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Batauorum cum Romanis bellum : à Corn. Tacito lib. IV. & V. Hist. olim descriptum, figuris nunc aeneis expressum = De batavische oft oude Hollandtsche oorloghe teghen de Romeynen / auctore Othone Vaenio Lugdunobatauo.

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Parallel text in Dutch and Latin letterpress on title page verso. Engraved text in Dutch and Latin at the foot of plates 2-36. Plates are numbered. Copperplate engravings by Antonio Tempesta after Vaenius illustrating books 4 and 5 of Tacitus's…

Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians

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The first volume. No more published.

Title page in red and black ; title page vignette.

"This book ... licensed to be printed by ... Sr. Joseph Williamson, March 8th, 1674/75, Roger L'Estrange"--T.p., verso.

Includes index.

Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical.

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Essays on Shakespeare's female characters. Published also under the title: Shakespeare's Heroines.

Chronological tables of Europe

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In fact by Guillaume Marcel and translated by William Parsons.

Derived, with slight modifications, from Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques, Paris, 1682. Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

Engraved throughout.

At foot of the…

Collection of engravings of castles and abbeys in England

Issued annually to total 14 parts of 24 plates each, each part having engraved cover sheet with contents, list of subscribers and advertisement Each part except the final one is dated on the subscribers list, and the date of the final part is taken…

De bello Belgico = The history of the Low-Countrey vvarres

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Portraits engraved by William Marshall and Robert Vaughan.
Includes index.
Translation of the first only of the two decades of the author's De bello Belgico, which was originally published at Rome, 1632-47.
Title ornament, head- and tail-pieces,…

Desiderata curiosa

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These papers relate to the period 1558-1660.

Paged continuously.

Each volume has separate title pages.

Includes index at end of each volume.

With a list of subscribers in volume 1.

Pages 420 and 426 are misnumbered 400, and 406…

Diversarum gentium armatura equestris

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Originally published: Cologne, 1575 (52 plates). Bound with: [Collection of portrait prints, 16th century] -- Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies XLIIII / Philippe Galle. Antwerp, 1572 -- Nine worthies / Nicolaes de Bruyn.…

Eboracum

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Vol. 2 has separate title page: Book the second; contains the history of the Cathedral Church of York : with the lives of the Archbishops of that See, &c. : also the History of the Abbey of St. Mary in that City, from the foundation to its…

Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret

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100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative borders, most illuminated, the last 50 without borders. Portraits engraved by Wenceslas Hollar,…

Histoire de Guillaume III

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Title in red and black.
Two added title-pages, engr.; the first reads: Histoire metalique de Guillaume III, Roy de la Grande Bretaigne
Contains engravings by Romein de Hooghe.

Historical discourses, upon several occasions

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Edited by Hugh Clopton.
'Perfect copies of all the votes' has a separate titlepage and pagination; the register is continuous.
With a folded plate frontispiece showing Charles I and Sir Edward Walker, and a portrait illustration of Charles I (after…

History and antiquities of Durham

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Engraved title page, with vignette.

First edition, 1785-94.

Contains numerous pedigrees.

A biographical sketch of John Egerton, bp. of Durham, by Francis H. Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater: v. 3, p. iii-xiii.

Imprint varies: v. 3,…