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  • Collection: 18th Century

A tour through the isle of Man

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QUL contains pages 233-235 uncancelled, for passages in which the author was prosecuted, and the book reissued without them. Aquatint illustrations by George Isham Parkyns.

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

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Vol. 1: viii, [1], vi-xii, 370 p., [19] leaves of plates : 17 ill., 1 port., 1 chart ; v. 2: xii, 359, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : 10 ill.; v. 3: xii, 400 p., [17] leaves of plates (2 folded) : 16 ill., 2 maps (on 1 plate); v. 4: xii, 310, [64]…

An essay on history

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In verse.
With a half-title page.
Errata on page 159.

An essay on the history of civil society

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An essay on the history of civil society / By Adam Ferguson, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.

An essay towards a general history of feudal property in Great Britain

Title page
The statement "by John Dalrymple, Esq." appears on the title page after the edition statement.

Advertisement and Errata on unnumbered pages following the preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk

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Title of volumes 1-2 in red and black; volumes 4-5 paged continuously. The first 2 volumes and part of volume 3 appeared in numbers.

Volume 1 has errata on page 808; volume 2 has errata on page 913; volume 3 has errata on page viii.

Volume 3…

An history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.

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Anonymous. By Oliver Goldsmith.

The London part of the imprint is false; probably printed in Gainsborough (ESTC)

"This work has been ascribed to the Earl of Orrery, to Lord Lyttelton, and to the Earl of Chesterfield"--Hackett and Laing.…

An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe

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Translator's epistle dedicatory signed: J. Crull, M.D.
Appendix t.p. title: Appendix containing an introduction to the history of the principal soveraign states of Italy, viz. Venice, Modena, Mantua, Florence, and Savoy.

Includes index.

An introduction to universal history

Title page
Translation of Synopsis historiae universalis.
With half-title.

Andrews' History of Great Britain

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Volumes 1 and 2 also called volumes VII and VIII on running titles.

Errata page at the end of each volume.