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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…

Receipt for Payment in the Cost of Shares with Societé d'Assurançes Maritimes

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Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Action, de la valeur de fl. 1000. de change dans la societé d'Assurançes Maritimes  Établie  Bruges. ... Fait à Bruges le [blank]."

The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent

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Signatures: [A]-6R² 6S⁴. Text printed in double columns. Tail-pieces. Press figures. Published in parts. "A list of subscribers ... ": pages [1]-[4] at end. Publisher's advertisement at bottom of p. [2] at end.

The history and antiquities of the University of Cambridge

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Part 1 is a translation of: Historiola Cantabrigiensis, by Nicolaus Cantalupus. Part 2 is a translation of Skeletos Cantabrigiensis, by Richard Parker. Part 2 has title: A view of Cambridge, or, a discription of its colleges ... written in Latin by…

The ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodorit

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Title page in red and black.

In the title, the words "Eusebius, Socrates" and "Sozomen and Theodorit" are gathered by right and left hand braces respectively.

The eight unnumbered pages after the preface contain a list of subscribers.

The…

The annals of King George, year the first

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Includes index.

In this edition the last line of page 1 reads "His Majesty's reign."

Robin Hood

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Compiled and edited by Joseph Ritson.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], cxviii, [2], 167, [1] p.; v. 2: [8], 220, [4] p.

With half titles.

Illustrations are head and tail vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick (see Dobson).

Glossaries in each…

History of Winchester

Title page - vol. 1
Dedication dated: Sept. 2, 1772.

Sometimes erroneously attributed to Thomas Warton.

Errors in paging, v. 2: 252 numbered 225; 265-268 omitted.

Also available as: Microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. - 1 reel ;…

A Part Share in Yfer-Manufactuur en Aluyn-Werken

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Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Recepis, wegens 1/1063 aandeel in de Yser-Manufactuur en Aluyn-werken garphytte, en in het aluyn-werk Beata Christina, in Zweden. ... Deeze Recepis No. [blank] is behoorlyk geprothocolleerd of geregistreed by my…

A tour through Monmouthshire and Wales

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Includes index, errata list. Illustrations drawn by S.H. Grimm, engraved variously by Fra. Chesham, W. Walker, W. Angus, S. Sparrow.

The history of the Saracens

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Originally published with the title: 'The conquest of Syria, Persia and Ægypt, by the Saracens'.
Issued with the first edition of the second volume.