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Order to pay George Carteret, signed by Albemarle
Full text linkRoyal order to pay a tax or fee, £2,000https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1065/thumbnail.jp
Pages from Exodus and Genesis from King James Bible printed by Robert Barker
Full text linkTwo leaves from Exodus and two leaves from Genesis, each from different printings of the Bible, printed by Robert Barker at London, England in 1614 and 1615. Leaves reveal differences between black letter type and roman type printings.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1063/thumbnail.jp
Title Page and Inscription, Strabo\u27s Geography edited by Isaac Casaubon, 1587 [Spec Coll] PA4439 .E5 G4 1587
No full textThe title page (recto, right side) and the inscriptions (verso, left side) in Special Collections item [Spec Coll] PA4439 .E5 G4 1587, Strabo\u27s Geography, printed in Geneva in 1587 and edited by Isaac Casaubon.
Each page measures 8.5 wide by 11.5 tall.
These two leaves feature the printed title page of the book along with several annotations, signatures, and notes in different hands which, taken together, purport a chain of custody from the editor, Casaubon, to French ambassador to England Philip DuFresne (or Philippe de La Canaye, sieur de Fresnes), to Alexander Fraser Tytler, his son, Patrick Fraser Tytler, to Wofford College original faculty member James H. Carlisle, and finally to the Wofford College Library in June of 1854. Some annotations have been obscured.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/selectspeccoll/1001/thumbnail.jp
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
No full textPublished in 1587 in a printing of Geography by Strabo (circa 64 BCE – 24 CE), translated by Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), this hand-colored copperplate engraving print is the work of Rumold Mercator (1545-1599), completed with the sources and personal guidance of his father, Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594).
This map also appeared in the Mercators\u27 1595 work Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mvndi et Fabricati Figvra, published in Duisburg.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/selectspeccoll/1000/thumbnail.jp