Quit-rent receipt for 401.5 acres of land in South Carolina, 1750.

Receipt for quit-rent of 16 shillings paid by Thomas Lamboll for 401.5 acres in Berkeley and (historical) Craven County, South Carolina, 1750.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1293/thumbnail.jp

Two (2) South Carolina colonial documents, signed by John Lining

John Lining signs two South Carolina colonial documents, an order to pay damages and a warrant, in 1748.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1067/thumbnail.jp

Petition of Jonas Rice and others

Numerous citizens of Worcestor petition for a public works project.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1066/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Robert Livingston to Messieurs Storke and Gainsborough of London, written March 19, 1734 from South Carolina.

Livingston requests that cargo of a sloop sailing from South Carolina to New York be insured. (Deducing by the date of this item, the author/creator is neither of the father and son Robert Livingstons, the latter known as a founding father of the U.S.)https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1291/thumbnail.jp

South Carolina colonial writ signed by Charles Hill, Charleston, May 8, 1722.

This writ or warrant deals with a case of trespass with damages of 50 pounds sterling.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1292/thumbnail.jp

Order to pay George Carteret, signed by Albemarle

Royal 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

Two 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

Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio

Published 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

Title Page and Inscription, Strabo\u27s Geography edited by Isaac Casaubon, 1587 [Spec Coll] PA4439 .E5 G4 1587

The 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