1770

A council, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

"An engraving showing the Privy Council, or that portion of it which was known to include "the King's Friends", seated round a table, on which lie rolls of paper, being petitions presented to the King from "Mid... More

Satsuki ame, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women walking beneath an umbrella and a young woman about to open an umbrella as it has started to rain. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speci... More

The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston. Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other wounded, two of them... More

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing woman, seated on huge hairdo of another woman, as she works on the hairdo. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Sketch for the statue ordered to be erected to the memory of the late ...

Print shows William Beckford stands full-length, with his back to a wall of windows, treading on the male figure of tyranny bound with chains at his feet, with his right hand on the shoulder of Britannia in a c... More

The fate of city Rem- - -ces, British Cartoon Print

"An engraving showing George III. seated at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who, taking off his plumed coronet, says to his father:---"Papa, I want some Paper to make ... More

Jefferies, in the character of Atropos, cutting the thread of English ...

Print shows King John seated at a small table outside his tent, signing Magna Carta, behind him stand by two bishops. Four men are pulling a rope, the "thread of English Liberty", which is attached to King John... More

Dai nijūichi zu, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman using a long (opium?) pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the ye...

Detail showing convicts consisting of lords, esquires, and attorneys, in chains, boarding ship, for transport from England to Georgia, under the reign of King George III. Detail of British Museum Cartoon Collec... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie fukagawa eitai suzumi no zu

Print shows many boats, large and small, in the waterways at Fukagawa-shi, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Horizontal O... More

Part of New Jersey. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:80,000; 100 chains to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Edges torn. Shows rivers, roads, and bridges of Monmouth and Ocean counties. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1261 ... More

Plan of Charles Town, Maryland. - Public domain old map

Cadastral survey map showing lot/tract lines, lot numbers, public lands, street names, and some acreages. Relief shown by form lines. Also shows "The Lord Properiators [sic] two lots." Oriented with north towar... More

A plan of the river Missisippi. - Public domain old map

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Advertisement. Whereas a small number of persons met last night in a p...

Onoe matsusuke, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Onoe Matsusuke, half-length portrait framed by a fan, facing right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ser... More

An elegy on the much lamented death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefi...

Positive Photostat.; Whitefield, George.; Verse.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collecti... More

[Map of the coast of New Jersey from Barnegat Inlet to Cape May.

Scale ca. 1:32,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by shading. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the coast and the Mullica River inland to the site of the "Batsto forge.... More

[Fortaleza y Puerto de San Fernando de Omoa].

Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: J. Whatman. Watermark: GR (with reginal figure in cartouche under crown). Pen-and-ink and pencil. Imperfect: Discoloration along edges. Available also through the Library o... More

Map of the Kingdom of Poland : and the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania /

Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. East from Ferro." "Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

[Map of the roads from New Rochelle to Kingstreet, Westchester County.

Scale ca. 1:63,000. Title from P. L. Phillip's A list of maps of America, p. 502. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1088 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

[A chart of New York Island & North River: East River, passage through...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy incomplete: Western half missing. Shows Long Island north shore from Eaton's Neck west to Cow Bay. Available also through the Lib... More

Vuë de la basse ville a Quebeck. Prospect von der untern stadt in Queb...

Print shows the harbor at Québec, one ship at anchor, men working loading or unloading a boat, and merchandise on shore; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city. (as characteristic of opt... More

Carta plana que contiene parte de la costa de Malayo como asimismo par...

A prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New-England -...

Print shows eight British warships (numbered and identified in bottom margin) in the harbor with Boston in the background. Illus. in: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack, and Massachusetts register for the y... More

Vue du port Philadelphie - dans l'Amérique - graveé d'aprés le tableau...

Print of an idealized, European view of the port of Philadelphia showing buildings on the waterfront of the Delaware River, a boat in the foreground, and a windmill on the right.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with painting of a deer in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo... More

[Engraving from Diderot, Encyclopédie, v. 1, pl. 1, Agriculture, Labou...

Illus. in: Diderot. Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, v. 1, pl. 1. Livourne, 1770-1775. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434B. This record contains unverified, old data... More

Nakajima kanzaemon, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Nakajima Kanzaewmon, half-length portrait, facing right in fan-shaped frame. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Fro... More

Kōkan Shiba - Shinobu koi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man looking from behind a sliding screen at a woman carrying a lantern up stairs and looking back at the man. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Sanogawa ichimatsu, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, half-length portrait, portraying a female, facing left in fan-shaped frame. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... More

Plano de la Ya. de Sn. Carlos descubierta por Dn. Phelipe Gonzalez de ...

Shows Easter Island. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: Indecipherable. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-H... More

Capt. Paul Jones's victory. [177-?].

