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A biographical history of England
Each volume has half-title page.
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.
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.
A General dictionary, historical and critical
Title page in red and black.
Tags: 18th century, biography, dictionary, folio, history, Woolf gift
A new and complete history of England, from the first settlement of Brutus, upwards of one thousand years before Julius Caesar, to the year 1793
Includes a list of subscribers.
The plates are dated from 1791-1794.
Plates marked: "Engraved for Ashburton's History of England ... published by W. & J. Stratford", and dated from 1791-1793.
Frontispiece signed: "Dayes delin: Grainger…
The plates are dated from 1791-1794.
Plates marked: "Engraved for Ashburton's History of England ... published by W. & J. Stratford", and dated from 1791-1793.
Frontispiece signed: "Dayes delin: Grainger…
Annales rerum anglicarum et hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Guilielmo Camdeno authore. Text within line border; initials; head and tail pieces.Running title: Elizabetha Angliae Regina.Includes index. Queen's University copy is missing first 2 blank leaves and final errata leaf.A2 is misprinted A3.B1 is a…
Tags: 17th century, biography, Elizabeth I, HIST 400, history, Queen of England
David Persecuted
Title within ornamental border; text within line border ; head-piece; initial. Engraved frontipiece portrait of Charles I as King David has imprint date of 1648; signed: W. Marshall Sculpsit Signatures: A-G. Leaf G4 missigned Gg4 Running title reads:…
Fabyan's chronicle
Title within woodcut border with printer's initials. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 20.
Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…
Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of…
Tags: 16th century, biography, France, Great Britain, history, marginalia, purchase, royalty
Heroologia Anglica
H.H. = Henry Holland. The title page is engraved by Crispijn van de Passe; the portraits are engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe. The first "o" in "Heroologia" is a Greek omega. Printer's and publisher's names from STC. With a final…
History of the city and county of Lichfield, &c.
Written by John Jackson, who signed the dedication (p. [3] at front). Cf. ESTC; BLC.
Date from ESTC.
Dedication signed and dated: John Jackson, Jun., Lichfield, July 9, 1795.
Page [1] at end blank.
Title-page has printer's device…
Date from ESTC.
Dedication signed and dated: John Jackson, Jun., Lichfield, July 9, 1795.
Page [1] at end blank.
Title-page has printer's device…
The history of philosophy
Published in 19 parts.
Pagination is irregular.
'The history of the Chaldaick philosophy' (pts. 14-19) has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for A. and J. Churchill", and separate pagination.
Includes index.
Portrait of…
Pagination is irregular.
'The history of the Chaldaick philosophy' (pts. 14-19) has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for A. and J. Churchill", and separate pagination.
Includes index.
Portrait of…
The life of Edward lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by himself.
Title page vignette of Strawberry Hill in black line border.Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.Originally issued with folded pedigree, which followed the Advertisement, pp.[9-10]; this pedigree was found to contain errors, and was corrected in some…
Tags: 18th century, biography, HIST 400, Strawberry Hill
The parochial history and antiquities of Stockton upon Tees
Includes index.
Errata, page 178.
Title-vignette and tail piece; both by Thomas Bewick, according to Hugo, The Bewick collector, no. 91.
Plates: P.1: A view of the principal street of Stockton in the county of Durham, taken from the end of…
Errata, page 178.
Title-vignette and tail piece; both by Thomas Bewick, according to Hugo, The Bewick collector, no. 91.
Plates: P.1: A view of the principal street of Stockton in the county of Durham, taken from the end of…
The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time
A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.
Publication date conjectured by STC.
The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.
The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to "A memorial of suche…
Publication date conjectured by STC.
The eighth book begins new foliation on 2A1.
The last leaf, usually lacking, bears the title page to "A memorial of suche…
Tags: 16th century, biography, ethics, folio, history, marginalia, purchase, royalty
Tuttle's popular history of the Dominion of Canada
Added t.-p.: An illustrated history of the Dominion, 1535-1876.
Vol.2 has title: The comprehensive history of the Dominion of Canada ... From the confederation of 1867 to the close of 1878. Montreal, Bigney, 1879.
Vol.2 has title: The comprehensive history of the Dominion of Canada ... From the confederation of 1867 to the close of 1878. Montreal, Bigney, 1879.
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Liber chronicarum
Hand-coloured by Johann Kruyshaar c. 1521, his and other early marginal notes (some shaved) intermittently throughout, including his catalogue of the…