DLC Catalog

1. Abecedarium

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Third quarter of 15th century
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/primers/page-1

2. Account book of slave trading expedition, 1791-1792

Johnston, John

Name: Johnston, John
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: 1791-1792
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/slavery/page-1

3. American Geography: or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Containing Astronomical Geography. Geographical Definitions. Discovery, and General Description of America

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

Name: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1789
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

4. American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion

Fisher, George (Accomptant)

Name: Fisher, George (Accomptant)
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1748
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

5. American Penman, Comprising the Art of Writing, Plain and Ornamental

Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852

Name: Huntington, Eleazer, 1789-1852
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1824
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

6. American Preceptor; being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of schools

Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817

Name: Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1797
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-3

7. Announcement of Education of Chaucer

Oxford University Press

Name: Oxford University Press
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: 1935
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/medieval-trivium/page-1

8. Arithmetic Exercises from Manuscript Sum Book

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Name: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: 1824
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-3

9. Arithmetiqve made easie

Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656

Name: Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1630

10. Arts Glory, or, The Pen-Mans Treasury

Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675

Name: Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1666
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-2

11. Autograph letter by George Washington, signed, to Nicholas Pike

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Name: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Collection Name: George Washington Papers
Date: June 20, 1786

12. Bibliotheca Columbiana: Number 1, April 1933

Friends of the Columbia Libraries

Name: Friends of the Columbia Libraries
Date: April 1933
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-1

13. Bibliotheca Columbiana: Number 4, August 1937

Friends of the Columbia Libraries

Name: Friends of the Columbia Libraries
Date: August 1937
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-2

14. Boke Named the Governour

Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546

Name: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1557
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

15. Boke Named the Governour

Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546

Name: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1557
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

16. Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands, as well the English as French Secretarie with the Italian, Roman, Chancelry & Court Hands

Beau-Chesne, Jehan de

Name: Beau-Chesne, Jehan de
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1570
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-1

17. Bookplate of George Arthur Plimpton

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: Early 20th century?
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/hornbooks/page-1

18. Cherokee alphabet

Sequoyah, 1770?-1843

Name: Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: circa 1835
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

19. Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature

M'Culloch, J. M. (James Melville), 1801-1883

Name: M'Culloch, J. M. (James Melville), 1801-1883
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1857
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

20. David Eugene Smith

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: circa 1926
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-1

21. De Proprietatibus Rerum

Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

Name: Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Mid 15th century
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/encyclopedias/page-1

22. Dean’s Recently Improved Analytical Guide, to the Art of Penmanship

Dean, Henry, 1788-1849

Name: Dean, Henry, 1788-1849
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1808
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-3

23. Description of and Instructions for the Operation of an Astronomical Clock with an Armillary Sphere

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 17th century
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-3

24. Directions for Writing. Set Forth for the Benefit of Poore Schollers

G. D.

Name: G. D.
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1656
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-2

25. Education of Chaucer Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in His Time

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1935
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/medieval-trivium/page-1

26. Education of Shakespeare: Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in his Time

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1933
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-1

27. Education of Women: Earliest Period, circa 300-1450

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: Early 20th century?
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-1

28. Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara

Euclid

Name: Euclid
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1570
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-2

29. English language exhibition

Grolier Club

Name: Grolier Club
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: March 20, 1930
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-1

30. Fifty Years as a Publisher

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: circa 1926
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-1

31. Fonotipic instructur, or, Furst rediu buc for adults hw hav nevur ben tot tw red

Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890

Name: Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1846
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-4

32. Friends of the Library of Columbia University

Friends of the Columbia Libraries

Name: Friends of the Columbia Libraries
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: 1933
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-1

33. Gaskell’s Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing

Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-

Name: Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1876
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

34. Geometrical Practical Treatize Named Pantometria

Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559

Name: Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1591
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/mathematics/page-3

35. Ginn & Company's writing books

Ginn and Company

Name: Ginn and Company
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1892

36. Gradual

Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Mid 14th century

37. Gramaticall Cards, Comprising the Generall Rules of Lilley’s Gramer

Lenthall, John, 1683-1765

Name: Lenthall, John, 1683-1765
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Circa 1700
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

38. Handwriting for the broad-edge pen : a teachers' manual

Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-

Name: Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1926
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

39. Honorary Degree given to George A. Plimpton

Columbia University

Name: Columbia University
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: June 5, 1929
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-3

40. Introduction to the facsimile of of the John Johnston account book

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: circa 1930
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/slavery/page-1

41. Journal of an African Slaver, 1789-1792

American Antiquarian Society

Name: American Antiquarian Society
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1930
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/slavery/page-1

42. Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar

Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678

Name: Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1659
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-2

43. Letter to Caroline Hazard

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: February 2, 1901
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-3

44. Letter to Francis T. P. Plimpton, August 17, 1904

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: August 17, 1904
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-2

45. Letter to George A. Plimpton, April 3, 1902

Brownell, S. B.

