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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…
Tags: 16th century, banned works, England, folio, Great Britain, history, Ireland, marginalia, Schulich gift, Scotland, Wales
The fight for Everest : 1924
Includes index. Signed on title page by Sir Edmund Hillary.
The famous and memorable vvorkes of Iosephus, a man of much honour and learning among the Ievves
First word of title is xylographic.
Printer's name from STC.
"The lamentable and tragicall history of the vvars and vtter ruine of the Iewes" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Includes index.
A variant…
Printer's name from STC.
"The lamentable and tragicall history of the vvars and vtter ruine of the Iewes" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Includes index.
A variant…
Tags: 17th century, folio, history, Jewish history, Schulich gift
The British soldier
"Notice" [i.e. errata] on final page.
Several treaties of peace and commerce concluded between the late King of blessed memory deceased, and other princes and states
The first leaf (pi2?) bears an order to print on verso; the last leaf is blank.
Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Ll⁴.
Treaties concerning the following nations: Spain, France, Denmark, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Savoy…
Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Ll⁴.
Treaties concerning the following nations: Spain, France, Denmark, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Savoy…
Ruins of desert Cathay
Record of the archaeological and geographical explorations ... during the years 1906-1908 ... carried out under the orders of the government of India..."-Preface
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…
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.
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44
A parallel edition, with its own versions of the plates, was printed and issued by order of the Senate as document no. 174, with imprint: Washington : Gales & Seaton, Printers, 1845 (Checklist Amer. imprints 45-2519).
The astronomical and…
The astronomical and…
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.
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.…
Overland explorations in Siberia, northern Asia, and the great Amoor River country
Library's copy imperfect: map and plan wanting.
First ed. published in 1860 under title: A voyage down the Amoor.
Publisher's advertisements ([8] pages) at end.
First ed. published in 1860 under title: A voyage down the Amoor.
Publisher's advertisements ([8] pages) at end.
Tags: 19th century, Asia, China, exploration, history, Japan, Russia, Schulich gift, travel
North Bay, the gateway to silverland
"These three books in one are to be sent to Public Libraries, into every part of the world ..."--page [3].
With: The real Cobalt / by Anson A. Gard. Toronto : The Emerson Press, 1908.
With: Silverland and its stories / by Anson A. Gard.…
With: The real Cobalt / by Anson A. Gard. Toronto : The Emerson Press, 1908.
With: Silverland and its stories / by Anson A. Gard.…
Narrative of the United States exploring expedition
" ... This edition ... contains ... the same type, page and reading matter, as the one in imperial octavo; the difference between them being in the quality and size of the paper; the substitution of forty-seven wood-cuts for that number of steel…
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Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative…