Browse Items (39 total)

  • Collection: Rare Book Collection

The history of Scotland

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Index.
List of subscribers: p. [ix]-xiv.
Title page ornament, head- and tail-pieces, initials.
With a list of subscribers and an index. Another impression of the royal paper edition of 1727, with the preliminaries reset; the first word of the…

The historie of Great Britaine vnder the conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans

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First word of title is xylographic.
"T. Cotes pr[inted]. Aaaa to end"--STC.
Title page followed by dedication to King James.
Frontispiece: portrait of the author signed by S[alomon] Savery Sculp.
Published as a continuation of his "Theatre of…

The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches

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Titlepage to volume II has a full-stop after 'Anglicanum' ; the imprint reads : Printed for Jos. Smith, Tho. Taylor, Luke Stokoe, John Senex, W. Taylor, T. Meighan, J. Batley, And. Johnston, W. Bray, R. King, and Tho. Cox. MDCCXXIII.
Titlepages…

A Survey of London

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From title page of volume 1: The survey and history brought down to the present time by careful hands. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and all of the wards; and like-wise, of the out-parishes of London and Westminster, and the…

The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury plain, restored

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Printer suggested by colophon to the collection.
Title in red and black within line border; head and tail pieces; initials.
The frontpiece is a portrait of Inigo Jones, from a painting by Van Dyck.
Each of the three parts has special title page…

Historiae Augustae scriptores VI

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Engraved t.p.;
head- and tail-pieces, initials,
Signatures: *? A-3S? 3T?,
Includes index

The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof

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Author's name taken from Alden.
Translation of: Historia de las cosas mas notables ritos y costumbres, del gran reyno de la China. Rome: Bartholome Grassi, 1585, Three Chinese woodcut characters on pages 92-3.
Translator's preface (p. [3-7])--dated…