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Robin Hood
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…
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…
Labrador : its discovery, exploration, and development
Includes index.
With tipped-in map: Labrador from the most recent surveys (Edinburgh Geographical Institute/John Bartholomew, [1920?]
With tipped-in map: Labrador from the most recent surveys (Edinburgh Geographical Institute/John Bartholomew, [1920?]
Guy Fawkes, or, A complete history of the Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605
Publisher's advertisements, p. [2], [4]-[11] at end.
Bookseller's embossed stamp: S. Drayton and Sons, booksellers, Exeter.
Includes bibliographical references.
Bookseller's embossed stamp: S. Drayton and Sons, booksellers, Exeter.
Includes bibliographical references.
A topographical, ecclesiastical, and natural history of [Wiltshire]
The Wiltshire section of Cox's Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua & nova, 6 vols. 1720-1731, with a printed titlepage supplied at a much later date.
Dated from internal evidence: "Dr. Benj. Hoadley was translated from Bangor hither, and is now…
Dated from internal evidence: "Dr. Benj. Hoadley was translated from Bangor hither, and is now…
Present state of the Ottoman Empire
Originally published in 1667 as: The present state of the Ottoman Empire.
With an added title page (A1v), engraved and signed: F.H. Van Houe fec.
Title within double-rule border; initials.
With an added title page (A1v), engraved and signed: F.H. Van Houe fec.
Title within double-rule border; initials.
The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature
The imprint date is made using turned c's.
The portrait of the author is signed: F.H. Van. Houe: sculp.
The portrait of the author is signed: F.H. Van. Houe: sculp.
Certain discourses, written by Sir John Smythe, Knight.
Concerning the formes and effects of diuers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters militarie, greatlie mistaken by diuers of our men of warre in these daies; and chiefly, of the mosquet, the caliuer and the long-bow; as also, of the…
Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"
Includes index.
With: Map of King Haakon VII Coast and Queen Maud's Sea, and of Lieut. Hansen and Sergt. Ristveldt's sledge expedition 1905 (compiled by Lieut. Hansen)
With: Route of the Gjöa through the North West Passage.
With: Map of King Haakon VII Coast and Queen Maud's Sea, and of Lieut. Hansen and Sergt. Ristveldt's sledge expedition 1905 (compiled by Lieut. Hansen)
With: Route of the Gjöa through the North West Passage.
The first and second volumes of Chronicles
Compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison, and Richard Stanyhurst. Edited by John Hooker, who continued the work to 1586, with the assistance of Francis Thynne on the Scottish continuations, and with Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow on the other…
Polycronycon
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.
Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on 2a3r.
Higden's work, divided into 7 books and extending to the year 1348, was originally written in Latin.…
Hudson Bay, or, Everyday life in the wilds of North America
Added illustrated title page; illustrations engraved by Berveiller and Morison after Forster, Bayard and Ballantyne.
"Preface to fourth edition", pages [vii]-viii.
Bookseller's ticket: "Henderson & Co., stationers, Ottawa"
"Preface to fourth edition", pages [vii]-viii.
Bookseller's ticket: "Henderson & Co., stationers, Ottawa"
History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes
Lacks title page; trimming affects marginal notes; leaf 2M8 torn, affecting printed marginalia; wormtrack. Annotations in early and modern hands ; signed "Liber Richardi Framptoni" on [fleuron]6v (crossed out), 2L4v and 3O2v. A translation, with some…
Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII.
Added t.p., engraved: Histoire de la paix sous le regne du tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII. A Paris : Par Iehan Richer, 1607. Signed "J. de Weert".
Leaves numbered irregularly.
Continued by: Mercure francois.
Leaves numbered irregularly.
Continued by: Mercure francois.
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Polychronicon
Translated and continued by John Trevisa; revised and expanded to 1460 by William Caxton.Imprint from ISTC; colophon (referring to the preparation of…