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On the spine is stamped ‘DECLAMATIONES | — | TRIN. COLL. CANTAB. | TOM. | I. | 1799–1809’, and inside the front cover is written, ‘Declamationes in Coll. S.S. Trinitatis Cantabrigiae | habitae | Tomus. I. | 1799–1809’. The dates in these titles do not match those of the contents. The manuscripts in the volume appear to be autograph.

ff. 1-5: [General introduction to the works]
ff: 6-7: 'Capitoli generali da osservarsi per l'esecuzione dei lavori stradali'
ff. 8-11r: Account of costs of the work [broken down further, ff. 15-38]
ff. 11v-14: 'Metodo di costruzione'
ff. 15-38: 'Stato circostanziato dei prezzi' [detailed statement of costs]

Dated 'Torino li 27 Gennajo 1822' at end of work.
List of employees of the civil engineering corps of ports and roads in the Kingdom of Sardinia pasted to f. 39r.

This extract covers ff. 1-165 of the printed text in the first published edition of 1834. Extensive alterations and annotations.

Naval logbook recording winds, weather, fleet movements etc.

Draft of a translation with revisions and with manuscript copies of newspaper reviews on its publication in 1780, including one signed 'Classicus' with a later hand at top identifying it as the handwriting of Mr Mills "& most probably written by himself".

Translation of the pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia.

Containing MS copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to his career in the Royal Navy.

On a page opposite the title: "From the Polyglot of Brian Walton. Prolegomena - page 45-48. Edition 1657. Londini of Thomas Rycroft. The edition which has the latter part of this dissertation after article 4 - pasted over - See Butlers Nova Biblica".

Possibly a translation from Quintus Curtius Rufus, by an unidentified author. Note on the front free endpaper states that it contains a part of the 6th book, with the 7th through 10th books complete.

Bound volume with 22 works in different hands, with a contents page at front.

Two bound volumes of a MS fair copy[?] of Adriaan Reland's Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum, published in 1708.

Bound MSS.

Bound MS.

Volume with spine title "Kemperi Praelectiones in Grotium De jure belli ac pacis" though no attribution to Kemper appears on the MS title page.

Bound MS.

Bound MS.

Bound manuscript by an unidentified author. Full title: "Pensées diverses, dont plusieurs dénotent un Royaliste entête, qui s'obstine à croire qu'un Roi vaut mieux qu'un Consul, et qu'un Souverain légitime eclairé par le malheur doit être préfére à un Usurpateur aveuglé par la fortune. 1802"

MS blank verse translation accompanied by commentary, dedicated to his brother Lord Trevor.