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 40, Folder 39.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Full page of text and illustration for the maxim. Illus. in: Thomas Dilworth's A New Guide to the English Tongue (Phila., 1770). Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

Summer and winter habitations in Kamtschatka / Webber del. ; J. Goldar...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Boston Harbour, with the surroundings, &c. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Dept... More

Yabase no kihan - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three women in a small sailboat. Public domain photograph of 18th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To the independent freeholders and freemen, of this City and County. I...

Imprint 2.; Title.; On verso: S; June 4, 1770. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... More

Le General Arnold un des chefs de l'armée Anglo-Americaine.

Benedict Arnold, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing uniform; in oval with ornate border.

A series of four pictures of bananas with writing on them [Powder horn...

Untitled pictorial depiction of rivers and fortifications on conical powder horn. Present title devised by cataloguer. Manuscript: Black/brown inks on bovine horn, shellacked. Has pewter pouring spout attached ... More

A Boxing match in Hapaee / Webber del. ; Goldar sc.

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

The hon. James Otis, jun. Esq. - Public domain portrait engraving by J...

Print shows James Otis, bust portrait, flanked by Hercules crushing a snake with his foot and Minerva holding a staff topped with a liberty cap. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, .... Boston : 1770, ti... More

Paul Revere - [The coffin of Patrick Carr]

Print shows section of newspaper column with illustration of the coffin bearing skull and crossbones and the initials of Patrick Carr, who died from wounds received during the Boston Massacre. Illus. in: The B... More

Ōgiya ureshino shūgetsu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows two women in an embrace, standing next to opening in a brothel.

Risshun, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man sitting on a veranda, turned to look at a woman standing in a doorway. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

Plano del Puerto de Mauricio, situado a la parte del no. de la Ysla de...

Shows vicinity of Port Louis. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters VDL. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cl... More

Copy Major John Thornton's platt. - Public domain map

Thomas Jefferson's copy of a 1718 survey by Francis Eppes of property at the junction of the Rivanna and Fluvanna Rivers. Gift; Janet Hall; Mar. 10 1995. Accompanied by manuscript letter and photo copy of verso... More

Ichikawa danzō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danzō, half-length portrait, facing right in fan-shaped frame. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the... More

A line to the modern ladies: found among the writings of Joseph Hopkin...

New York. January 8, [1770]. All the real friends of liberty, and our ...

Imprint 2.; Election by ballot.; On verso: S; Jan 2, 1770. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; ... More

New-York, June 12, 1770. Advertisement. Whereas a number of persons, w...

Positive Photostat.; Advertisement. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104, Folder 15.

[Arms] The speech of the statute of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl ...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104, Folder 14.

Partie de la carte du Capitaine Cluny auteur d'un ouvrage anglois inti...

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. "Suppl. carte 10." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, & settlements...

Scale ca. 1:500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1926 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Incl... More

The Body of Tee, a chief, as preserved after death in Otaheite / Webbe...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

A card. Number 1. A member of the Church of England, and A Son of Libe...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104, Folder 16.

[St. Eustatius, Leeward Islands]. - Public domain map

Shows aerial view of the port of Sint Eustatius in the northern Leeward Islands of the West Indies including buildings, ships, and fortifications. Relief shown pictorially. Bird's-eye-view. Pen-and-ink and penc... More

Of the Waggoner and Hercules - Public domain dedication image

Fable illustrating the maxim, "the Lord helps those who help themselves". Full page of text and illustration. Illus. in: Thomas Dilworth's A New Guide to the English Tongue (Phila., 1770). Reference copy may be... More

Mitate rajōmon, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man departing, holding a closed umbrella over his right shoulder, looking back at a young woman standing on a veranda, leaning against a post. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

[Chart of Plymouth Bay. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 960 Vault AACR2

Plat of Carrollsburg / Historic map, Library of Congress

Cadastral survey map showing lot numbers and some initials of proprietors. Alternate title in ink on verso: Plan of Carrollsburg that now forms a part of Washington City. Brown and red inks. Oriented with north... More

To the public [acknowledgement of William Semple, Alexander Bartram, J...

Draught of the R. Ibbeville. - Public domain old map

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

A View of the habitations in Nootka Sound / Webber del. ; Birrell sc.

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island.

A Human sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite [i.e. Tahiti] / Webber, J. de...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

Thursday, September 27, 1770. Many respectable freeholders and inhabit...

Imprint 2.; Not in Hildebirn. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... More

Fontenelle / gravé sur acier par Hopwood.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, half-length portrait, facing front, in rectangular frame.

Tho. Dilworth, schoolmaster, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders, facing right; writing. Illus. in: Dilworth, A New Guide to the English Tongue, Phila., 1770. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. "Bradford's edition" above portrait. This record contains u... More

Vuë de la place capitale a Quebeck. Prospect des haupt plazes der unte...

