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Historical remarques, and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster

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Richard Burton is a pseudonym employed by Nathaniel Crouch.
In two parts. Part 2 has separate dated title page and begins new pagination on 2A2r.

Pii II Pontificis Maximi Historia rerum ubique gestarum

Title from caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto;
Imprint from colophon, which in full reads: Pii. ii. Ponti. maximi histori[a]e rerum ubiq[ue] gestaru[m] prima pars finitur: & impressioni Venetiis dedita: per Iohannem de colonia sociumq[ue] eius…

This is the myrrour or glasse of helth necessary and nedefull for euery person to loke in

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Author's name from p. 13: "I Thomas Moulton doctour of diuinitie ...";
Signatures: A-G? H?;
Black letter, historiated woodcut head-piece and tail-piece on verso of title, woodcut white-on-black initials throughout.

A new history of the succession of the crown of England

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"Licens'd, June 9. 1690. J. Fraser."; "A Catalogue of the Historians cited in the following Collection, and the Times when they lived"--Page [8]; Signatures: A-I.

The history of Hertfordshire

Map signed: "J. Clark sculp." ; Initials; headpieces, tailpiece.
Printed in double columns; Errata: p. 368; "List of the names of subscribers": pages [7]-[8].

The history of the Church of Great Britain

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Attributed to William Gearing by Wing; Sometimes attributed to William Geaves and George Geaves; Title within double-rule border; head-pieces, initials; printed marginal notes; Numerous errors in paging; Errata: p. [18] at end

Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates

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Variant: t.p. printed in black and red; The last leaf is blank; Date on t.p. made with turned Cs; Title ornament; headpieces; initials; With printed shoulder notes; "Ad Britannicarum antiquitatum collectanea appendix gemina" has special t.p. with…

An universal history, from the earliest account of time

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Second edition of the "antient part"; 1st edition, 1736-44.
Vols. 1-12, 1747; v. 13-20, 1748; v. 21, 1754; Articles by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton, and others. Cf. Brit. Mus.…