William Brand Posted November 4, 2011 Author Posted November 4, 2011 Here are three together, and all of them are published statistics concerning death (but for the marriages listed on one). They are often referred to as 'Bills of Mortality'. The one from 1665 is specifically sobering, as it touches on the many deaths from the plague. DAY 22: 1665 - A Table of Funerals (8.5" x 14" with a 1/4 inch off each side) DAY 23: 1743 - A General Bill of all the Christenings and Burials (8.5" x 11" with a half inch off the top and bottom) DAY 24: 1758 - Diseases and Casualties (two copies on an 8.5" x 11" with crop marks) 1665-ATableoftheFunerals.pdf 1743-AGeneralBill.pdf 1758-DiseasesAndCasualties.pdf
William Brand Posted November 6, 2011 Author Posted November 6, 2011 DAY 25: Just missed the posting time by 1 minute! This is an unknown, tiny book plate map of Virginia in 1702. I did two of them to a page, since it's so small. 1702-VirginiaMap.pdf
William Brand Posted March 20, 2012 Author Posted March 20, 2012 DAY 26: This isn't an attempt to catch up. I took on too much at once, but I had a moment, so here's a 17th century map of Huntingdonshire. It should be printed on 11x17 paper. Huntingdonshire.pdf
William Brand Posted March 20, 2012 Author Posted March 20, 2012 DAY 27: A Dialogue Between a Boston Man and a Country Man from 1714. This should be printed at 100% on 11x17, two sided and trimmed at the crop marks. 1714-Dialogue.pdf
William Brand Posted March 21, 2012 Author Posted March 21, 2012 DAY 28: A nice map of Cyprus from 1707 to be printed on 11" x 17". 1707-Cyprus.pdf
William Brand Posted March 22, 2012 Author Posted March 22, 2012 DAY 29: This is a hand to hand combat diagram from the 1600s. It's set up on 11" x 17" with no trimming. HandtoHandCombat.pdf
William Brand Posted March 24, 2012 Author Posted March 24, 2012 DAY 30: This is an English pamphlet criticizing Louis XIV for his lack of support in the Siege of Vienna in 1683. I've set it two up on an 8.5" x 11". Just print and cut in two. 1683-LettersofGold.pdf
William Brand Posted March 24, 2012 Author Posted March 24, 2012 DAY 31: This is a 1664 drawing of the fortress, chateau and shipyards at Saint Malo. Since I can't be sure of the size of the original, I simply placed it on an 11" x 17" 1664-SaintMalo.pdf
William Brand Posted March 26, 2012 Author Posted March 26, 2012 DAY 32: This is an interesting little piece about an uprising of arms at Boston in 1689 and the publication of the surrender. It's set up at 8.5" x 11". 1689-BostonSurrender.pdf
William Brand Posted March 26, 2012 Author Posted March 26, 2012 DAY 33: This is a huge map of Moscow from 1695. 1695-Moscow.pdf
William Brand Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 DAY 34: 'The Case of His Excellency the Governour and Council Of the Province of the Massachusettes-Bay in New-England, truly Stated. Phew. One of the longer titles. This is a two sided document on letter sized paper and folded. 1715-CaseofHisExcelency.pdf
Mission Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 DAY 34: 'The Case of His Excellency the Governour and Council Of the Province of the Massachusettes-Bay in New-England, truly Stated. Phew. One of the longer titles. They did love to ramble on in those days in the title. Consider the full title of James Yonge's book about the uses of turpentine in medicine: "Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ : more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London" The whole book is 120 pages long with fairly large (say 14 or 16 point in modern terms) print. I think he ran out of steam after coming up with that title. Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."
William Brand Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 That's no title. It's practically a FORWARD.
William Brand Posted March 28, 2012 Author Posted March 28, 2012 DAY 35: His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament. This is setup on legal sized paper with crop marks. 1715-HisMajestys.pdf
William Brand Posted March 28, 2012 Author Posted March 28, 2012 DAY 36: This is a great map by Herrera from 1601. While an older map, it has some great details and covers a broad area of the World. It's too big to be printed on smaller, standard papers, but it's a great piece. 1601-Herrera.pdf
William Brand Posted March 28, 2012 Author Posted March 28, 2012 DAY 37: While this is later than the Golden Age, it's an interesting polling piece about freeholders in the County of Kent. This is set up on a letter sized page and a quarter inch should be taken off all four sides to be close to the original document. 1754-FreeholdersPoll.pdf
William Brand Posted March 30, 2012 Author Posted March 30, 2012 DAY 38: This is a 1724 document about firefighting in Boston. It's a list of articles signed by a Fire Society and a precursor to modern fire departments. It's set up on 11" x 17" 1724-BostonFireSociety.pdf
William Brand Posted March 30, 2012 Author Posted March 30, 2012 DAY 39: 1721 - The Little-Compton Scourge or, The Anti-Courant. This interesting little document is hard to explain, even after reading it, but I set it up on legal sized paper and offer it just the same. Print and take an inch off the bottom. 1721-LittleComptonScourge.pdf
William Brand Posted March 31, 2012 Author Posted March 31, 2012 DAY 40: This is one of many plates by Mallet and it features Cuba and Jamaica. I set it up on an 11" x 17", but I may offer a smaller version later if I can confirm the original size. PoD found that the original imprint area is aprroximately 4"x6" so I've redone the pdf with two up on a letter sized page with crop marks. Thank you! 1683-CubaAndJamaica.pdf
William Brand Posted March 31, 2012 Author Posted March 31, 2012 DAY 41: This is Lindstrom's map of Pennsylvania in 1654. It is set up on 11" x 17" and an inch should be taken off the left and right side after printing. 1654-LindtromsPennsylvania.pdf
William Brand Posted March 31, 2012 Author Posted March 31, 2012 DAY 42: 1717 - Massachusetts Bay Contract. This one was pretty beat up, but I managed to get it clean enough for printing on an 11" x 17" with an inch trimmed off all sides after printing. 1717-MassBayContract.pdf
William Brand Posted March 31, 2012 Author Posted March 31, 2012 Day 43: 1689 - The Humble Address. Called 'The Humble Address' the full title is 'To the King and Queen's Most Excellent Majesties. The Humble Address and Petition of the Governour, Council, and Convention of Representatives of the People of Your Majesties Collony of the Massachusetts, in New-England'. This one is on a letter sized page and 1.25" should be trimmed off the two sides after printing. Remember, you don't have to cut straight lines on period documents. The printing is often off-centered and cantered to one side or another and pages are not trimmed square. 1689-TheHumbleAddress.pdf
William Brand Posted April 1, 2012 Author Posted April 1, 2012 DAY 44: 1706 - Copies of the Election made May, 29th 1706 (Massachusetts). This one is pretty straight forward. I've set it up on legal sized paper with crop marks. 1706-CopieofElection.pdf
William Brand Posted April 1, 2012 Author Posted April 1, 2012 DAY 45: 1719 - The Original London Post or Heathcot's Intelligence; Being a Collection of the Freshest Advices Foreign and Domestick. This is a single page from an October 7th copy of the paper with text taken from the book Robinson Crusoe. I wish I had more, but it's a great page. It's set up on latter paper with crop marks. 1719-heathcotsintelligence.pdf
William Brand Posted April 3, 2012 Author Posted April 3, 2012 DAY 46: A small map of Lahontan of 1703. This plate was small enough that I did it 2 up on a letter sized page with crop marks. 1703-Lahontan.pdf
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