This letter has been dated by the Darwin Correspondence Project to be February 22 [1870-1] because of the printed stationary. Charles Darwin only crossed out ‘Bromley’ and wrote in ‘Beckenham' from April 3, 1869 until May 10, 1871 when he started using printed stationary with Beckenham instead., Bound In: Garner, Robert. The Natural History of the County of Stafford. London, 1844.
Signatures: ):(-):():(⁴ ):():():(² A-2A⁴ 2B² 2C⁴ [$3 (-):():():(2, 2B2) signed]., Title page in red and black., Headpieces; initials., Manuscript notations.
pt. 1. Temperature.--pt. 2. Moisture.--pt. 3. Winds.--pt. 4. Storms., Prepared under the direction of Brigadier General A. W. Greely ... Edited by Oliver L. Fassig., Copy 2 gift of the Ronald C. Taylor Collection., Copy 2 donated by Ming-Ying Wei and David K. Taylor., At head of title: United States of America : War dept., Only t.-p. and introduction are printed ; the body of the work is lithographed., Parts 3-4 include supplement to close of 1889., About 60,000 titles, representing some 13,000 authors.
Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulia.--Gema kalendario: quod docet istud opus ... Hoc Ioannes opus Regio de Monte probatum Composuit: tota notus in Italia.sd Quod Ueneta impressum fuit in tellure per illos Inferius quorum nomina picta loco. 1476. Bernardus Picor de Augusta, Petrus Loslein de Langeneen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta., Printed in black and red. Leaves [19] and [32], containing diagrs. of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together., Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *13776. Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent) v, p. 243 (IB.20481), Diagrs. of eclipses painted yellow.
Leaf [1a] (t.-p.): Avreus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulia.--Gema kalendario: quod docet istud opus ... Hoc Ioannes opus Regio de Monte probatum Composuit: tota notus in Italia.sd Quod Ueneta impressum fuit in tellure per illos Inferius quorum nomina picta loco. 1476. Bernardus Picor de Augusta, Petrus Loslein de Langeneen, Erhardus Ratdolt de Augusta., Printed in black and red. Leaves [19] and [32], containing diagrs. of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together., Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) *13776. Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent) v, p. 243 (IB.20481), Diagrs. of eclipses painted yellow.
Caroli Clvsi Exoticorvm liber primvs [-sextvs].--Aromatvm et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apud Indos nascentium historia ... conscripta à D. Garçia ab Horto ... deinde latino sermone in epitomen contrata ... à Carolo Clvsio ... 5. ed., castigatior & multis locis auctior.--Aromatvm et medicamentorvm in Orientali India nascentium historia ... auctore Christophoro à Costa ... Caroli autem Clvsi operâ ex hispanico sermone latina facta ... 3. ed., castigatior et auctior.--Simplicivm medicamentorvm ex Novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historia, hispanico semone tribus libris descripta à D. Nicolao Monardo ... latio deinde donata ... à Carolo Clvsio ... 4. ed., auctior & castigatior ex postremâ auctoris recognitione.--Avctarivm ad Exoticorum libros Caroli Clvsi. 357-378, [8] p., 1].--Nicolai Monardi ... libri tres, magna medicinæ secreta et varia experimenta continentes ... hispanico semone consripti, nunc ... latio donati à Carolo Clvsio.--Altera appendix ad rariorum plantarum historiam Caroli Clvsi.--Petri Bellonii ... Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Græcia, Asia, Ægypto, Iudæa, Arabia, aliisque exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes tribus libris expressæ. Carolvs Clvsivs ... è gallicis latinas faciebat, & denuó recensebat. 2. ed., longe castigatior (with special t.p.).--Petri Bellonii ... de neglecta plantarum cultura, atque earum cognitione libellus ... Carolvs Clvsivs ... è gallico latinum faciebat, & nunc denuo recensebat., item Petri Bellonii observationes, eodem Carolo Clusio interprete. Series totius operis post praefationem indicabitur., Engraved t.-p., Various pagings.
projettée et assujettie aux observations celestes par M. Bonne, hydrographe du Roi., "XXI" and "25" printed in top margin., Watermark in lower centre of sheet.
authore Edmundo Halleio., French ed. published in Paris in the same year., Signatures: []² a² b¹ B⁴ C² []² A-C² D¹., A table of the right ascensions and distances of the principal southern stars, from the South pole; ... fitted to the beginning of the year of our Lord 1678. p. [29-40]