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John Starr Stewart Ex Libris Collection

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  • Blackwell, Henry, 1851-1928
    Image | 1893Antique bearded figures beneath tree, one figure with lyre, the other picking branches from tree. Within central roundel: Landscape with square tower.
  • Blair, Clinton Ledyard, 1867-1949.
    ImageBlack ink on cream paper. Crest: torse and stag's head caboshed (antlered) within semi-circular banner displaying the motto.
  • Blank, F. C. (F. Charles)
    ImageOval frame bearing crossed engravers tools
  • Bliss, Theodore Harrison
    ImageTwo coats of arms upon shield, (1) Gules (red) a bend vairé between two fleurs-de lis or (gold). Crest: An arm erased below the elbow, holding a bundle of four arrows, point downwards. (2) or, a fess azure between three garbs. Crest: An arm erased below the elbow holding a frond of wheat [palm?].
  • Blomfield, Charles James, 1786-1857
    ImageCoat of arms: Escutcheon parted per pale. Dexter, gules (red) two swords in saltire (crossed), handles or (gold)
  • Boddington, Samuel
    ImageCoat or arms. Escutcheon, quarterly, 1st and 4th, sable, a demi lion rampant between six cross crosslets fitched gules (red) on a chief argent (silver)
  • Bodley Club Library
    ImageCoat of arms of Sir Thomas Bodley
  • Bond, Ethel
    ImageMythical/heroical image of many-towered castle among chiselled cliffs above lake with sailboat, water-side domed temple, pelican-like birds in air
  • Bonfield, Susan
    ImageCountry road, shade tree
  • Booklovers Library
    ImagePrinted in red and black. Small coat of arms at top: escutcheon azure (blue) charged with open_file book
  • Boston Public Library
    Image | 1896Greyish black ink on beige paper. Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow enclosed by laurel branches, flanked by lit torches
  • Boston Public Library
    ImageBostonia seal and a mantel with books
  • Boston Public Library
    Image | 1897Framed portrait of O'Reilly
  • Boston Public Library
    ImageGrey ink on off white paper. Within a double-line border: above, within a wreath, a banner with motto and post horn
  • Boston Public Library
    ImageBosonia Seal and portrait of Jonathan Phillips, flanked by foliage
  • Boston Public Library
    ImageBostonia seal within a double border.
  • Boston Public Library
    Image | 1903Portrait of Robert Charles Billings on mantel with oil-burning lamp, paper, pot of ink and feather pen.
  • Boston Public Library
    ImageBoston Public Library Trustee Seal surrounded by laurel branches. Greyish black ink on white paper.
  • Boston Public Library: Galatea Collection
    Image | 1896Greyish black ink on ivory paper. The upper section (framed) contains the seal of the trustees of the Boston Public Library surrounded by laurel branches. The lower section (framed) contains text.
  • De Boudemange, S.
    ImageUpon a base of scattered books, a lion rampant reguardant supports a lozenge shield with three escallops
  • Bowdoin College
    ImageSun in splendor and Coat of arms. Escutcheon (Bowdoin impaling Bowdoin): Parted per pale, both sides azure (blue) a chevron or (gold) between three crested doves close proper. Crest: A swan proper with curbed neck. Motto: Ut aquila versus coelum (As an eagle towards the sky)
  • Bowdoin College Library
    ImageSun in splendor and Coat of arms. Escutcheon (Bowdoin impaling Bowdoin): Parted per pale, both sides azure (blue) a chevron or (gold) between three crested doves close proper. Crest: A swan proper with curbed neck. Motto: Ut aquila versus coelum (As an eagle towards the sky)
  • Bowman, R. B.
    ImageCoat of arms. Escutcheon: Or, a chevron ermine between three bows in pale. Crest: A quiver full of arrows suspended from the trunk of a tree couped at the top, all proper. Motto: Regem et legem arcu defendo (I defend the king and the law with my bow)
  • Boyničić, Johann
    Image | 1881Coat of arms: Lion rampant, in the dexter paw a sword, in the sinister hand a man's head erased. Supporters: two half-naked women. Crest. Bear segreant.
  • Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946
    Image | 1901Weather vane: rooster
  • Brainerd, Ella Williams Owsley, 1840-1928
    Image | 1902Woman in gown, wearing garland, holding sprig, in rolling landscape
  • Bramberger, Hans
    ImageAthena and owl
  • Bramberger, Hans
    Image | 1899Bearded old man in chair and young man on stool read book
  • Bremen (Ship)
    ImageOcean liner, stylized warrior with sword and shield
  • Brettauer, Hugo
    ImageFeather and leafy branches
  • Brettauer, Valerie
    Image | 1898Putto seated among books playing mandolin, a music book open_file before him
  • Brinn, Heinrich Richard, 1874-1944
    ImageScientist in laboratory with apparatus
  • Broadley, A. M.
    Image | 1902Domestic interior with walls lined with bookshelves, books on table
  • Brooks, Charles B.
    Image | 1905Printed in red and blue/green. Woman in American flag dress near seashore, rowboat on sand, sailing ship at sea.
  • Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-1947
    Image | 1898Young woman with flower in hair holds mask
  • Brown, Harriette Stuart
    Image | 1896A woman standing amid foliage and holding a book. Black ink on ivory paper.
  • Brown University
    ImageBrown University seal: Within a roundel with border text: 'Sigillum Universitatis Brunensis', an escutcheon: Argent (silver), a cross gules (red) between four open_file books of the first (argent), bound of the second (gules). Crest: a demi-sun issuant radiant or (gold) through clouds argent. Motto: In deo speramus (We trust in God)
  • Brown University Library
    ImageContains modified image of Brown's University seal: Within a roundel with border text: 'Sigillum Universitatis Brunensis', an escutcheon: Argent (silver), a cross gules (red) between four open_file books of the first (argent), bound of the second (gules). Crest: a demi-sun issuant radiant or (gold) through clouds argent. Motto: In deo speramus (We trust in God)