Browse Items (39 total)

  • Collection: Rare Book Collection

The antiquities of Berkshire

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V. 1 and 2 are continuously paged.
Printer's device on title page. ; head and tail pieces.

The history of Dion Cassius abridg'd by Xiphilin

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Vol. 2 t.p. standing of v. 1 except: "The second volume" for "In two volumes" and "Pater-noster-Row" for "Paternoster-Row."
Vol. 1: [22], 407, [1]; v. 2: [8], 375, [1] p.
Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴(-a4) B-2C⁸ 2D⁴(2D4 verso blank); v. 2: A⁴ B-2A⁸…

The liues of the III. Normans, Kings of England

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Dedication signed: I. Hayvvard.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-2Q⁴ 2R².
"Escapes" (i.e., errata)--page 314.

A catalogue of the bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this island

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Identification of printer from STC,
In this edition and STC 11939 most sheets are in two settings, apparently indiscriminately intermixed,
Title vignette;
head-pieces;
engraved initials,
Dedicated to King James I

The first part of the life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII

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The first 100 pages are devoted chiefly to the preceding reign of Richard II, Dedication signed: I. Hayvvarde,
The imprint is false; printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet, 1629?--STC, Running title reads: The life and raigne of K. Henrie the…

Istoria fiorentina di Dino Compagni dall'anno M. CC. LXXX. fino al M. CCC. XII

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Title vignette (device of the Accademia della Crusca),
Dedication signed: Domenico Maria Manni,
At bottom of title page: Con Licenza De' Superiori,
Includes indexes

Annales of England

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A translation of: 'Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edvvardo VI, et Maria regnantibus, annales.',
"Although entered to both pr[inter]s, the whole book was app[arently] pr[inted] by Stansby."--STC,
The sections on Edward VI and Mary each have…

Historiae Augustae scriptores VI

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