The earliest existing manuscripts, however, belong to the 13th century.
Created between 1805 and 1821, they are some of the earliest existing Audubon originals.
The earliest existing rings are those found in the tombs of ancient Egypt.
The earliest existing standard type of saltcellar consists of late 15th-century spool-shaped hourglass salts.
According to Marston, the cylinders contain the earliest existing recordings of works by Bach, Wagner, Verdi, Chopin, Schumann and others.
Although the concrete on the earlier existing canal is not reinforced, the design for the new canal structures calls for reinforcing steel as an anti-seismic precaution.
Sotheby's said on Wednesday that it would postpone the sale of an early photographic print known as a photogenic drawing because some scholars now believe that the print — an image of a leaf — may have been produced much earlier than previously thought, making it the earliest existing photographic image.
Among the items on display are handwritten drafts of his first and second Inaugural Addresses, the Bible upon which he swore the oath of office on March 4, 1861 (used by Barack Obama at his inauguration), the earliest existing draft of the Gettysburg Address and the contents of his coat from the night he was assassinated in April 1865.
Although small fragments of patchwork have been found in tomb excavations in Asia and the Middle East, the earliest existing quilts may be two large 14th-century wholecloth (i.e., entire, not pieced) Sicilian pieces whose whitework surfaces are heavily embellished with trapunto, also known as corded or stuffed quilting.
In this study, it has been proved that the new modified model can predict more accurately than the earlier existing models.
