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The historie of Great Britaine vnder the conqvests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans
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…
"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…
Tresor Royal certificate
Part Transcription: "Je Jean-Baptiste Brunet, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, Garde de son Tresor Royal, confesse avoir receu comptant en cetter Ville de Paris, de [blank] ... Quittance du Garde du Tresor Royal, Année mil six cens quatre-vingt…
A Bond from Tresor Royal
Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Je Pierre Gruyn, Conseiller de Roy en ses Conseils, Garde de son Tresor Royal, Confesse avoir reçû comptant en cette Ville de Paris, de [blank] ... Quittance du Garde du Tresor Royal, Année mil six cent quatre-vingt…
Letter Ordering the building of a quay for ships. Docket title: "Order to build a Cay at no. 22. An order to Mr. Darracote and others to buld [sic] ye Kay."
Transcription:
Know all men by these presents that we the ffeoffices of this land of the long Bridg of Bidford whose names are hereunto subscribed. Due authorize impower appoint and request Daniel Daraiott Abraham Goaring and Lancet Leaches three of…
Instructions from the Lords of the Admiralty
Transcription:
By the principal officers and commanders of his majesties navy. It being intended that a package should be made through the boat houses and conveniencyes behind them for stowing such boats as the houses will not hold and now suffer by…
Government Loan for the War against France, a £700 Bond
Transcription:
Order is taken this [illegible] day of April 1693. By virtue of their majesties Letters of Privy Seal, Dated the [illegible] day of January 1692. That you deliver and pay of such their majesties treasure as remains in your charge,…
[Britannia. English]
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.…
Chroniques des ducs de Brabant
Title-page vignette, tail-pieces. Large engraved arms of Albert and Isabel on verso of title-page, 1 double-page map of Brabant, 36 copper-engraved protraits by Phillipe Galle, or his students, after drawings by Antonio de Succa, Otto Vaenius, Jan…
Certain matters concerning the realm of Scotland
Anonymous. By John Monipennie. The words "Genealogie .. things in Scotland." are bracketed together on the title page, with the word "The" to the left of the bracket. Printer's name from STC. Queen's University copy lacks the first and last blank…
Les blasons des armes de la royale maison de Bourbon & de ses alliances
Engravings are by Pierre Firens. Signatures: ã²ẽ²A-3O²chi². Signature ẽ folded so ẽ2 (engraved t.p.)--precedes ã1. Title-page and illustrative matter engraved, head-pieces, initials. Includes folded leaf depicting coronation of Louis XIII, dated…
A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Howard
Printer from STC. Signatures: A² B-IF⁴ K⁴( -K4). Running title reads: A relation by way of iournall [journall], &c.
Collection of poems on affairs of state. Part 3.
In verse, without music. Signatures: A⁴ C-E⁴. Bound with: A collection of poems on affairs of state. London: Printed in the year, MDCLXXXIX, and The second part of the Collection of poems on affairs of state. London: Printed in the year, 1689.
Collection of poems on affairs of state. Part 2.
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
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.…
Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative borders, most illuminated, the last 50 without borders. Portraits engraved by Wenceslas Hollar,…
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Polychronicon
Translated and continued by John Trevisa; revised and expanded to 1460 by William Caxton.Imprint from ISTC; colophon (referring to the preparation of…