Rare Books (General Special Collections)

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Rare Books (General Special Collections)

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These are resources that reside in the Rare Book (General Special Collections) Collection in Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Cover of a vellum book from 1695 about seals, rings, and gems.
This book, Abrahami Gorlaei Antverpiani Dactyliothecae, seu Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii, is bound in vellum with engravings throughout of seals, rings, and gems.

Letters on the subject of the Catholics, to my brother Abraham, who lives in the country
This book explores issues relating to Ireland's independence from Great Britain as well as the status of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Des Ritters Carl von Linné Vollständiges Natursystem : Supplements- und Register-band über aller sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs ...

Bibliothèque choisie de médecine : tirée des ouvrages périodiques, tant françois qu'etrangers : avec plusieurs autres piéces rares, & des remarques utiles & curieuses

Essays on his own times; forming a second series of The Friend

Correspondence of Lord Byron, with a friend : including his letters to his mother, written from Portugal, Spain, Greece, and the shores of the Mediterranean, in 1809, 1810 and 1811 / also, recollections of the poet, by the late R.C. Dallas, the whole forming an original memoir of Lord Byron's life, from 1808 to 1814, and a continuation and preliminary statement of the proceedings by which the letters were suppressed in England, at the suit of Lord Byron's executors, by the Rev. A.R.C. Dallas.

Elémens de fortification : contenant la construction raisonnée des ouvrages de la fortification ... &c : avec un plan des principales instructions pour former les jeunes officiers dans la science militaire

Die wahre Andacht zu Gott samt dazu gehörige Betrachtung für eifrige Christen
Holograph manuscript with hand-drawn colored illustrations; written in a bound blank book.

Julii Obsequentis De prodigiis liber
Full vellum binding with J. Thelmier Bibliophile written at the top of the book.

Nouveaux essais de morale : divisez en deux volumes & qui peuvent servir de suite aux autres essais du même auteur
Full calf binding with a mottled design.
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