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An essay on history

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In verse.
With a half-title page.
Errata on page 159.

An essay on the history of civil society

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An essay on the history of civil society / By Adam Ferguson, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.

An essay towards a general history of feudal property in Great Britain

Title page
The statement "by John Dalrymple, Esq." appears on the title page after the edition statement.

Advertisement and Errata on unnumbered pages following the preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.…

An history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.

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Anonymous. By Oliver Goldsmith.

The London part of the imprint is false; probably printed in Gainsborough (ESTC)

"This work has been ascribed to the Earl of Orrery, to Lord Lyttelton, and to the Earl of Chesterfield"--Hackett and Laing.…

An introduction to the history of the principal kingdoms and states of Europe

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Translator's epistle dedicatory signed: J. Crull, M.D.
Appendix t.p. title: Appendix containing an introduction to the history of the principal soveraign states of Italy, viz. Venice, Modena, Mantua, Florence, and Savoy.

Includes index.

An introduction to universal history

Title page
Translation of Synopsis historiae universalis.
With half-title.

Andrews' History of Great Britain

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Volumes 1 and 2 also called volumes VII and VIII on running titles.

Errata page at the end of each volume.

Annali ecclesiastici

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Continues Baronius from 1198 to 1378. Incomplete. Rinaldi carried the work to 1565.

Engraved title page, signed Daniel Widman.

Argumentum anti-Normannicum, or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers

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This publication, occasioned by a work of William Pettyt's, entitled Antient rights of the commons of England, 1680, was answered by Brady in his Introduction to old English history. It is by some attributed to Atwood, and by others to Cooke or…