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2pp., on both sides of a strip of 35.5 x 11.5 cm laid paper with fleur-de-lys watermark. In a secretary hand employing the thorn and long s. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. An untitled forty-line poem, divided into five numbered eight-line stanzas. The narrator is an older married woman, advising a younger woman not to marry, with observations on the frailties of the male sex. The first stanza reads: 'Ere ye. read ys. ye. may suppose. | That some new listed Lover. | By means of Poetry has chose. | His Passion to discover. | Know Faire one I am a Matron Grave | Which Time & Care has wasted | And would thy Youth from sorrow save | Which I have in Wedlock tasted.' A variation of the poem was published in the Gentleman's Magazine, May 1744, with the title 'The MATRON's Advice to a YOUNG LADY, A new BALLAD. Tune, Sally.' The grammar of the Gentleman's Magazine version is more modern in tone, its first line reading: 'Ere you read this, you may suppose', and the variations are most apparent in the third stanza, including 'Beset thy dwelling' in the published version for 'Surround thy Threshold' in the manuscript; 'heedless' for 'regardless'; 'Pass all your minutes' for 'Thy Moments pass on'; 'While flames are offer'd at our shrine, | And Men like Idols sue us' for 'Darts flames & hoards adorn Our shrine | And Awful Hymen woo us.' The writer has begun to write another poem on the reverse of the slip: 'Come lesten [sic] ye tories & jacobites now | Your Plot shew'. Not present in the English Broadside Ballad Archive.

Very Good. Manuscript map. Original centerfold. Size 14.5 x 17.5 Inches. An unusual and beautiful 1823 manuscript map of The Ancient World, including Asia, europe and Africa. The map generally follows the historical atlas work of the english cartographer James Wyld however is a fully independent and unique hand rendered production. The manuscript geographical data and detail throughout is altogether outstanding and completed in a fine hand adept at decorative text and the rendering of rivers and mountains. The map shows the world of classical antiquity from the Atlantic Ocean to Southeast Asia and from the Indian Ocean to the North Sea. It includes all of europe, Arabia, parts of Asia, including the Indian Subcontinent, and the northern parts of Africa. Color coding divides the ma by continent. Throughout there are interesting notations such as, in Africa, the 'Aethiopes Anthroophagi,' the city of Rapta identified by Ptolemy as the southernmost city, and the apocryphal Lune Montes in Africa An altogether unique and wonderful one of a kind find.

Manuscript on paper, written in Spanish in clear and legible cursive script. Spain, last quarter of sixteenth century, 55 leaves, 116 pages, including full-page painted illustrations. Folio (30 x 21.5 cm). Original vellum binding, stitched, margins frayed, text not affected.The four distinct narrative in the manuscript are all of great interest and number 3 and 4 are valuable sources for history. All of these narratives seem to have been composed at about the same datesome time during the twenty years after da Silva's deposition of 1579 on his voyage with Drake. This time limit is shown by internal evidences which can be deduced from close study of the information recorded in each passage. (20041). The narratives read as follows: Memoria de la Costa Rica del mar del norte dende la ciudad de Granada los Puertos y Rios son los siguientes. (Pages 1-5).Relacion de las provincias del Piru de la gente y disposicion dellas y costas y caminos por donde se navegan y andan. (Pages 5-16).Gallego de Andrade, Hernán Lamero. Declaracion del estrecho de Magallanes. (Pages 17-20).Silva, Nunho da. Relacion del viage del corsario y engles que dio el piloto Nuño de Silva ante su excelencia del virrey de Mexico a 10 de Mayo de [15]79. [Side note:] Llama se Franc[is] o Drac este cossario. (Pages 20-24).