Collection Items
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Book/Printed MaterialOlney hymns : in three books Olney Hymns was compiled by John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace" and rector of a parish in Olney, England, and William Cowper, a poet and close friend of Newton. The book…- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Cowper, William - Newton, John
- Date: 1779
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MapPlan de l'attaque et de la prise de l'isle de la Grenade le 3 juillet 1779. Scale ca. 1:30,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilt. Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Pictorial map. Includes descriptive notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 2107 LC…- Contributor: Ozanne, Pierre
- Date: 1779-01-01
- Resource: Image
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Book/Printed MaterialRobinson the Younger. For the Pleasurable and Useful Entertainment of Children.
Robinson der Jüngere, zur angenehmen und nützlichen Unterhaltung für Kinder In 1720, just a year after its original publication in London, the first German translation of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was published. The work soon became widely popular. Only a few years…- Contributor: Chodowiecki, Daniel - Kniep, Christoph Heinrich - Campe, Joachim Heinrich - Defoe, Daniel - Stöttrup, Andreas
- Date: 1779-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA Guide to Geometry, Surveying, the Launching of Missiles, and the Planting of Mines. Hadiyat Al-Muhtadi fil Al-Handassa (A guide to geometry, surveying, the launching of missiles, and the planting of mines) is a technical manual on geometry and surveying, as well as on the motion…- Contributor: Raḥīm, Muḥammad 'Ali Ibn 'Abd - Muhtadī, ʻuthmān
- Date: 1779-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 161
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Book/Printed MaterialDangerous Liaisons.
Les Liaisons dangereuses French author Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741--1803) published Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous liaisons) in 1782, signed only with his initials. Widely regarded as scandalous work, the epistolary novel etched the name…- Contributor: Laclos, Choderlos De
- Date: 1779-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 303
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MapMap of the District of Villa Rica.
Mappa da Comarca de Villa Rica / Jose Joaquim da Rocha This map showing the district of Villa Rica in Brazil's Minas Gerais state is the work of José Joaquim da Rocha (1737?-1807). Rocha was a Brazilian military engineer, painter, and cartographer who…- Contributor: Rocha, José Joaquim Da
- Date: 1779-01-01
- Resource: Image