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Book/Printed MaterialAn historical survey of the French colony in the island of St. Domingo : comprehending a short account of its ancient government, political state, population, productions, and exports : a narrative of ... In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events that ultimately led to the founding of Haiti in 1804. In February 1793, war broke out between Britain and France. In September 1793, British troops landed on Saint-Domingue, intent on restoring order, seizing the colony for Britain, and reinstating slavery. This work by...
- Contributor: Edwards, Bryan - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Stockdale, John - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1797
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Book/Printed MaterialA new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world : undertaken and performed by royal authority : containing a new, authentic, entertaining, instructive, full, and complete historical account of Captain ... This compilation of British navigators' accounts of their voyages around the world covers the famous voyages of Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook, as well as expeditions by George Anson, John Byron, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, and Constantine Phipps (Lord Mulgrave). In 1740-44, Anson led a three-year-and-nine-month mission that raided Spanish commerce off the coast of Peru before returning to England via...
- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Anderson, George William
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialBoke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye.
Fayt of armes and of chyualrye This book on the proper mode of conduct for a knight was written in French in around 1410 by Christine de Pisan, Europe's first prolific and respected female author. It was translated into English and printed by William Caxton (1422?-91) in 1489 at the behest of Henry VII, who wished to make it available to English soldiers. The book contained not only rules of...- Contributor: Caxton, William - Bonet, Honoré - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Holford, George Lindsay - Christine
- Date: 1489
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Book/Printed MaterialEurope, a prophecy The English poet, illustrator, and engraver William Blake (1757-1827) first published Europe, A Prophecy in 1794, one year after the appearance of his America, A Prophecy. In both books, Blake attempted to discern the pattern behind human history, and in particular in the momentous events occurring on both sides of Atlantic between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the outbreak of...
- Contributor: Blake, William - Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward) - Gaisford, Thomas - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bedford, Francis
- Date: 1794
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Book/Printed MaterialThe book of Urizen The poet and artist William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to an engraver and studied drawing at the Royal Academy. In 1783 he published his first book of poetry, Poetical Sketches. Blake was a religious mystic who eschewed the traditional teaching of the Christian churches to invent his own doctrines and symbols, which he drew from classical and Celtic...
- Contributor: Blake, William - White, William Augustus - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes
- Date: 1815
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Book/Printed MaterialLondon town This late Victorian book of children's poetry presents a bright and cheery view of London at the height of its imperial glory. Felix Leigh, who wrote the verses, was a prolific writer whose drawings and poems were featured for many years in the magazine Boy's Own Paper. The illustrations are by Thomas Crane and Ellen E. Houghton. Crane designed the ornamental pages and Houghton...
- Contributor: Marcus Ward & Co - Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress) - Houghton, Ellen Elizabeth - Crane, Thomas - Leigh, Felix
- Date: 1883
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