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A 9% Life Annuity from Trésor Royal

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Part Transcription: "Rentes Viageres sur une ou deux Têtes, à différens Deniers. Édit de Janvier 1782. ... L'an mil sept cent quatre-vingt-[blank] le [blank] jour d [blank] a [blank] midi, & ont signé [blank]."

A Banknote from the French Revolution

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Part Transcription: "Domaines nationaux Assignat de cinquante sols payable au porteur."

A Bond for Luxemburg Iron-Smelting Works

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Part Transcription: "Translaat uit het Hoogduitsch. Wy onderschout en scheepenen van het ohrnergrondhoffs ohrenhowen, certificeeren by deezen ... Actum Amsterdam. f1000 -:- [blank]. Deeze is door my ondergeschreevene Notaries in Amsterdam…

A Bond for the French Court in exile in Holland

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Part Transcription: "Nous Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, Fils de France, Monsieur, Oncle du Roy, Regent du Royaume de France, & Charles Philippe de France, Fils de France, Comte d'Artois, Oncle du Roy, Lieutenant General de Royaume, a tous…

A Concise History of England

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Vols. 1-3 lack imprint date; preface dated Aug. 10, 1775; Imprints in vols. 2-4 read: "Printed by R. Hawes, (no. 40) the Corner of Dorset-Street, Crispin-Street, Spitalfields"; Includes index in v.4

A Forced Loan Receipt from the Commune d'Anvers

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Part Transcription: "Départment d'[blank]. Commune d'[blank]. Emprunt Forcé de l'an 4. Récépissé. ... Fait à [blank] le [blank] an 4e. [a 6 has been written on top of the 4] de la République française, une et indivisible. [blank] Percepteur de la…

A History of all the real and threatened invasions of England, from the landing of Julius Cæsar, to the present period

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Anonymous. By C. Stuart.

With a half-title.

A reissue of the edition with the 188-page main section; added pages 189-96 to cover events in June 1794.

A new and authentic history of England

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Published in 80 numbered parts.

At head of p. 862: "A.D. 1780. - A.D.1784"

Includes engraved illustrations including portraits, maps, and a facsimile; frontispiece signed: "Wale delin., Grignion sculp."; other plates by Wale signed: "Taylor…

A new and complete history of England, from the first settlement of Brutus, upwards of one thousand years before Julius Caesar, to the year 1793

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Includes a list of subscribers.

The plates are dated from 1791-1794.

Plates marked: "Engraved for Ashburton's History of England ... published by W. & J. Stratford", and dated from 1791-1793.

Frontispiece signed: "Dayes delin: Grainger…

A new history of England, in English and French, by question and answer

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Anonymous. By John Lockman.
French and English on opposite sides.
Publisher's advertisment: p. [2] at end.
Includes half-title page after the preface: Nouvelle methode pour apprendre l'histoire d'Angleterre = A new method for studying the history…

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 Share and Coupons for Compagnie des Indes

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Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. Action de la Compagnie des Indes, aux termes de Lettres patentes du 22 avril 1770. ... Signé pour la Compagnie des Indes, en vertu de la Délibération de 6 Juin 1770. [blank]."