Manuscripts
Japanese smallpox manuscript volume
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Manuscript Volumes
Manuscripts
Correspondence Files: The correspondence files consist of 5 boxes of letters, faxes, invoices, and book catalogs related to Edward Lasker's rare book and manuscript purchases that made up his horse library. Notable corespondents include: Blood-Horse Inc., DeWitt Clinton, Fasig-Tipton Co., J. A. Allen & Co., and James Cummins Bookseller. There is also a folder containing material regarding British jockey Fred Archer, who shot himself in 1886, including photographs. Several folders contain photographs of books or copies of title pages, etc.
mssLaskere
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[Single sheet manuscript in Japanese]
Manuscripts
Simple sheet in Japanese: content unidentified; looks like some kind of letter and/or diary type entry; written on rectangular sheet; printed on paper with landscape design; given the language and script style, date seems to be approximately late 19th c. (i.e. Meiji).
mssHM 81208
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Victorian album of collages
Manuscripts
This album is composed of 12 original collages inserted into decorated paper-covered front and rear boards. Collages are made with paper, silk ribbons, flowers, dyed wool, shells, leaves, cut-outs from various printed sources, and lithographs. The collagist was likely an Irish Catholic young woman, either from or living in Avoca, Wicklow County, Ireland (there is a collage page with the title "Sweet Vale Avoca"). Each collage speaks to a different theme ranging from rural life, nature, a childhood home, childhood, youth, communion, perceptions of old age, and a haunted house. Each collage has a title and handwritten pasted-down captions, some coming from popular songs and verse including Thomas Moore's "The Meeting of the Waters." Housed in a slip case with gilt title "ALBUM ANGLAIS."
mssHM 84002
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Japanese ikebana manuscript
Manuscripts
The manuscript is a rice paper booklet consisting of 33 folded leaves and sewn together. It contains ink drawings of ikebana arrangement of plant material. There is text in Japanese. The item is undated and the name "Haruyoshi Kaneko" appears on the first page.
mssHM 72754
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Ginza kaiwai
Rare Books
Volume 1 contains Kimura's history of the Ginza. It is bound in embossed paper-covered boards with a plate mounted on the front cover. In a rice-paper covered slip case with illustrated label on front and text label on spine. Volume 2 is an accordion book or leporello with panoramas of the Ginza running along the top and bottom of the pages. It is bound in publisher's paper covered boards.
653030
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. Diary: typewritten. SEALED until January 1, 2030
Manuscripts
(136 p.). Note: loose pages removed from a binder. Also: sketch laid between pages 18-19; slip of paper with page numbers of Swami mentions in the diary.
CI 4179