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An historical dissertation concerning the antiquity of the English constitution
Tags: 18th century, England, Great Britain, history, law, octavo, political science, Woolf gift
La vie d'Olivier Cromwel
Printer's device (sphere).
Chronological tables of Europe
Derived, with slight modifications, from Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques, Paris, 1682. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
Engraved throughout.
At foot of the…
Sketches of the history of man
Volume 1: 2 unnumbered pages, 525 pages ; Volume 2: iv, 482 pages ; Volume 3: vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 514 pages.
First edition published: Edinburgh, 1774.
Includes bibliographical…
Tags: 19th century, history, philosophy, Scotland, theology, Woolf gift
The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Winchester
In two parts, both with separate pagination and register.
With a final index leaf.
With an additional titlepage after the dedication and preface: 'The history and antiquities…
Mona antiqua restaurata
With a half-title page and a list of subscribers.
Letters by Edward Lhuyd.
Part II has special title page: The Second Essay : clearing some difficulties in the preceding accounts : enlarging on some passages…
Tags: 18th century, Great Britain, history, illustrated, Wales, Woolf gift
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. published in his life-time
"The…
History of Great Yarmouth
With a list of subscribers and an index.
Preface signed by John Ives, publisher of Swinden's posthumous work.
Tags: 18th century, antiquities, England, history, quarto, Roman Britain, Woolf gift, Yarmouth
Royal genealogies
Part I begins with a chronological history of the world, from the beginning of time to the Christian era.
The second part has separate title page, with…
Tags: 18th century, folio, genealogy, history, royalty, Woolf gift
A biographical history of England
Includes numerous plates.
W. Baynes and Son issued two "fifth editions" in 1824, an 8vo ed. in 6 v., and a folio ed. in 3 v., cf. Lowndes (1881 ed.), II, 927.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Andrews' History of Great Britain
Errata page at the end of each volume.
The history of Great Britain, connected with the chronology of Europe
The second volume is described on the titlepage as "Vol. I Part II.", and has the imprint: printed by T. Burton and Co., Gate-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, for T. Cadell, Jun. and W.…
Tags: 18th century, Europe, Great Britain, history, quarto, Roman Britain, royalty, Woolf gift
A system of chronology
Contains half-title page.
Tags: 18th century, chronology, folio, history, illustrated, Woolf gift
A generall historie of France
Supplemented mostly from works of Pierre Matthieu.
Engraved title-page, signed "Renold Elstrack sculpsit."
Text continuous despite pagination irregularities.
First leaf…
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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…