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History of Winchester

Title page - vol. 1
Dedication dated: Sept. 2, 1772.

Sometimes erroneously attributed to Thomas Warton.

Errors in paging, v. 2: 252 numbered 225; 265-268 omitted.

Also available as: Microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. - 1 reel ;…

History of York

Title page
British Museum catalog gives William Combe as supposed author.

"Principally a compilation from Drake's History, from whence the plates have been borrowed, and possesses very little interest." -- Boyne. Yorkshire library.

Incidents of travel in Yucatan

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Some illustrations are on numbered pages; some are on added leaves. Collations: vol.1: xii, [1], 10-459, [1] pages, [20] leaves of plates -- vol. 2: xvi, [1], 10-478 p., [46] leaves of plates.

With engravings by Frederick Catherwood.…

Johannis de Fordun Scotichronicon genuinum : una cum ejusdem supplemento ac continuatione

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With a list of subscribers.
Only vol. 1 has a titlepage; vols. 2-5 have a half-title: 'Johannis de Fordun Scotichronici ... '
The register is continuous throughout.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain

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Originally published in 1752 with title: Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain. The final four leaves consist of an index. Extra illustrated with 134 portrait leaves (1 folded); 8 blank leaves with manuscript notes; annotations. Prints bear…

Monasticon Eboracense: and the ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire.

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Numerous errors in paging.

At foot of p.448: "The end of the first volume"; no more published.

'Proposals for printing by subscription, Monasticon Eboracense' were issued in [1757?]

An appendix was issued in 1759.

With a list of…

Narrative of the United States exploring expedition

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" ... This edition ... contains ... the same type, page and reading matter, as the one in imperial octavo; the difference between them being in the quality and size of the paper; the substitution of forty-seven wood-cuts for that number of steel…

Nottinghamia vetus et nova : or, An historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham

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A list of the knights of the shire and burgesses of the town, copied from Prynne's Parliamentary writs, from the 23rd of Edward I. to the 16th Charles I.: 6 leaves between pages 208 and 209.

Nummi britannici historia, or, An historical account of English money

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Anonymous. By Stephen Martin Leake.

Subsequently published under title: An historical account of English money.

Includes index.

Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.

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"List of subscribers": preliminary p. [viii]-ix.

"A catalogue of the Kings of Britain, with the Princes of Cornwall": pages [367]-373.

"A Cornish-English vocabulary": pages 376-413.

Plates signed: "W.B. delin. J. Green sculp."…

Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other adjacent parts in the counties of Oxford and Bucks

Title page
"The history of Allchester near Bircester in Oxfordshire": p. 683-703.

"A glossary to explain the original, the acceptation, and obsoleteness of words and phrases": 116 p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pictures of English history

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Vol. 1: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates; v. 2: [1] leaf, 96 p., [48] leaves of plates. Copper-engraved plates.