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British Gas Light Company

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British Gas Light Company Share £50 No 2921 This is to certify That Issac Morris Ellisen of foreign stock exchange in the city of London is the proprietor of the share No. 2921 in the capital of the British Gas Light Company as…

Asylum Life Assurance Company Share

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Transcription: This is to certify that [illegible] is the holder of one share numbered as under of and in the capital of the asylum life assurance company in London as appears by the register in the office of the company and the said [illegible] is…

Annales, or, A generall chronicle of England

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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.…

An universal history, from the earliest account of time

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Second edition of the "antient part"; 1st edition, 1736-44.
Vols. 1-12, 1747; v. 13-20, 1748; v. 21, 1754; Articles by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton, and others. Cf. Brit. Mus.…

An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex which are not described in the "Environs of London"

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Title page is engraved.

The title is taken from the etched title-plate. This is a supplement to Lysons' "The environs of London ..." (London, 1792-1796; No.1977). A further supplement was published in 1811 (No.1979).

Index of arms: p.…

A new history of the succession of the crown of England

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"Licens'd, June 9. 1690. J. Fraser."; "A Catalogue of the Historians cited in the following Collection, and the Times when they lived"--Page [8]; Signatures: A-I.

A journey from London to the Isle of Wight

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Running title, v. 2: From Dover to the Land's-End.
The narrative of a tour from the Isle of Wight to Land's End was projected, but apparently not published. -- cf. Adv., v. 2, p. [v] at front.
Advertisement: [2] pages at end of volume 2.

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