This week’s roundup includes an unfinished manuscript by Alexandre Dumas, a 1609 Shakespeare quarto, and the uncut 7-volume manuscript of an early-20th century utopian novel.
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Photostatic copies of letters to Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1863-1882.
MS Am 1282
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895. Fanny Campbell: or, The female pirate captain. A tale of the Revolution, [1844].
AL 921.3.15
Darío, Rubén, 1867-1916. Compositions, 1879-1914.
MS Span 159
Desnoyers de Biéville, Charles Henry Etienne Edmond, 1814-1880. Talma en congé, vaudeville en un acte, 1842.
FC8 A100 B865 v.24
Dramatic Authors Society (London, England) Alphabetical list [of plays pub. by the Society. London, 1866.]
TS 70.11
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. Le comte de Moret : manuscript, [ca. 1869].
MS Fr 133.1
Goldoni, Carlo, 1707-1793. Il mondo alla roversa, o sia Le donne che comandano, 1754.
GC7 A100 B750 v.56
Goodspeed’s Book Shop (Boston, Mass.) [Marked desk copies of Goodspeed’s Book Shop catalogs, Boston, Mass.], 1904-1905.
*96-90
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. A catalogue of the library of books, of Mr. Thomas Holcroft. [Sold at auction by King & Lochée, 13 Jan. & 4 following days, 1807.]
B 1705.455
John Grant collection of bagpipe music, 1908-1947.
MS Mus 120.1 The great highland bagpipe and its music. Volume 1; volume 2; volume 3; volume 4.
John, of Dara, Metropolitan of Dara, 9th cent. Theological works : manuscript, 1899.
MS Syriac 122
Little Gidding concordance, 1630.
A 1275.5
Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599. Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, novamente posto in luce, 1594.
Mus 742.27.27*
Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916. Letters to George Sylvester Viereck, 1904-1916.
MS Ger 299
La muse folastre. Recherchee des plus beaux esprits de ce temps, 1600.
FC5 R6697 A600mc
Pinto Brandão, Thomaz, 1664-1743. Two works.
Festas, e mais festas; escritas e dadas em bom, 1730.
Port 5829.10.25 no.10
Pratica de tres cabeças em tres discursos, 1729.
Port 5829.10.25 no.5
Plutarch. De liberis educandis. [Brescia : Giovanni Britannico, 7 December 1485].
Inc 6980
Schetky, John Christian, 1778-1874. Illustrations of Walter Scott’s Lay of the last minstrel, 1808.
19454.49*
Sergeev, Nikolai, 1876-1951. Dance notations and music scores for ballets.
MS Thr 245 (Various works; see finding aid)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The famous historie of Troylus and Cresseid : Excellently expressing the beginning of their loues, with the conceited wooing of Pandarus Prince of Licia, 1609.
STC 22332
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Confessions of a unionist : an unpublished “talk on things current”, 1888.
HEW 10.13.13
Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910. [Collection of songs], 1884-1897.
MS Mus 232 (48)
Visitors’ book, Vesuvius hermitage : manuscript, 1826-1828 (bulk).
MS Ital 139
Wells, J. O. Diary of a rough rider, [n.d.]
Roosevelt R337.7.W46d
West, Eliza M., comp. Shaksperian parallelisms, chiefly illustrative of the Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, collected from Sir Philip Sydney’s Arcadia, 1865. 12486.15
Wright, Austin Tappan, 1883-1931. Islandia [uncut version]
MS Am 1605.1