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This copy of A History of British Birds from the Tisch Library Special Collections was a gift of Alumnus Dorothy Swenson from the class of 1918. This book was presumably her personal copy as there are slight markings on pages and there seems to be…

From the title page, we can find information on the source and see markings the previous owner made. The title page lets the reader know that this book is volume one of a larger collection and features forty three colored engravings. Also, there are…

Image of the title page of the journal showing the publication information as well the author and name.

The book was published in New York

Images that show the uses of the Arctic Searching Expedition journal from the 18th-19th century.

The first image is of the hill that resides next to the rapids on Bear Lake River. It gives an image of what the explorers saw when they approached…

Images of the journal that shows the Arctic region while analyzing several expeditions led into the region

Contemporary decorated brown calf binding stamped with a crucifixion scene at center, with the word MEDICA (medicine) above and the name GEOR(G) SCHEL(L) below. Clasp fastenings, but lacking clasps.

East Facade

large and fragrant. Benefit was that it helped with headaches and insomnia if smelled, a poultice for leprosy and black infections of the skin. It however dulls the senses but this can be remedied with ivy berries.

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Folio 52.v

Full-bodied, red wine. Nature: hot and dry in the second degree. Optimum: the brilliant, very translucent type. Benefit: it calms the stomach and fainting. Harm: for weak spleen and liver. Remedy for harm: with sour pomegranates. Effects: red bile.…