Mansfield's works

Date: 1986 - 1987

From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-11923-15

Description: Correspondence regarding translations of Katherine Mansfield's works into Japanese, Chinese, Albanian, Romanian and other languages. Includes the following correspondents: - Tomatsu Yambe (Yokohama, Japan) - includes photocopies of bibliographical publications with entries relating to Katherine Mansfield. - Xiao Qian - Consultant at People's Literature Publishing House (Beijing, China) - Wen Jieruo - Editor at People's Literature Publishing House (Beijing, China) - Frances Wood (Chinese Section) - The British Library - Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books - Sheila T Mackay (London) - Fumiko Hirose (Surbiton, Surrey) - Martin F Smith - Department of Classics, University College of North Wales - Judith Higgens - in relation to Romanian translations - Peter Colvin - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - regarding Chinese translations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holograph and typescript, including photocopies

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Morris, William, 1834-1896 : Art, book design and literary papers

By: Morris, William, 1834-1896

Reference: Micro-MS-0912

Description: Material in this collection relates to Morris's work as a printer, designer, artist and critic. Material is from the British Library Department of Printed Books, Kelmscott Manor and the Society of Antiquaries. It includes the first manuscript minute book of the SPAB (Society for the Preservatin of Ancient Buildings) which Morris helped to establish; manuscripts of `The story of Egil', `The Story of the Ynglings' and `Lancelot du Lake'; accounts, prospectuses, flysheets, trial pages, proofs and type and ornament designs from Kelmscott Press collected together by Sydney Cockerell and copies of printed pamphlets. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (copies) Finding Aids: No listings were supplied to accompany this collection. At the beginning of each reel the contents list contain manuscripts reference numbers only but no description of the items that these numbers apply to..

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Cauchi, Simon (Dr) : Microfilms

Date: [ca 1584-1602]

By: Cauchi, Simon John, 1936-

Reference: Micro-MS-0974

Description: MSS, printings and holographs of Harington's works; includes translations, letters, and other writings. Also, works by early Italian renaissance writersl and theologians. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 13 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: List available. Provenance: Microfilms acquired when Dr Cauchi was researching Sir John Harington; from the Bodleian, Cambridge University, York Minster, British, and Folger libraries; also from the General Microfilm Company and the Berkshire Record Office.

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A New discourse on a stale subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax - Printer's copy

Date: 1596

From: Cauchi, Simon (Dr) : Microfilms

Reference: Micro-MS-0974-03

Description: The printer's copy for Sir John Harington's book about his own invention of a kind of flushing lavatory Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Orlando Furioso in English heroical Verse - Printer's copy

Date: 1591

From: Cauchi, Simon (Dr) : Microfilms

Reference: Micro-MS-0974-01

Description: Translation of Sir John Harington Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Orlando Furioso - Franceschi Edition

Date: 1584

From: Cauchi, Simon (Dr) : Microfilms

Reference: Micro-MS-0974-12

Description: The Franceschi edition, held by the British Library Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Translation into English of the Fourth Book of the Aeneid - Unpublished manuscript

Date: n d [ca 1600?]

From: Cauchi, Simon (Dr) : Microfilms

Reference: Micro-MS-0974-10

Description: Unpublished manuscript translation into English of Book IV of the Iliad (Dido and Aeneas). Translator unknown. Held in British Library. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

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Correspondence re Italian translation of The Duke's miracle

Date: 1993

From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6371-10

Description: Correspondence with Italo Verri, Ferrara, Italy, re his proposed translation into Italian of Curnow's play `The Duke's miracle'. Also correspondence with Tim Curnow about it and draft foreign rights agreement authorising the translation. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

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Correspondence and papers relating to cartography and navigation

Date: 1985-2002

From: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010: Papers

Reference: 2003-117-1

Description: Correspondence files and papers relating to Barton's interest in cartography and navigation; includes reports, drafts, brochures, articles etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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The British Library : Miscellaneous collections (Pre 1888)

Date: 1563-1888

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: British Library

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2669-2677

Description: Selected items relating to Australia and New Zealand, taken from the miscellaneous collections in the British Library. These comprise the Sloane, the Egerton, the Hargrave and the Stowe collections. Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.