A white porcelain teapot with an octagonal shaped body decorated with a vine of pink roses, 's' tendrils and blue flowers. A thin gilt band wraps around the body above the gilded spout. At the opposite end of the pot the wide ribbon-shaped gilt handle emerges from the body. The separate lid, also decorated with a rose vine, features two gilt bands around the rim and just below the gilt mushroom-shaped handle.
Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, Germany
Provenance
Miss Mary E. Herr [donor] Given in memory of her sister Mrs. John Malone.
1961 Brigadier General J. Steinhoff visited Wheatland and dated tea set 1709-1729. His research found that the porcelain was from the town of Meissen, Germany and originally created for the household of Augustus Rex, called August the Strong, was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the years 1697–1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Historia der Augspurgischen Confession: wie sie erstlich berahtschlagt/ verfasset/ vnd Keiser Carolo V. vbergeben ist/ sampt andern ReligionsHandlungen/ so sich dabey auff dem Reichstag zu Augspurg/ Anno M.D. XXX. zugetragen: durch D. Dauidem Chytraeum erstlich zusammen geordnet/ vermehret/ vnd ... durchsehen
Gedruckt (bey Georg Raben/ in verlegung Henning Gross vnd Niclas Bocken/ bey der Burger vnd Buchhendlerin Leyptzig),
Date of Publication
1580.
Physical Description
[4], 382, [1]ff : illustrations (woodcut) ; 4to.
Notes
Small woodcut portrait of Charles V on title page. Printer's device on final leaf.
Title page printed in red and black.
Two clasps.
" ... bey G. Raben/ in verlegung H. Gross ..." on final leaf.
Includes letters by Luther, Melanchthon and others.
Partially torn label on inside cover "Privat[e] [Library] of J. Darmsta[taer].
Adams
Bound in pigskin over wooden boards, blind rolls including figures of Spes, Caritas, Fides, Fortit. round edges, and four apostles in centre panel of both boards, two clasps.
Johann Jacob Woyts, Der Artzney-Kunst Doctoris, und auf der Königl. Preuischen Universität Königsberg Profess. Publ. Gazophylacium Medico-Physicum, Oder Schatz-Kammer Medicinisch- und natürlicher Dinge : In welcher Alle Medicinische Kunst-Wörter, inn- und äusserliche Kranckheiten ... in einer richtigen Lateinischen Alphabet-Ordnung auf das deutlichste erkläret, vorgestellet, und mit einem nöthigen Register versehen werden
By Monsieur de Wicquefort. To which is added, an historical discourse, concerning the election of the emperor and the electors. By the same author. Translated into English by Mr. Digby.
Reports and pleadings of cases in assise, for offices, nusances, lands and tenements : shewing the manner of porceeding in assises of novel disseisin ... : With observations on every case ... : To which are added, writs of assise, &c
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench; with some special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary, to the tenth year of Queen Anne. [1689-1712]
LCHS has vol 3, a new edition, London: W. Strahan ande M. Woodfall, Law printers to the King's most excellent majesty for Edward Johnston, in Ludgate Street, MDCCLXIII [1773]
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatureat top of title page under that of struck former owner.
A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries
Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.
Edition
The 5th ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,
"To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index)
Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].
Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme
