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  • Collection: 17th Century

Historical remarques, and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster

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Richard Burton is a pseudonym employed by Nathaniel Crouch.
In two parts. Part 2 has separate dated title page and begins new pagination on 2A2r.

Collection of poems on affairs of state. Part 2.

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A- M-l = Andrew Marvell. In verse. Table of contents with twenty-one items on t.p.; first and last listed above. Bound with: A collection of poems on affairs of state. London: Printed in the year, MDCLXXXIX, and The third part of the Collection of…

A Collection of poems on affairs of state

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A- M-l = Andrew Marvell. Signatures: A-D⁴. In this edition Dryden's name in title is spelled with a "y" and "By" in line 15 is printed in upper and lower case. Pages 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32 incorrectly numbered 23, 22, 19, 18, 28, 29, 32, 33.…

Britannia

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Errata on p. [26] at end. Pages 69-75 are engraved illustrations, the plates are engraved maps; additional woodcut and metal cut illustrations throughout text. Printed at Eliot's Court Press--cf. STC. With additional engraved title page, signed:…

[Britannia. English]

Engraved title page
A translation of: Britannia. Identification of printer from STC. With an additional title page, engraved, lacking imprint: Britannia Page 299 misnumbered 287; other errors in pagination. "Scotland" has a divisional title and separate pagination.…

V. Cl. Gulielmi Camdeni, et illustrium virorum ad G. Camdenum Epistolæ.

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Title page in red and black.
Initial.
Printed side notes.
The first leaf bears half-title on recto and portrait on verso.
Half-title reads: Camdeni et illustrium virorum epistolæ.
Engraved portrait signed: R. White sculp.
Includes "V.C.…

The historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth

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Translation of Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, Translator's pref. signed: R.N. [i.e. Robert Norton],
The frontispiece is engraved by Francis Delaram from a painting by Nicholas Hilliard

Remaines concerning Britaine

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Signatures: A-3H?.
Frontispiece is portrait of the author. Armorial bookplate: The Earl of Ilchester.

The historians guide, or, Englands remembrancer

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Usually attributed to Samuel Clarke.
Signatures: A², B-F¹², G⁴ (B2, B3 signed B3, B5).
"Bookes printed for and sold by William Crook ... ": pages [1]-[8] at end.

A short view of the reign of King Henry III.

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Sir R.C. = Sir Robert Cotton,
Originally published in 1627 as: A short view of the long life and raigne of King Henry the Third

Hibernia anglicana

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With an introductory discourse touching the ancient state of that kingdom, and new and exact map of the same, by Richard Cox. Frontispiece of vol. 1 duplicated in vol. 2. Title of v. 2 (in red and black): Hibernia anglicana: or, The second part of…

The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest

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Place of publication from Wing.
Title in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials.
Numerous errors in pagination; text and register are continuous.
Errata: p. [22], 1st sequence.
Text printed in double columns.
Index: p. [1]-[28], at…

A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Howard

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Printer from STC. Signatures: A² B-IF⁴ K⁴( -K4). Running title reads: A relation by way of iournall [journall], &c.

Q. Curtii Rufi historiarum libri, accuratissime editi.

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Signatures: A-S?.

Engraved title-page.

Verso of last leaf blank.

Includes index.

Books I-II supplemented by Christoph Bruno.

Pseudo-Elzevir edition : cf. Willems, Les Elzevier, no. 2146.

Jani Rutgersii emendationes : p.…