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  • Collection: 17th Century

Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ

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"R. B." is sometimes identified with Richard Braithwaite.

Page 570 misnumbered 562.

Includes index.

History of England

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Running title reads: The history of England.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

Head pieces.

With a final errata leaf.

Frontispiece portrait (A1v) signed: Gul. Faithorne ad vivum delin. et sculpsit.

Printed by John…

Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII.

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Added t.p., engraved: Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII. A Paris : Par Iehan Richer, 1607. Signed "J. de Weert".

Leaves numbered irregularly.

Continued by: Mercure francois.

Present state of the Ottoman Empire

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Originally published in 1667 as: The present state of the Ottoman Empire.

With an added title page (A1v), engraved and signed: F.H. Van Houe fec.

Title within double-rule border; initials.

Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical

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A translation into English from the original French of: Le Comte, Louis. Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état présent de la Chine.

With engraved frontis. portrait (plate) of Emperor Cam-hy [i.e. K'ang-hsi] signed: M. Vander Gucht sculp.…

Several treaties of peace and commerce concluded between the late King of blessed memory deceased, and other princes and states

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The first leaf (pi2?) bears an order to print on verso; the last leaf is blank.

Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Ll⁴.

Treaties concerning the following nations: Spain, France, Denmark, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Savoy…

Itinera mundi

Title page
First 3 words of title in Hebrew characters.

Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns.

"Tractatus Alberti Bobovii Turcarum imp. Mohammedis IVti olim interpretis primarii, De Turcarum liturgia" has separate title page, dated 1690, and pagination.

La vie d'Olivier Cromwel

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Illustrations, portraits, plates (some folded).

Printer's device (sphere).

A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent

Title page and portrait
Title vignette (Sheldonian Theater).

With frontispiece portrait of the author on leaf a2v.

With imprimatur on verso of the title page (a3v).

"The life of Mr. Somner" by White Kennett precedes "The history of the Roman ports and forts in…

Argumentum anti-Normannicum, or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers

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This publication, occasioned by a work of William Pettyt's, entitled Antient rights of the commons of England, 1680, was answered by Brady in his Introduction to old English history. It is by some attributed to Atwood, and by others to Cooke or…

Notitia monastica

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Imprimatur on verso of title leaf dated: Martii 13, 1694/5.

Includes: "An alphabeticall index of all the monasteries and other places mentioned in the Notitia monastica" on p. [1]-[19] at end, and "An index of the sirnames of founders of…

The Greek and Roman history illustrated by coins & medals

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"Licensed and entered according to order." 'O. W.' = Obadiah Walker.

Title within double-rule border

Text continuous despite pagination.

Bookseller's advertisements on pages 357-360.

Errata, preliminary page [16].

Titles of honor

Title page
Numerous errors in paging, including: 68-97 omitted, 101-102 repeated in the numbering.

Title-page printed in red and black.

Wood-cut decorated head-piece and decorated initials, numerous engraved images of coins, crown designs, and medals of…

Annali ecclesiastici

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Continues Baronius from 1198 to 1378. Incomplete. Rinaldi carried the work to 1565.

Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.

The history of gavel-kind

Title page
"Brevis relatio de Willelmo, nobilissimo comite Normanorum" has separate dated title page, with imprint "typis Guil. Wilson pro Johanne Starkey", on leaf 2B1r.

Genealogical table numbered 211.

Includes index (leaves a3-c1).

With final…