Crewe Manuscripts

Inventory list
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ff. 214-34 French translation of part of A Letter from a Member of the last Parliament to a new Member of the present, concerning the Conduct of the War with Spain (1742) Part c. 1742
f. 240 Description of the next two items, in French Part 1743
ff. 241-6 Printed pamphlet entitled A Report from the Committee of Secrecy appointed to enquire into the Conduct of Robert, Earl of Orford Part 1742
ff. 247-81 Printed pamphlet entitled A Further Report from the Committee of Secresy appointed to enquire into the Conduct of Robert, Earl of Orford Part 1742
inside front cover Cutting from The Times, containing a letter from Henry Coxwell headed ‘American War Balloons’ Part 24 Oct. 1861 View
f. 20 Print captioned ‘The balloon passing over Coblenz’, lithographed by A. Butler from a sketch by Monck Mason Part c. 1838 View
f. 22 Print captioned ‘Descent of the balloon in the valley of Elbern’, lithographed by A. Butler from a sketch by Monck Mason Part c. 1838 View
f. 26r Cutting from an album amicorum, bearing an inscription by Jean-Pierre Blanchard Part 15 Dec. 1788 View
f. 31r Cutting from The Times, containing an article headed ‘Wonderful, if True’ Part 27 Jan. 1857 View
f. 36r Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘A Fearful Balloon Voyage’ Part Oct. 1858 View
f. 36r Cutting from The Times, containing an article headed ‘A Lost Balloonist’ Part 14 Oct. 1858 View
f. 38r Printed pamphlet entitled Air-Navigation by means of the Rotary Balloon, by John Luntley Part 1851 View
between ff. 38 and 39 Cutting from a newspaper, containing a notice of the death of Charles Green Part Apr. 1870 View
f. 2r Print captioned ‘Vortigern King of Britain espouses Rowena a Saxon Lady, which occasioned the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain’ Part 1758?
f. 6r Frontispiece of Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond, Vol. IV Part 18th c.
f. 16r Engraved title-page of A Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, by Anthony Sparrow (1657 or later) Part 1657 or later
f. 19r Frontispiece of Histoire de la ligue, by Louis Maimbourg (Paris, 1683) Part 1683
f. 31r Title-page of Des Hoochverlichten D. Johannis Tauleri van eenen volcomen Evangelisschen leven Christelijcke Predicatien oft Sermonen op allen Sondaghen ende Feestdagen vanden gantsen Jaer (Amsterdam, 1565), including a woodcut device Part 1565
f. 33r Engraved title-page of Opticorum libri sex, by François d’Aguilon (Antwerp, 1613) Part 1613
f. 34r Engraved title-page of one of the volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (9 vols.; London: Oddy & Co., 1808) Part 1808
f. 39r Title-page of Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur, by Hermann Boerhaave, Vol. II (Leiden, 1727), including an engraved device Part 1727
f. 48r Title-page of The Theatrical Recorder, by Thomas Holcroft, No. 1 (London, 1805), including an engraved illustration Part 1805
f. 60r Frontispiece of The Beauties of England and Wales, Vol. X, Part IV (London, 1815) Part 1815
f. 61r Frontispiece of De thermis Britannicis tractatus, by Thomas Guidott (London, 1691) Part 1691
f. 66r Engraved title-page of True Religion Explained and Defended (a translation, by Francis Coventry, of Hugo Grotius’ De veritate religionis christianae) (London, 1632) Part 1632
f. 70 Engraved title-page of The Holy Bible, with a complete commentary entirely selected from the writings of Poole, Henry, Doddridge, Brown, Coke, and other eminent commentators (Manchester: Russell & Allen, early 19th c.) Part early 19th c.
f. 78r Engraved title-page of The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (London: J. Goodwin, 1811) Part 1811
f. 84r Engraved title-page of Opera omnia medica et anatomica, by Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (Utrecht, 1685) Part 1685
f. 85r Title-page of Ηρωικα Ομηρου Ιλιας, Homeri Ilias, ed. Franciscus Portus, postrema editio (M. Berjon, 1621), including a woodcut border Part 1621
f. 88 Engraved title-page of A Selection of Views in the County of Lincoln, engraved by Bartholomew Howlett (London, 1801–5) Part 1801–5