Name: Brownell, S. B.
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: April 3, 1902
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-1

46. Letter to George A. Plimpton, November 12, 1924. Page 1

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

Name: Dewey, John, 1859-1952
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: November 12, 1924
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/women/page-5

47. Letter to George A. Plimpton regarding new building and collection

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: August 8, 1930
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-2

48. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, April 24, 1926

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

Name: Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: April 24, 1926
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-5

49. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, August 18th, 1926

Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-

Name: Moore, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1846-
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: August 18, 1926

50. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, December 16, 1935

Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948

Name: Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: December 16, 1935
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-4

51. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton regarding Friends of the Library

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: June 28, 1928
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-1

52. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton regarding honorary degree, March 4, 1929

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: March 4, 1929
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/friends/page-3

53. Letter To The Independent, 11 January 1917 (carbon)

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: January 11, 1917
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-4

54. Lewis Farm Letterhead

Lewis Farm (Walpole, Mass.)

Name: Lewis Farm (Walpole, Mass.)
Collection Name: Plimpton Family Papers
Date: First half of 20th century?

55. Marks of Merit, Together with an article on Hornbooks and their use in America

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Date: circa 1916
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/hornbooks/page-1

56. Myrrour of the Worlde

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492

Name: Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
Collection Name: Incunabula
Date: 1481
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/medieval-trivium/page-3

57. New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggars, thieves, cheats, &c

B. E.

Name: B. E.
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: Bookseller's notes indicate 19th century reprint, in boards, with paper label dated 1690
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

58. Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or, the Partitions of Sciences

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

Name: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: 1640
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/early-modern/page-3

59. On Collecting

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
Collection Name: George A. Plimpton Papers
Date: First third of 20th century?
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/george-arthur-plimpton/page-1

60. Penmanship

Lewis, Priscilla G.

Name: Lewis, Priscilla G.
Collection Name: George Arthur Plimpton Library
Date: December 16, 1835
Item in Context: https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/plimpton/handwriting/page-4

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1. Abecedarium

2. Account book of slave trading expedition, 1791-1792

3. American Geography: or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Containing Astronomical Geography. Geographical Definitions. Discovery, and General Description of America

4. American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion

5. American Penman, Comprising the Art of Writing, Plain and Ornamental

6. American Preceptor; being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of schools

7. Announcement of Education of Chaucer

8. Arithmetic Exercises from Manuscript Sum Book

9. Arithmetiqve made easie

10. Arts Glory, or, The Pen-Mans Treasury

11. Autograph letter by George Washington, signed, to Nicholas Pike

12. Bibliotheca Columbiana: Number 1, April 1933

13. Bibliotheca Columbiana: Number 4, August 1937

14. Boke Named the Governour

15. Boke Named the Governour

16. Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands, as well the English as French Secretarie with the Italian, Roman, Chancelry & Court Hands

17. Bookplate of George Arthur Plimpton

18. Cherokee alphabet

19. Course of Elementary Reading in Science and Literature

20. David Eugene Smith

21. De Proprietatibus Rerum

22. Dean’s Recently Improved Analytical Guide, to the Art of Penmanship

23. Description of and Instructions for the Operation of an Astronomical Clock with an Armillary Sphere

24. Directions for Writing. Set Forth for the Benefit of Poore Schollers

25. Education of Chaucer Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in His Time

26. Education of Shakespeare: Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in his Time

27. Education of Women: Earliest Period, circa 300-1450

28. Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara

29. English language exhibition

30. Fifty Years as a Publisher

31. Fonotipic instructur, or, Furst rediu buc for adults hw hav nevur ben tot tw red

32. Friends of the Library of Columbia University

33. Gaskell’s Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing

34. Geometrical Practical Treatize Named Pantometria

35. Ginn & Company's writing books

36. Gradual

37. Gramaticall Cards, Comprising the Generall Rules of Lilley’s Gramer

38. Handwriting for the broad-edge pen : a teachers' manual

39. Honorary Degree given to George A. Plimpton

40. Introduction to the facsimile of of the John Johnston account book

41. Journal of an African Slaver, 1789-1792

42. Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar

43. Letter to Caroline Hazard

44. Letter to Francis T. P. Plimpton, August 17, 1904

45. Letter to George A. Plimpton, April 3, 1902

46. Letter to George A. Plimpton, November 12, 1924. Page 1

47. Letter to George A. Plimpton regarding new building and collection

48. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, April 24, 1926

49. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, August 18th, 1926

50. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton, December 16, 1935

51. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton regarding Friends of the Library

52. Letter to George Arthur Plimpton regarding honorary degree, March 4, 1929

53. Letter To The Independent, 11 January 1917 (carbon)

54. Lewis Farm Letterhead

55. Marks of Merit, Together with an article on Hornbooks and their use in America

56. Myrrour of the Worlde

57. New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggars, thieves, cheats, &c

58. Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or, the Partitions of Sciences

59. On Collecting

60. Penmanship