Print shows street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians in Québec; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Col... More

[Map showing Caribbean area including West Indies and Gulf of Mexico.

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1696 LC Nautical charts on vellum ; 33 Manuscript, pen-and-ink, green watercolor, and pencil, on vellum. A narrow elongation, 19 x 3 cm., extending fr... More

To the inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia. Gentlemen. ...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 143, Folder 14.

Carta plana que contiene el Estrecho de Banca y el de biliton, nuebame...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters VDL. Pen-and-ink and green and red watercolors. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic Wo... More

[Xinxi Ying yu tu] - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Title supplied. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the fortress and existing military deployment of Xinxi ying in Xinping County, Yunnan Province. Hum... More

The Reception of Captain Cook, in Hapaee / Webber del. ; Goldar, sc.

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of Fort William - Public domain scan / drawing

Topographical drawing shows Fort William on an island near Boston Neck in Massachusetts in 1770. The fort, Neck, lighthouse and a ship sailing out of the harbor are all identified. Published in: The American Re... More

Tomizawa hanzaburō, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Tomizawa Hanzaburō, half-length portrait framed by a fan, in the role of a female servant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists i... More

The character and death of the late Rev. George Whitefield ... [Portsm...

Not in Evans.; Imprint 3.; Whitefield, George. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 87,... More

... A riddle. There has appeared in this City, a tall man, well made, ...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 143, Folder 12.

Draught of an intrenched camp proposed to be erected near Elisabeth To...

Scale not given. Title on verso: Fortified camp at Elizh. Town, Jersey ... Manuscript, pen-and-ink. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1290 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

[Survey of region embraced by Somerset, Bedford, and Fulton Counties a...

Carte de la Californie : suivant I. la Carte manuscrite de l'Amérique ...

Charles-Town, July 28, 1770. On Friday last was opened a Star-Chamber ...

Imprint 2.; Stevensin, John. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 37, Folder 9.

Chūshū, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women, one sitting, the other reclining, on a bench between blossoming plants and beneath a full moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

To the tradesmen, farmers, and other inhabitants of the City and Count...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 143, Folder 7.

Plano de la ciudad de S. Juan de Puerto Rico.

Oriented with north toward the lower left. Pen-and-ink and watercolors. Indexed. Marbled paper mounted on verso. Date stamped and typewritten printed label mounted on marbled paper: Coleccion: José Ma. López de... More

The Inside of a Hippah, in New Zeeland [i.e. New Zealand] / Webber, de...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

Destaing. Shewing how he cut the English mens head off

Charles Henri Estaing holding cat by tail in one hand and sword in another.

Tachibana Minko - Motoyui - Public domain drawing

Print shows an old man working with strands of yarn. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Iroe shokunin burui : A color il... More

Capt. Gg. [George?] Newell silhouette, American

Bust portrait silhouette of an elderly man identified as "Capt. G. Newell", facing left. He wears his hair in a short pony-tail tied with a ribbon and he wears a high collar with cravat tied in a bow. Inscribe... More

Plano de la entrada del Rio Grande situado en 32 grados de latd. merid...

Shows southern portion of Patos Lagoon in the region of Rio Grande. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis over the characters VDL. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mo... More

We the subscribers do hereby severally inlist ourselves into the servi...

Not in Ford or Evans.; Stamped on verso: 504. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 40, Folder 40.

New York, May 31st, 1770. Advertisement. Whereas a meeting of the inha...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104, Folder 13.

Proposals for erecting and encouraging a new manufactory. Wealth and h...

Positive Photostat.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104, Folder 5.

At a meeting of the merchants & traders, at Faneuil-Hall, on the 23rd ...

House of Commons, March 1770, Notes on Grenville Bill; Procedures for ...

Notes on Grenville Bill; Procedures for Settling Disputed Elections

On the death of five young men who was murthered, March 5th, 1770. By ...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... More

Nakajima mihoemon - Public domain print

Print shows the actor Nakajima Mihoemon, half-length portrait framed by a fan, in the role of a rogue samurai.

I George Brooke, treasurer of Virginia, hereby certify, that of the Co...

Filled in in mss. and dated 22 May 1780.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More

[Engraving from Diderot, Encyclopédie, v. 1, pl. 60, Agriculture, Jard...

Illus. in: Diderot. Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, v. 1, pl. 60. Livourne, 1770-1775. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434B. This record contains unverified, old dat... More

Jūsan, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman offering a lighted pipe to her lover reclining on a bed nearby, also, from an adjoining room, a man (probably her husband) peeking from beneath a small table with a portion of a bird (rooste... More

Map of that part of Orange County lying to the north of the mountains ...

Scale 1:79,200; protracted by a scale of 100 chains to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by shading. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1089 Availa... More