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Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt libri XVIII
Title in red and black; engraved printer's device; numismatic illustration (page 2, 2nd sequence); includes index.
An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England
Anonymous. By John Selden; Editor's dedication signed: Nath. Bacon; With an additional title page (A1r), engraved, "Semper eadem or the uniforme government of England", signed: W.M. sculp:, i.e. William Marshall; Includes index; In this, the true…
An itinerary
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "[par.]"; the last leaf is blank.
In three parts, each with separate pagination; register is continuous.
Parts 1-3 of a projected work of 5 parts; part 4 was written but never printed. Cf.…
In three parts, each with separate pagination; register is continuous.
Parts 1-3 of a projected work of 5 parts; part 4 was written but never printed. Cf.…
Annales rerum anglicarum et hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Guilielmo Camdeno authore. Text within line border; initials; head and tail pieces.Running title: Elizabetha Angliae Regina.Includes index. Queen's University copy is missing first 2 blank leaves and final errata leaf.A2 is misprinted A3.B1 is a…
Annales, or, A generall chronicle of England
Frequent errors in pagination.
Title within architectural woodcut border.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes.
Printed in double columns.
Printed by John Beale, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcett, and Augustine Mathewes.…
Title within architectural woodcut border.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes.
Printed in double columns.
Printed by John Beale, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcett, and Augustine Mathewes.…
Annali ecclesiastici
Continues Baronius from 1198 to 1378. Incomplete. Rinaldi carried the work to 1565.
Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.
Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.
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
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…
Batauorum cum Romanis bellum : à Corn. Tacito lib. IV. & V. Hist. olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis expressum = De batavische oft oude Hollandtsche oorloghe teghen de Romeynen / auctore Othone Vaenio Lugdunobatauo.
Parallel text in Dutch and Latin letterpress on title page verso. Engraved text in Dutch and Latin at the foot of plates 2-36. Plates are numbered. Copperplate engravings by Antonio Tempesta after Vaenius illustrating books 4 and 5 of Tacitus's…
Boscobel
Title page in red and black; The two maps are signed "Burnford"; the portrait is signed: F.H. van Houe fec.
Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians
The first volume. No more published.
Title page in red and black ; title page vignette.
"This book ... licensed to be printed by ... Sr. Joseph Williamson, March 8th, 1674/75, Roger L'Estrange"--T.p., verso.
Includes index.
Title page in red and black ; title page vignette.
"This book ... licensed to be printed by ... Sr. Joseph Williamson, March 8th, 1674/75, Roger L'Estrange"--T.p., verso.
Includes index.
Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates
Variant: t.p. printed in black and red; The last leaf is blank; Date on t.p. made with turned Cs; Title ornament; headpieces; initials; With printed shoulder notes; "Ad Britannicarum antiquitatum collectanea appendix gemina" has special t.p. with…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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…