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- Tags: 18th century
The life of Edward lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by himself.
Tags: 18th century, biography, HIST 400, Strawberry Hill
The landscape : a didactic poem. In three books. Addressed to Uvedale Price, esq. / by R.P. Knight.
The history of women
Half-title page: History of Women.
Tags: 18th century, history, women, Woolf gift
The history of Wales
Closes with 1284.
Tags: 18th century, Great Britain, history, map, octavo, Roman Britain, Wales, Woolf gift
The history of the town of Taunton, in the county of Somerset (embellished with plates)
With a half-title, bearing on the verso proposals for an appendix to this work.
An errata slip is pasted to the foot of the final page.
Tags: 18th century, England, engraved illustrations, history, illustrated, map, quarto, Woolf gift
The history of the Saracens
Issued with the first edition of the second volume.
Tags: 18th century, history, Islam, Middle East, octavo, Woolf gift
The history of the royal family, or, A succint account of the marriages and issue of all the kings and queens of England, from the conquest
With an advertisement leaf following the preface and an index.
Some copies have a leaf signed E3 extra to the register inserted after pp. 53-54, repeating the page numbers; catchwords are correct for this leaf.
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Tags: 18th century, English, kings, queens
The History of the Revolution in Sweden
Tags: 18th century, history, map, octavo, Sweden, Woolf gift
The history of the reign of King Charles the Second
The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England
With a half-title.
In this edition, l.14 of v.1 titlepage reads: "Counsellor".
The third preliminary leaf in v.1 contains a royal privilege, dated 24 June 1703, for the publication of v.2-3; it is from the same setting…
The history of the principality of Wales
With a half title and three final advertisement leaves.
Title within double line border.
Frontispiece on verso of half-title.
Tags: 18th century, duodecimo, Great Britain, history, illustrated, royalty, travel, Wales, Woolf gift
The history of the parishes of Whiteford and Holywell
In 2 parts, the second having separate, engraved title page: History of Holywell parish, and separate register; the pagination is almost continuous.
Errata on page 328.
Of "Appendix": The five royal tribes of Cambria…
The History of the civil wars between York and Lancaster
Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., 1983. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 120, no. 4.
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, marginalia, octavo, Richard III, Woolf gift
The history of the bucaniers of America
Exquemelin's "De americaensche zee-roovers," Amsterdam, 1678, was translated into Spanish in 1681 and thence by an anonymous translator into…
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Saint Albans chronicle
Known as "The Saint Albans chronicle"; not the same compilation as the "Chronicles of England" first printed by Caxton (STC 9991-4).
Title and…