Source: Rare QL674.A9 2006 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Study for the Great American Cock, Male one of the major plates in the large elephant folio edition of Birds of America by John James Audubon (1785-1851), artist, and William Home Lizars (1788-1859), engraving done around 1826, in Lousiana. Watercolor on paper, 37 x 25 1/2 inches. This print is from [...]
Source: Rare Books Vault V13.F82 P37 1883 plate 48 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: A vessel of 90 canons named “Le Suffren” in the French Navy in 1829. Le Suffren was named after the French Admiral Pierre Andre Suffren de Saint Tropez (1729-1788), the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez. From 1776 to 1783 [...]
Source: Virginia Dare Shores, North Carolina, Joyner NC Rare HD1390.5 .V57 1927 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This is a pamphlet by Carolina Development Company in it they give alluring descriptions of the Roanoke Colonies and its history endeavoring to sell the land. On page 5 there is a rare reprint of an original map by John [...]
Source: Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year, Rare Book Collection #D 2 A7 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year…, was printed by James and Robert Dodsley and edited by Edmund Burke (1729-1797) a Whig [...]
Source: The Construction of Timber, from Its Early Growth, Explained by the Microscope, Rare Book QK 475 H64 1770 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is generally credited with the first practical application of the compound microscope around the latter half of the seventeenth century. During his life he made more than 400 [...]
Source: The “Maine”; an account of her destruction in Havana Harbor, Joyner Rare E 721.6 S57 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: USS Maine, a 6682-ton second-class battleship, was built at the New York Navy Yard and commissioned in September 1895. Her active career was spent operating along with U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean [...]
Source: The History of the Bucaniers of America Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Esquemelin, Alexandre Oliver The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the first original down to this time; written in several languages and now collected into one volume. London: Newborough, Nicholson and Tocke, 1704. Rare Book Collection: In Conservation Alexandre Esquemelin (ca. [...]
Source: Lusty Wind For CarolinaJoyner Rare PS3511 L449 L8 1944b Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Minna Towner Englis [Inglis?] Clark Fletcher (1879-1969), known to readers of her books as Inglis Fletcher, was born in Alton, Illinois. She married John George Fletcher on April 16, 1902, and the couple moved to California. Peggy, as Mrs. Fletcher [...]
Source: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae . . . , Joyner Rare F229.B78 1590 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This engraving depicts the Native American village of Secotan, located somewhere along the Pamlico River, at the time of Walter Raleigh’s 1585-86 colonization effort. Two important members of this colony were [...]
Source: General History of the Pyrates, Joyner Rare F2161.D4/1724b Staff Person: Maury York Description: This image of the pirate Blackbeard is the first likeness of him to appear in print. The image is from the Rare Book Collection’s copy of the two-volume General History of the Pyrates (1724), by “Captain Charles Johnson.” Some scholars believe [...]